This is definitely the deepest backcourt K-State has or will have in my lifetime. It is incredible.
Most shallow frontcourt tho
If you had to pick, you'd pick our problems every single time.
Not me bro, I've already expressed excitement about the guards, but it's going to be much harder to mask that gigantic weakness next year. Unfortunately, I think the issues with the front court will have the most negative effect on Sneed. And I don't think he has the on court tools to be a leader. At his position, he has to be dominant to be a difference maker. Many of his career advanced stats like usage rate, per, and win shares are similar to Jamar Samuels. As much as I will always love Jamar, he was always a complimentary piece.
I'm saying this year, this team in the tourney.
Next year, is going to be a struggle. Watching DuJuan Gordon I don't think he is going to just show up and ball really well. He played a kind of weird 40 min of hell full court trapping D from what it looked like on highlights I've seen and I haven't seen any on ball defense hardly at all. That will be a project. Unclear on how consistent his shooting is too. His athleticism is fantastic though.
I think we will play small more often than not, but we really need Stockard/Mak/Trice to step up and be able to combine for 50+ min and that is with X playing significant minutes as a stretch 4, which I think will be a good position for him and he will be able to do a decent amount of pick and pops like Dean while also being able to iso at times face up/off the dribble against bigs.
My biggest concern is relying so heavily on carti and mcguirl playing big min. and ALSO needing one of the freshman/sophomores to step up too considering they haven't played at all. Looking at the roster, I think if everything breaks right we could be looking at a bubble team, but probably will be a big drop off.