We'll be significantly better with Cav playing 0 minutes at the 5.
I'd expect Travis to have a nice year, and a more consistent year shooting the ball, as a senior who's trying to find a way into the league.
We will probably need Codi to fill CJ's shoes - however I think the impact of losing CJ is overstated a bit in this thread. I love the guy, but CJ was a nice shooter with some clever moves inside who would be a great complementary player on a legit ACC team. He often struggled to get his own shot, especially when nobody was biting on head fakes, and he really didn't close out many games well. The missed layup at VA Tech, he was cold and then had the eye thing and wasn't really involved when we beat NC State (had 1 point in the final 18 minutes), he slipped and fell in one last second shot attempt (BC maybe?), only 4 points in the 2nd half when we had Duke on the ropes, 0/4 with a few turnovers in the last 8 minutes of Maryland... He had a lot of hot first halves but was definitely part of the problem as far as the team disappearing late in games and struggling to close games out. We also probably upgrade the defense if we move to a Madison/Codi/Travis/Moto/Devin starting lineup.
Plus in general you'd expect Moto to improve, Devin to be more consistently like the end-of-year Devin versus early year Devin, so his numbers will be up.
The problem is that I doubt the improvement will get us that far. I mean, we were one of the worst teams in the league, and the league will be far tougher next year. If we just improve steadily, we will still be middle-of-the-road. We can certainly pull off wins against the poor teams and split with a few decent teams, but I don't see us getting to 20 wins and an NCAA appearance (or at least a UVA-like first 4 out), which by year 4 should be the expectation.
Worst possible outcome is we win 17 games and [Redacted] skates again in the name of "improvement" while we finish 3rd to last in the conference...