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Message: [QUOTE="Consigliere, post: 1770888, member: 559"] I think the ideal situation would be to be able to look two years down the road (2017 - 2018) and project 3 guards (with 1 being a combo), 3 forwards (with 1 being a swing) and 2 centers who, based on anticipated development could play integral roles. If one of the guards has the size to slide into the 3 and one of the forwards has the size to slide to the 5 you have a bit more flexibility. You then can fill the roster with high potential kids who may take a while longer to develop physically but who also give your roster some stability. Though B.J. fit that slot perfectly. Unfortunately when 5 "fill out the roster" slots are reduced to 2 (now 3) you lose the flexibility to take on not ready for prime time players. Compound that with unexpected early entries and things can become more critical. Can you afford to leave roster spots open for more than one potential early entrant who decides to return? So based solely on remaining eligibility we have 2 guards who are both potential combos (Battle and Howard), 2 forwards (Moyer and Lydon) and 1 Center (Chukwu). Need to get that group to the required 8 quickly. Thompson would fill that stretch 4 role nicely (/C). I firmly believe the staff expected to have him in the fold by now. Kaleb seemed like a safe bet to be the third guard. Despite his issues it seemed like he was going to stick it out as late as midseason and at least provide an option for emergency bench minutes the next two seasons. Now we need a G, and C commit for 2017 (Green, Tucker, Thompson) fairly quickly so the staff can plan succession for possible (probable?) early exits by Lydon and Battle. And anytime you have a 7'2" shot blocking machine you always have a risk that one good season (or one good half on National tv against Virginia) will take him out of the mix. Good news is we're more than half way through the sanctions from a recruiting perspective and following next year's class we'll get one ship restored in 2018 and have a full complement in 2019. How's that for a succession plan! [/QUOTE]

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