[DJ's left nut]

For what it's worth - I really like this team.

Pinson, Pickett, Smith and Smith will be big time contributors next year with McKinney looking good as a reserve back there.

Watson, Smith and Jackson give you a solid forward corps w/ Tilmon at C.

Those guys all play their asses off and so many of them have shown excellent growth this year. Santos is largely irrelevant and I guess Nikko has become tolerable enough as a backup C (I just wish to hell Cuonzo would stop playing him at the same time as Suggs and leaving us 3 on 5 offensively).

I'd like to see one more recruiting win; 4 or a 3 would help (A new C is probably not needed just yet).

I like these guys a lot, though. They're easy to root for, they play hard and they play for each other. They spent this whole season one player away from being a 20-22 win team, IMO. You just have to think about how many of these games either came up 1 or 2 possessions short or got away from them because they didn't have a guy that could stop the bleeding like Cash could last year.

I think they're a tourney team this season with Jontay. I hate that it went down like it did, man. It would be a minor miracle if he came back for some strange reason but that seems really silly of him and there's maybe a 5% chance of it. But boy, he'd make all the difference in the world for them; they can win the conference with him back at full force.