No whining from me. I think they're both good players, but I prefer Watkins by a meaningful amount. My reasons...
- TS% 0.577 > 0.543
- Higher rates for rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks (his steals alone more than make up for his TOV%)
- Puts more fouls on the opponent (at least offsets his own foul rate)
- All of this even with ACC > OVC
- I'm not convinced the "savings" from Lathon would allow us to add someone who would be much of an upgrade to anyone else we already have
- Boswell's weakness last year was bad 2pt% without drawing fouls (I'd estimate TS% on those to be somewhere around 0.45 depending on how many FTs were from 2pt attempts). I don't think we have many other players to offset that. Those are both strengths of Watkins (~0.58) vs Lathon (~0.51).
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