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Davis is the easy answer. but would of really liked to have John Wall back for a Soph year as well.
doesn't apply to the OP, but if I could have one back, it would be Meeks for the 09/10 season
I don't think even Davis could have saved that 2013 team, though it would have been near impossible to score within 10 feet of the basket with him and Noel together. I'd either go with Cousins on the 2011 team or Noel on the 2014 team.
Davis with the returning team would not have made as much of a difference as KAT would with this returning team.
Just because of how awful we were at point, Teague may have had a bigger impact on that 2013 team than Davis could have. At that point, Davis wasn't the sort of player you gave to ball to to create offense, and we had no guards who could create either.
MKG, but I'm biased. In my opinion, no other player I'd want to go to into Allen or Cameron with. Dude was a warrior.
Davis is 1b. He is in no way a wrong answer. He changed the game on so many levels, and another year would have made him unstoppable. But, MKG worked to make the team and players better.
Davis is 1b. He is in no way a wrong answer. He changed the game on so many levels, and another year would have made him unstoppable. But, MKG worked to make the team and players better.
We wouldn't have been an NIT team had our best player not torn his ACL in February. We were ranked the game he went down and would of fell just outside the Top 25 after the loss. Though I obviously agree that both UK and Teague would have been far better off had the latter returned for his Sophomore season.
This.
MKG was a workhorse. He would have pushed every player to make them better. Plus we have trouble signing those elite 3s for some reason.
Cousins would have been the most beneficial for the 2010-11 season, since we were thin up front. He gives you another legit go to scorer, so we would not be as reliant on Knight.
Knight is the only option for the following year since he was our only one and done. His addition would be pointless, since we obtained the ultimate prize without him. I don't know how he would mesh with that team, since he would no longer have free reign to do what he wanted. The potential on offense would be exciting.
I don't think any one player makes that much of a difference for that 2012-2013 season. It might have kept us from going to the NIT, but we needed more than one player for us to have a prayer of actually doing anything in the tournament. Even if all the freshman come back, that team still has obvious flaws.
Noel is the best option for 2014. A better WCS basically.
I don't think Young or Randle significantly improve last year's team. Randle would just add to the problem of finding minutes for all our frontcourt players. Young would have allowed us to continue to platoon, but he would need to significantly improve in several areas for him to be a better option than what we had.
This year, as others have said, Towns would be really nice. Having a guy who is a true center and can play physically down there, with his talent, would be perfect. Then the only thing we would be missing is a true small forward.
I guess my answer would be Cousins or Towns.
Knight is the only option for the following year since he was our only one and done. His addition would be pointless, since we obtained the ultimate prize without him. I don't know how he would mesh with that team, since he would no longer have free reign to do what he wanted. The potential on offense would be exciting.
I don't think any one player makes that much of a difference for that 2012-2013 season. It might have kept us from going to the NIT, but we needed more than one player for us to have a prayer of actually doing anything in the tournament. Even if all the freshman come back, that team still has obvious flaws.
Noel is the best option for 2014. A better WCS basically.
I don't think Young or Randle significantly improve last year's team. Randle would just add to the problem of finding minutes for all our frontcourt players. Young would have allowed us to continue to platoon, but he would need to significantly improve in several areas for him to be a better option than what we had.
This year, as others have said, Towns would be really nice. Having a guy who is a true center and can play physically down there, with his talent, would be perfect. Then the only thing we would be missing is a true small forward.
I guess my answer would be Cousins or Towns.
