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Brandon and Ben Carlson.

It’s movement but whether or not they are upgrades remains to be seen.

Good point DT and very true…plenty of mid major teams that are very good as well. Just meant we’ve been able to add a lot of experience from major conference basketball. That’s a positive any way you look at it in my mind. I think we’re better defensively for sure because we won’t have to rely on BC guarding anyone that is physical. He’s a very good player but doesn’t like to bang and doesn’t carry enough weight to keep anyone out of the paint. Lovering and Keita can handle that.

I believe we will be harder to guard this year and if we can add a Dennis or to a lesser degree, Calmese it could be by a significant margin. Add in Erickson and Smith and you should open the floor quite a bit more and guys should benefit from that.

I also think we have a lot more competition vying for playing time this year and that will help with the finished product. We added length, athleticism, experience and depth. Scoring might still be an issue but I don’t think they can just take BC out of the equation like last year. We still don’t have a bunch of great options on offense but we added guys that can add 8-15 points a game on any given night from a number of different spots

I think Smith is smart…he can’t add that high profile kid yet because the program just isn’t on that level so he’s pieced together players that can compliment and push each other.

I think they’ve done a pretty good job so far and the right “final” add could push that to a really good job IMO. I tend to lean to the optimistic viewpoint obviously.