Every year, there’s a portion of posters here who think it’s just a huge mistake not to fill out the roster so that we’re 10, 11, 12 deep with quality players. This year, to me, is a perfect example of why that type of depth is completely overrated. This year we go 10ish deep with “quality” players - ie, guys who could get PT on a fair number of D1 teams:
DJ
Shep
Dilly
Reeves
Edwards
Adou
Bradshaw
Ugo
Z
Mitchell
Burkes
That’s a pretty solid amount of depth. Not a ton of positional shortcomings - ie, we have guards, bigger wings/forwards, and centers.
The problem with the team is we don’t have a group of 6-7 that have shown themselves to be able of playing high level offense AND defense. We’ve got some guys who really excel on offense (dilly), some other guys who are okay on defense (Ugo). But very few who we know are just locks to be major difference makers on both ends of the court.
End of bench depth is overrated and won’t win you anything. An incredibly strong core of 6/7 guys who all fill their roles well and can be trusted to play at a high level consistently on both ends of the court matters much more.
DJ
Shep
Dilly
Reeves
Edwards
Adou
Bradshaw
Ugo
Z
Mitchell
Burkes
That’s a pretty solid amount of depth. Not a ton of positional shortcomings - ie, we have guards, bigger wings/forwards, and centers.
The problem with the team is we don’t have a group of 6-7 that have shown themselves to be able of playing high level offense AND defense. We’ve got some guys who really excel on offense (dilly), some other guys who are okay on defense (Ugo). But very few who we know are just locks to be major difference makers on both ends of the court.
End of bench depth is overrated and won’t win you anything. An incredibly strong core of 6/7 guys who all fill their roles well and can be trusted to play at a high level consistently on both ends of the court matters much more.
