I sort of brought this up in another thread.
It is sort of amazing how our identity has changed given the injuries to Bando, Gary and Blaise; the virtual disappearance of Dawson and lest we forget, the loss of McPherson in the preseason.
I was critical of our staff over the last few years; but their collective work this year is second to none.
But to answer the question, I don't know. We may not have seen the emergence of Lawrence. We certainly wouldn't have seen Sam H on the floor. I question whether we would have seen Keisei emerge as significantly as he did. But we very well could have reached or exceeded our current record. We were just starting to find ourselves when the injury bug slammed us.
I guess we will never know.
Arguably going into the first practice, our two deep likely looked like this:
PG - Sam G & McPherson
SG - Bando & Keisei
W. - CJ & Dawson
PF - Gary & Wilhelm
C. - DW & Blaise
That is a lot of change in less than 6 months.