I saw Wolf play as a freshman. I was stunned at how much better he was as a sophomore. Looked and played like a completely different guy.
Perhaps it was coaching and maybe some of bigs can make large strides forward
Jones and staff developing bigs is one of the more consistent things to bet on in the past 15 years. Know Wolf did a lot of outside training during his Yale tenure but it seems like every year another big take a leap for the bulldogs.
If you look at the numbers a little, though, Wolf was actually reasonably similar as a freshman — he just played less. He got more efficient shooting, certainly. But a lot of his rates were similar, and those where he improved were fairly marginal. And that is the story a lot of the time with Yale freshmen. The bigs often are the 3rd or 4th guy in the rotation, but there isn’t actually that big a statistical drop off when they are in the game. And then when the guy ahead of them graduates they’re ready to go. It’s part of why it’s fairly easy to predict that Yale will stay good year to year.