HoosierDom

He got beat, though. If he didn't grab him, that's a sack.

Really looked like both receivers were open, so he tried to throw it in the middle.

Why are these deserving of their own thread? Seems better suited to a post in the NIL thread - one that will go largely ignored, I might add. The one time I listened to his show, I gave him 10 minutes and he had less actual basketball content than most one paragraph posts on here.

Trey and X have shown they can hit open shots when TJD creates those shots. That's a very valuable skill, but it is not the same skill that a guy like Love (not saying we should get him) has, where he gets his own shot. You can't just scale that up and have Trey and X jack 150+ 3's a year and expect the percentages to stay the same. Maybe they improve this off-season and get there, but thus far, they have not shown the ability to get themselves that many looks. Hopefully, with MM and our front court, they won't have to.

Painter has earned the benefit of the doubt, but I have a hard time seeing how that team even makes it to the 7-8 range without Edey. He covers for so many of their faults all over the floor. Without him, I think a lot of warts are going to show through. edit: I see now that you are saying in conference. I guess that's similar, but with a down year in the conference, that seems reasonable. I thought you were pegging them as a 7-8 seed, which I think is optimistic without Edey.

Sure looked like an offensive foul on that first replay of a turnover and run-out they just showed. Miami only has 8 free throws. One of those is from a T and the C's are lucky they don't have more of those.

I missed the first 6-7 minutes of the game, but in what I have seen, I don't think it has been unfair.

Did I miss something? That was the most blatant lane violation I have ever seen that wasn't called.

Would we be getting freshman year Love or senior year Love? I get why the NBA wants JHS and not Love, and this points, at least somewhat, to that, but I don't think this tells the story of what we would get next year.

Compare Love's numbers, particularly his percentages and number of shots taken, to JHS. There are a lot of similarities. JHS shot more 2's and hit them at a lower clip. The only glaring difference is that Love shot roughly 4 more 3's per game and hit them at a slightly lower rate. There true shooting percentages (accounts for the fact that 3's are worth more) are almost identical. Just looking at the numbers, it seems like Love should shoot fewer 3's, but his numbers aren't those of some crazy out of control shooter. He's basically JHS who takes 2 steps back instead of shooting so many mid-ranged shots.

I read that more as he doesn't want to go back, not that he wouldn't be welcome. Adding him seems to raise our ceiling, but maybe also lowers our floor.

I was incredibly impressed by his tape. I hope we're going after him.

I would have thought a pg equivalent of Walker would have been a top priority, but, as far as I can tell, we have reached out to no pgs. I have to assume that means coach trusts Cupps to be able to contribute from day one.

Didn't Kansas make a late push on Galloway?

I'm not disputing that. What I'm saying is that any kid ranked that highly, even the one that comes to mind as an epic bust, is going to be our starting 3 next year.

Bates, despite injuries, averaged 10 ppg as a freshman. If we could get a time machine to bring us freshman year Emoni Bates, he would be the starting 3 on this roster.

Seems a lot like McNeeley, who has always struck me as playing a lot like Carmelo. Hope coach sells them both by showing all the things he did for Carmelo and who better do develop Carmelo Jr.?

12% from deep gets you labeled a stretch big?

I've never heard of this one, but those look like the highlights of a guy who scores 20 a game. Looks like he pretty much did the second half of the season.

Sure, if he had his best game every single night, that's hard to pass up. But, looking at X's games vs Xavier and UNC - I might still take that X over JHS. Those were some efficient games. With very good D.

Per 48 minutes, Ware had over 12 boards and just under 4 blocks. Both of those numbers are higher than TJD's junior year per 48's. I think people are underestimating how high this kid's floor is. I'm sure not all will agree, but I'd take X over last year's JHS. For me it's not that close. I'd take a sophomore Malik over Race. I'd take this years Galloway over last year's. As long as someone, maybe even Banks, can outperform Kopp, we should be better at 4 of the 5 starting spots. And still very good at that 5th spot. I'll take it.

UConn is certainly overrated. Alabama and FAU seem criminally overrated, but at least they aren't all in on overrating Kentucky like they have been over the past decade. (can we maybe fix the "to" to "too" in these two titles)

If you haven't seen the video already, google his game highlights vs MSU and vs UConn. Those videos show every shot he took, every rebound, block and turnover. He certainly has some things to work on, but man, the good parts are highly impressive. I'd say more impressive than the pure highlight video I saw before.

Do we know beyond this story that he canceled Alabama? Was his original plan to go straight there from Bloomington?

I believe those with percentages underneath are predictions. If no number, it's a done deal.