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HoosierDom

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  1. It's unbelievable how many bad decisions Alabama has made.
  2. If we're avoiding overreactions to a small sample size, he never would have been on our radar in the first place.
  3. Let this officially put an end to the May talk unless/until he has success with a bigger program. He's an Archie level hire.
  4. I think there are plenty of reasons to fire Woodson, but I don't know about this one. If Woodson leaves, kids will just transfer again. I don't think kids mind that much.
  5. Why do you think we had a good percentage last year? Do you think Galloway and X were among the top shooters in the country? To me it's obvious that we had good numbers because we didn't shoot many. We took the open ones and passed up the rest. Most of the open ones were open because teams had to pack the paint against TJD.
  6. I agree, he should have filled that spot. I don't agree that red shirting a guy makes any sense. If you're not good enough to help this year's team, why would we think you will ever be good enough to play at this level? Red shirting for non-medical reasons never happened often, and it's going to happen even less in the age of transfers. As I remember it, he talked a lot last off-season about looking for a guy that would move the needle (I think that was his phrase) - clearly be an upgrade over the guys already on the roster. He struck out on them. I certainly would have just brought a guy in just in the hope he would out-compete our current guys, and Woodson didn't do that. I don't get it, but it's not like he didn't want to upgrade - he tried and failed.
  7. Again, what system do you run with the guards/wing we have had? Do you not play through the guys who are your best offensive players by a large margin? What is he supposed to say in his press conference? "I don't want to play this way, but my guys suck"? To me, his comments have always indicated that he was going to run that system because with that roster, it's all he sees fit to do. I don't see anything in his comments to suggest he would run that system with Golden State, or even Nebraska, but he will run it with this year's IU.
  8. I don't want to come across as a Woodson defender, I'm not - if I were in charge, I would do everything I could to hire Bruce Pearl, but I don't understand why people think they know what offensive system Woody wants to run. He inherited an all-American big man, and no guards worth playing. He went out and got an aggressive, up-tempo pg and a shooter with size. Neither of those guys turned into guys that can win the conference, but that's who he sought out. That was before the age of the transfer, so options were limited. Was he supposed to run an offense that featured guards that were barely playing at a power 5 level or go through his superstar? That doesn't tell me anything about how he wants to play, it just tells me he's smart enough to play to a strength. His biggest recruits have been a big pg who could create shots, and, before he decommitted, a shooter with size. His other big win was a big man who fell in his lap - was he supposed to turn that down? He tried to get scorers from the wing and guard, he just failed. I'm all for criticizing him for that, but I don't get how you can judge his system. His decision this year was to get the ball to his NBA big man rather than what? Have Leal and Galloway rain 10 3's a game? Have X and Gunn create off the dribble? That's not going to work. Again, want to criticize him for not having better options, I think you should, but I don't see how we can think we know what next year's offense will look like. Taking a quick look around the league, I see 9 teams, probably 10 (I don't know Illinois well enough to judge some of their guys) that have a starting pg that is unquestionably better than X. And that's for the half the games X played. For the other half, we had the worst pg in the league. It's hard to win with that. It's even harder to do anything other than throw the ball in the paint. Again, you want to criticize Woody for putting us in that situation? Great, as do I, but, if you want to say based on that, you know what we're going to do on offense next year? I don't see any logic in that.
  9. C'mon, tell me coach didn't read my post!
  10. Wasn't this the point against Michigan two years ago where we determined X running a pick and roll with a big man charging the rim was virtually unstoppable? Maybe try that again?
  11. We do give up the 3rd lowest percentage in conference.
  12. "The extra pass to Walker" - couldn't sum up this year any better than that.
  13. The word "if" is doing some heavy lifting there.
  14. Margin of victory is so easily distorted, too. On either side of a decided game, I feel like we're always the team that dribbles out possessions and gives the other teams layups. Efficiency numbers are tightly packed, I'm sure that costs us 5-10 spots.
  15. I don't follow what you're trying to say here. We need a guard who can create shots for himself. Leal cannot do that. Gunn can. So, going into the season, I get why a coach would want to give Gunn a chance. I also get why, eventually, you have to stop giving out chances. I'm not suggesting Gunn should be playing now. The time for experimenting is in the first month or two when you don't know what you have and you're hoping what you have will grow into what you need. Not sure I agree that you should take a guy who doesn't clearly project to being a power conference player and aim to have him take a spot for 5 years. You never saw that happen often, and I suspect you'll see it less still in the transfer age. 8-15 solid minutes a game is not what we need. It's what we're setting for because we don't have what we need.
  16. This is Leal's ceiling. There was no way he was ever going to grow into a guy that can finish at the rim or create his own shot. Gunn's ceiling is quite high. I doubt he ever gets there, and he certainly isn't anywhere near it now, but he's a smooth athlete that could be a really good, multi-level scorer with the size and speed to be a force on defense. That's what we need, so we had to see if he could become that. Some guys click when given the chance.
  17. I've never been on team Gunn, so I mostly agree with you, but still, it's not hard to see why. Look at what happened every time, other than the game winner, Leal had the ball at the basket. His lack of athleticism is a huge minus. Giving Gunn opportunities made a lot of sense.
  18. Wow. Just like everyone watching this game said: get the ball to Leat down low.
  19. My goodness, what a dumb foul.
  20. Isn't that little circle suppose to mean something?
  21. Can we now admit that his little phone-call gesture is dumb af?
  22. I hope May takes one of these jobs. Right now, he’s an Archie level hire. I wouldn’t hate it, but I’m not the least bit upset if we miss out on first dibs.
  23. Doesn’t matter that MSU beat them by double digits? Or that the only other power team they played beat them by 20?
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