Good call Leatherneck. Of Georgia Tech's 44 out of over 450 letter winners drafted by the NBA or preceding pro leagues (~1%), from 7 -footer Tiny Hearn in 1930 to Josh Okogie in 2018, Mark has the best pro career Box Minus Plus Score of all our NBA draftees. As discussed earlier, BPM is an estimate of points per 100 possessions a player contributed above the league average player, translated to an average team. Average B+/- player would be zero BPM. All this is analytics and artificial intelligence calculations can make an IM's brain hurt. Our eyes do not fool us on recognizing great players. Bobby Cremins was not fooled either in going to Enid, OK many times to recruit Mark, one of the best point guards in the country, in building his year-4 team to go 27-8 and the NCAA Elite 8, with 5 future NBA players on that team. Bobby went 10-16 his first year. 2027 should be a good year for us if all goes as well as it did for us from 1981 to 1984, our last great rebuilding decade.
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