re: 2022-23 Auburn basketball season thread- 21-13 (10-9) Season over

Smith and Kessler will both be gone and in the NBA. Kessler has been getting first round grades for months now. Nothing has changed there.

I'm not sure Wes is even up for any jobs. If he is they are probably mid-majors or down a division. I doubt Allen would leave to go to a smaller school so I think he returns. I also think Cambridge returns because I'm not sure where he would go. Plus he will be a senior. If he goes he probably goes down a level just to be a full time 30 minute a night starter.

Stretch and C-Mo unless they get some assurances of more playing time I think they are both gone in the transfer portal.

JayWill will be back. Nothing is in front of him.

Westry and Donaldson are both guys you expect to stick around for multiple years. Not 1 and done type players. I could see Donaldson rotating at the 2 more next year until Zep is gone and then moving to the 1. Neither are shooters both are dribble drive type players. So Westry will be a 2/3 type player his first year and 3 the following years.

So going into next year we need a backup 4, a potential starter at the 5 and a dead eye shooter either at the 2 or the 3.

And for those that keep saying Kessler should come back I would remind all of you of Chris Porter. Had a first round grade. Would have been taken between 13-20 of the first round had he come out. He decided to come back and work on his game to try to develop a jumper and dropped completely out of the draft. And how is Bruce going to develop Kessler. Wiley was Bruce's first real big man, Kessler his second.