Omer Yurtseven transferred from NC State to Georgetown. He averaged 13.5 ppg and 6.7 rpg. Then he transferred to Georgetown, and had to give up his junior season in order to do it.
What did he get in exchange? He got an honest-to-goodness big man coach, who likes big men and knows how to use big men and is a (very) big man himself, that being Patrick Ewing. So this season he is averaging 18.3 ppg and 10.3 rpg, with 24 blocks to boot, and shooting 58.6% from the field. And he has attempted only 6 three-pointers all season. (He made one.)
If you are brain surgeon, go take lessons from a good brain surgeon. If you are a big man, go play for a coach who actually knows how to coach big men and who actually cares about big men. They are pretty rare these days.
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