Originally Posted by
gumbomoop
I lean toward Wheat in this mini-debate, because I think you are underselling them, if McAdoo returns. Should McAdoo leave [yes, please], then you're right - "oh dear" - even if Wheat comes back and says, "Heels will do fine." Not so fine. Nerlens Noel comes to CH? No clue. We'll have to wait on McAdoo.
Meanwhile, judging the debate based specifically on the assumption that McAdoo stays, the difference is Wheat's assertion - "This team will not be an easy win for anyone" - v. your assertion - "I don't think they'll be a difficult win for most Top-10 maybe even Top-20 teams." Your "even Top-20" strikes me as way-underselling, as I infer you'd put them - with McAdoo - around #30-35. Maybe the essence of my lean toward Wheat's prognostication actually revolves around my view of McAdoo as an excellent-to-great player next season; whereas you give him only ... "good player."
Presumably you and maybe others [Edit: to take into account several posts that were posted as I was typing] think I'm overselling McAdoo. Fair enough. Again, we'll have to wait on McAdoo. I hope in goes in the upcoming NBA lottery, ahead of Barnes, which is where he should land. My advice to James Michael: take some of Harrison's money and run. [Edit: Your indulgence, please. Join me, won't you, in sending out this very vibe to James Michael for the next week or so: take some of Harrison's money and run. See how happy that would make so many of us? Please.]
I agree with Wheat that a McAdoo-led Heels would be a difficult test for any of next season's #5, 6, 9, 11, 14, 17 teams. Doesn't mean Heels would win all such games, but they'd win some, and challenge in all.