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And before Tucker D was hurt WV was really rolling.

The most recent evidence on the web of Troy still hooping:

Oh yes, please!

For me this Eastern Conference finals is two teams that I really enjoy. Love this Knicks team - OG, Brunson, Thibs is one of my all-time favorite coaches. Love what Mitchell Robinson and Hart bring too. Lunch bucket, hard-working players that play team ball, defend like crazy, and don't ever whine. Watch Brunson after a questionable foul call - the guy doesn't even blink - just gets back to work. For a guy that is not a great athlete to me he is an all-time great in the making and a helluva leader. Pacers are much the same; Carlisle and a bunch of relatively low-profile guys including T Bryant, that move the ball and defend.

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Very "Dallas James-esque."

Sure as heck looked like an Achilles for Jayson Tatum last night. Will find out today. Really sad; an incredible player, hugely impactful for the franchise, and it happened to seemingly a really class act great guy. :(

That "highlight" reel is pretty brutal. To me she appears to be a Dallas James level player. Maybe Arielle Wisne if we're lucky.

Game three of the Western Conference semifinals and Trayce is getting the start!!!!

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Reviving this thread in honor of Pope Leo, a Chicago guy. If you want evidence that this Pope has impeccable character and taste? With the full endorsement of myself and @johnsoniu, Pope Leo is a diehard White Sox fan: https://archive.is/KKpLu

Pretty sure Ballo “left it all on the floor” at Upstairs Pub too.

Thought that Brian Walsh deserved his own thread, because it seems as though he is crushing it on behalf of the program. Before this season he appeared to be a young guy that followed Archie around and stayed in the background. However, people in the program who stayed into the Woodson era were apparently big fans, and when Archie left he got a substantial promotion. He's got a great background as a player, and both Woody and recruits have been mentioning him as a key figure in our recruiting. In fact, as soon as an assistant job opens up I fully expect he will be the natural choice. • Brian Walsh is in his fifth season with the Indiana men’s basketball program and first as Team and Recruiting Coordinator after serving four years as the Director of Basketball Operations. • Prior to IU, Walsh spent three years on the staff at the University of Dayton with Archie Miller where he served as the Assistant Director of Basketball Operations for one year and a graduate assistant for two seasons. During his time at Dayton, the Flyer’s went 76-25, the most wins in a three-year span in program history. While at Dayton, the Flyer’s advanced to three straight NCAA tournaments and claimed back-to-back regular-season Atlantic 10 championships in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. In the summer of 2015, Walsh earned a master’s degree in educational leadership. • In his role at Dayton, Walsh assisted with every aspect of the program, including underclassman recruiting, on campus recruiting, day-to-day administrative duties, academic services, housing, player services, community relations, and team meals. He served as the director of the Archie Miller Team Camp and had responsibilities related to video, team travel, and summer camp operations. • Walsh graduated from the University of Akron in 2012, earning his bachelor’s degree in business administration, before earning a master’s in sports administration from Akron in 2013. While at Akron, he led the Zips and the MAC in three-point field goal percentage as a junior hitting 44.2% from long distance in league play. Overall, he finished second in the conference shooting 43.4% from beyond the arc. • A two-time academic All-MAC honoree, Walsh shot 40.9% from three-point range during his collegiate career. He averaged 8.3 ppg as a junior and 7.2 ppg as a senior captain, helping the Zips to 48 wins in two seasons and securing a regular-season and conference tournament championship in 2013, advancing to the NCAA Tournament. • Before transferring to Akron, Walsh was a member of Xavier University’s basketball team from 2008-2010 where they advanced to back-to-back Sweet Sixteen appearances. • A native of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, Walsh averaged 19.7 points, 7.6 rebounds, and 2.5 assists as a senior at Moon High School and was named Gatorade Player of the Year in Pennsylvania in 2008.

White smoke just came out of the Vatican chimney. It's either a new Pope, or an NCAA ruling on Leal and Goode. Stay tuned.

Just finished his official visit to Duke, other high level OV’s in the works. We aren’t the only connection here.

"Bailey, DeVries, Goode, Dorn, Wilkerson." Nope "lead the nation in 3pt attempts" Nope "drop into a 3/2 zone" Nope "maybe some box/1" Nope ________________________________ If the quoted segments are your expectations you're in for many, many surprises. Conerway is the overwhelmingly likely option for a starting guard spot. Alexis is reasonably likely to start at the 5. Devries' teams have never been near the top of college hoops in three point attempts. For the past five years his teams have been ranked from 50th to 273rd in number of three point attempts per game. We will not play zone. NO TEAM plays box 1 as part of any extended, schemed strategy.

Big time P4 schools would be very interested if Leal was willing to start the year as a 10th-12th man IMO. Two years in a row he played his way into the rotation from that original expectation.

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Northwestern has much more difficult classes! :)

Okay ... then Kenny has the long-standing relationship; either with the player, the agent, or the AAU program. This. Is. Good.

Why? Because we don't have a "fatal flaw." Some are judging the roster as if there needs to be certain pieces of certain sizes and profiles that fill certain criteria for the roster to be effective. If we have a dominant defensive post? That's just another tool in the kit, but every time we insert one type of player we remove the skill set of a guy like Bailey from the lineup. Winning happens when a staff instills: a culture, work ethic, a coherent scheme, and then recruits effectively to that culture, work ethic, and scheme. Will Darian Devries do the actual things that affect winning? Hell if I know - but he did so in a major way at Drake and to a solid extent in his year at WVU. If we instill a culture, work ethic, and effective scheme, opposing coaches will most certainly not be salivating at the thought of playing against our posts. In Edey's second year, St. Peters ended Purdump's season with a couple of 6'8" guys guarding Edey. In his junior (national player of the year) year, Farleigh Dickinson had a 6'7" post guarding him. Both of those teams adjusted on the defensive end and Edey couldn't effectively guard their posts on the spread out offensive end. Toughness, proper defensive principles, defensive scheme, making us hard to guard. That's what will win if we don't have a dominant defensive post.

Not if Rod Clark has already been the lead recruiter for them. Gonna assume that it is no coincidence that these two kids tweeted their gratefulness at IU offers within days of Coach Clark's announcement.

Two competing concepts: Top 75 recruits, which Trent Sisley is, rarely if ever redshirt. Pretty much every player that is not going to the NBA wants to extend college NIL years as long as possible; that's where the money currently is above and beyond a proven star in Europe.

Did they order the Dante's Inferno pizza? If not, I am not sold that this has been a good hire.

It’s very likely because Devries knows a whole bunch-o-stuff that we do not know.