moderately successful '22-23 season was due mainly to Kobe Brown, a Cuonzo recruit who's currently dominating the NBA Summer League:
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https://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/former-mizzou-star-kobe-brown-is-the-talk-of-the-nba-summer-league-with-his/article_effac000-22bf-11ee-951b-9b72afb937e9.html
You only need 1 or 2 good players to be competitive in basketball... hopefully Gates will be able to win with his own players and avoid the kind of year 2 dropoff we saw with Cuonzo.