IUJoe

Nah, I’m not blaming him for it, just passing along facts.

If someone is offering Essegian a starting spot, I’d bet money he’s taking it. That’s how he’s been since he chose his school as a high school freshman.

At the end of the day, the metrics measure what they measure. So, the way to improve your team's metrics is with on-the-court performance, no matter who you play. That being said, if you know your strengths and weakness as a coach, there are ways to cater your schedule a little to improve your team's performance measures. For instance, coaches who routinely blow out weak teams but often struggle against elite competition (e.g., Nate Oates, Bruce Pearl, Tommy Lloyd) should schedule more cupcakes, while coaches who find it difficult to get their team ready to play against weaker teams but excel against elite competition (e.g., Tom Izzo, Bill Self, John Calipari) should play more elite teams.

The efficiency rankings aren’t just raw rankings. Defensive efficiency metrics are adjusted for the strength and efficiency of offenses you face.

I heard talk earlier this year that if the Celtics win the championship he'll look to get back into coaching.

Show me a fan base that think titles don’t matter, and I’ll show you a fan base that doesn’t have any.

Right. It only happens *almost* every game.

You know we have 6 open scholarships, right? And we have probably 2 open starting positions at most, point guard and shooting guard. If you think we’re getting 6 “great” players to come in for 2 starting spots, you probably don’t understand this stuff very well.

If there is someone good available now, I want them to take them, rather than slow play a kid who would probably come now. That seems to be more productive than chasing someone “better” who they won’t get anyway.

In other words, the same method that got them a 1 man recruiting class and 6 open scholarships.

It’s funny, though, that the narrative when they started their search was, “Louisville has a great administration now and they’ll make a home run hire this time.”

Several, especially from NE Indiana where many are already Michigan fans

How about if Iowa women played Purdue men

Players improve from year to year in this program, so returning players will be better next year than they are this year.

While we’re certainly not overly athletic, it becomes a bigger weakness than it needs to be when combined with our lack of intensity.

This is the Malik Reneau thread. Nobody’s celebrating a bench player coming back. Any program would celebrate him coming back, and many would have tried to get him if he had gone into the portal.

No different than any other program on that front.

Can he shoot?

I wonder if anybody can point to 1 game out of the approximately 5,600 games between Division 1 teams (the only games the NET contemplates) where a team didn’t “take guys out” before the end of a “50” and “60” point game.

He's probably never been on a message board that doesn't talk about Indiana more than Purdue, so it's all the same to him.

Neither one of those things are facts, chief. I’ve already explained the first. As to the second, there are currently G League teams in Des Moines, Birmingham, Austin, Mexico City, Wilmington, Greensboro, Southaven, and that’s just off the top of my head. None of those are near NBA cities. So you have no idea what you’re talking about on either point.

lol. Ok. I’ll note not to confuse you with facts in the future.

I noticed you laughed at my response to this comment. Scott, the Pacers were pushing for a downtown arena in Fort Wayne for several years. The distance between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis clearly wasn’t a problem while they were pushing for an arena here. It only became a problem when FW wouldn’t build them an arena. Surely you can understand that, right?

No, they did it because they didn’t get their government subsidized arena in Fort Wayne. Everybody involved with the team in Fort Wayne knows that.

No G League team draws many fans. It’s not a great product. That being said, it was very well supported by some pretty influential people up here. The local community put a lot more effort into it than the Pacers did. And you don’t build goodwill by taking a community asset away from the second biggest city in the state just because you want to cry about the government not building you a downtown arena that you wouldn’t have to share with the hockey team.