BGleas

My enthusiasm for IU basketball hasn't been this low in a long, long time. I hope I'm really, really wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, but it feels like next season is going to be a nightmare.

This is a very important distinction in the convo. Just mearly having your best player be a big doesn't make your team/offense post-dominant or inside-out. Cody Zeller was the best player on the 2011-13 teams, I don't think anyone would say those teams were post-dominant or inside-out.

Agree. Was just trying to find some way to make it make sense.

To be fair to Mike Woodson, that one line requires quite a bit more context. Does he mean through the post, or does he mean with guards and wings getting to the rim, sucking in the defense, etc. Paint touches are always going to be important in basketball, just depends on how you get them. Unfortunately, I think Woodson means playing through the post.

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I'm not a huge mock draft guy, but tue few I've seen he's more like mid-to-late teens. I'm pretty sure Auburn is like a top 10 defense.

This Tennessee-Auburn game is great. So depressing watching Dalton Knecht. Dude is an absolute stud.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm not against May by any means, I just wish he was a year further along right now and we could see how he did after his current core has broken up. But, I would definitely take him right now too. Not #1 on my list, but would be a good hire right now.

Agree. My thing with May is, I'm more interested in how he would do next year when some of his core is maybe gone as opposed to what he's doing this year with the same core. Of course what he's done at FAU is overall incredibly impressive. But, can he lose some of that core he's had success with for 2 years and still sustain success? Not saying he needs to get to the Final Four or anything, but can he still be a tournament team, etc., and compete for his conference?

I guess I just don't understand why you believe him that he wants to play 4 out/1 in? Actually, I'm not even sure if he's really even saying that's what he wants any more. On the personnel, he hasn't even tried. I understand the guard play isn't great this year, but we easily could have played way more minutes with Mgbako at the 4. Last season, especially when Race Thompson was injured, why did we never play minutes with TJD, Kopp, Bates, Galloway, JHS? I'm not sure if we ever played Kopp at the 4 in two years. He doesn't even try.

I don't really buy into these rumors, but with that said I think Bruce Pearl is probably gettable and would be a home run hire, though don't love his age. The hard part of all of this, and I'm not trying to start a debate on this, but I also think Chris Beard could maybe be gettable, and I think he'd be a grand slam hire. The problem of course is his recent legal troubles. It just stinks because I think Beard would check most every other box. He's even better than Pearl and younger. Also brings some of the Bob Knight connection, etc. If he didn't have the legal issues, he'd be a grand slam hire. Though without the legal issues he probably wouldn't be gettable.

Yeah, things are getting crazy and the rumor mill is only going to intensify, unfortunately. Most of it is going to be nonsense, even if the end result turns out to happen (hope that made sense).

Agree on Joker. He did get some of that criticism for not having a ton of playoff success. And agree, he's phenomenal.

It kind of worked though. While Crean deserved fault for his roster management that season, you kind of have to be impressed with the coaching job that year. Took a team that didn't have a single big/post player in the top 6 in minutes per game to the NCAA Tournament. Heck, Hanner Perea had the highest MPG of any big on the roster that season.

Starting at Center...Colin Hartman!

I don’t typically agree with much that Draymond says, but he's spot-on here.

I think we need to be careful to not overly disect and rip apart every little thing Woodson says to the media. These coaches meet with the media a lot and there is bound to be "coach-speak", platitudes, answering the question you want vs the question you were asked, etc., etc. With that said, I really don't like this answer from Woodson. It leaves me even more than I already did thinking that this needs to end after this season. I just don't think, unfortunately, that he's the guy to get this program where it needs to be. I just don't think he's the guy.

Yeah, this is a historically bad season for IU. Hard to digest and see where the program goes from here without changes.

I just want IU to hire a real, experienced Power 5 coach. Look at the post-Knight history. Outside of a magical 2002 Tournament run under Davis, IU's best on-court seasons have been under Kelvin Sampson and Tom Crean. Sampson was just starting to take off at IU, and Tom Crean went to 3 Sweet Sixteens and won 2 Big Titles in a 5 year period. Both had IU ranked in the top 10 at various points. Both are no longer at IU for obvious reasons that don't need to be rehashed. The point is, let's be a real basketball school and go hire a proven coach. Oates, Beard, Pearl, Bennett, or another Power5 coach that has a semblance of a proven track record and system, and understands how to run a program at this level.

1) depends on who is calling the shots. If it's Dolson, then I think if we lose out Woodson is gone. If it's Buckner, then I think he can lose out and still keep his job. 2) I think if he stays we have a shot with keeping Galloway, Reneau, Cupps, Sparks and McNeely (might be missing someone) 3) I don't think he can take a team of lower recruited guys and win next season.

Conference game on the road and they're down 6 with 2 minutes left, and that's with a horrible non-call that just happened that would have put Davis on the foul line.