1. Jimmer was a scoring machine. He could put the entire team on his back (offensively). His senior season he played with a lot of very good complementary pieces. Jackson was great defensively, and could also score when needed. Hartsock was very solid. Davies was at his best when he was a complementary player, like during Jimmer's senior season. Abuou and Emery gave that team some defensive identity. But Jimmer was the engine. Teams couldn't stop him outside. They couldn't stop his drives. And his FTs were automatic. Jimmer made teams pay. And because he had to be guarded everywhere, often by more than one person, it opened things up for others.

2. Collinsworth is great but you don't have to worry about his outside shot, especially from 3. So they can pack things inside and make it more difficult for him to drive. He gets his fair share of points inside, and also gets fouled a lot. But packing it in, letting him drive, and fouling him isn't a bad strategy, because chances are he'll only make 1 of 2 from the charity stripe. As someone said earlier, if Collinsworth could consistently hit outside shots and FTs, this entire team would be much better. It's also unfair to Collinsworth that he was forced into the role of point guard. He really should be an off-guard or a small forward. He could do a lot of damage in that kind of a role, but BYU hasn't had a legit, traditional point guard in a long time.

3. BYU's current team does have a lot of freshmen playing key roles. When they play poorly, the excuse by fans is that they're freshmen, so what do we expect? I get that. I also get that many are not only freshmen but are also just back from missions. Those are challenges. But teams like Kentucky always have freshmen playing key roles. And they often only have them for 1 year because they head to the NBA after that. Obviously, players like that are athletic freaks and great basketball players in general, and you might think it's not fair to compare BYU freshmen to them. But the point I'm trying to make is that if freshmen can play well and be significant contributors for schools like Kentucky, why not at BYU? Is recovering from a mission that big of a deal? Is it coaching? Is it inefficient recruiting that forces BYU to play more freshmen than they otherwise would? A combination of all those things?