Originally Posted by
Kedsy
I'm not sure why you've decided to bold everything recently. It's like shouting.
A talented, "pure" PG is always welcome, but you can have a very good team without one (e.g., Duke in 2018, 2010, 1999, 1994, 1989, 1988). Or, put another way, a drive-and-dish, eyes-in-the-back-of-his-head PG is a weapon, an offensive advantage, which is important, but it's not the only kind of offensive advantage. Banchero and Griffin, at least, will have offensive abilities that opposing defenses will have to do something special to stop. Banchero, Griffin, and even Williams are all good passers/playmakers for their position, while Roach, Steward, and Moore all have basic playmaking skills that hopefully will mature over the offseason. If we get Keels, he'd seem be another guard with playmaking potential. It's unlikely a grad transfer PG will provide sufficiently high level skills to be better than what we should already have.
And more size? Coach K usually plays three guys in his big man rotation. We'll have a very crowded big-man rotation including Banchero, Williams, Coleman, Brakefield, and Griffin (who will usually play SF but K likes his SFs to move up a position sometimes; plus Moore and Baker, who can both play PF, and possibly Baldwin, though that seems less likely). How much more size do you want?