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If IU hosts #6 UNC, visits #9 KU, neutral w/#3 Arizona, and plays @a ranked Big East team (Nova, X, Creighton), it’s going to have the kind of schedule you need to be on a protected seed line (ranks are Torvik’s current projections)

Some takeaways I liked here: 1. Older bro is currently an IU senior 2. As he’s just turned 15, he’s so young his coach had to tell him who Jordan Hulls is 3. Close with Trent Sisley

I was correct

The evidence is clear

Who wants to join me in overanalysis here my guess is either this has nothing to do with IUBB or it’s positive

Rewatched the post-PU win hype video that IU made yesterday. Tamar’s energy and enthusiasm on the court and in the locker room stood out. His skill and development matter most. But wanting to win, playing hard, bringing energy…good signs. He has the sauce

In the big picture, a non-frosh who was formerly a highly-regarded recruit is a great guy to have around in a role where realizing his potential really raises your team’s ceiling.

Yes, would add that even a bump into the low 30%s wouldn’t necessarily make him a “good” 3Pt shooter by an objective metric, but would mean defenses have to at least respect the chance he takes one that’s too easy. Which in turn should give him additional breathing room to drive.

If he continues in this fashion, let’s remember going forward that when we’re talking about teenagers, “not sure he plays hard enough to maximize his talent” is 1) something that can change in a hurry and 2) not a character flaw. Playing hard is a learned trait.

Yeah I rewatched the 2016 game @Iowa to clinch the conference title and had totally forgotten Niego was the only PG available behind Yogi at the end of the year.

To me this sounds like a player who’s as good or better shooting than the typical “just-a-shooter” type and also offers enough else to be a high major guy. A fit if you have other ballhandlers, maybe?

Without doing a year-by-year look back, that’s probably a common thread in Painter-era down years. And it’s hard to find that guy in the portal. They needed Pack, or an XJ, and I don’t know how many of those are out there in a given year. Edit: upon further review that’s absolutely one commonality of Purdue 2013, 2014, 2020.

Yeah peak Jason Kidd was the best and most important player on two NBA finalists — the sun, moon, and stars of the Nets’ offense and a great defender. Then almost a decade later he played 35 minutes a game as a role player and won a title. Incredibly lofty comp. Woody’s been around high-level hoops for 45 years, so I don’t think he makes the comparison lightly. But geez.

Thanks. In my defense his post is 11 minutes before mine, and his tweet about it three minutes after

I’m a player wayyy below that level, but I’ve played in some high-level pickup games. If you caught me during shootaround while we warm up, I might can 7, 8, 9 in a row on a good day. But even the pickup game pace and shot contests are enough that I’m not really a great shooter by the standards my run. (now if anyone wants to hear about the morning I hit two game winning threes, I’m happy to share)

If he has been invited to the NBA Draft Combine, that hasn’t been reported yet.

Slow news week so I am daydreaming: about the ranked 2022-2023 Hoosiers putting PU in a shipping container in front of a sleepy Mackey. About TJD being the best player on the court in Phog Allen Fieldhouse in December. About a 9:15 tip on Thursday night during the ACC/B1G challenge with SSAH so lubricated I can’t hear Dickie V. About Race flushing a putback on Senior Night. About the chemistry JHS and Reneau have. About Jordan Geronimo handcuffing Malik Hall like he did Luka Garza. About Brad Underwood turning red because X makes every PNR read right. About a Trey Galloway pick six slam. About a late-game CMW ATO that puts the game out of reach. About Tamar Bates hitting four 3s on CBS in March. About shutting the door with X/JHS/Trey/Race/TJD preventing an opponent from even getting a shot off for three straight possessions

Not easy, but you already prescribed the solution: film and reps

The biggest part of defensive awareness development for JG is monitoring multiple simultaneous actions by the offense and anticipating actions/counters. Nearly as big: avoiding fouling. He needs a better barometer for what kind of body- and hand-contact is permissible in a given situation to stay on the court.

Yeah I don’t think I said it very well. I was trying to see there’s maybe some marginal advantage, not a massive one. They’re different players but compare JHS or Reneau to Booker in this regard; I assume they’ll make some $ as frosh, but name recognition to more casual fans, who aren’t following recruiting or checking message boards, may mean a few extra bucks for a local guy, is my theory. Like let’s say there’s some baseline $ amount any high-4 star or 5-star frosh should expect. Wouldn’t a local prospect have slightly more potential to earn, even before playing in the uniform, because NIL sources above and beyond the norm might step up for him?

By no means am I a “lock down the borders” guy, though of course the best chance you’ve got at great talent is the closest. But my hunch is NIL helps in that regard, a state champion who already built a bit of a name locally probably has a leg up in earnings potential from the day they step on campus. Not sure who’s making what, but as an example, Leal seems to have lots more opportunities than his PT so far would have you expect.

Does Arkansas have open spots? Anyway, I’m up for maximum goofiness, pulling for Eastern Michigan here

UM fans are confused and disappointed here. Llewellyn is not really a PG, and UM still has only three guards on the roster (him plus Bufkin and McDaniel). Their biggest roster issue last year was they had lots of 4s playing the 3, so it’s not like they have options who can slide down a position. Some combo of Llewellyn, Bufkin, Jett Howard, Diabate, Dickinson, Houstan, Tarris Reed, and Terrence Williams is quite a bit of talent, and McDaniel can give them spot minutes…but even w/JL at 2, Collins was the de facto PG.

Like it’s possible it’s a cost issue, but you’d think a UM booster could throw summer tuition at Shannon if that’s all he needed. And I don’t know if that’s the case, anyway, I don’t know that Adams can just prevent his scholarship from covering summer classes out of spite.

You are correct, Adams can’t reasonably be blamed for Shannon not taking summer courses. He can’t require that OR prevent it. We don’t know the whole story, of course, but that’s simply not how course registration works. I know, it’s my field.