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  C'mon young pups...chime in!   I'm always on the lookout for good new stuff.

Nigel Hayes #1?   Sounds entirely possible to me.

The Replacements   The Band   Uncle Tupelo   Next three in: Lucinda Williams, Rolling Stones, The National

For a message board, I don't think there's been all that much negativity.

    There you go again with your condesceding, uninformed opinions.    I'm telling the mods on you!

  I know you are, but what am I?

  Nope...we still have an open spot at the moment, giving us four guaranteed roster spots for '16.   That, and this is Troy Williams's last season at IU, barring (lord forbid) a red-shirt injury year.

  The order DOES NOT MATTER. Not even a little...not at all.   As long as all necessities are filled, that is.   I am pretty confident that's what we will be able to do. However, I understand that it is more nerveracking to not get one of "the horses" first.

    Pot shots?  This player is exactly who you were hoping for. SImply said. For an unranked recruit who starts our '16 class, I think this thread has been pretty darn positive!   Hope he IS Todd Leary...the player, not the felon ;)  No one (at least, no one with any sense) is expecting him to be a contributor in his freshman year. However, my questions from about a month ago still apply: will he develop into a player who can guard at the level needed to be a rotation player on a top 15 level team?   If he can; this is a indisputably good pickup.

GG seems to fill a spot that CTC likes to have on his roster; a catch and shoot three point specialist that plays the 2/3.   I have read that the knock on GG is his defense. That's the primary part that concerns me. Otherwise, looks like a fine pickup. The star power will come with other 2016 recruits; I'm fairly confident about that.

        My theory sucked!

  Very cool post. I count either five or six "falses" (based on one's point of view).   Sounds like it's gonna be a close one!

Holt and Hartman are not good because they "hustle"; Old Friend is right: playing hard should be a given and most all players do so.   The reason that it appears that Holt and Hartman "hustle" is because, ulike a less intuitive player like Perea, Holt and Hartman use their bodies well, have pretty good footwork, and mentally process well so that they intuitively get to more than their share of loose balls and offensive rebounds.   I very much like Holt off the bench for that reason. When playing against either an opponent's backup bigs or an opponent's tired starting bigs, this "nose for the ball" gene that is wired into Holt seems to be magnified.

I'm gonna go with...   None of the above...give me Hartman!   He can guard the four, he's another shooter, and he gives us Rojo as a true combo guard off the bench, and Holt as a big that can guard the 4 or five off the bench. Also, he will now be 18 months removed from his ACL surgery, and his athleticism should be a good bit better than last year.

Not Levert. Not a freshman.   Yogi, Trimble, Valentine, Hammons, Hayes, Tate: one of 'dem.

  Yay free stuff!!  (tic...kinda)   Pretty impressive that this thread has gone this far without getting overtly political, and without blaming the one person who everybody knows is primarily at fault...   Bush, er, Obama, er....Nixon?....errrrrrrr....the Black and White Panthers???   I feel like it's come to the point where y'all need to know the identity of the finest Presidential candidate there is:   VERMIN SUPREME!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaLOsqTIQw

    Stop.   Hutch clearly stated that he wanted to answer some tough questions accurately.   Just stop.

    There's certainly a couple of "dodgeable" questions in that mix (#s 3, 4, and 5 are pretty dicey IMO).   Educated answers to all six questions?  Can't wait!   Thanks

Crickets still?   C'mon Hutch...whaddya think?

    Agreed.   Stevens has already been a tremendous success in Boston. I think if/when Stevens comes back to college, it will be a family, lifestyle, and teaching decision, not because there's no NBA head coaching job available for him. 

    I have read as a fact that TJ showed up on the day of tryouts from an extended tournament, and was not at his best during tryouts.    Pure speculation? This was also his first time actually being coached by Miller.  Didn't like the way Miller handled himself?   Could be a variety of things, but that weekend probably sealed the de-commit.

Not sure that is a fact.

  Perfect.

  HoosierTrav is my absolute favorite! (please don't stab me)

  Screw you.   You suck.