re: Let's be honest about our basketball roster

Agree honestly, here's my breakdown:

Mays, Williams, Days and Watford are all high level starters and some of the better players in the conference, none are necessarily SEC player of the year worthy, but you could make an argument for each of Mays, Days and Williams especially for All-SEC teams (they select 16 players) and Watford for Freshman All-SEC team (EASILY here, could have argument for SEC freshman of the year honestly if it wasnt for Anthony Edwards).

Then you have Smart and Manning on that next tier IMO, Smart a solid SEC starter and Manning one of the better bench players in the conference for sure. Good players, but not great players. They can score, Manning can defend.

Then you have Taylor on the next tier by himself, role player who can give you a lot of minutes but not necessarily anything more than a body who can play some D and provide a little offense.

Then there's Hyatt on next tier by himself, another role player but one not nearly up to Taylor's level. Cant shoot 3 and that's suposed to be his thing, but at 6'5 225 can be a little versatile.

Then there's the Bishop, Graves, Cooper tier of guys who really contribute next to nothing and arent even very serviceable players but play emergency minutes really.

So it s solid roster, but it's certainly not deep, especially when you take Manning out the equation, and that's really our biggest weakness. The drop off from the Manning/Smart tier to Taylor/Hyatt tiers is pretty significant and then you drop down the next tier of non-contributors basically. 4 really good players, 2 pretty good players, 1 decent role player, 1 meh role player and then bunch of nothing.