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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1770052, member: 40"]
Spot on.  The departures have clearly hurt the depth / roster balance.

The question is: should we have been prepared for it.  I honestly believe that JB was NOT expecting the following players to depart when they did:  Grant, Ennis, McCullough [who came in as a known kid who wanted to be one-and-done], or Mali.

Was he really that blindsided?  Why didn't we have backup plans?

To the OP's point, we've been a key player or two away since 2012.  This isn't all that dissimilar to what happened immediately after 2003 when we won and Carmelo left.  Those next three years, those teams were flawed and missing a SF who could shoot [maybe Nichols could have been that guy earlier].  Then we struck out at the point after GMac [the Josh Wright flop].  Then Greene left a year earlier than expected, undermining what could have been a powerhouse team in 2009.

Really, outside of 2010 and 2012, our teams have been fundamentally flawed in one way or another every season since 2003.
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