GaloisGroupe

For anyone who follows the Pacers better than I do, what does Calbert do there?

I know we have moved on to new things, but having Dane Fife on staff at IU is still awesome. That is all.

I was thinking the same thing...

I thought they had reached out "pre-emptively"... I guess we will find out.

Total 2021 Transfers To Date: 1268 That is like 3 players per team...

Probably... but maybe they could be instant fast-break...

I guess this is where we will find out how good our new player development is. If we can just turn one of those into a quality 3 point shooter...

+1 I want us to be able to switch line-ups and offense depending on what the opposing team does, timing, score, needs... I never want to hear another opposing player say that they knew what we were going to do better than we did.

Ok, line-ups with 3 players that had point guard size and point-guard like skills. I do not think that improving their ball handling or passing would hurt game plan. My point is that if CMW thinks it works, there is no reason we could not feature a lineup that that has Rob, KL, and the X-man.

Baylor had some 3 point guard line-ups.

Didn't we immediately start fighting about who we should hire?

Ours would be pretty crowded, but this is a crowded frontcourt: 13 Walker Kessler F/C 7-1 245 Fr. Newnan, Ga. / Woodward Academy 11 Day'Ron Sharpe F/C 6-11 265 Fr. Greenville, N.C. / Monteverde Academy (Fla.) 21 Sterling Manley F/C 6-11 250 R-Jr. Pickerington, Ohio / Pickerington Central 22 Walker Miller F/C 6-11 235 Sr. Greensboro, N.C. / New Hampton Prep (N.H.) 5 Armando Bacot F/C 6-10 240 So. Richmond, Va. / IMG Academy (Fla.) 15 Garrison Brooks F 6-10 240 Sr. LaFayette, Ala./ Auburn 1 Leaky Black G/F 6-8 195 Jr. Concord, N.C./ Cox Mill 14 Puff Johnson G 6-8 190 Fr. Moon Township, Pa. / Hillcrest Prep (Phoenix, Ariz.) We need to start comparing ourselves to the UNC's of the world again.

Brad Stevens... obviously :)!

I think we have gotten too used to not having any depth...

We should probably not ignore that Franklin was not a big name recruit out of high school. It may still be new having coaches like Bennett recruiting him hard. For example Lander already knows what other top programs offer - he was by them. If I recall correctly, Franklin was mostly recruited by us and Purdue - so we were the only big name to seriously look at him in high school.

I liked the sound of this line: “This is not an indictment on anything that Pittsburgh basketball did,” Martin said. “But I think he wants to go somewhere that he’s trusted. I think he wants to go somewhere that he has a legitimate shot at winning, and I think he wants to go somewhere where he impacts the winning. Not saying that he didn’t have that at Pitt, but that’s what he’s saying he wants now.”

+1 Rob will be fine - with a faster paced offense, we will need fresher legs. Plus the way he defends, he will find plenty of playing time. Personally, I look for him to be a breakout player next year. I always felt he was being "held back."

He looked pretty good to me.

Personally, I think that we are not yet at that situation and we will give Armaan & Race every opportunity to recommit. But it is true, that eventually they will have to make a choice and the absence of a choice will eventually will become their choice.

not for IU. If we had gone after Beard we would have lost to Texas anyway.

I am starting to like Goodman's obsession with us... it is kind of like that B-movie horror film that is so bad it starts to become good again!

There was definitely a lot of vocal negative voices - maybe the silent majority was for Woodson?

and Duncomb... don't forget him Let's hang # 6!

+1 It is easy to forget now that we are all jumping on the bandwagon, but there was some significant negativity at the start:

I appreciate the caution. But at this point, the Coach Woodson hire conditional on all the information we have is looking better than a Stevens hire with the information we had a couple of weeks ago... and we were not speaking that cautiously then.