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[QUOTE="NYCorange, post: 1320250, member: 4918"]
The only player that I can see transferring, barring a second post-season ban, is Patterson. If you think about next year's depth chart with everyone playing in their ideal positions, it looks something like this:

PG: KJ, Howard
SG: Cooney, G, Richardson, Patterson
SF: BJ
PF: CMac, Roberson, Diagne, Lydon
C: Coleman, Chino, Bryant?

Now certainly, both G and (probably) Richardson can play the SF spot, but they're best off up top. Furthermore, given G's ability to play pg at times, I think we could easily see lineups that look much more like tonight's starting one with G, Cooney, BJ/Richardson, CMac/Roberson, and Coleman giving us length and shooting at positions 1-3. Patterson doesn't offer either of those traits currently, and he can really only play SG--he's definitely not sliding to pg or sf. It's hard to see him getting really any minutes at SG with Cooney, G, and Richardson ahead of him. Even his senior year, he'd likely have to contend with Richardson, Howard, and potentially Battle (or another yet to be signed SG) for minutes at the 2, given that there's not enough minutes at the point for Howard, KJ and Battle. Looking at our roster, we have too many SG's and PF's, and not enough SF's. It's pretty much that simple.

Now, Cmac, or G could choose to go pro in some way or another, or Coleman could end not being able to come back, but if we're talking transfers, Patterson's the only logical choice.
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