kyhoosier29

I agree, but I’m a KY guy. I didn’t grow up hating Purdue. I grew up hating, and still do, Kentucky at an unhealthy level.

I’m not eating turds or giving up my left testicle for anything basketball related!

No, which means I must not be a “true” fan.

I’m never eating a turd.

Mike Woodson says, “Mike Woodson already knows everything about the game of basketball. I just need to get my kids over the hump.”

Careful where you walk, about like Indy lately with all of the shootings. 36 homicides in the first quarter … last number I saw. 😬

That’s what I was thinking.

So you could be a 1A team competing against a 4A team during the regular season, but it’s split up come tournament time?

Explain, to this Kentucky guy, how two teams from the same conference can win titles in different classes. Are conferences just determined by location, doesn’t matter class?

Yeah, I mean I think it’s common sense that getting buff can affect a shot, but I’m not sure who came in as a good shooter, then got buff and then couldn’t shoot. Again, we haven’t recruited any shooters in recent years so how could Clif mess any of them up?

Game is just a lot slower and less athletic as a whole. But I enjoyed watching this IU team play. They played smart, moved well on offense, and shot it really well all year. They really competed. You could tell they didn’t handle losing well and I enjoy watching athletes like that.

Ladies should hold their heads high. Not a fan of women’s basketball, but they were fun to watch. They didn’t stop moving on offense (get a lot of good looks), played smart, and worked hard on the defensive end. They were toast early in the second half, but didn’t quit. When you can make threes you’re never out of it. S. Carolina was rattled and out-smarted. If we only had a couple more minutes.

I know it CAN…. ha ha, but I’ll trust the tons of people in the industry that tell us that Clif knows what he’s doing. Nobody has answered my question yet…. what elite shooters have we recruited since Clif has been there that he screwed up? MK wasn’t “screwed up”…. he didn’t get the volume he should have gotten, but he wasn’t messed up by Clif. We haven’t had any elite shooters in a long time, but I’m sure the current guys thank you for making excuses for them. 😂

I think we’re prob getting at the same thing. Don’t think Clif has anything to do with whether guys shots are improving or not.

You’re using an extreme case of a guy with the yips who needs direction from a coach who knows how to shoot. Normal guys, absolutely reps fix confidence issues at the line.

Bigger stage, more pressure, higher expectations …. 🤷🏻‍♂️. I don’t know. Don’t think any of it should be attributed to Clif. We need to recruit better and make sure those guys are dogs, work at it. Regardless of what Clif does, if these guys shoot a couple hundred FTs a day (or maybe more), they’ll get better. Obviously don’t shoot enough.

But are we really trying to blame Clif for not being able to shoot FTs? What high volume, dead eye shooters have we successfully recruited in the last 5 years?

What shooters have we gotten while Clif has been here that “he” has ruined?

🤷🏻‍♂️. Sorry? Not sure where the confusion is. I don’t think Woodson’s recruiting, and playing style have been acceptable. He’s too stubborn and doesn’t seem to take much accountability. And he’s 63 years old, on the back end of his career, so changing isn’t likely. I just don’t think he’s the right guy for the job. But I hope all of that changes, he grows ….because I’m not going to root for us to lose. This one commitment is a start to moving in that direction, but it doesn’t change much in my book yet. It’s like me having a car that has multiple things wrong on it. A mechanic says that he can fix one of the issues. Okay, well that’s fine, but my car still isn’t fixed. I need everything fixed so it runs correctly. Since we’re using analogies and such. Only a small part of the job is done. We can be happy about it, but it’s not something that just makes everything okay all of a sudden. If we bring in multiple shooters to address our main weakness and it looks like the pieces are there…. then the happy meter can certainly move to the right a little bit.

I’ve never one time said I hope we lose or I hope he loses. Gave my opinion on him, still don’t think he’s the guy and we’re wasting another year. However, you won’t ever catch me rooting against IU.

We had a top 20 player just leave for the draft. So, a good start adding a quality player, but he’s not KW and he doesn’t shoot the 3 for a high percentage. Which means we’re not as good, definitely not better than we were last year… yet. So a start, but a LOT more needs to be done. So worth being excited about? Yes. But doesn’t quite move the needle much for me yet. Sticking to my comment. 👍

In all honesty, unless we snag some portal “shooters” Tucker doesn’t move the needle much. We need Tucker plus a few more.

I don’t think Woodson is the answer, but this is a huge get and good first step. Maybe last year, and the playing style to date, is just an anomaly. Hopefully this dog is willing to learn new tricks. Only the first step though, many more holes to fill. I’m certainly not rooting against him. Hope he proves me wrong.

Not that big of a deal. Pretty sure most on here aren’t using it as a jab, more-so because it fits and has a ring to it. Nobody still holds that over his head. If he has a good sense of humor, I’m sure he doesn’t care. But I’m not going to argue about it.

Your point could have easily been made without the first sentence and first full paragraph. 🤷🏻‍♂️