BYU Basketball: A hypothetical Cougar alumni team for next year’s TBT

The Starters

Jimmer Fredette – Guard

It’s Jimmer. Enough said.

Matt Carlino – Guard

If you want a deadeye shooter to pair up in the backcourt with Jimmer, look no further than Matt Carlino. He’s always been a streaky scorer, but he’s become more consistent as a pro, and dominated in Italy’s second best league last season.

For Team Fredette this year, Jeff Ledbetter served as the knockdown shooter that found himself open when Jimmer created opportunities. Carlino would do just that for the BYU alumni.

Tyler Haws – Guard

You don’t leave BYU’s all-time leading scorer off this team. He’s bounced around in his three professional years, from Spain to Poland to Canada (with a couple of G-League stops as well), and he’ll head back to Spain for the 2018-19 season.

Haws is another pure scorer who would benefit from the attention that Jimmer draws, and he’ll knock down the open shot when he gets it.

Kyle Collinsworth – Forward

Assuming he’s not on an NBA roster next summer, Collinsworth would be a pivotal player for this team. He can do a little bit of everything, and do it well. Plus, his ball-handling would pull the defensive pressure from Jimmer, and he can finish in the lane with the best.

He’d be a third player with NBA experience to play for the Cougar alumni, and this team would need him if they want to make a deep run.

Brandon Davies – Forward

Jimmer was the premier player for Team Fredette in this year’s TBT, but Davies was arguably their second most important piece. He averaged 15 points and 6.2 rebounds in the tournament, and he made most of the opponents’ big men look silly. If it weren’t for foul trouble in one game, his stats would have reflected his contribution even more.

There’s a reason he saw significant NBA action with Philadelphia and that he’s dominating overseas. You can’t have a successful team based around Jimmer without Brandon Davies.

And that’s not throwing shade at 2011 at all…