Not having returning players is a bad deal. But I think it would be easy to find 6 players from the portal for next year who impact winning college games more than the 6 recruits coming in. Assuming you had a guy who could recruit the top transfers and right pieces.
You're exactly right!! I thought the same thing. All we did all night long was fan the ball outside the 3 point line because we were clueless on how to attack a basic zone defense!!! Coaching malpractice at its finest!!!!
Now, I don't think having to get 6 guys from the portal is an ideal situation because most of them are OAD too. And you'd be right back to not building any continuity or core of upperclassmen - which I think you need to be a consistently top team. And I give Calipari credit for recruiting some core pieces (i.e., not likely OAD program builder guys) last year and with the incoming recruits he signed for next season - BUT he has to be able to retain them and develop them (and I don't know if he has enough interest in doing that or not).