That’s because of Florida’s offense. It’s why players aren’t necessarily rewarded with just stats.He had a great year averaging 14 and 7.4. Not sure he would have done much better than that here.
Florida scored at will because they had lots of scorers. They were 6th in the country in scoring per game.
Didn’t translate to winning a big game.
Samuel had many open dunks, put-backs, etc.
So while he may have had better stats, I’m not so sure his actual game improved (3 point percentage, free throw shooting and turnovers were all worse than the previous two years.
In other words, I’m not sure it made his game better for the professional ranks. But we will never know