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Message: [QUOTE="Matrim55, post: 1980256, member: 3376"] National writers are often wrong. I'm skeptical of any program that goes into the season with a question mark or a non-PG at PG (which we have for each of the last three years), and of any program that struggles to rebound the ball (which we usually have), or any program that loses their best player after each season (which has been the case each of the last three years). To put it another way: As soon as Hamilton declared, it was ridiculous to think we'd be a top 15 team this season. You can't lose your 3 best players from the year before and be an elite team unless you recruit like Duke, UK or Kansas. Even Michigan State is learning that lesson. The good news? Adams answers two of those huge questions because if he returns: [LIST] [*]We return our best player year-over-year for the first time since Bazz [*]We enter the season with a true, experienced PG for the first time since Bazz [/LIST] If he leaves we're kind of boned, of course. And yet in 2016+2017 we've had 9 players enter the program so far [LIST] [*]Four are top-50 recruits (AG, MAL, Larrier, JD) [*]Two others are consensus 4-stars (Jackson, Polley) [*]The other three are high 3/borderline 4-stars (Diarra, Vital, Carleton) [/LIST] Plus we still have room to add a highly recruited JuCo in Olden and a step-into-the-lineup postgrad big man. In terms of pure volume of contributors, that compares well on paper to any two-year haul under Calhoun save for the 1996+97 and 2008+09 recruiting classes. The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It's 3/4s full, and the future is bright despite this winter of discontent. [/QUOTE]

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