I am not trying to be the “negative nancy” nor am I trying to make anyone mad. And I certainly hope I am wrong but…
PG – myabe we will be better but we are assuming the guy TL beat out for the starting position will have a “break out” year. He has to for us to finish in the top half of the league. He has the potential and he biggest jumpfor a player is usually fresh to soph year so maybe this happens. Again I hope so.
SG- dead cat bounce. This was not a strong position for us. Turner played pretty good towards the end but BJD is right it was either offense or defense from this position.Lacey seems like he will be solid but we said similar things about Lee last year.
SF- huge drop off both offensively and defensively. Buckets did so many things besides score. He was also a great rebounder. I think we will be lucky if Turner averages more than 10 points a game.
PF – Who knows. Any points from this position was a bonus this year but is a must next year. The high post requires skilled big men who can make things happen. Wash and Frenchie have that potentia but they will have to improve immensely.
C – This could be a strong point for us but if the guards cannot feed them then it is irrelevant and we have no one returning who has proven they can feed the post (a lost art in basketball).
IMO the precedent for improvement of individual players is much better than the precedent of playing good defense.
If I had to put percentages (pure unadulterated guess as that is what we are all doing)
30% chance we are worse than this year
50% chance we are about the same
20% chance we are better.
