Everything is based on Taylor if he can stay healthy or not. I agree that he's the natural blocker in our team but he just cannot stay healthy. The team we have right now is lack of athleticism, CMP cannot put Haas, Mathias, Albrecht and PJ on the court at the same time, lineup like this is a huge disaster because they're not athletic enough to speed up. After PSU game I think our defect is pretty obvious, we have smartest players but intelligence is not the only thing important, we also need speed. Based on our next year's roster I think CMP really wants to make some improvement.
From what I see so far, Wheeler is really athletic, and he has some dunk skills similar to Bridges, remember Bridges in high school was a twirling dunker. His speed can be a great help to us. Even though Haarms is listed as F now but based on what I saw in training that they are training him like a 5. The difference between Haas and Haarms is that Haarms is more like AJ, he's skinny and has speed, Haas is too slow and he cannot jump high enough to block, maybe he can be a blocker as well. Maybe he's not good enough to stay inside like Haas but remember Michigan's Wagner, he's 6'11 from Germany, big Europeans don't usually stay inside and they prefer to stay outside and shoot. If Haarms is a great shooter, it doesn't matter if he plays 4 or 5, all depends on Painter's decision. I don't know much about Ewing but he kinda looks like Vince, he can play 3 or 4. The only thing I'm sure about is that he cannot be RSed. About Sasha, he's still raw. If Epperson or some other guys commit, he will be guaranteed RS. He looks like Dakota and if we build him up he can easily get into defense role. And one more thing about him, he can dunk, so let's say that he's more athletic than Dakota. When Mathias first came, he didn't shoot this well but he improved a lot. Sometimes they just need time to improve.
