Hill
Sills
Joe
Bailey
Garland, pending medical clearance
Harris
Jones
Gabe
Ethan
Chaney
Cylla
Vanover (sitting out 2019-20 unless he gets a waiver)
Moss
Walk-ons
Obukwelu
Holmes
Stevens
That’s 13 on scholarship. So if Walker, Grayer or anyone else comes for this class, somebody has to go. Or blueshirt? Blueshirt candidate would seem to be Vanover if so.
I think we’re fixating too much on position here. Muss is copying the Warriors who are largely positionless. Including PG. Read the story I linked yesterday on the hoops board about Don Nelson’s influence on the modern NBA, which has filtered down to us. The Rockets played a good chunk of their series with the Warriors with 6-6 PJ Tucker as their “big”. Muss might well have four people on the floor that we would consider guards. Or maybe five.
Today on the Buzz interview, Muss mentioned 3 players by name, re: next season’s team play: Joe and Jones as good shooters and how quick Harris was with the ball.
Sounds like they’re getting along, but who knows. I guess we’ll see this fall
One thing that may be a factor, though, is that Muss had an eight-man rotation at Nevada. Maybe he’ll go deeper here because he has more options, I don’t know. Everybody will be on the wings, it sounds like, but if he only goes 8 deep, that’s five who aren’t playing.
I am hoping we have that lineup more than not. I was hoping Mike would use Macon, Barford and Hannahs that way, but he didn’t do it as often as I would have liked. That Beard guy kept getting in the way.