The years they have left in the program has no impact on their play in their respective 3rd years in the program. Each player had 2 years of development in the Purdue program prior to their respective 3rd years. After 2 years of development in the program Mathias was far ahead of where Sasha was.
No one has provided evidence to suggest Mathias had better quality shots when shooting inside the arc or driving to the rim than Sasha got last year. If you can provide stats on that, I would love to view them.
What we do KNOW is that Mathias was much more efficient inside the arc than Sasha. In fact we KNOW Sasha was horrid when taking a shot inside the arc last year. Those are facts.
Now I get it, you are one of those people that will defend a current player even if the logic/stats don't back up your opinion. I prefer to be more realistic. Sasha is a really good shooter from 3. He doesn't provide much else except hustle plays. There is nothing wrong with that as every team needs that. He is no Dakota Mathias at this point, however.