BJ Boston’s freshman season did not go as expected, to say the least. Boston came to Kentucky as a projected top three draft pick, but after averaging only 11.5 points per game on 37.9% shooting and going scoreless in Kentucky’s season-ending loss to Mississippi State, his stock is in flux. John Hollinger, a former NBA executive and analytics pioneer that now writes for The Athletic, took a crack at evaluating Boston’s season today, and wrote that one reason he may have struggled is John Calipari’s “anachronistic offense,” which has held back similar players in the past.
All this has talent evaluators scratching their heads and asking tough questions.