If you could add one of these 15 players to the team before the season started

[gobigredbrah]

Who would make this team the most successful?

 

For me, its close between Towns and Okafor. I'm going with Okafor. Replace him w/ Rivers and move Walter to the PF spot. This would be a solid top 5 B1G team and a lock to the tourney w/ okafor. Probably in the round of 32 as well

 

Okafor provides a lot more offense than Towns, although Towns is much more athletic and a better defender. Other players that could possibly make this team into a tourney team IMO: Russell, Willie Cauley-Stein, kaminsky

 

Russell, at the PG position, would be the best passer on the team. He is also a major scoring threat. I don't think he would give us better results than Okafor or Towns though. So, Okafor > Towns > Russell > WCS > kaminsky. This a tourney team with any of those 5

 

Dont see how the rest of the 10 can get us into the tourney. Looks like 7 b1g teams are in the tourney and all of them have a 9-9 B1G record or better. With our bad out of conference loses we would have to have a 10-8 record minimum with a win or two in the B1G tourney. I think players like tyus jones, melo trimble, jerian grant, myles turner could land us on the bubble.

[a0t0w0]

Purple Erkle that Jahlil

[hhcmatt]

Buddy Hield at one point considered coming here and wasn't as highly recruited due to injury