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Message: [QUOTE="Hunt for 7, post: 5267793, member: 12414"] Last year by the time all the moves were over everyone one of us believed we had the deepest team since Hurley became coach. We ended up have one of the least deep team of Hurley’s tenure. Last time when the portal music stopped we thought we had 2 maybe three impact freshman, we had a can’t miss transfer portal addition in AM, we had a sophomore class that was ready to breakout. The only one of those for sure things that even closely hit its mark was the development of our sophomore class….but that was only because of Ball, Stewart came up short if we are being honest, Ross well who knows, we can see the athletic gifts but I think we can all agree he came up short. Deep right we nailed that one by the end of the year we were lucky to have an eight man rotation. Transfer portal can’t miss edition well that player is not on our roster anymore. Whether AK comes back or not if we don’t remember how to play defense without a significant fall off in our offensive efficiency we will end up like this year. The only thing I would say is certain is that Mullins is going to be a stud and if he plays like every other high school player we have ever gotten that was this good, he will be BEFOY. Other than that we have maybe top ten talent if AK stays but if we don’t remember how not play connected and Stewart and Ross do not come out looking significantly better than they were last year (Ross more than Stewart) we will end up with a season very similar to this year. I know we are pretty confident Demary and Mullins coupled with who is coming back and potentially Reibe as a freshman who might contribute significant quality minutes, that we are better than last year. We were pretty confident in what we had pre season last year and we were not even close to being right…….keeping things in perspective. I hope they have a plan to get one more for sure impact big even with AK coming back our frontline is dangerously thin and relying on a freshman who might be a two or three year project (Reibe) and an undersized Stewart as our depth. How can anyone be real comfortable with that group from what we saw this year. We still need one maybe two proven front court players. Let Stewart play a big SF as his main position he can be first off the bench subbing for Mullins or Solo depending on what is happening on the floor. Demary is going to play 35+ minutes a game imo. He may even reach AK 2023-2024 level minutes. They have to have a plan they are the best staff in the country. But if you look at the players still left in the portal it is not flush with the type of players we need most. I am sure there are a few under the radar players that we could mold into being what we need but the whole idea with portal additions is they come in ready to play their role with no molding necessary. [/QUOTE]

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