I am hopeful and somewhat optimistic. But, saying we are there at this point seems a stretch to me. Clearly, guys like Lloyd and Askew have talent. But, Askew played 6 games last year and 13 the one before, can he stay healthy? Lloyd is probably the recruit I am most excited about, but two years into his college career, he has yet to play a regular season game. Wainwright is probably the most accomplished player coming in, having averaged 10.0 ppg last season. Add in Hart, Lewis and Kam Martin and you have a talented but honestly unproven guard rotation. Of the six, two have no D1 game experience and two have very limited game experience. No one has proven they can carry a D1 offense consistently.

In the frontcourt, we have incoming frosh Nagy, and Juco Richardson with no D1 experience. Add in Xzavierro who is coming off a devastating injury and played a total of 14 D1 games where he averaged 3.6 minutes and 1.7 PPG. Like several of the guards, he looks promising, but is really completely unproven. Eli Djordjevic played in a couple games early last year before getting hurt and frankly did not impress. Only Cam Denson in the frontcourt have any real playing experience at this level. He averaged 8.5 PPG and 4.6 rebounds. Fine numbers, but nothing to make me think he can carry an offense.

So to recap, we have three players so far with any significant D1 experience (Askew, Denson and Wainwright) and a bunch of interesting guys with limited experience. To suggest this is already a good lineup seems seriously optimistic at this point to me.