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What if we add Wade, Ledlum, and Knecht?

He can't do NIL deals, it'd be a violation of NBA rules to funnel money to a college player.

This is where I'm at as well. One possibility, though, is that the staff just views Ware as too talented to turn down, even if it's not a perfect fit roster wise.

XJ / Cupps Love / Newton / Leal Sallis / Galloway / Gunn Ludlum / Banks Reneau / Shedrick / Sparks

I've seen some people thinking/hoping we'll sign Ledlum and Battle. But I'd think it has to be either/or, right? I don't see how there'd be enough minutes to go around there, especially if we sign Sparks and the UVa big. I just don't see Battle or Ledlum being feasible options at the 3 for any sustained length of time.

This is my question as well. I think it's a great three man post rotation, potentially, but I do question where the minutes are going to come from if we intend to play 4 out.

Am I correct in thinking both Shedrick and Love would potentially have two years of eligibility left due to COVID? If so, thoughts on how they'd affect our 2024 class?

Still need three point shooting, ideally in the form of a 3 and D wing. But that's also why I prefer Keshon Gilbert to Love. He gives you the 3s and the D, while still providing much of the benefits of Love.

I'd personally prefer Gilbert, but Love wouldn't be a bad second choice. XJ Gilbert / Love Transfer Wing Ludlum Reneau Galloway Sparks Banks Cupps Newton / Gunn That's not bad at all.

From St. Louis. Recruited originally as a 6'1" PG, but has added three inches so he's now listed at 6'4". Would fill a need for a CG.

I thought this thread was just for relevant news updates, with the repetitive arguments about players who will probably never suit up for IU reserved for the other thread?

And a combo guard, in my opinion.

I doubt that many impact players are entering the portal at this point without kicking the tires on potential landing spots ahead of time. So the staff probably has a pretty good idea who is likely to be available, what the interest level in IU would be, etc. Now sure, there will probably be some surprises. But it's also a game of musical chairs, so there is a real risk for a program in waiting too long to sign guys who are ready to commit.

I don't think he'll need to give us 10-15 on most nights, just 8-10.

Just to be clear, I would take either of them if they were willing to come. I just don't think they are likely to come here if they aren't going to be playing starter-type minutes. And I don't think the plan is to play two bigs at the same time regularly, so I don't see it as a fit from the players' perspective, not the program's.

Moving the discussion of which bigs we should target here, from the other thread, I agree that the Wyoming or Texas Tech kids are probably going to be looking to start, and thus aren't a great fit here. At the same time, however, if we only target a backup rim protector without much offensive ability, that risks putting us in a big hole should Reneau have any health issues next year. That's why I think keeping Duncomb is actually more important than most think, as he has offensive upside, but isn't necessarily the sort of talent that might prevent us from getting a big fish in the 2024 class.

He'd be an interesting Target for us if he were to reopen his recruitment. 6'9" PF.

That would create an interesting family dynamic, as Kenya's son is playing at Buffalo's MAC rival Ohio.

Agreed, naming names at this stage would be premature. Can you offer any generalities, though, about the types of players we're talking about? E.g., bigs vs wings, P5 vs mid major, seniors vs underclassmen.

Not sure the fit here makes a lot of sense. We already have signed a similarly sized CG in Newton. Meanwhile, if you view Dual as a PG, then that conflicts with Cupps. I think we're more likely to be looking for taller and longer 3/4 types with collegiate experience.

I think this is probably right. But we didn't have any prior affiliation with Tamar Bates, as far as I can recall, but still convinced him on an abbreviated timeline. So it's not impossible.

Is Sisley athletic enough and have sufficient range to play a prototypical 4 in Woodson's system? Or is he more of a low post presence?

Didn't mean to suggest you necessarily should do it, just curious if you'd looked at that at all. My guess is that some weighting of most recent play while still factoring in full season numbers would probably provide the greatest accuracy, but I'm not a stats guy. Torvik does make it easy to do cutoffs of, say, February 1st to end of year, if that helps.

This is real interesting. Have you ever played around with it to see if limiting it to the last 4 or 6 weeks improves the accuracy? The problem with season-long analytics is that teams like Purdue and UConn haven't been playing at the same level at year's end that they were for much of the season, but the models don't fully take that into account. So this probably overrated their chances.

That's fair.