The roster construction seems unbalanced.
This is one of the major issues Bullets teams faced over the last 5-6 seasons... poor roster balance.
Sydney too went into last season as strong favourites and due to poor roster balance, weren't in the mix.

In the front court they have 5 (Humphries) and 4 (Trez) covered so a 3 made complete sense. But Cheatham is not a 3 - he’s an athlete but he can’t shoot away from the paint so it feels like a miss. I also see Cotton & DJ as 2’s, as is Cameron. Who is running the point?

I’m not convinced.

We have plenty of shooters and only 1 ball so Cheatham doesn't need to shoot 3s, he needs to defend, rebound, take it to the rack and score on fast break.

He will be fine, his D will help start fast breaks and he will provide some highlights for the fans.

They were looking for an import PG, but when Bryce is available you shelve plan A and sign him every time. They will play the point by committee as have lots of ball handlers.

Anyone who watched us last year knows rebounding, especially giving up offensive rebounds was an absolute killer for us (and has been for a few years). Like just look at that loss to Tassie where we gave Doyle like 4 bites at it at the rim for him to win the game.

Can't blame Adelaide fans for the excitment of having players like Cotton and Harrell on the same team at the same time. Either way, it will be an exciting season full of ups and downs.

For me, caution should be applied. How often do we see stacked roster prematurely declared champions just because of how they look on paper? Look at Sydney last season. Even the year Adelaide signed Franks, Cleveland etc it was just fools gold.

Then you look at recent champions like Illawarra and Tasmania and both have got there through really good coaching, strong defence, and culture driving it all. Melbourne aren't deprived of talent, bu they've built their success around the same kind of culture, have a strong and consistent core group, and are wise and selective about their imports, rarely chasing a big name for the sake of it.

That's the worry for me with Adelaide. What have they learnt? Spending big in previous seasons hasn't worked, so they go out and spend even more while keeping in place people who have overseen poor culture.

In saying that, it does seem like Adelaide have been more pragmatic in building a roster even with the big spending. Getting Cotton is an instant game changer, and obviously you don't get much bigger talent than Harrell.

I think Adelaide will overwhelm teams at times and also be made to look massively overhyped at times too. If Wells can get them firing when it counts, then Adelaide have to be a chance.

Would we agree Cotton has more talent around him than he's had at Perth recently? Wells and Rillie are probably similar coaches in a way.

It is the classic question of can a team of champions be a champion team. History (especially in Adelaide) says "no", but I think maybe there has been a bit more focus grabbing guys, especially on the big $ that they know will vibe with Mike Wells. I think that's especially important because they won't have a guy like Jason Cadee there who seemed to be a bit of a peace maker across the team at times.

Now the question will almost be down to we know what guys like Cotton and Harrell will/can do, but can DJV and Humphries go from "this is your team" that it was when they signed to taking a backseat more this year? We saw Humphries can sulk a bit if he doesn't get touches (or misses easy ones) and DJ almost needs to shoot to live at times and if he goes for a streak of possessions without shooting he'll jack up the first shot he can.

Bullets, the Cheatham signing says to me that the Sixers intend to play Trez primarily as a centre. So Isaac and Trez will share minutes at centre and play together more in some games when the coach believes it gives us a matchup advantage. Also, while he is primarily a 4, he should be capable of guarding whatever position he is switched onto. I think he's a very good signing that gives the coach a lot of options to counter different opponents.

I just looked up their stats too, Jarrell Martin considered a stretch 4 shooting 32.4% from 3 while Harrell went at 30.2% with JM taking about 1 more 3 a game.

Big if, but IF Harrell could bump that up 3-5% on 2 to 3 shots a game then he's at least hitting enough to the point he could make teams think twice on leaving him open.

Martin wasn't a big 3pt shooter but more of a long two's kinda guy, Trez isn't anywhere close to the shooter Martin was at the Kings.

The only end game connected to these decisions is LK and GK trying to push up the Club's sale price, and making the team appealing to someone to pay it.

I could see Cheatham and Trez both taking a couple of threes per game to keep defences honest. Cheatham actually shot 15/36 from three in 17 regular season games for the Breakers, so that's over 40%! I think we will be fine with spacing and he offers far more on the other end than a guy like Hurt, which is actually what the team needs.

Beantown, that'd be why I remember him being a good three point shooter then. In the NBA he's seen as more of a wing than a PF.

Surely Adelaide need to show some faith in Gritsci or he is just not up to standard?