Walton averaged 14.9 mpg last year, and the plurality of CU's minutes at center were soaked up by somebody with far better numbers than anyone on our team. Obviously, he's a substantial injury risk, but for us to be a bubble team he needs to stay healthy and he needs to play more minutes than he did for a team that had actual good players last year. Same with Monsanto; he's unlikely to start over or get more minutes than Mucius. However, if he's not better next year than Mucius was last year, barring some Josh Howard like explosion from Mucius, we aren't sniffing the bubble.
It seems to me that we can cobble together a respectable rotation at the 3-4-5, but that the #2 spot is a glaring weakness. I haven't seen any chatter about it, but landing Lederrius Brewer would seem to do wonders for our rotation both by putting a much better player (really efficient eFG and TS% despite an outrageous usage) at the 2 while letting Whitt and DW lock down all the minutes at point.
All IMO, of course. I certainly hope the more optimistic folks are right. There's a long way between 3-15 in the ACC and #175 in KP and being a bubble team. We can and will be substantially improved regardless, but in order to be a bubble team, I think we need these new guys to be grand slams, not doubles and singles.