How is only have two (three if you wanna count Adonis) C options not eerily similar to our PG problems with Tracy, Jaylon, and Khalid? Heck, I'd bet (at least for this next year) that Tracy was a better starting PG than Giorgi or Samba will be. Now, backup wise the C situation might look brighter, but inexperience is huge, especially for bigs.
We traded our PG problem for a C problem (and honestly, a PF problem too). We lose Samba or Giorgi, and we are in just as much crap as we were when Tracy went down, maybe even more. Malcolm at PG was more effective than Kipper will be defending 6'11"+ guys in the paint constantly. Spin it how you want, but the fact is we missed on all our high PF/C targets, just like Groce did with PG. At least Groce had a good excuse of Snider spurning us at the 11th hour.
I must have missed the seasons where Groce was bringing in elite big men, and our ONLY issue was point guard play... One thing I know for certain is that if you don't have good guard play, you don't have a chance. Trent and Ayo have a chance to be a special back-court at some point. (probably no sooner than 2019-2020)
Despite our size disadvantage, we were able to create turnovers at an elite level last season, somewhat mitigating the fact that we were the worst defensive rebounding team in the nation. If we can just get to mediocre in rebounding, and take better care of the basketball, we should be good for 5-6 more wins this season. That may not sound like much, but we will need to get to average before we can get to good.