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1 minute ago, iuswingman said:

So is Goode a higher priority over Anderson?

Goode: 5.7 PPG, 3.6 RPG, 0.6 APG, 39.7 FG%, 38.9 3FG%

Anderson: 12.8 PPG, 5.1 RPG, 1.9 APG, 48.2 FG%, 45.9 3FG%

Of course, Goode is playing against tougher competition, at least in conference.  

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

3 minutes ago, DC2345 said:

 

 

There is a lot of smoke that he may enter the portal soon with his destination in mind. 

Don’t EVEN play. 

Talk about a perfect get.

12 hours ago, Kdug said:

Can someone explain Carlyle’s numbers from last year? Looking at them, they look pretty subpar. 32% from 3, 54% at the rim, 40% from mid range. More TOs per game than assists.

Was he just asked to do too much, not put in the best position, injury, all of the above? He seems to be pretty universally considered a top transfer, so I’m guessing there’s some explanation. Just trying to understand what his game will look like with the starting 5 we have next year.

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.

7 minutes ago, WRSMick55 said:

Some are saying you can’t go ten deep but I think Woody would love to sub out the starting 5 with a bench 5 in mass,. The key to doing so and be effective is the talent gap between your best players and your worst has to be small. You play your best players the most minutes. Not a close enough gap between best and worst in college to make it work.

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. 

19 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Last year, Auburn didn't have any player over 25 mpg, and 10 over 14 mpg...So, yeah...

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. 

18 minutes ago, BobSaccamanno said:

We’ve got 4 more spots, I believe. 

Essegian, Power, Malone, and Carlyle. 

Woody wants to play 10 deep.  That’s probably a legit 10 deep rotation. He can shut everyone up about having shooting and dynamic guards.  

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. 

2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

He's gunna play goalie for us 

The 'Human IUD' BLOCKING SHOTS!!!

....maybe I gotta work on that nickname. 

sorry, it's Friday. 

2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

6'10 with a 7'4 wingspan 

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

1 minute ago, DC2345 said:

It shouldn't. Malone is a 5. He can stretch the floor but he's a 5. IU still needs another 4 imo.

How is he defensively? Is he a threat to block/alter shots? 

I know nothing about this dude. 

30 minutes ago, ForHumanity said:

I don't think there will be a season next year. Big events coming that will change our lives.

39 minutes ago, Maedhros said:

I once tried to get into Axis underage, no fake ID or anything. Not to drink, I just really wanted to see Victor Wooten. Obviously the bouncer up front wasn't having it, but I got real close to talking my way in through a side door. Two folks were out there smoking, might have been with the band. The woman was all for letting us in, said her kids sneak into shows all the time, but the guy waited for her to go back in, then apologized and said he couldn't do it and shut the door on us.

I might've been at that show! Saw Victor at the Bird and Axis (or whatever it's name was at the time). Him and his brother Reggie put on the best shows - jaw on the floor type of musicianship. Probably saw them another 2 or 3 times after college. 

The article lead off with divisive political decisions as a reason for the vote of no confidence. However, buried in the middle.....

The reasons for no-confidence votes vary from institution to institution. The most common scenario behind such votes recently has been faculty displeasure with large-scale academic restructuring and budget reductions directed by presidents, provosts and boards of trustees.

Seems about right in this news climate. Get people hyped up on political emotions and then drop a seemingly important footnote later in the article.  

16 minutes ago, iuswingman said:

That doesn't make the salaries and NIL amounts any less ridiculous 

I think you're twisting yourselves into knots over a feeling. What we 'feel' is right, wrong, too much or not enough does not correlate into what reality is. You have the right to complain about it, but at the end of the day it's irrelevant. College athletic departments make a LOT of money. Good coaches and good players are in high demand because a winning product is lucrative for the athletic departments, the tv channels and the advertisers.. Thus, a percentage of this outrageously high revenue is paid to coaches and players. And rightfully so, I mean, they are the product everybody pays to see.

And even on top of all that, college basketball and football fund pretty much all other sports at their universities, giving athletes in other sports more opportunities. 

We - all the fanatics on this board - are a reason why the revenue is so high. If you 'feel' that there's too much money in college athletics then stop giving them money with your viewership. 

It's all about supply and demand. 

8 minutes ago, Zlinedavid said:

All of the following are real quotes from high-major D1 college basketball coaches:

Sounds like they're talking about the portal/NIL, doesn't it?

They're not. 

Know what they're talking about? They're talking about the exact thing that everyone in this thread is clamoring for, even the "old school" guys.....

All of the above quotes are from 1986-87, and the coaches are talking about the adoption of the 3 point line. 

Just a reminder that even in our own personal "good old days", there was a "get off my lawn" guy yearning for HIS "good old days".  Things are always evolving.  That doesn't make change inherently good or inherently bad, but change is always present. 

 

I sometimes wonder at the root of everything is generational envy. "This young generation has it easy." "The younger generation is all about money." "The younger generation has no loyalty." etc.

I didn't get to play with a 3 point line, why can they? 

I couldn't earn money playing college sports, why can they? 

Boomers received similar criticism when they were young and now dish it. Same thing with Generation X. Same thing is starting with Millennials. We're all guilty. 

I think it's just a societal thing that will never change. I'm sure that in the Paleolithic period cavemen were complaining their kids had it so easy because the wheel was invented. 

Change happens. We adapt. It becomes the norm. 

In the words of Jeff Tweedy: 

And that's not wrong or right
But you can struggle with it all you like
You'll only get uptight

✌️

...and that's my philosophical thought for the day.

3 minutes ago, 13th&Jackson said:

 

 

I don't know if it's accurate, but there was some chatter that Hickman had concerns with IU's offense and his visit didn't dispel those concerns.

Did he visit? Or did the staff go to his house because he lives in Bloomington?

Either way, he went elsewhere. 

12 minutes ago, 13th&Jackson said:

Probably part of the negative recruiting DC2345 referenced

It’s not rocket science and it’s not some devious conspiracy. Just show him the stat sheet. He knows Ballo is coming in, thus the ball will be going into the post a lot. He knows he’d be sharing what’s left of those attempts with Mgbako.

He’s at the top of my wish list, but that’s all it is at this point: a wish.

This is just the way Woody plays. I’m sure they want the high volume/high percentage 3 point shooters many of us crave, but based on history and how our line up is shaping up, it’s going to be a hard sell.  

And it will continue to be a hard sell. 

8 minutes ago, Bowhunter said:

Maybe Conwell is butt hurt we didn’t go after him sooner as in previous years, high school, beginning of portal this year. 

Maybe it’s because he’s a high volume 3 point shooter and we don’t shoot 3’s at a high volume. He averaged a little over 7 attempts per game. In comparison, our highest volume shooter from 3 was MM; he averaged 4.6 attempts.

1 minute ago, Reacher said:

I know we need a shooter but not sure how many minutes will be available for him. I think Leal, with his knowledge of the system / IQ might be a better option.

Better than an empty seat on the bench. 

1 minute ago, btownqb said:

This rectified our defensive rebounding issues, imo. 

Malik, MM make reasonable gains in that area and I expect it to be a strength... Rice avged 3+ 

And our offensive rebounding. Hoping for a significant upgrade in extra possessions. 

3 minutes ago, IU Scott said:

Did they tell the pilot to not let Ballo on the plane until he commits to IU

He’s staying in Bloomington. Monday of Little 5 week was so good, he just wanted to experience the rest. 😎

Lol. In the last 90 minutes it went from Ballo is ours, to he’s still going to visit Louisville, to he canceled his visit and is ours again, to he’s going to visit Calipari, and now he’s ours again. 

27 minutes ago, Purdue7 said:

Lots of IU ❤️ 

Last 5 minutes is IU talk if anybody is interested. I think a few leaps are made, but entertaining none the less. The shocker out of that clip: apparently between Ballo, Rice and Carlyle the NIL spend is $3.3 million. Don't know how true that figure is, but that's what he claims. 

16 minutes ago, HoosierDPU95 said:

Having no access to newspaper for many years now, I've found this stuff with paper towels works wonders

 

That's that foaming stuff. It's the bee's knees. 

1 minute ago, Hoosier987 said:

Differing opinions but I think if Leal is playing 15mpg then we didn’t address our shooting needs. Regardless, I think Woodson addresses the issue. 

I love that Leal had some good games last year. There was a lot of ‘I told you so’ after those games. BUT, my concern before the year started was not necessarily whether he could or couldn’t contribute. I thought IF we truly needed his minutes (which we did), then we were going to be in deep doo doo. That it probably would mean that CJ Gunn and Banks didn’t develop the way we hoped.

And that’s what happened. 

If Leal gets 15 mpg next year, something has gone wrong and we are probably a bubble team at best.