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

That is all.

7 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

I'll say the same I said about 15 pages ago. Cincy would be idiotic not to call Lewis.

I was thinking the same thing... 

1 hour ago, HoosierJax said:

Any up dates on Smith? I would have thought IU would be reaching out with the new staff.

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...

Just now, NCHoosier32 said:

i have always been a fan of taking my 5 best players, starting them, and playing them big minutes regardless of position.  so i have no problem not labeling them as a PG, SG, SF, PF, C.  i get it that those days are gone.  i just think those 2 players particularly - Lander and Johnson pretty much need to be PGs.  

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

2 minutes ago, NCHoosier32 said:

no problem with 3 guards.  i just think Lander is far from a shooter and seems like he needs the ball in his hands and create and set up guys.  i haven't seen Johnson play, but if he averaged almost 6apg and shot poorly from 3, he's probably the same.  just my thought.  

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...

9 minutes ago, dgambill said:

They all were primary ball handlers.....all brought it up the floor. All had played pg for previous teams or at one point another in the game. I think the point that most are making...and 5 fouls so precisely stated is that we don't need to label our players....I think just calling them guards is good enough but more to his point they are just players. We are going to start our 5 best players or the best unit we can. If that means multiple guards that can handle the ball....even better. Baylor excelled at getting down hill and attacking. It's because everyone in the backcourt could handle the ball and push it up the floor. Having multiple guards on the floor that can do that should not be an issue...its a positive. Heck even Stewart spent time at pg from when I watched him as he would bring it up and initiate the offense...so if we start Johnson, Rob, Lander, and Stewart I'm fine with 4 (pgs).  

+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.

1 minute ago, KoB2011 said:

I hope we aren't calling Butler or Teague point guards just because of their height. They both are really good guards and can create for others, but I wouldn't call them point guards, especially Teague. 

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.

31 minutes ago, KoB2011 said:

Stewart and Armaan are both strong secondary ball-handlers. We don't need to play two point guards if those two are on the floor. 

Baylor had some 3 point guard line-ups.

Just now, Muddy River said:

There was a time immediately after the announcement Archie was let go.....

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

9 minutes ago, dgambill said:

We will have 

TJD/BRUNK/DUNCOMB

BROOKS??/RACE/HUNTER/GERONIMO

Thats pretty crowded if you ask me. Maybe Duncomb redshirts?? That would be smart. Still that's a lot!

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.

5 minutes ago, iuthruandthru said:

I’m going to place this here because I hope this doesn’t impact Woodson and his staff:

Expect to hear an announcement of who the new president of IU is sometime today or tomorrow.  The BOT are meeting and they are running up on the end of McRobbie’s tenure.  Hopefully the new president will focus on academics and let Dolson keep doing his thing.  But I personally am interested in who gets hired and how that will impact all of IU.

Brad Stevens... obviously :)!

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.

13 minutes ago, Reacher said:

Was over on TDH and see their server went down after the news- https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/pitt-transfer-xavier-johnson-commits-to-indiana/

@The Daily Hoosier better reach out to @HoosierFaithful

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.”

2 minutes ago, tdhoosier said:

Versatility. I always thought Rob was pretty good off the ball if need be. 

+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."

Just now, rico said:

Walker Kessler?  UNC.

He looked pretty good to me.

4 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

Fife kind of left that impression with me on the talk with Dakich.  We are not begging players to come to Indiana or stay.  Sounds like we put out our pitch and now we are operating from the idea that we have so many spots and we are looking at these guys to fill them.  Eventually you will work yourself down to a "first to commit" type of situation.

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.

21 minutes ago, Inequality said:

They weren’t offered. And, Beard did leave his current job.

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

12 minutes ago, IUJoe said:

Of course.  It makes perfect sense that the guy who won the national championship would leave his school to come to an irrelevant program and take the job nobody wants anymore, perhaps just because Jeff Goodman tweets about that job hourly, even 9 days after it's been filled.

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!

2 minutes ago, The Daily Hoosier said:

Maybe I am just biased by the feedback I was hearing on the day he was announced, but it was like 80-20 negative.

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

1 minute ago, Indykev said:

That would be the greatest turn around in sports history. a 12-15 team wins the championship the next season with the same players. Only IU fans could write that story.

and Duncomb... don't forget him

Let's hang # 6!

18 minutes ago, bluegrassIU said:

I do not think so. I think it was a very mixed reaction. 

Heck, just look at our thread. It was more "nay" than "yay" with a smidgen of "let's see".

+1 

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

7 minutes ago, HooASUier said:

No one can predict the future so I respect the caution. At the same time, we were close in a lot of those loses this year, as Trayce touched on in his press conference. The difference between 12-15 and 15-12 (or better) came down to a couple buckets here and some better execution there. That combined with the everything Woodson has done in one week has made me the most optimistic for IUBB I've been since 2012-13. 

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. 

1 minute ago, HoosierJax said:

Geronimo is staying also

This is fantastic news. With some player development, he will be completely dominant player in a couple of years.