ander's post got me thinking.
let's set aside direct comparisons between 1996 and 2015. My question is this: Where do you rank this team versus 1996 relative to the FIELD of other teams?
1996 had great talent and depth, players that just would not still be in college today like Anderson a senior, Walker a sophomore, McCarty a senior. BUT that was true for all of college ball. Camby was a senior iirc on a very good UMass team, and Tim Duncan was a tremendous player albeit with less of a supporting cast.
Now there are almost no seniors or juniors with that kind of talent, very few sophomores. WCS could easily end up one of if not the best big man in the game this year, and he's an exception in staying. The 2nd best may be Towns or DJ. No McCarty, but no Duncan or Camby either.
So while one on one I think 96 just had more talent at the top and certainly more experience, those two teams will never play. The teams this 2015 team will play won't have near the experience we saw in the 90s, and in the end the gap between our talent/depth this year and the field may be as big or bigger than the gap we saw in 1996.
either way I expect we have our share of 30 point beatings on people like 96, and as long as you get there I doubt any of us care about the particulars.
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