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Seems like we need a thread to monitor and comment on the summer progress of the current IU basketball roster. So there’s this!

They look great! Zania is one long, athletic big like no one we’ve had before. And Caffey is destined to be one of the best players in program history.

Purdue is going to beat Evansville, but Purdue kinda looks like dogshit.

I would say (geez, why is everyone about to get so angry at me?) that Woodson's second year, when we were a 4 seed, was maaaaybe kinda an overachivement.

That's how much he bet in aggregate lol. And he didn't need to be an Indiana Assistant Volleyball Coach to know that betting against IUFB until Cig came was a winner, and betting for them since them is an even bigger winner.

No. There are different types of suck: Dickie V is a Duke-slurping way past his prime oldhead. Bruce Weber talks funny. Kattz has no on court knowledge. Shon Morris says dumb stuff routinely. Donny Marshall is wrong yet extremely over confident. Hummell is none of those suck varities; yet suck he does. PS: Brian Butch is a great great human. We must require his announcing presence at all times.

Robbie is Robbie because he means what he says just so darn much, and in only the nicest way. Really. And truly!! And really. And it makes me want to punch him in the neck.

Oh for ****'s sake.

If Colin Murray-Boyles can be the #9 pick at 6'8", then Koa Peat can be that or better.

Yikes! Koa Peat he is not lol. Gonna be kinda nice to root for an IU team that is, in a word; old.

Jakai must be hurt ... again :( A lesson that almost all already know to be taken from these largely very successful opening nights for former Hoosiers (of note, Kanaan Carlyle was 4-8 from 3pt!): The coachand coaching staff matters; a ton. If we had given last year's roster to Devries, the results would have likely been incredibly different. If CDD is the guy, worrying about the roster will fade as a concern.

Arizona better enjoy Koa Peat this season because he’s a lotto pick and then some.

Wanna feel better about IUBB? Nico Medved is a very good coach and his low rated roster is destroying a cupcake tonight. Meanwhile, Diebler’s highly rated and Hoiberg’s okay roster have struggled a bunch against cupcakes. If Darian Devries is a legit ball coach EVERYTHING will work out. And I suspect that Darian Devries is a legit ball coach.

Mike Rhodes apparently is a poor man’s James Franklin. PSU will be bottom two or three in both major sports this year

Penn State? Woof. A not great Fairfield team is pulling away from them.

Ten minutes into the game, OSU 28, U Indy 26. In real part because Diebler is a sh!tty coach.

Cig stated that there were no new injuries this week, and that Evans and maybe Sarratt would be the only two players to monitor. So that should mean that Benson is fine.

Devin Mockabee of Purdue officially out for the season. Sad that he ends his Purdoo career injured, but he is also their best offensive player and far and away their best pass blocking RB.

For all of the understandable teeth gnashing about injuries, to date we've had exactly one injury that will matter in the long term; Wyatt. The other injuries have all been short term or minimal in impact: Evans - short term and Michalski ended up doing well last week. Sarratt - looks to be very short term. Franke - excellent at what he does but very low impact role and Warren also kicks deep very well. Fisher - a big deal but the timing was good (post Oregon/Iowa/Illinois), and appears now to be relatively short term. Turner - de minimus. Beebee - Excellent player but maybe our single deepest position. For a competitive football team this is pretty excellent. To our credit, we have mitigated injuries by reducing game snaps for the starters in five of our nine games that were complete blowouts. Our subs have played the equivalent of about a game and a half by now.

In other words, Fisher would’ve played last week if Maryland didn’t suck so bad.

This is real! I'm not saying that Dorn can't be that guy, but it's far from a given. And I like what I've seen from Sisley so far, and that includes against Baylor; he did a nice job defensively and didn't over-extend while learning - no points but also no turnovers, fouls, or missed shots in 17 minutes.

Spend as little time in West Lafayette as possible. Disinfect and defumigate all clothing immediately upon leaving. During the game? Alternate between cheering heartily and laughing loudly. Do not look at Purdue players - they have a pertrifying Medusa-style effect that can turn onlookers to stone.

Lots of wishcasting about Dorn on the board IMO. Dorn's level of competition was almost identical to Jasai Miles last season, and Miles has not looked good so far. Miles was statistically a far better rebounder and better in almost all other categories (fg%, rebounding, steals, blocks, assists), and by a pretty large margin. Dorn was better than Miles from distance but neither were good. No two players are alike, so maybe Dorn has some swagger that enables his quick adjustment to high-D1, but I'll need to see it to even start to believe it. For me? Sisley's got superior athleticism to Miles and very likely to Dorn, and Sisley's on-court communication and shooting stroke make him a far more likely choice to be our 6'7"-ish guy among the three of them.

IUFB: 1,731 PS-ewww: Negative 2

JuJu Lewis done made the worst commitment decision imaginable.