First, you said Gillis “wouldn’t be ready” for the beginning of the season. Wrong, he is a month away from being fully cleared. Then you tried to say Wheeler played with two bigs on the floor this past season. Wrong. Even before that, you took exception to Newman being known for his shooting when literally every recruiting profile starts off glowing about his shooting ability.
Not every aspect of a team is set in stone before the season plays out. I guarantee that your biased thought process last year when looking at Purdue’s 4 spot would have been, “Purdue won’t be good because they have no one at the 4. Eifert is a walk on, Boudreax is unproven at the B1 level, and Wheeler hasn’t played in a game in over a year.” Well, it worked out really well this season. Going into next season, if Purdue’s biggest unknown is who will play 10 min a game at the backup four spot (maybe a four star recruit?), I’ll take it every day of the fcking week. Hell, the game is more and more position-less now. We could play four guards for those few min as far as I know. Either way, there are much bigger problems that a team could have. For instance, who is going to start at three of the positions on a squad returning players (and not even their best players) that tanked in conference and scraped into the NIT. Beyond that, who are the proven backups on that team?