I say its Mompremier, Campbell, Kaminiski, Gollon and Simmons. Next 3 : Setty, Harley and Dartis.
Anyone see a different set up or a breakthrough guy?

This is the toughest starting 5 to peg that I can remember because I have absolutely no clue how to place Kaminski. Is he able to play as the 3 in Saul's system or is he a 4? 2 bigs including Kaminski or 3 bigs including Kaminski?

I'm saying Campbell is the "big man" in this rotation and Wadley off the bench as a backup.

Campbell, Kaminski, Harley, Laster, Simmons start.

The thing is, I don't think there is a "next three" with these guys. I got a feeling Saul's going to want to rotate more guys this year. Take your pick between Setty, Wadley, Dartis, Block and Gollon. I'm really curious to see how Doug Taylor fits into this rotation given the injury he suffered.

It would be interesting if you put Campbell at the 4 with Wasly at the 5. Tony could have some good mismatches.

The other side of that coin is that a lot of times when a player is a mismatch on the offensive end they are a negative mismatch on the defensive end. Don't have a clue on Kaminski to say he will be though.

Even if he's made strides on defense, I think Kaminski is better off guarding another post player with average quickness and athleticism than trying to stick with a MAC '3' wing guard.

That seems to be how he is recruiting. Offensively, that should be exciting. Defensively, it'll be interesting.

Artilce in the Post today by Luke O'Roark mentions that Harley went home to have a doctor work on his back, but he is still with the team: http://www.thepostathens.com/sports/the-post-sits-down-wi...]


Besides learning about Harley's back rehab, this is the most important part of that piece:


“It’s funny because we’re going to have a lot of youngsters out there, but at the same time, just because they’re new faces — Kenny and Jaaron have played some basketball,” Phillips said. “We still look young at times, but really an unselfish group. A group that passes the ball extremely well and play well off each other.”


A team that passes the ball well, and play well off each other. Those are things that were struggles last season. Hopefully it continues.

He looked fine at the volleyball scrimmage on Saturday, but most people look fine when they are standing against a wall.

Respectfully, I'd rather see Setty as one of the first two off the bench. It just seems to fit him better to come in to give energy. He should still get 20+ minutes a game whether he's a starter or not.

I do think we have some stars. I actually think that our top 3 of Kaminski, Simmons and Tony is the best trio in the MAC now that Moss is gone from Beefs. I saw Jaaron play in high school and I really believe in the MAC he will be a First Teamer and possible Player of the Year.

Agreed that Kaminski and Simmons could be stars, and Tony's progress is trending towards that. But, the two transfers are mostly unproven to this point.

Playing devil's advocate, I think CMU could, and should argue the best returning bunch in the conference. Fowler is outstanding, and the rest of the returning starters are pretty darn good. Buffalo still has a lot of talent returning in Skeete, Wiggington, and Bearden, so they won't be terrible, but as we know, the loss of Moss and Evans is huge. And we always know Akron will be solid. Dambrot is quietly assembling some good talent at PG there after years of no PG depth. And they return Kretzer, McAdams, and Forsythe.

NIU returns a lot of players that contributed quite a bit last year. Whether they'll take another step, we'll see. Miami returns a lot, and has quite a few upperclassmen. They might take some big steps this year too.

Other than those teams, I see a bunch of teams that lost a lot of 4th or 5th year starters that will have rosters in transition: BG, UT, Kent, Western, EMU.

I agree the opportunity is certainly there to jump back into the top 4-5 teams in the MAC this year, and Simmons, Kaminski and Tony are crucial to that. Playing better defense is just as crucial though, and the other 5-6 guys that make up the regular rotation hopefully will play better D than we saw this past year.