Cat looked to me like he was being coached by Whitt….in that he never knew when to pass…
Cat made a LOT of dumb plays where he used his “I always scored in HS” brain without realizing that he was playing in the ACC and not the AAU or whatever. He was not an assist person….
A lot of fans seem to significantly underestimate Cat’s improvement in this area and overestimate the gap between Cat and Tyler in this area.
Tyler averaged 3.8 assists per game this season; Cat averaged 3.5. Tyler’s assist percentage was 32.9% this season; Cat’s was 27.5%. Not a huge gap. And consider that Tyler’s assist percentage as a freshman was 17.9%, so Cat was considerably better than Tyler was as a freshman.
Tyler also turned the ball over more often than Cat (2.1 per game for Tyler vs. 1.7 per game for Cat; 17.5% turnover percentage for Tyler, compared to 16.1% for Cat).
