Player profiles: what it all means

We've finished our rundown of your 2014-15 Georgia basketball team, complete with glass-half-full thinking, wild, unfounded speculation, and uneducated fan rambling.  If that's your sort of thing, here are the links:

Guards:
Charles Mann
Kenny Gaines
Juwan Parker
J.J. Frazier
Kenny Paul Geno
Brandon Young


Forwards/Centers:
Marcus Thornton
Yante Maten
Nemanja DjurisicOsahen Iduwe
Cameron Forte
Houston KesslerDusan Langura

But what does it all mean?

Here's a table laying out all my statistical guesses:

Player	Minutes	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Blocks
Charles Mann	26	12.4	4.2	4.1	0
Kenny Gaines	26.5	15.4	2.6	1	0.5
Marcus Thornton	27	9.9	7.4	0.3	1.4
Yante Maten	16.7	6.1	5.3	0.1	0.9
Juwan Parker	20.5	7.3	3.2	1.6	0
Nemanja Djurisic	23	8.1	4.1	0.8	0.3
J.J. Frazier	15	6.5	1.1	2.3	0
Osahen Iduwe	11	1.5	3.2	0	1.7
Cameron Forte	13.5	5.1	4.7	0.6	0.3
Taylor Echols	6.3	1.1	0.3	0.6	0
Kenny Paul Geno	8.3	1.9	1	0.1	0.1
Houston Kessler	2.5	0.2	0.5	0.1	0
Dusan Langura	2.5	0.7	0	0.1	0
Brandon Young	1.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0
	200	76.4	37.7	11.8	5.2

A few notes:

1. Minutes per game are averaged out over a season.  In other words, I don't expect Brandon Young to play 1 minute in every single game.  Instead, I expect him to eat up about 1 out of every 200 game minutes, meaning he'll play 3 or 4 minutes in a few games, and 0 minutes in others.
2. 76.4 points/game would have tied Georgia for #47 in the country last year.
3. 37.7 rebounds/game would have tied Georgia for #41 in the country last year.
4. 11.8 assists/game would have tied Georgia for #241 in the country last year which, sadly, would be a huge improvement.
5. 5.2 blocks/game would have tied Georgia for #30 in the country last year.

Considering the style of basketball Georgia plays under Mark Fox, top 50 in scoring may be asking a bit too much.  However, the farther north of 70 points/game that number goes, the more likely Georgia is having a great season.

The good news for Georgia is that, in the end, basketball is not a complicated sport:  get good looks, don't turn the ball over, and don't give up offensive rebounds.

The first two points fall squarely on the shoulders of Charles Mann and, to a lesser extent, Kenny Gaines.  The third is on Marcus Thornton and his two young understudies.  Now ask yourself:  do you have faith that they can get it done?

I do, which is why I expect nothing less than a tournament berth this season.  What about you?