You can, which is why I presume that Powell has the option to go play for another school if she desires. SC had a transfer from Texas who grad transferred to So Cal this season.
We'd have to see who she added to those five. Hollinghead and Pissott seem like they could be very good players next season. Jill is already very good. She would have to add three to four quality type players from the portal. She added two this past season. Franklin should've sit out she never had the mobility she had at Missouri State. Your basically trying to find elite guards and a backup post.
If Key comes back were dynamic at center. People don't seem to understand how good Key is. What you saw this year isn't Key it was a sick person trying to play. If we have Key back next season the job gets far easier. Jill and Tamari along with Striplin gives us a solid post game. In that scenario we need some very good guards three or four of them and maybe one elite wing. Then lighten up the schedule some and your a top ten team.
I think it's safe to say we'll be served way, way more cupcakes next year. Said before, the schedule overreach was the first and original sin for this season. So far, we've never recovered.
I'm not really hoping Powell returns if she does maybe she will be better. What she has been able to do this year gives me no reason to be concerned as to whether she returns or not. If we can't find some guards much better than her or anyone we have now were in huge trouble anyway. If I were really hoping for someone to return it would be a healthy Key and Horston to forgo the WNBA. We would still need some elite guards, but those two returning would lighten the load of who we have to get in the portal. That would cut it to about four or five players most of them need to be elite guards.
Each to his own opinion, but you don't have to be a "pot stirrer" whatever that is, to see that the outlook for KJH to have more than middling success took a major blow this year, and looks worse next year. Since every shred of available evidence is in that direction, I don't think that's even a controversial opinion.
I'd love that, but realistically even then we would be last year's late season team. We would struggle alot of times to score unless Horston finally becomes consistent and Key improves on offense and with mobility. Truthfully, if not for Rickea's consistent scoring this year we'd be midpack SEC at best and def struggling to make the tourney.
