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Hurt has that Durant type long skinny shooter game. whataplayer

In that case Im okay without Hurt.

Too much sharing, VO5. ;)

Well here’s something interesting: Apparently Sampson James was in Columbus as a Buckeye commit yesterday for the game! Seems to me he was impressed with how IU played, and no doubt he found himself rooting for the overachieving Hoosiers. Still worried this commitment will hold? I’m not.

I not sure why we don’t have a reasonable chance: Close friend at IU Asst coach connection Great game day and game prep We are likely a top 25 team when he watches us And let’s not forget - We are in B1G country - family proximity much better than all but Minny for games at Mn, Iowa, and Wisky

Oopsies.

Bump. Now 3-0 in timeouts!

We are DESTROYING them in the “unnecessary timeout” stat.

Is there a stall tactic available?

These Hoosiers

Nah...low expectations

Kumbaya - we can ALL agree on that one.

None (or very few) IU fans ever had a problem with Tom Crean the man, or the integrity of the program on his watch (though Noah, Troy, and TB still scare me jes' a little bit). FWIW, I'm also not a fan of folks who spray around requests for apologies or congratulations for things that were largely always a given: "You have me on video throwing babies and kissing snowballs? As I tried to tell you all, candy is sweet and grass is green and they’ll always be that way with me in charge!” It's a favorite trick of politicians, and always hits me as off-putting. I believe it’s called a red herring. Finally, while I generally agree with the substance Dakich's tweet, the tweet infers that a clean program is the primary relevant factor. I'm squarely in the camp that integrity is an absolutely necessary starting component, but that the ideal coach can maintain integrity while sustaining high-level success. I eventually came around to the conclusion that Tom Crean would never be Jay Wright, Bo Ryan, Mark Few, or another of the select set of coaches that appear to be very clean and still ultra-successful.

Five years ago he was coaching middle school. Maybe recruiting will get him there; with Wiseman, Watford, Ramsey, and Precious in the mix for his '19 roster he could be competitive in a hurry. But maybe not. And even if it goes well, he has NBA coaching aspirations in bold font that I can read between every current line.

mdn with another dose of reality for y'all. There is NO WAY IN ANY RATIONAL UNIVERSE that the Commissioner of the NCAA would sit in a federal courtroom and face random reporters in the hallway during a criminal trial which exposes corruption in his sport. The prosecution team and the judge sure as heck don't want him there, if nothing else to insure that there is no distraction or incident that could create grounds for a mistrial or appeal. I strongly assume that the NCAA is monitoring the trial, and likely has requested (the publicly available) trial transcripts.

Can't wait for his last official visit to be over so that we can get down to :

For now it does, and it may in the long run. But whether it will in the long run is still far, far from clear.

My takeaway from (admittedly only) a 15 minute hard played clock-running scrimmage? Al Durham could end up as the starting point, and Race Thompson is likely the first big off the bench.

Play at 100% on every possession? For sure. Use the bench as a motivator? You betcha. Press and trap? Not going to happen - that is the antithesis of the packline defense. The packline has a few basic principles: Always pressure the ball, never double beyond the three point line unless the ballhandler gives up his dribble, play off your man when he's without the ball beyond the three point line, force drivers into the lane where help awaits (and never allow baseline drives), an the help defenders should slap at the ball and double in the lane.

Just sayin' ... posing for a uniform picture during a campus visit and posting a "not committed" disclaimer is standard operating procedure.

Apparently a major part of the defense during opening arguments is that the shoe company employees on trial could not have defrauded universities, because the universities were part of their effort to pay recruits. That theory will be buttressed by recitation of the shoe companies' discussions with coaching staffs which encouraged player payments. And THAT is where the juicy testimony will flow. The shoe company defendants are fully embracing that they broke NCAA regulations left and right. The government's case theory will counter; that these complicit coaches were rogue employees acting in direct contradiction of their respective university's compliance departments and documented policies. Soooo .... the testimony that exonerates the defendants and potentially produces "not guilty" verdicts could be extraordinarily damaging to many big name coaches.

It sure might appear that is true. With LaLu so close to IU and MSU, seems to me that an undecided Isaiah Stewart might take some more official visits. Im thinking there’s an outside chance here.

An interesting article from the UK 247 website (on the no-pay side). Notable to me? Seemed much more UW, pretty wide open, and that the review of the UK visit was (my summary) "Get there to get out and get a contract in a hurry." Student-athlete with a family atmosphere is most definitely NOT Calipari's pitch: Isaiah Stewart sees Washington, Kentucky, pondering next move The recruiting process is in full swing or five-star center prospect Isaiah Stewart. After cutting his list to a working number, Stewart took official visits on consecutive weekends to Washington and Kentucky. Stewart, the No. 5 overall prospect in the 247Sports Composite Rankings, returned from Lexington on Sunday. “It was good,” Stewart said. “Kentucky is another place I haven’t seen so I was pretty happy I go out there. Kentucky is Kentucky, you got to go there and bust your chops off. They have what you need so you just have to go there and take it. Once you take it you hopefully can get a chance to get up out of there.”Stewart, a 6-foot-9, 245-pound post player that’s known for his effort and energy on the court, was intrigued with how close Kentucky’s practice facility was to their dorms and was particularly impressed with their workouts. “I’d say watching them workout,” he said. “It’s just hard work. I just watched the workouts and hung with the guys and I just see how it is. The gym is right there, across the dorm basically like 15 steps so I’d always be in the gym. Workouts are good, tough and productive.” “Obviously the number of players they have and the numbers that decide to leave again, how much his players are worth in contracts and stuff like that,” he added. “That’s always going to stand out.” Although they’ve been dabbling with him from a recruiting standpoint for a while, the Wildcats recently ramped up their interest and offered Stewart a scholarship. “They’re a school that came in late and that’s the way they do things,” Stewart said. “They don’t know who they’re going to get, who’s leaving and they take it player by player. They don’t want to go out there offering ten kids and then like not have spots for some kids and stuff like that. Just how they do it.” When asked if it’s fair to say Kentucky is making a strong move in his recruitment, Stewart responded, “Yeah, they definitely are. They’re definitely recruiting me hard, making a push, so for sure.” Prior to his official visit to Kentucky, Stewart took an official visit to Washington the weekend of Sept. 21. “It was eye opening,” Stewart said. “I didn’t really know much about Washington but me and coach [Mike Hopkins] go all the way back since I was in Rochester. He’s turning things around. They went from winning nine games to winning 21 games since his first year he was there. I enjoyed it out there. It was definitely different.” What stood out the most about the trip to Washington? “How they embrace,” he said. “When someone, I don’t mean to brag or anything when I say this, but when they know they have someone special or someone they aren’t used to getting they embrace it and they know it doesn’t come along often and the whole school, whole community out there embraces that and basically just shows love. It’s basically like a family feeling out there.” Obviously, the relationship between Stewart and Hopkins is the main reason Washington was able to secure a visit and make his list of finalists, but the talented big man said their pitch has been intriguing to him as well. “Just coming in and being able to get on my game,” he said. “They know where I want to take my game to, where I want to develop it to and they’re going to give me that freedom and allow me to play my game, be able to make mistakes and be able to learn from my mistakes and all of those type of things.” To go with Kentucky and Washington, Stewart also has Duke, Indiana, Michigan State, Syracuse and Villanova on his list. With USA Basketball coming up this weekend, Stewart admitted he doesn’t know where to go with his recruitment from here. “I don’t know,” he said. “Right now I’m working on school work and focusing on the first practice so we got practice coming up, USA coming up, I’m shifting my attention towards that for now and that’s about it.” At this point, Stewart has yet to schedule anymore official visit dates. “I definitely have been thinking about that,” Stewart said. “I think I have some dates but this is my last year in high school and these visits take some time away from my team and me spending time with the young guys, helping them out and stuff like that so right now I’m just focusing on practice and schoolwork and USA basketball coming up and that’s about it.” Taking visits in the fall usually results in an early college decision, but Stewart said that’s a decision he hasn’t made yet. “It could be early or I might wait,” he said. “It all depends on how I feel and where I’m at with things.”

If McRoberts can show leadership while NOT starting, that can be extremely helpful in setting an example of hard work and focus for others that wish they were getting more minutes during the season.