I am so curious to see the makeup of next year’s roster… if they can keep Wilcher as 6th man it will go a long long way towards making the tournament and retaining the culture
They’ll need a PG, 2 shooters, a forward and big guy from the portal. They don’t have *that* many spots available currently. It’s going to be a pretty fascinating situation to watch unfold
Yeah it'd be great to get Wilcher back
I feel good about where they're at with ball handlers actually. I'm higher of Lawrence than most and he's flashed at times that suggest he has a couple levels he can go up realistically.
Uhlis as a back up is a nice dude to have too. Plus Williams and Mast initiate the offense quite a bit as well so that's comfortably 4 guys you feel good about running stuff through.
They've got Janowksi coming in who will take some % of what were Kesei's minutes as a dude who is just brought in to shoot.
The front court is the most fascinating to me. Mast/Gary is a good start but they need Diop/Keita/transfer to really show up as a front line option. The concern with going more traditional with a big is that it will gum up the works on what's really worked for them on offense which is going 5 out. Diop looked ok as a passer early but he can't shoot 3s like Mast and I don't think he can put the ball on the deck and get to the rim like Mast/Walker before him so this looks like a spot where Fred can really go find a transfer who fits their identity.
At the same time though, they have to be able to rebound and protect the rim. They're actually a pretty good defensive rebounding team this year but a naive look at their blocking stats suggests there's lots of work to be done in rim protection so I'm not sure that they'll completely forgo traditional bigs