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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 5391567, member: 722"]
I think a lot of the roster construction problems last season came from Chris Bell collapsing. He has a very good sophomore year.

He was a bad defender, didn’t rebound, tended to get very hot or cold. But he did the most valuable thing in the game at an elite level.

If Bell had incrementally improved, or stayed the same level of player, the roster would have looked way better. Myself, and several other regular posters, believed Bell would successfully make that improvement and become a slightly more well rounded player.

Lampkin, Freedman, Bell, Starling and Transfer Point Guard looks like a legit tournament starting five.

There is no excuse for failing to get a point guard, but that’s a recruiting error, not a roster construction error.

On the topic of Westry and McLeod being injured all season I’m kind of ambivalent, but that can’t be laid entirely at Red’s feet.

Freeman and Starling getting injured? Definitely not, but hugely impacting.

The roster was also supplemented by veteran mid majors with low ceilings, but high floors. Davis, Taylor and Carlos, along with Majstorovic and Cuffe was a decent bench. They weren’t intended to be other than depth, but got dozens of starts between them.

Red’s roster construction wasn’t as dubious as all of you are suggesting, unless he know ahead of time we weren’t getting the same Chris Bell as the previous year.
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