tdhoosier

I just want our opponents to pay if they sag off of our guards on the perimeter and go under screens. Move the ball and keep the defenders honest. That's all i'm asking.

Not that i've seen. On the Insiders podcast they were saying ND is a possibility because he'll get a lot of shots in Shrew's offense and they also have a great Business School. But they both seemed to think it's going to be IU.

I'm not the one to ask. i'm just sharing info I've seen in other places. My feelings should hold no weight.

I only feel better about Goode than Essegian because of the big family connections to IU. His dad and uncle played FB at IU. His brother attends IU right now. His parents apparently have season tix for basketball. And most importantly he wants to attend a business grad school. But other than that I know nothing - I'm just sitting back and eating popcorn like the rest of us.

We have 4 players who can play the 1: Carlyle, Cupps, Gallo and Rice. Granted that you ideally don't want Gallo to play PG for long stretches, but he can help out in a pinch. I think that if we get Goode, the next main priority would be a 4/5 guy who can get rebounds and protect the rim. I don't think we'd need him to score much.

Overall, I like the potential versatility. We have a lot of multi-positional players. The question on everybody's mind is how versatile Woody will get and what combos will work defensively. Gallo 1-2-3 Carylle 1-2 MM 3-4 Malik 4-5 Tucker 2-3 Goode (fingers crossed) 3-4 Ballo will probably only play the 5. And while Rice may be able to play off the ball, I'd imagine he'd be the primary ball handler at the 1 when he's on the court. We always say we hav a lot of depth at this time of year, but at least on paper, it seems that we can show the opposition a lot of different looks.

He averaged 20 minutes on a top 20 team last year. I’d think so.

I don't think they tried as hard as they could have. At least not compared to this year. I see a huge turn around in their organization and effort this year. Plans. Back-up plans. On-campus visits. It seems like we've at least reached out to more than half of the 'gets' in the portal. Credit to the staff this year for learning from their mis-steps and seemingly turning it around.

Love ya man, but at this point you're trying to argue that elephant dung don't stink. Can you not see the urgency from the staff in the transfer portal this year vs. last year? Woody didn't get any guards and Mgbako fell into his lap. Last year there was room to get a guy BETTER than one who'd accept a 13th spot. So if you want to use Joey Hart as an example, I'll still say yes (to what degree, I don't know). But I'll also say we should've have had 10 prospects better than Joey Hart on the radar. And it's not true we didn't know about Newton until August. Maybe officially, but there was uncertainty in April on whether or not he'd play because the procedure he had is really tough to recover from. Iron sharpens iron. 13 is better than 12.

What can go from an attitude of 'a meaningless spot to just appease the fans', can quickly go to 'oh shit, we don't have as much depth as we though and 3 players are injured'. I'm sure I can dig up posts of people shrugging off that 13 spot last year. There are, what, about 2000 players in the portal? Nobody is talking about walking down to the rec center to find a player. I'm sure there are plenty of worthy players in the portal who can contribute as a valuable teammate, with potential to give minutes. This is still Indiana University, a top 3 program in terms of value. We can get a player. No unwarranted 'gifts' given. No fans being appeased. Just coaches utilizing all the resources given to them.

If coach and player will are on the same page, yes. A player gets a chance to prove himself and make some money in a big time program. The team gets an insurance policy (in case of injuries) and another body in practice to up the competition. i see this as win win.

Why? What about another body in practice. Sure, the attitude needs to fit, but I don’t understand why coaches wouldn’t fill all spots on their roster. Transferring is a 2 way street now. And whether we like to admit it or not, rosters are getting ‘creaned’. A spot for unnamed 24/25 guy is not going to be taken up by 13th guy on a roster. There’s also ample NIL opportunities here outside of collectives. Just imagine how Priller would’ve cleaned up in tshirt revenue. Hell, I’d buy a ‘Priller the Thriller’ right now if it was available.

Trying to temper my expectations, but i think Goode is that piece we need. in only 20 mpg he made 61 total 3's last season. in comparison: That's 11 more than our best 3pt shooter, MM, who averaged 27 mpg. That's 35 more than out second best 3 pt shooter, Gallo, who averaged 33 mpg. That is the perfect, highly efficient offensive spark plug we need off the bench.

wow. this channel is on top of it. Uploaded 12 minutes ago.

I personally would want a player who is proven in conference. Goode had a 126.3 offensive rating last season.

Don’t EVEN play. Talk about a perfect get.

Like others have said, I’m guessing it’s a combo of him being a Freshman and being on a bad team. I don’t disagree on the upside that he has and am glad to get him as a sophomore. However, I think some are projecting his impact next year to be a little greater than it will be. For fun, Tony Adragna created a minutes projection on his portal page for fans to fill out. Yesterday he had people share their minutes projections on twitter and many had KC between 25-30 minutes per game. Many are slotting in him into the starting line up too. He averaged 25 minutes on a pretty crappy Stanford team last year. IF he truly is capable of getting those minutes and making that big of an impact, then that is a great problem to have. I’m no professional scout, but after watching a few clips (that aren’t highlight films) he does not play great defense and the TO numbers aren’t great. Again, nothing he can’t clean up in his college career, but Woody has a short leash when it comes to defense and turnovers. Overall, good get. Great upside. Keep expectations in check. We still need another shooter or 2.

FTR, I'm not saying it's impossible. But there's depth and there's 'stupid depth'. You need 'stupid depth' to get close to a platoon substitution in CBB. On top of that you'll need to avoid injuries....so that stupid depth is more like 11-12 deep. And selling that in today's climate of transfers, NIL and the desire for playing time is a tough task. Maybe I'll be proven wrong though.

That's one team.....good example. I say this, more-so because the stars need to align to make this happen. One injury and everything is shot to hell. And there is a difference between a steady induction of fresh players getting rotated in over time vs 4-5 new players getting subbed in with in a a 2 minute window, which is more reminiscent to what you'd see in the NBA and is what Woody seemingly would like to do.

We've heard this one before..... I don't buy it. How many teams in recent years have legitimately played 10 deep? I do think Woody will keep trying though.

The 'Human IUD' BLOCKING SHOTS!!! ....maybe I gotta work on that nickname. sorry, it's Friday.

so, he can just put his arms up in the air? haha

How is he defensively? Is he a threat to block/alter shots? I know nothing about this dude.