Str8Hoosiers

Yes... thank you TJD

Rob looked good and aggressive. Green looked good like usual. Brunk got manhandled, glad he sat most of the half... Akok was killing us, don't start the 2nd with Brunk on the floor with Akok back in too... bring Brunk in after Akok gets another foul and has to sit. Let Deron try to out muscle Akok

There is no reason to do line change substitutions.... take 1 guy or at a time, couple minutes take the next guy out and bring the first back in

It's about dang time. With Rob presumably back at least a few minutes Franklin should only see spot time...

IU 73 Uconn 69

Another ugly one for most of us.... although 4 people did predict an IU Loss.... CURRENT GAME - @ Wisconsin OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 LamarCheeks 112 1 coonhounds 828 2 fwgreenway 108 2 MoyeNeeded 806 3 AKHoosier 104 3 BottomLine 804 4 Josh 100 4 jbell833 802 5 Count 54 5 WayneFleekHoosier 798 6 mdn82 54 6 biteoftheapple 795 7 HoosierCoop 53 7 JaybobHoosier 793 8 BtownBanner6 52 8 Count 790 9 jbell833 51 9 Bobman1 790 10 wirenuts 51 10 mdn82 789 11 eladuke 51 11 Woodson1980 788 12 johnsoniu 51 12 The Ola Depot 787 13 HoosierHoops1 51 13 muttcs66 786 14 HoosierAloha 51 14 fwgreenway 785 15 Crazy about IU 51 15 thebigweave 783 16 JHoosier914 51 16 wirenuts 782 17 LIHoosier 51 17 Whojainjawja 781 18 bigrod 51 18 IUsafety 781 19 WayneFleekHoosier 50 19 Napleshoosier 780 20 Napleshoosier 50 20 Class of '66 Old Fart 780 21 The Ola Depot 50 21 Old Friend 777 22 Woodson1980 50 22 HoosierAloha 775 23 Naturalhoosier 50 23 johnsoniu 775 24 Stuhoo 49 24 Me So Hornsby 774 25 coonhounds 49 25 JHoosier914 774 26 JaybobHoosier 49 26 mamasa 768 27 MoyeNeeded 49 27 tkbbn 767 28 cappymo14 49 28 DChoosier 767 29 VO5 49 29 eladuke 767 30 IUsafety 48 30 Stuhoo 766 31 DChoosier 48 31 Str8Hoosiers 765 32 mamasa 47 32 HoosierCoop 761 33 tkbbn 47 33 LamarCheeks 759 34 biteoftheapple 47 34 killerbeezer 754 35 muttcs66 47 35 reconmkd 754 36 reconmkd 46 36 Josh 754 37 Class of '66 Old Fart 46 37 HoosierHoops1 751 38 Old Friend 46 38 LIHoosier 748 39 Whojainjawja 46 39 Naturalhoosier 746 40 schoosier 46 40 Crazy about IU 740 41 rcs29 46 41 cappymo14 736 42 HoosierTrav 46 42 ALASKA HOOSIER 727 43 Str8Hoosiers 45 43 InArchWeTrust 721 44 thebigweave 42 44 rcs29 714 45 Bobman1 40 45 VO5 693 46 killerbeezer 37 46 BtownBanner6 682 47 BottomLine 35 47 Ajwhitis 525 48 ALASKA HOOSIER 24 48 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 519 49 Me So Hornsby 0 49 schoosier 474 50 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 0 50 hper50 436 51 Honkyman 0 51 Robie Malcomson 420 52 InArchWeTrust 0 52 bigrod 355 53 Banksyrules 0 53 crazywillie 325 54 Bill clapper 0 54 Honkyman 221 55 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 0 55 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 219 56 Robie Malcomson 0 56 brumdog45 210 57 crazywillie 0 57 Bill clapper 114 58 Ajwhitis 0 58 JVIU98 112 59 Barrell Rick 0 59 IUc2016 109 60 hper50 0 60 Bowhunter 109 61 brumdog45 0 61 HinnyHoosier 106 62 HinnyHoosier 0 62 AKHoosier 104 63 JVIU98 0 63 patrickmorriso9 103 64 IUc2016 0 64 Sam_Boger 100 65 Bowhunter 0 65 Feathery 99 66 patrickmorriso9 0 66 cleeter 93 67 Sam_Boger 0 67 Banksyrules 55 68 Feathery 0 68 HoosierTrav 46 69 cleeter 0 69 Barrell Rick 0

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

The post above was a little hard to read due to formatting of quoting from another thread.... AB said - Not the start to the second half I was looking for lol. The rest of that post was Old Friends response.

IU 79 Badgers 69

First game of the season when some picked IU to lose... this will begin to spread out the cream from the rest!!!! Congrats to @jbell833 & @WayneFleekHoosier for correctly predicting FSU's Final Score CURRENT GAME - Florida State OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 WayneFleekHoosier 123 1 coonhounds 730 2 jbell833 123 2 The Ola Depot 707 3 Stuhoo 119 3 BottomLine 702 4 BottomLine 119 4 MoyeNeeded 698 5 mamasa 118 5 WayneFleekHoosier 696 6 reconmkd 117 6 jbell833 696 7 thebigweave 116 7 JaybobHoosier 691 8 Me So Hornsby 116 8 mdn82 689 9 Napleshoosier 116 9 Count 689 10 Count 116 10 thebigweave 689 11 wirenuts 116 11 biteoftheapple 688 12 IUsafety 115 12 Bobman1 686 13 eladuke 115 13 Woodson1980 685 14 Str8Hoosiers 115 14 tkbbn 682 15 coonhounds 115 15 Whojainjawja 681 16 Class of '66 Old Fart 114 16 DChoosier 680 17 mdn82 114 17 IUsafety 680 18 Old Friend 114 18 muttcs66 679 19 tkbbn 114 19 wirenuts 679 20 Bobman1 114 20 Napleshoosier 679 21 johnsoniu 114 21 Old Friend 678 22 BtownBanner6 114 22 fwgreenway 677 23 The Ola Depot 114 23 Class of '66 Old Fart 674 24 Woodson1980 114 24 Me So Hornsby 673 25 HoosierHoops1 113 25 JHoosier914 671 26 HoosierAloha 113 26 HoosierAloha 670 27 biteoftheapple 113 27 johnsoniu 670 28 Crazy about IU 113 28 Stuhoo 670 29 JaybobHoosier 113 29 Str8Hoosiers 668 30 fwgreenway 112 30 eladuke 666 31 Whojainjawja 112 31 mamasa 665 32 schoosier 112 32 HoosierCoop 662 33 Naturalhoosier 112 33 Crazy about IU 661 34 MoyeNeeded 111 34 killerbeezer 659 35 HoosierCoop 110 35 reconmkd 656 36 JHoosier914 110 36 HoosierHoops1 655 37 killerbeezer 108 37 Josh 654 38 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 108 38 cappymo14 652 39 Honkyman 108 39 LIHoosier 649 40 muttcs66 107 40 Naturalhoosier 648 41 InArchWeTrust 104 41 LamarCheeks 647 42 LIHoosier 101 42 InArchWeTrust 647 43 ALASKA HOOSIER 94 43 VO5 644 44 cappymo14 56 44 ALASKA HOOSIER 644 45 Josh 56 45 rcs29 631 46 Banksyrules 55 46 BtownBanner6 630 47 rcs29 54 47 Ajwhitis 525 48 DChoosier 50 48 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 519 49 VO5 0 49 hper50 436 50 Bill clapper 0 50 schoosier 428 51 LamarCheeks 0 51 Robie Malcomson 420 52 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 0 52 crazywillie 325 53 Robie Malcomson 0 53 bigrod 304 54 crazywillie 0 54 Honkyman 221 55 Ajwhitis 0 55 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 219 56 Barrell Rick 0 56 brumdog45 210 57 hper50 0 57 Bill clapper 114 58 bigrod 0 58 JVIU98 112 59 brumdog45 0 59 IUc2016 109 60 HinnyHoosier 0 60 Bowhunter 109 61 JVIU98 0 61 HinnyHoosier 106 62 IUc2016 0 62 patrickmorriso9 103 63 Bowhunter 0 63 Sam_Boger 100 64 patrickmorriso9 0 64 Feathery 99 65 Sam_Boger 0 65 cleeter 93 66 Feathery 0 66 Banksyrules 55 67 cleeter 0 67 Barrell Rick 0

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

Well I am not going to be the first person to predict a loss..... Although I think it will be close, I believe the Home Court advantage will help us hold on at the end... IU 76 FSU 70

You are correct... EVERY person who has made a prediction every game is currently Dropping the SDST score... but as you mentioned now is when it gets tough... I am still waiting for the first person to predict a Loss.... will it be this next game?

As expected after the game some very low scores this game... but the Top 3 all held their ground overall. CURRENT GAME - S Dakota State OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 HoosierHoops1 96 1 coonhounds 615 2 Class of '66 Old Fart 91 2 The Ola Depot 593 3 IUsafety 90 3 MoyeNeeded 587 4 VO5 89 4 BottomLine 583 5 WayneFleekHoosier 89 5 JaybobHoosier 578 6 eladuke 89 6 mdn82 575 7 MoyeNeeded 88 7 biteoftheapple 575 8 Str8Hoosiers 88 8 DChoosier 574 9 HoosierAloha 88 9 Count 573 10 mdn82 87 10 WayneFleekHoosier 573 11 DChoosier 87 11 jbell833 573 12 Old Friend 87 12 thebigweave 573 13 muttcs66 87 13 Bobman1 572 14 biteoftheapple 86 14 Woodson1980 571 15 tkbbn 85 15 Josh 571 16 Stuhoo 85 16 Whojainjawja 569 17 Bobman1 85 17 muttcs66 569 18 rcs29 85 18 tkbbn 568 19 johnsoniu 85 19 IUsafety 565 20 LIHoosier 85 20 fwgreenway 565 21 jbell833 84 21 Old Friend 564 22 thebigweave 84 22 wirenuts 563 23 BottomLine 84 23 Napleshoosier 563 24 HoosierCoop 84 24 JHoosier914 561 25 cappymo14 84 25 Class of '66 Old Fart 560 26 BtownBanner6 84 26 Me So Hornsby 557 27 Josh 83 27 HoosierAloha 557 28 fwgreenway 83 28 johnsoniu 556 29 Whojainjawja 83 29 VO5 555 30 Me So Hornsby 83 30 Str8Hoosiers 553 31 The Ola Depot 80 31 HoosierCoop 552 32 Napleshoosier 80 32 killerbeezer 551 33 Crazy about IU 79 33 cappymo14 551 34 mamasa 79 34 eladuke 551 35 schoosier 79 35 Stuhoo 551 36 Count 77 36 ALASKA HOOSIER 550 37 Naturalhoosier 75 37 LamarCheeks 549 38 Woodson1980 74 38 LIHoosier 548 39 InArchWeTrust 74 39 Crazy about IU 548 40 ALASKA HOOSIER 64 40 mamasa 547 41 coonhounds 0 41 rcs29 546 42 wirenuts 0 42 InArchWeTrust 543 43 killerbeezer 0 43 HoosierHoops1 542 44 JaybobHoosier 0 44 reconmkd 539 45 Bill clapper 0 45 Naturalhoosier 536 46 JHoosier914 0 46 Ajwhitis 525 47 LamarCheeks 0 47 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 519 48 reconmkd 0 48 BtownBanner6 516 49 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 0 49 hper50 436 50 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 0 50 Robie Malcomson 420 51 Robie Malcomson 0 51 crazywillie 325 52 crazywillie 0 52 schoosier 316 53 Ajwhitis 0 53 bigrod 304 54 Barrell Rick 0 54 brumdog45 210 55 hper50 0 55 Bill clapper 114 56 bigrod 0 56 Honkyman 113 57 Honkyman 0 57 JVIU98 112 58 brumdog45 0 58 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 111 59 HinnyHoosier 0 59 IUc2016 109 60 JVIU98 0 60 Bowhunter 109 61 IUc2016 0 61 HinnyHoosier 106 62 Bowhunter 0 62 patrickmorriso9 103 63 patrickmorriso9 0 63 Sam_Boger 100 64 Sam_Boger 0 64 Feathery 99 65 Feathery 0 65 cleeter 93 66 cleeter 0 66 Barrell Rick 0

Very interesting. My initial thought is that it doesn't worry me and here is why... These teams have very little to no chance against us, therefore their only game-plan is to take as many 3's as possible and try to get the best looks from behind the arc. All it takes is 1 guy to get hot and that can skew the entire team percentage. If they know they can't match our size or our athleticism then 3>2 On the other hand are these teams coming into their other games with this same game-plan and it is not working? If that is the case then that sounds like a problem for our defense. Why are they easier to hit at Assembly Hall? Soft Rims? WIDE OPEN?

It is now or never for this season.... If he makes it out of this weekend (Which I Don't believe he will) then he will make it the rest of the season. I think he looked bad enough yesterday that we get breaking news tomorrow that he has been let go.

Not even a comparison... Allen by a mile. Hot Take: Allen will be the best QB of the recent drafts.

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.

Genuinely curious here.... what is a good enough shooter? Is it stat based? Eye-Test Based? Something else? Stat based - Devonte is a career 39% 3pt shooter (111-284). Steph Curry was a 41% 3pt shooter in college (43.5% in the NBA). Eye-Test - I sure as heck agree, I don't want Devonte taking the same shots I would be ok with Steph taking. I know Curry is just 1 example, but I was trying to compare to possibly one of the best 3 point shooters ever who I don't think most would say isn't good enough to take any shot he wants.... To go more similar what about Ryan McMahon for UofL? Would you say he was a good enough shooter to take any shot he wants? He is career 134-340 (39%). But watching him play when he pulls up I believe it is going in every time.... and rarely do I think, wow that was a bad shot.

That wasn't at all the point of my post... but it is exactly how you always post with the everybody is wrong if they don't agree with me style... you can't use 1 argument in 1 topic and then hypocritically use the opposite argument type in another. As for what I saw... I saw Devonte play a good game, I saw him play very good defense, I saw him hit shots, I saw him provide a spark. And I will take a Heat Check shot at any time because he is our shooter and that is what shooters do (Shoot). I will take the turnovers as well because he can make the passes nobody else can make, they are electric and on top of an assist for 2/3 points it also has repercussions for the game flow moving forward. So you agree with every sportswriter? Maybe because they agree with you, because many (notice I didn't say "all" or "every") posters on this board disagree with the concern. No players game is immune to criticism, but that doesn't mean you have to be looking for a reason to criticize. Who says all Heat Check shots are misses? But even if they were then yes they are the same.... unless time is winding down and we are trying to milk a lead to the finish line a missed shot is a missed shot... Making a turnover on an attempt for a "hero-type" pass vs dribbling off your foot both do the same thing, give the ball to the opponent... and in this guys opinion I would much rather the pass attempt than an unforced dribble off your foot, step out of bounds type turnover.

Aren't you constantly railing on about circumstances... and looking at the bigger picture... this seems contradictory tonight because it doesn't fit your narrative about Green.... And I thought you were actually coming around on him.... but nope, just waiting for a chance to pounce...

IU 86 Silly Rabbits 65

Thanks to the last bucket as time expired (What was that by the way?) @mdn82 & @The Ola Depot correctly predicted IU's Final Score. CURRENT GAME - Louisiana Tech OVERALL RANK Entry Name Score RANK Entry Name Score 1 The Ola Depot 133 1 coonhounds 504 2 mdn82 129 2 The Ola Depot 490 3 Woodson1980 123 3 MoyeNeeded 477 4 coonhounds 122 4 JaybobHoosier 474 5 wirenuts 120 5 BottomLine 472 6 killerbeezer 120 6 mdn82 471 7 DChoosier 119 7 Count 468 8 tkbbn 116 8 Woodson1980 468 9 Crazy about IU 116 9 biteoftheapple 467 10 Count 115 10 WayneFleekHoosier 466 11 JaybobHoosier 115 11 jbell833 465 12 Napleshoosier 115 12 thebigweave 464 13 VO5 115 13 DChoosier 464 14 jbell833 114 14 Bobman1 462 15 MoyeNeeded 114 15 Old Friend 461 16 Stuhoo 114 16 Whojainjawja 460 17 ALASKA HOOSIER 114 17 tkbbn 460 18 Bill clapper 114 18 IUsafety 459 19 Old Friend 113 19 Josh 459 20 JHoosier914 113 20 muttcs66 458 21 WayneFleekHoosier 113 21 wirenuts 458 22 Bobman1 113 22 fwgreenway 457 23 thebigweave 113 23 Napleshoosier 456 24 Josh 112 24 Class of '66 Old Fart 454 25 fwgreenway 112 25 VO5 454 26 BottomLine 112 26 Me So Hornsby 453 27 muttcs66 111 27 JHoosier914 452 28 Class of '66 Old Fart 111 28 HoosierAloha 451 29 rcs29 111 29 HoosierCoop 450 30 mamasa 111 30 Str8Hoosiers 449 31 HoosierCoop 111 31 johnsoniu 448 32 LamarCheeks 111 32 killerbeezer 448 33 biteoftheapple 110 33 cappymo14 447 34 Whojainjawja 110 34 LIHoosier 447 35 johnsoniu 109 35 eladuke 447 36 reconmkd 109 36 Stuhoo 447 37 InArchWeTrust 107 37 HoosierHoops1 445 38 Str8Hoosiers 107 38 LamarCheeks 445 39 HoosierAloha 106 39 ALASKA HOOSIER 445 40 Me So Hornsby 106 40 Crazy about IU 445 41 LIHoosier 105 41 InArchWeTrust 443 42 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 104 42 mamasa 443 43 schoosier 104 43 rcs29 443 44 Naturalhoosier 103 44 reconmkd 440 45 IUsafety 101 45 hper50 436 46 eladuke 101 46 Ajwhitis 434 47 cappymo14 101 47 Naturalhoosier 433 48 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 0 48 BtownBanner6 432 49 Robie Malcomson 0 49 BMalcomsonHoosierHeartland 426 50 crazywillie 0 50 Robie Malcomson 420 51 HoosierHoops1 0 51 crazywillie 325 52 Ajwhitis 0 52 bigrod 304 53 Barrell Rick 0 53 schoosier 237 54 BtownBanner6 0 54 brumdog45 210 55 hper50 0 55 Bill clapper 114 56 bigrod 0 56 Honkyman 113 57 Honkyman 0 57 JVIU98 112 58 brumdog45 0 58 Loaded Chicken Sandwich 111 59 HinnyHoosier 0 59 IUc2016 109 60 JVIU98 0 60 Bowhunter 109 61 IUc2016 0 61 HinnyHoosier 106 62 Bowhunter 0 62 patrickmorriso9 103 63 patrickmorriso9 0 63 Sam_Boger 100 64 Sam_Boger 0 64 Feathery 99 65 Feathery 0 65 cleeter 93 66 cleeter 0 66 Barrell Rick 0

How does this work? Each week I will create Prediction League threads for the weeks game(s). It's a simple concept: Each week you start with 100 points (only if a prediction is made, otherwise 0 points for the week) +25 PTs if you guess the winner -25 PTs if you pick the loser +10 PTs if guess IU score correctly +10 PTs if guess Opponent score correct -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of IU (over/under doesn't matter) -The # of points different between the actual and predicted score of opponent (over/under doesn't matter) *** Reminder if you post a prediction and want to change it, please just POST a NEW Prediction, do not edit a prior post as I may miss those edits. The person with the most points (MINUS 2 LOWEST GAMES) at the end of the season wins.