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Agree on Hunter, and he doesn't need to be 'as good as Smith' defensively. He just needs to be above average and be able to handle the role. The gain Hunter brings offensively, especially with improvement, can more than offset the loss of Smith defensively.

I thought it was really well done too, because it was collaborative with the team. It would have been really easy for Archie to post some text image denouncing racism, as so many other coaches did. But no, he included his entire team/staff in a collaborative way and didn't make it about himself. True leadership. Though as with anything, the proof will be any steps they take beyond just making a video.

I think the link is in this thread somewhere. Last week IU basketball posted a video to social media. It starts with Race Thompson (since he's from Minny), has bunch of other guys in it and then end with Archie Miller speaking.

He has commented. He was the closing of the IU Basketball video. I also kind of view the video as a whole as Archie commenting. I obviously don't know who's idea the video was, but at the end of the day something like that would ultimately have to be greenlighted/approved by Archie.

Which would be really interesting because remember the OSU commitment was kind of surprise. Everyone thought it was Michigan and IU, probably leaning Michigan, and then the OSU visit was last as kind of formality. He then committed right after the OSU visit, if not even on the visit, citing the “family atmosphere” as the main reason.

Would love to see Self's big middle finger to the NCAA actually get him a much harsher penalty.

It does to an extent. 37% from 3 is solid, but it's not great. What makes 37% streaky is that a really good shooter at this level is going to be around 40% or even higher. The difference between a JBJ, Hulls or Ziesloft 3pt shooter and someone shooting 37% is consistency.

Yeah, I’m sure he does. That’s clearly not the same thing as spending the summer in your new environment, training under your new basketball and S&C coaches and with your new teammates.

Yeah, not to turn this thread sideways, but Calipari has been extremely successful at UK. I know National Titles are the goal and he's had a ton of talent, but National Titles are hard and also take a great deal of luck. Cal has been to 7 Elite Eights and 4 Final Fours in 10 years at UK (not counting this season since there was no tournament). Indiana has been to 8 Elite Eights and 6 Final Fours in the last 47 years. So yes, while 1 National Title has been a little disappointing for him, Cal has been wildly successful at UK.

Assuming the transfer is amicable, which it certainly seems so in this case, I think it's pretty safe to assume that either Archie called Moser on Anderon's behalf or that Moser called Archie for background and Archie helped.

He never made any public statements. It was his old high school coach who I believe he just played his last year for in high school.

I don't really know either. Just throwing it out there for conversation. But, I'd think for a player coming in a year younger that the summer workouts are even more important. And like you said, the variable is that he does have a choice.

Another point on top of that, is if there is a season but all of the summer training is cancelled does it make sense for him to come a year early and potentially not be fully prepared. Those summer workouts are really important for freshmen.

I was all set to coach my sons team in our first tournament this weekend. His first foray into AAU basketball (he just turned 10). Disappointed the season is probably cancelled, our team was going to be pretty good, but more disappointed to not have that special time coaching my son (though we've had plenty of time together at home the past 5-6 weeks).

Great point. Once he's enrolled in summer classes and working out with the team, he's a college player. I believe all of those guys take summer classes when they're in Bloomington over the summer working out.

I could be wrong, but if I remember correctly didn't he announcer his reclass really late? I think it was in August. So that would be a different situation, unless Lander was planning to wait that long.

I'm don't know if there's a dead period over the summer with the current team. There are definitely workout restrictions in terms of hours with the staff. I just think it would be a bit of an odd thing for a current member of the team (which he would be at that point) to play AAU. I could be completely wrong though. I'm trying to recall if kids that reclassified in the past, whether IU or other schools, did that? Maybe it's normal, maybe it's not, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure when AAU ends, but if he was reclassifying under normal circumstances I would have expected him to report to IU for offseason workouts and some summer classes in June like pretty much the rest of the team does. Could he fit AAU in along with that, I don't know the answer to that.

This isn't about Morgan becoming a guard or perimeter player, it's about him having the skills and opportunity to play on the perimeter as a big man, and he had plenty of opportunity. With that said, I would be floored that if after the NBA told Morgan to work on perimeter skills (we can agree on that, right?) that he didn't focus on that primarily the offseason before his senior year.

You really think he didn't spend the offseason heading into his senior year working on shooting and perimeter play? If I recall, he declared for the draft to get feedback after his junior year. I'd guess they told him to work on his shooting, most likely. You think he ignored that advice and spent the entire offseason working on up and under post moves and drop steps? I doubt it. He spent plenty of time on the perimeter his senior year, you don't think he worked on that during the offseason? He took 88 3-point shots as a senior, 4th most on the team and 35 more than he took his junior year (also 87 more than all of our centers combined last season), and you don't think he worked on that? At no point did I dismiss Morgan. He was a fantastic player. But, the point that he didn't have opportunities on the perimeter and was "stuck on the post" is not reality. Yes, he had to play the position of center, but that impacted him more negatively defensively than offensively.

Um yeah, not at all. You turned this into a labeling thing about being a center. My original point, which never mentioned the word "center", nor did the person I originally quoted, is completely accurate, that Morgan had plenty of opportunity on the perimeter. The original post that I quoted said Morgan was stuck in the post, and that he was more than capable on the outside but wasn't provided the opportunity to show it. He took 88 3's (also, just because a shot is not a 3 doesn't make it's a post touch, nor does it mean that the shot wasn't created from the perimeter) which is a lot for someone supposedly stuck in the post. He had plenty of opportunity to "show it". If you watched, IU ran a dribble drive, handoff/ballscreen offense most of the season. Our bigs, including Morgan, were constantly on the perimeter in dribble hand off situations and ball screen situations. The opportunities were there. The fact is Morgan, who was a fantastic player at IU, but struggled shooting from the perimeter. It was not because of a lack of opportunities, he had plenty.

Where are you getting those numbers? Yeah, it's not disingenous, it's correct.

My original reply was to a post saying he was forced into the post and did not have perimeter opportunities because of it. While the position he played was center most of his last two years, he was on the perimeter a lot, he just wasn't all that effective there.

Who said he didn’t play center?

No idea. Doesn’t really matter. 88 attempts from 3 is a lot for a Center. I know I wish he had taken less at that percentage.