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Was this part of the Booker to UK, Blackmon to IU domino?

Hollerin’

Yes, very glad to see this — like @Stuhoo I’ve been hoping for an offer here. @Demo is right that the height doesn’t fit Woody’s archetype even at PG but the nature of the competition and production suggests to me he’ll be a B1G-caliber player.

This is a classic genre of rothstein tweet, just randomly generating something true for engagement

That’s not a cast, right? Am I crazy? It’s a brace.

Yeah hard to describe but he was huge underground 2005 on and is one of the main stylistic antecedents to many of Atlanta’s current stars, as well as the label owner who broke some of them.

Yeah lots of previews suggest Loyer’s likely to improve but I don’t know how much? I think the endgame is he’s a more reliable shooter from 3 than he was last year but doesn’t offer lots of shot creation, ball-handling, defense. Smith has Drew Neitzel upside, Loyer’s best case is like…Nick Zeisloft? Who was awesome, but probably not a top 100 player in CBB. Anyway, between Loyer and Galloway, the guy I’d pick is already on the team I root for.

Givony is well-connected, and if you read/listen to him longform he clearly has some eval chops; he’s not just parroting what teams tell him. But would it kill him to let me see a guy’s jump shot on those corner 3s?

My hope is that the frontcourt depth also means optimal deployment and rest etc. for all these guys. 28 minutes of Kel’el, rested just right, because you slide Malik up for some minutes at the 5 and Sparks bullies some backups? That’s good news for everybody in cream and crimson.

Someone send Derik the Malik Reneau fitness gains tweet, would love to see Clif Marshall’s work with him

Wonder if the Spaniard in question is on this roster https://www.fiba.basketball/world/u19/2023/team/Spain#|tab=roster

I kinda hope someone ;Brendan Quinn?) writes a book about Juwan’s tenure when it’s over. Fascinating.

No inside info but IMO Notre Dame, UNC, UVa and Stanford make the most sense, in that order.

In hoops, a 20 game schedule with 18 teams means you’ll play everybody else at least once — there’s 17 games — plus 3 double-plays every year. I did a little back-of-the-envelope brainstorming of how to arrange that in hoops if you keep 3 protected rivalry doubles per team. I didn’t worry much about schedule strength, but tried to protect the best rivalries. Here’s a shot: Team Primary Secondary Tertiary USC UCLA Oregon Washington UCLA USC Washington Oregon Washington Oregon USC UCLA Oregon Washington UCLA USC Rutgers PSU Maryland Northwestern PSU Maryland Rutgers OSU Maryland Rutgers PSU Northwestern Nebraska Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Nebraska Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Iowa Nebraska Minnesota Wisconsin Northwestern Illinois Rutgers Maryland Purdue Indiana Illinois MSU Indiana Purdue Illinois Michigan Illinois Northwestern Indiana Purdue Michigan MSU OSU Indiana MSU Michigan OSU Purdue OSU Michigan MSU PSU You can quibble with who’s left out in a few cases. I feel confident the ex-PAC teams should double-play each other. NW is a strange fit geographically with Rutgers and Maryland but if everyone has 3 protected double-plays, it has to work out somehow. The alternative is fewer protected ones, e.g. IU always double-plays PU but rotates the other doubles every year. The teams with stronger B1G roots and hoops tradition end up with too few doubles — IU/OSU should probably be protected, for example, or Illinois/Wisconsin. This exercise basically convinced me teams should just have the main rivalry protected, and the “primary” column above probably isn’t exactly right if you’re doing it that way. I would guess the PAC teams might stay west more than truly rotating unprotected doubles? One final thought: conference tournament likely becomes 14 byes, with 15/18 and 16/17 “play-in” games to play seeds 1 and 2 in a 16 team tournament. So it’s an extra game for the top four seeds. I wondered if that would change the schedule but you actually don’t add a game to more than a couple schedules. The issue there: do you have eight games Thursday?? If so I think you’d need two gyms.

No leg work here whatsoever, not even on the versa. Seems notable, even if it was clearly an arm day.

Any relationship to Evan?

I’d love to know his Jr/Sr/AAU shooting %s, the shot’s arm finish seems fine or better. Some drift and a long windup don’t seem like the toughest problems a shot can have.

Like Old Fart, I’ve been curious about this too and I think you’ve nailed it. They’re clearly curious, since they keep watching. A late 3 inch growth spurt is the other thing that would probably change things. For whatever it’s worth, he seems to rebound well for his size, which is surely worth something, but also probably not enough on its own to overcome the size for IU’s sake.

I’m glad to see there’s some folks on both sides of the debate. My hunch is Gunn will be more effective but in fewer minutes. Bates played almost exactly half of available minutes, and I think/hope with better guard health, Gunn probably ends up playing about a third of minutes. Gunn is listed an inch taller, but I would guess he’s at least a neutral or slight positive on defense. I would not have graded Bates out that highly. Gunn’s a better 2 point finisher and a worse FT shooter. So the swing is if the stroke comes around from distance, which I would bet on.

Ok, let’s have some off-season fun: better sophomore season, Scoop Bates last year, or CJ next year?

13-7…probably a BTT double bye. No big wins, probably capped at a ~6 or 7 seed unless you win it and beat MSU and PU on the way.

Wow seems like coming to IU is a great experience: you get better, play in front of great fans, have fun, and it gets you paid

This is pretty late to learn you’re a non-qualifier. Probably either needed summer school credits and didn’t get them, AND/OR needed a particular GPA in summer credits to pull cumulative GPA to a level and couldn’t. UL has waived standardized test requirements for the time being so it can’t be SAT/ACT

He drew 9 fouls! One dime short of a 5 x 5 in 32 minutes! This is an insane box

Hahaha definitely an Iowa game