The craziest part of this is we don't have any four star players getting minutes. Previously our teams rates in this range had much higher end talent.
I know this isn't a 1:1 analog, but this quote comes to mind --
"In this room is every available player at every level of professional baseball, and somewhere in that group are 25 players that everyone else has thrown out. An island of misfit toys. In this room is a championship team that we can afford."
What is especially crazy is this team/roster is objectively missing a lot of pieces...
-- Kunc (a starter) hasn't played against the Big 12 due to injury.
-- Hunter bailed late last offseason, which hurt TJ's chances with the highest-priority big men (though landing Osunniyi late in the process was obviously one heck of a consolation prize).
-- Williams, likely the starter at PG once Hunter left, is out with injury. Forced to start a freshman coming off a major injury as a result with no backup PG and drafting Holmes into that role.
-- 99.9% the way to landing A.J. Green before one last, fateful phone call from the Milwaukee Bucks.
This is a top-ten team... imagine if it had a healthy Kunc, healthy Williams, and Green to round it out.
I don't know how TJ is doing this. The Hoiberg turnaround had some big-time transfers like Royce White and Will Clyburn to lead it. TJ went to the scrap heap and came back with a 5-1 Big 12 team.
