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College Basketball: What if the One-and-Done Rule was the Four-and-Done Rule?

By Matt Ostrowski

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5. 2009-2010 Texas Longhorns

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PG – D.J. Augustin/Jai Lucas
SG – Avery Bradley/Dogus Balbay
SF – Kevin Durant/Jordan Hamilton
PF – Damion James/Gary Johnson
C – Dexter Pittman/Alexis Wangmene

At last, we have the top five, and things get real interesting.

The 2009-10 version of Durant is arguably the best player on this list. KD led the league in scoring at just over 30 points per game, and chipped in almost 8 rebounds as well. I would love to say that’s enough to put this team in the top three, but that’s not likely when your starting center is Dexter Pittman. Pittman averaged about 10 points, 6 rebounds, and 2 blocks a game that season, but he could barely stay on the floor, in part to both foul trouble and poor conditioning.

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    • Unless Alexis Wangmene would actually play big minutes (which wouldn’t happen), this team would be forced to go really small. Like, Kevin Durant at center small. Damion James would join him in the frontcourt (18 ppg, 10 rpg in 2010), Hamilton (10 ppg in 2010) would slide over to the three, with Bradley and Augustin in the backcourt.

    While Bradley and Augustin might seem like a really good backcourt, Augustin was an inefficient backup point guard in the NBa, playing just 18 minutes per game and shooting about 38% for the Bobcats in 2010. And while Bradley was in a good player in college, he wasn’t quite the three-and-d player that he has become in the NBA. He was mostly a slasher.

    So no matter how many points KD put up, these guys would get killed on defense, particularly when Pittman has to go to the bench because of foul trouble/poor conditioning. Against 99.99% of college basketball teams, Durant would be enough to win by plenty. Against the four teams in front of them, however, it is not.

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