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Maybe read the post that was being responded to.

He is a really good coach. I don't think he's cheating in the way of paying players or anything but I do think it's likely he's cheating in the sense of recruiting violations. He showed he doesn't think the rules apply to him and shouldn't have to follow rules he probably considers silly. When he was at IU he tried to disguise his breaking of the rules so it was intentional which shows he has no problem doing so.

They were tied for 10th. Just seeded 11th in the B1GT. It's a minor distinction and probably pedantic on my part but a distinction that should be made. If they tied for 1st but ended up as the 2nd seed you wouldn't say they finished 2nd in the conference, would you?

That sums up the IN '21 class pretty well. Furst dropped a bit nationally from where he was, as well, which didn't help the top of the class. He was in the 30s and ended up at 58. So instead of a top 10/15 player with Lander and 2 top 40 players at the top of the class, it's just 1 top 40 and 1 top 60.

That was the same vibe I got from reading that.

Florida's Keyontae Johnson is still in the hospital in critical but stable condition. Yesterday they woke him from a medically induced coma. I hope he makes a full recovery from whatever caused the collapse.

Mark Cuban and the Mavs gave J.J. Barea a $2.6M one year deal right before releasing him as a thank you. Classy move.

Instead of leaving 2 unused scholarships every year it wouldn't hurt to use 1 of those on a development player like this. If the player is ok being a development player and knows he won't see much playing time for a few years.

I don't think it's Photoshop but there are certainly ways to manipulate before and after photos without using that and if you look at them that's what they're doing. Different lighting, camera angle, flex vs not flexing, before or after workout are a few ways to manipulate them.

Right, he comes off as self-serving in that he only seemed to care about that after they lost a few games.

247 added an update to his recruiting but it's behind a paywall. The URL does contain IU, Xavier, and Providence but that is just a URL and doesn't really mean anything.

I looked at the gamecast. Purdue had 3 droughts of 4+ minutes. They went on a 6 minute drought after getting that 20 point lead. As we've seen the past few years, it's hard to win games that way, even with a large early lead.

How does he look?

Anyone know how he is? I've seen anywhere from 5'10" to 6'1".

Verbal Commits lists more offers but I think those won't matter as he'll probably end up at Xavier.

https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/leland-walker 247 lists only DePaul and Xavier.

Looks like we still haven't offered according to 247 and verbal commits. I'm going to guess he ends up at Xavier as that's his best offer.

Wisconsin trails Marquette 35-30 at the half.

Eh, I don't really care how transfers do.

Yes, they are. That's very unusual.

I didn't hear anything. It was just a gut feeling based mostly on him being from Lafayette. I just find it unlikely it would be able to pull another player from there so soon after Phinisee.

I already thought IU was an unlikely destination for him. At least this makes it likely he won't be a Boiler, either.

Yet UI finished 13-7 which was good for 4th place. That means the 2 years prior were even worse than Miller's first 2 so UI made quite an impressive jump which Miller hasn't been able to do. This is your defense? BTW, in this thread you claimed that the difference between 4th and 10th last season was 3 games. It was actually 4.

There are grad transfers and other transfers with immediate eligibility every year that could've filled the shooting void. It's not my job to know all the potential targets, it's the coaching staff's job. You're welcome to look up who all the transfers were before last season and how well they did shooting before the transfer, if you wish. There is probably a thread here somewhere that talks about that. Miller got one the year before (Fitzner) who didn't really work out but I can't fault him for trying. It looked like he either didn't try last year or he completely whiffed on all of them.

I was talking about last season specifically. Hunter was still questionable for the season in regards to how much he'd be able to play and how effective he'd be. Franklin was an incoming freshman who was unlikely to contribute greatly during the season. Sure, they got better as the season went on but, outside of a few games last year, it still wasn't a good shooting team. That caused all kinds of issues on offense. During those 15 games Franklin did shoot well but didn't shoot that much. Only ~1.5 3-point shots per game (22 total shots). That's including 2 games of 5 shots. Outside of those 2 games he was only shooting once per game, which isn't enough to really help. It was expected that would happen entering the season. Or are you saying that you thought last years team actually shot well? Teams didn't pack the lane and IU didn't go on long scoring droughts? Miller had 2 open scholarships which could've been used to more immediately address that glaring weakness.