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#359 tonight. Ties him with: Nolan Arenado (Active) Johnny Mize (HOF). Tied for 8th among active players.

Avery Parker doin' Avery Parker things. A first inning 2-run HR to dead center.

They were 8-24 before Dusty took over. That’s a worse spot than any IU coach this century has taken over.

In our bracket at Knoxville, #2 seed Tennessee defeated Northern Kentucky 3-1.

Booker was so obvious to anyone who watched him play. That rating was always based on potential. Haven't seen anything other than a few highlights on Hill but that frame did give me Booker vibes. Does he play like him? Perimeter oriented?

You said backup big over Mustaf. Come on now. Your call is to run back a weaker group and with Dorn who completely fell off the rails and gave us next to nothing over the second half of the season. Dorn is proven??? Exactly what did he do for IU??? You suffer from memory loss? I liked him early in season. Then he got scouted and completely shut down. He’s at best a backup sometimes scorer for IU. You talk out of both sides of your mouth and ignore his season. Have at it

No, as USPS pointed out UM has been one of the best teams in the B1G for some time minus the 2 year or so hiccup- it’s apples and oranges between programs. IU will require more time, it is what it is

Waiting to see how much my bonus at work ends up being. Wife said do what makes me happy, so no issues there, lol.

Maybe it isn’t quite fair to use Dusty as an example because he is a savant of sorts. He intuitively knows exactly how to construct a roster for a deep run. Once he got it figured out at FAU I think it was all downhill from there and if he would’ve come to IU, he would’ve done pretty close to the same as what he did at Michigan. Dusty’s scouting on incoming freshman and fill in pieces I believe would be a lot different at this juncture with this team, but I guess we’re going to see who fills out the last roster spot and where this season goes, but I believe we’re gonna get a good picture of the direction of the program this year with all the support and money that is at his disposal. Rubber meets road…time to coach.

We had $20mil to spend on 12 players. It would be impossible to be outside the top 5. Torvik or somebody’s entire roster rating is a better judge. And we’re doing well there. But not top 5.

Who said anything about a lower tier big? $1.5M would have gone a long way in securing a solid 15-18 mpg big off the bench. Doubly, it prevents the staff from completely running Sherrell and/or Samet into the ground by seasons end playing each 30+ a night. God forbid one of them gets hurt, season is over if that is the case. I’m not sold on either Harris or Mustaf, lofty high school rankings be damned, which are completely irrelevant at this stage. You may be, that’s your opinion. Dorn is a proven high level 3 pt shooter on good volume, we don’t have any of those next year. I’m not convinced the production from Harris or Mustaf is going to match the price tag they came with, especially compared to what Dorn was likely commanding.

Oh come on already, you wanted to dump 2 we landed as part of the #3 portal class in favor of a lower tier big and Dorn whose scoring fell off significantly through the season and failed to help at all as we missed the tourney . This is pure hypocrisy and laughable— complain and bitc% about what DeVries has done in the portal while disregarding it’s the #3 class for good reason and ignoring that the player you now pine for gave us nothing down the stretch. Just laughably hypocritical. We have a group of much better players now, except for Wilkerson (who I’ll miss). Depth is a question mark, but pinning for the guy whose scoring dropped off a cliff and just some so so big is just plain laughable. Yeah, drop Mustaf for a cheaper guy and keep Dorn, that would make us so much better. Good grief. And yes Harris is worth the roll of the dice, dude is an outstanding shooter, well-ranked and recruited out of HS for it, now he’ll get a chance to show when not buried on the bench. Dorn? I would’ve like him to stay for depth but not at the expense of who we landed, no way.

How so?

One big speed hump.

Yeah you could argue Michigan had been the B1G best program over the last 15 years even before May got there. Even Howard led that program to an elite 8. There is no argument to be made that IU was even remotely close to being the best B1G program the last 15 years. Much easier to turn around a program that was rolling that hit a little speed bump for 2 years then a program that’s last 10 years has been 1 big speed bump.

What’s mediocre about have a solid bench? Have we just convinced ourselves Harris is better than Dorn? Mediocrity is best case scenario if one of Sherrell or Samet get hurt.

This is weird. Had to pay 4 bucks for a weekend pass to watch EYBL streams last session but this one appears to be free. Probably because last session they made a grand total of 4 bucks.

The Illinois route is definitely going to be much more common.

Howard was the anti-May in terms of coaching, so the May hiring was doubly good.

It's an opinion on a message board that I clearly stated was speculative. If speculation isn't for you on this one... no worries! It's Friday at 5:00 and life is lovely.

Knowing Carr has a relationship with the coach doesn’t magically validate the rest of the story you invented. You took one small fact and built an entire narrative around it with no evidence. C'mon bro...

It's been established that the Euro coach that recommended Sokolov is a buddy of Carr's.

That’s not really “speculation” though. Speculation is connecting dots from actual information. This is just inventing a narrative with zero evidence and presenting it like insight. If you admit you don’t know whether DeVries has even scouted or spoken to the kid, then claiming he’s only trusting “Carr’s friend” is basically making things up.

Apples and oranges. In any event the building is underway.

Are you pining for mediocrity? The why is completely obvious