It’s not panic time yet but we are in a super precarious position. High-impact needle-mover type players are starting to come off the board quick. We’re not even in contention for guys like Juke Harris or John Blackwell. Our returners were nothing more than average this season. Malachi looked half as good as BG in March, Kam is a scoring wing that didn’t score much against good competition. They have potential but nothing is certain with them. Noah couldn’t buy a 3. Our only high school commit isn’t expected to be immediate impact, even though I do like his game.
Pope is basing everything around a recruit who is definitely elite, but has been wishy washy and hard to pin down the entire recruitment. We don’t have a single high level guard or stretch big to go to him and say “hey come and play with this guy, here’s how he’d help you get your game off”
There’s still a world where we land an elite backcourt, Stokes, Paulius to stretch the floor, and guys like Desean Goode, Jalen Cox, Isaac Celiscar and Eric Reibe to fill out the roster. That’d be a pretty damn good team. But I’d be lying if I said the nerves weren’t starting to set in.