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Hoosierhoopster

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  1. I’ll take that bet. 1 of 8? We’re a terrible team? Definitely a tough slate, but we’ll do better than that
  2. Hmm. Bucks beat Miami by 47, score a nba record 29 3’s, score 46 in the 1st quarter alone, Greek Freak scored only 9 of those points, and no comment here? Oh yeah, no PG lol. Miami was missing Butler, another crazy game
  3. Awesome, that's my new nickname for him!
  4. For sure, no excuse being made, a ridiculously poor showing / lack of showing up by the Clips. But that doesn't go to the 'ranking' point, which is all I responded to.
  5. It's funny, for sure, but they don't put that much stock in one regular season game, and the Clips just came of a convincing W over Denver after beating LA. How in the world the Clips played that poorly is a good question, regardless. Interesting going forward to watch how they adapt to Lue's new system, and it's almost a triangle set up, a different look. I have thought it would take them to about a quarter of the way in to start playing consistent good ball, they started better than I thought they would, but it's only 3 regular season games, really can't put too much stock into anything at this point.
  6. Yeah it’s crazy - haven’t watched it, guess the clips just decided not to show up, I mean they just beat LA and Denver - Kawhi is out but that can’t be it,crazy
  7. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2020/12/27/washington-wizards-thomas-bryant-dunks-wrong-basket
  8. If Harden were to go to the C’s @BGleaswould turn Celtic green 🤣
  9. Sabonis Vic and Warren 23, 22 and 22, and Vic 5-5 from the arc and 8-12 FG’s with 7 boards and Brogdon with 18. Pacers with good balance
  10. Yeah I understand and wasn’t implying you were being unreasonable, I agree it looks (at this point) that we’ll be riding our D. I hope to see some adjustments- playing time adjustments and offensive sets to spread outside scoring, but we do have guys who can score, it’s implementation and strategy imo more than personnel
  11. Gotta say Brooklyn looks really good, and Durant hasn’t lost a step.
  12. Waiting for the kids to get up on Xmas day, I came across this gem to watch: Ice Shark
  13. We're just having fun, it's just the first game and I suspect the Clips will need about a quarter of the season to gel, Lue is running things differently and there are new pieces, but a nice start!
  14. 13-18 for 33 😁 and down go the Lakers 😂
  15. I wouldn’t exactly be shocked if he’s bending the rules, he does have the track record lol, but he’s a truly exceptional coach and it’s definitely his coaching that has UofH in the top 10
  16. In fairness we did it to ourselves. The U self-reported and unilaterally imposed all of those “sanctions,” the destruction of our program — and the phone gate BS that the NCAA went after was legal by the next year. His recruiting resulted in horrible academics and what was basically a drug culture within the program, that needed to go, but the ruination of our program was done by IU itself.
  17. In memory of Mile (Ken) and the civility and friendship he brought to the Board, we're renaming this forum "Milehiiu's Board Rules" The name change will appear soon. Mile always played an important role here.
  18. Man there is no question, whatsoever, as documented in all kinds of stories, articles, etc., that Butler caused and was involved in all kinds of locker room issues in his earlier years. That was baggage following him. Your refusal to acknowledge that is frankly worse than my perceived love of all things PG. I have, can and do acknowledge that PG has said some extremely stupid things, acted like a fool, including several times over the past year, that his "between the ears" thing has him looking bad at times -- and BTW I guess it's cool to simply ignore that he was going through depression this year, you know, a medical condition, let's just laugh at depression right? -- but lots of guys have picked PG over Butler to win a game, give me a freaking break, PG has won all kinds of games and just two years ago averaged 28 PPG, 2nd in the League, while being in the final 3 for both MVP and defensive MVP. Golly, who would pick PG with that kind of game? That said, if I myself were picking between the two right now, based on last season, I would pick Butler, hands down, because he has his stuff together, right now, he's playing fantastic ball. However, that's based on last season, now we'll see how PG does this year with time to gel and actually play with his teammates, unlike last year, and whether he is mentally and physically good. Remember the debates we had on your claim PG's defense was gone after his year-long injury, that he wasn't the same player, and the next year he was a finalist for defensive MVP? Let's see how this season pans out. Now I'm done with the repeated barbs and PG discussion.
  19. If buts and maybes don't apply to this season. He is absolutely not, at all, on the hot seat, much as some may want to trumpet panic and worry. The B1G is one of the best 2 conferences in the country this year, period. Whatever 'quite possible' stuff you want to throw out there, realistically, if he doesn't have IU in the tourney this year, by not being one of the top 5-8 teams or so (and yes it looks like the B1G will likely field 8 teams) then next season the pressure will start to build, but he aint going anywhere anytime soon, period.
  20. It's not toasty, etc. but in any event we're not talking about playing Lander so he can benefit us in subsequent years, we're talking about getting him going this year, to benefit us this year, just as again Izzo for example does with his players. I don't like Izzo, but he's sane and most coaches would be playing Lander. We've had a game where he played 7 minutes. Again, CAM's approach has us looking good generally, but Lander's upside is tremendous and -- imo -- he will need to continue to play more for IU to achieve the level of success we all want this year. This isn't about next year at all. Lander is the real deal. No one coming into this season was talking about limiting his minutes.
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