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I’ll listen to Walton without Tom Hornsby 

vitale  is volume down and podcast 

it’s like Berman and the HR derby….only so many times I can hear back, back, back 

21 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

It's still up in the air to whether Cockburn plays or not...if he doesn't, Sparty has a good chance to steal one...

With Cockburn neither team has much of a post presence on offense 

I think Marble has made some progress though 

3 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

Im not as high on BS as many others.  2 set back injuries in his final year before college.  He may benefit from a year focusing on his body as much as his game.  Jmo.  

He has to get 100% healthy for sure 

Purdue needs him to backup IT next year unless Morton can play PG

I wondered how IU fans felt about Dukie V.  

2 hours ago, IUFLA said:

Couple of good ones in the Big 10 tonight...

Michigan State in Champaign to take on the Illini (7 PM EST ESPN)

Maryland travels to Piscataway to meet Rutgers (9 PM EST BTN)

MSU-Illinois should be a tough, physical game...Line has Illini -5.5

Rutgers is -4 in the other game...

Who will impose their physical will ?

O/U 142.5 Illini.  132.5 Rutgers 

1 hour ago, NotIThatLives said:

I know some on here were likening him to John Stockton but he has to be a candidate to redshirt next year if not hit a year of prep, if thats still a thing.  Sucks it happened his senior year while his team was supposed to be in a title hunt and him hoping for a mr  basketball run.  

Why would he redshirt?  

Serious question:

Europe doesn’t have HS so I assume those are U19 Fiba teams?  
 

5 hours ago, Hoosier51 said:

I expected him to show more then he has. He still has time to turn it around.

I hope so…seems like a great kid 

Top 100 recruit? 
redshirts 

father died 

covid season 

Ivey explodes so he loses starting spot when Sasha comes back from Covid 

like KL he seems to buy in and support his teammates from the bench 

hopefully they both realize getting a degree and bring a part of The Family are important 

1 hour ago, Hoosier51 said:

TJD biggest problem is his outside shot. The one i am curious about is what has happened to Newman, he looks like he doesn't even belong on a division one team anymore.

He is lost

he isn’t explosive enough to go around defenders without a long pump fake which everyone knows is coming 

not a good ball handler or passer 

he needs to play like Morton or Galloway….D up…move the ball..shoot when wide open.  

1 hour ago, Lurker said:

I doubt it.  Class of 2019 IU took Armaan Franklin and TJD.  A quick look says Inside The Hall projected a 4 man class so it looks like there were two more scholarships available but Archie never seemed to use them all. Fans probably would have killed him for signing an unranked player.

Remember when Franklin & Newman were 4 year starters and TJD was one & done 

what has changed for TJD?  Might as well stay and get your degree

On 1/22/2022 at 11:03 PM, Lurker said:

Wake wins it 98-76.  LaRavia with 31p 10r 4a 3stl. Wake 2 starting guards and LaRavia were combined 25-37 from the field. Looks like Dawson Garcia still working his way back from a concussion suffered a couple of weeks ago.

Did IU ever recruit him?

11 hours ago, Parakeet Jones said:

Cue the excuses fro WL in 3…2…1…

Dude….Galloway was touching him on his hip flexor 😳🤣

Maybe he hurt it flopping to the ground vs Illini ?

3 hours ago, IU Scott said:

Back then it was NBC that had the national game. The travel partners if I remember correctly were.

IU/OSU.

PU/UI.

NW/UW.

UM/MSU.

Iowa/Minnesota

 

It was so great watching Bird, Tripucka, Dr Dunkenstein , Ernie & Bernie…..Hubbard vs IU….Sleepy 

the fact we only got big ten and DePaul games made those Enberg Packer & McGuire games so special 

25 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

The discussion of how this was our 3rd game in the week and how UM hadn't played since Tuesday got me thinking.  I know with having 14 teams and playing 20 conference games makes it hard to schedule.  Also with 3 different broadcast affiliates to worry about your schedule will not be balance.  It just seems like if you get lucky on who you only play once and when you play people it is a huge advantage.

It use to be so much more fair and balanced when we only had ten teams and played everyone twice.  You really had only one broadcast to worry about because a lot of it was locally televised.  All games were played on Thursdays and Saturdays.  It was also easy for fans to remember the schedule like that plus each team had a travel partner.  So you knew if IU was playing PU on Thursday then on Saturday you were playing Illinois.

Thursday/Saturday!

I think IU had O$U as a travel partner 

Purdue had Illini 

When you played them it was on a Wednesday?  Or am I misremembering 

plus CBS Game of the week with Al McGuire was awesome 

2 hours ago, Coach Shep said:

I was coaching my own team thursday on the road

Coach Painter….is that you?

2 hours ago, BGleas said:

Same. Wish we had that much off ball movement for Stewart. 

CMW played for RMK…why no motion offense?

Race & TJD are pretty good on the move.   It creates driving angles which XJ & Rob can exploit 

IU rolls today….

39 minutes ago, bluegrassIU said:

Ha, he is refusing to let Rob get all the attention as the big shot maker.

Which shot is better?

I have love for Rob but nobody thought IU was beating Cats 

plus UK took their ball and went home…🥲

a shot that ended a great rivalry!

10 hours ago, IU Scott said:

I was thinking if Purdue ran into Auburn in the tournament.  Purdue has some size inside, but PU doesn't have the length and athletic ability on the wing or the backcourt to compete

Was thinking same thing 

rather play Gonzaga or Arizona 

11 hours ago, IU Scott said:

Guys I wasn't necessarily saying they were all better teams.  I was talking about how they play and they allow their athletes to play with more of a freedom.  Also saying they have more length and athletic ability

I say this about SEC & Big 12 

big ten doesn’t have the long athletic players in abundance like these conferences do 

13 hours ago, IUFLA said:

Minnesota is just so overmatched on the defensive end between trying to cover Baker and Harper...that said, they're hanging in there...

I do think we match up much better with Rutgers than we have in years past...XJ on Baker will be must see stuff...

And is Jess Settles' melon really this big?

Before injury Settles was a monster 

37 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said:

Acceptable this time, given the circumstances: 

- The fact it was Purdue

- Purdue’s ranking at the time

- The breaking of a long losing streak to them

 

All those plus if Rob doesn’t hit that shot you basically went over 4 minutes without scoring to give it away….although I’m sure we miss FT to give it back 

that was a stressful game for both sides but especially for IU fans 

Ivey almost banked the last shot in too

1 hour ago, SawatchHoosier said:

The story someone told me was that Buckner was having so much sex his basketball performance declined and that’s why he was in Knight’s doghouse. 

I was amphibious….so it helped my game 🤔😳❌

8 minutes ago, KoB2011 said:

I don’t really think any of those were in what I would call the “bad” category. 

I would agree.  Thankfully nobody went Grayson Allen and grabbed with the second hand 

TJD got lucky he didn’t break his wrist under him 

I like Race & TJD…both play really hard & physical.  
 

TJD I have watched it 10 times 

not sure I see an obvious “hip check” but TJD is s phenomenal athlete who isn’t going to fall on his own 

there had to be some contact but it didn’t look dirty imho 

You guys give Galloway credit for getting under his skin…..playing physical.  A couple trips earlier he shoved him in the back as he elevated.

Only one of these situations didn’t involve a player in the air and vulnerable.