Rocky Mountain Review: Three Years, Three Centers

The Seattle Sonics have drafted a center every years for the past three years. Each year they have sent that rookie to the Rocky Mountain Revue in Utah. I have posted a snip of the stats for each one in their rookie run in the RMR. At the bottom of this post I have links to the RMR team stats for the past three years. Feel free to check them out.

Rookie Swift, 2004, 6 games played, 6 games started

Totals
MIN   FG   FGA   PCT
130   10    24  .417

Averages
 MIN   REB   AST    STL    TO    BLK   PTS
21.7   3.5   0.5   0.50   1.0   0.50   4.3 

Rookie Petro, 2005, 6 games played, 0 games started

Totals
MIN   FG   FGA   PCT
71    6    13  .462

Averages
MIN   REB   AST    STL    TO    BLK   PTS
11.8   1.3   0.3   1.00   2.3   0.67   2.3 

Rookie Sene, 2006, 4 games played, 4 games started

Totals
MIN   FG   FGA   PCT
 92   14    25  .560

Averages
MIN   REB   AST    STL    TO    BLK   PTS
23.0   4.8   0.5   1.00   1.3   3.75   8.3 

I would put the per 48 minute averages here if I thought that they had some value. They don't.

The sample size is too small, that mix of players and competition is a variable, and I didn't watch any of those games.
There's only one thing to do: guess.

I'll guess that the Petro numbers are too small for even this comparison, so I'll settle on Swift and Sene.
Sene's numbers are better all along the board. I'll guess that he's further along at this pont than Swifty was.
That's a very good sign. Let's just hope that Sene makes the Swift leap from summer league struggles to NBA player in as short of time as Robert and Petro have. But, the early numbers look good.

Let me point out that Robert Swift was with this roster:
Wilkens
Collison
Cleaves
Morandais
Singleton
Ridnour
Young
Mills
Smith
Swift
Zimmerman
Powell

You could play these 5 guys in an actual NBA game: Cleaves, Ridnour, Wilkins, Collison and Swift. I'm not sure the same could be said for the line ups Petro and Sene played with. Let's see:

Petro played with:
Scales
Cleaves
Dickens
Felix
O'Bannon
Blackburn
Williams
Swift
Brown
Miles
Petro
Byrd

Hmm, Petro was the backup to Swift since Swift was going to get thrown out there, eventually. Noel Felix makes an impression, but there isn't a Ridnour or Collison in that bunch.

Sene played with this group:
Emmett
Miles
Farmer
Bobbitt
Sene
Brown
Felix
Swift
Langford
Burrell
Reiner
Halperin
Morlende

Uhh, I guess we don't know how much talent is there other than to say that at least Felix and Swift are NBA players. We really don't know, but let's be fair, as a rookie Swift played with two other first round picks.

The 2004 stats can be found here!
The 2005 stats can be found here!
The 2006 stats can be found here!