Joshua Marlow

I think what he was able to add in the backcourt, you bring in Terrence Brown,

from Utah, Nicholas Abdalas from Virginia Tech, Matt Abel from NC State.

I think that backcourt on paper is better than the backcourt that Carolina had last year with the Derrick Dixon of freshmen.

Seth Trimble, they overpaid for Kai and Evans, but none of that makes a hill of beans if you don't have some guys up front that can handle getting to the offense and the defensive glass and being able to protect the rim and

Honestly, this has been the biggest issue with the Carolina basketball program in the portal era.

There's always been – they've failed to have roster balance.

They've been really good in one area, really deficient in the other, and that's where they are – that's how they're currently constructed.

I think they have a backcourt that is maybe top 15 in the country, top to bottom.

They have a frontcourt that I don't know if –

You could put it inside the top 30, 35 in college basketball where it sits right now.

And that's including a five-star in Sayonketa that they brought in from overseas.

But he's working his tail off.

He hasn't been discouraged by some of their misses, and I do think what's all said and done, they'll land another big man or two to make Carolina fans feel better about their roster going into year one of the Malone era.

Because you just look at the success and

I don't know across any sport if we've seen someone replace a legend the way that John Shire has replaced Coach K there in Durham.

That program hasn't missed a beat in terms of what they've done recruiting out of the high school ranks.

They've been a player in the transfer portal and conceivably every year they're the favorite to win the ACC and they're usually on the short list of teams that can win.

a national championship.

With that being said, it was John Shire and the Duke program that their message was, hey, we can't keep doing what we're doing.

We have to change because we're not getting the results that ultimately we want to get, that we expect to get.