BADGERVOL

I still believe in all my years of watching IU that this team has been constructed VERY randomly.

Like a 5 year old at a buffet for dinner.

Just now, Parakeet Jones said:

I’ll give $100 to anyone who can make a logical argument to convince me why Walker should play. 

He’s a nice young man…

PM me and I’ll give you my address

Just now, NCHoosier32 said:

let's not forget UConn is missing their 3rd leading scorer

Well we are missing anyone who can shoot…so…

How many more years do we need to hear each other say “we need to bring in some shooters next year.”

How many??

We can’t KEEP shooting ourselves in the foot and expect to close the gap

It appears we continue to show the signs of a team that will fix their mistakes and become a potential final four caliber team OR we won’t and we’ll struggle to be even near middle of the pack in conference

I could care less about height at the PG position. At all. If opposing teams struggle to stay in front of him and creates mismatches, if he can shoot, if he can get to the rim, if he plays good defense, has handles, doesn’t turn the ball over, has a good basketball IQ…you have enough of these boxes checked and sign me up.

PARTICULARLY because at his height it’s likely he’s a 3-4 year player even if he puts up great stats and wins.

Does anyone here think this team wouldn’t IMMEDIATELY be better if Yogi Ferrell was on the floor???

3 minutes ago, 3Ballin said:

Does anyone know why we brought back Crean's top of the key weave?  It just looks like pointless fluff to start the offense. We dont look to drive off of it, never back cut. We look like the Washington Generals trying to play to Sweet Georgia Brown. 

This drives me nuts watching it. It is utterly pointless

15 minutes ago, Proud2BAHoosier said:

I have no expectations for this team this year. Especially after losing 4/5 of our starters from last years team.

I think as fans, we forget sometimes.....

We aren’t rebuilt yet. When we are there are NO more horrible seasons. Bad seasons are 8-10th in the conference. We are never sniffing .500 EVER.

So yes get it rebuilt Woodson but he’d agree IU needs to be darn similar to the other top 5-10 Blue Bloods. 

Only bad thing is I FEEL these guys are dipping into thinking they can put the screws down and pull out a game in the last 8-10min or less.

If that is true and doesn’t change we gonna lose a TON of road games.

Struggling to find anything we do well 

Just now, Maedhros said:

Still think this team has enormous potential. There's a lot of skill out there, just no one has a feel what they or their teammates should be doing, on either end. I thought they'd be further along than this, have to see what Woodson and the staff can do in the coming months.

Sure hope so because this is PAINFUL to watch 

We are a hot pile of 💩 

BUY SPARKS VELCRO SHOES 🤬

Ok as if that’s not a completely obvious offensive foul

2 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Our guys plays so uninspired and looks like they don't want to be playing 

Agreed I see no leadership from upperclassmen. I don’t see any emotion on faces like “GUYS COME ON!”

2 minutes ago, BGleas said:

Bad shot by Mgbako, but I really feel like the coaching is not putting him in a position to be successful or gain confidence. 

We do need to get him going

Just now, Maedhros said:

I'm not one for overreacting, but genuinely, we barely look like a functioning basketball team at the moment. There's not really anything we've done well. That second unit lineup was never going to work, but the starters have done distressingly little as well. This shouldn't be happening.

We look like a super randomly constructed team. Like a team picked at the Y. Hope they find their roles

1 minute ago, bluegrassIU said:

I think he is sending g a big F-U to the team, to be honest.

Now he’s gonna need to bench the entire bench to send an F U to them

1 minute ago, Inequality said:

IU women would kick men’s butts.

We have a lot of players but not a single shooter. Man I miss Jalen

Obviously we know you’re joking the women wouod be triplex up if both sides were motivated

We are embarrassingly bad right now

3/4 of the time our perimeter defense looks like they have a scouting report to let the guy shoot until he proves he’s on a roll.

I don’t get it.

Lord we look lost…

I think Queen is all Hoosier it’s just SO dang overwhelmingly awesome he needs a few months to catch his breath and let the magnitude of this awesome sauce simmer a bit. 😎

1 hour ago, DC2345 said:

Guys talking about Ware and MM having intentions of being 1 and done players at IU is silly. Of course that is their intentions and the staff’s intentions. That said crazy things can happen. Anyone else on the current roster is very unlikely to go pro after this year unless they are out of eligibility like X.

I’d agree at least so far. Guess we’ll see how the season plays out. If Ware’s potential is true, and he underachieved greatly last year, it’s not inconceivable for him to hit his stride and really start growing as a player quickly. 
 

Hope he does because if he becomes truly worthy of a mid first round pick and others improve AND they develop chemistry, then this team could be really something by season’s end.