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Devonte playing like this just changes the entire dynamic of the team. He can be really good defensively, but he adds a creative element offensively that has sorely been lacking. He can create offense for teammates and himself, which is something Newkirk and RoJo can’t really do. Hopefully this is the “new Devonte” for good, because it makes us so much better.

You want to leave a little of the street ball there though, that’s what makes him a little electric, just have to reign it and teach him to use it for good.

Only if he makes the right choice :)

I about fell out of my chair when the play-by-play guy said, “Donny, you have aspirations to be a head coach, right?” I wouldn’t let him coach my daughters 4th grade team.

I don't think the McDonald's game is an indicator one way or the other. As has been mentioned several times by people, this is about family and brand. His entire family will be there, and the McDonald's game is best for his brand. IU is also best for his brand. It adds up.

Archie may do wonders too. Remember, Bennett went 15-16 and 16-15 his first two years at UVA.

Believe me, I’m in no way supporting Izzo. His handling of this situation was terrible, and after an investigation he should suffer whatever necessary consequences. But, shouldn’t we be far more upset with the East Lansing/MSU police department? Izzo isn’t the one who declined to press charges on what seemed like a pretty solid case. If these guys committed this assault they should be behind bars, not running suicides at The Breslin Center. Why weren’t charges filed? Did the athletic department (AD and/or Izzo) influence charges not being brought against the players? Those are the questions that need answers.

Ugh...

Imagine where this team would be without him? We certainly lose the ND game, maybe games like PSU and Maryland too.

I wonders the appeal of that job now that UConn is in the AAC and not the Big East? At least in basketball, UConn may have been more negatively impacted by conference realignment than any other school.

I haven't seen many interviews with the other two, but the things I have heard from Phinisee and Anderson lead me to believe the leadership and toughness will not be in issue going forward under Archie. It might take time to develop the new culture, but these two seem ready to impact that.

Dickie V is one of the biggest hypocrites in college sports. I love what he does for charity, etc., but he’s as much a part of the problem as anyone in the college game.

Is there a link, would love to see more on this?

It's a completely old school mentality that weight training somehow negatively impacts shooting. As long as you're shooting in conjunction, then weight training is great for shooting. Every college program, NBA organization, and the vast majority of high school programs lift weights during the season. Are we to assume all of these professionals don't know what they're doing? Yes, if you go on a lifting binge for weeks at a time and never pick up a basketball, then it can impact your shot. But if you're working with the ball in conjunction with strength training, which every basketball player is doing, then it's great for your performance and shooting. Heck, MJ used to lift hard on game days.

The refs absolutely, 100% ruined that game and basically made it unwatchable. The refs and the Big Ten should be embarrassed. We lost the game because of poor guard play, turnovers and free throws, and the refs were terrible both ways for the most part, but if they didn’t decide to basically take the game over in the second half we would have won that game because we’re better than UI at basketball but not better at free throw shooting.

Since I’ve been defending Archie, I’ll also provide something I feel he could have done over the last 8 or so minutes when we struggled to even get an entry pass from the point to the wing, and therefore couldn’t get Juwan the ball. He could have inverted the offense and gotten Juwan out on top with the ball and let him go to work from there, with our guards screening for each other to get a guy like RoJo open. Since our guards struggle so much and Illinois puts so much pressure on, it could have mixed things up and gotten our guys in some different positions, instead of just watching our guards dribble side-to-side.

Believe me, I was in a debate yesterday on another forum arguing that Newkirk should absolutely keep his spot and Green doesn’t deserve the minutes. But with that said, Newkirk was terrible tonight.

See my post above, but are these great shooters that have regressed? All these guys have always been streaky. Why is Hartman missing completely wide open 3’s? I don’t know.

Who are all of these guys that are worse shooters? Newkirk has always been an average, streaky shooter. Green has always been a streaky shooter. Morgan has always struggled from the perimeter. McRoberts has never been a shooter. Durham was billed as a bad shooter coming out of college. Our supposed big-time shooter Hartman, has always been a slightly above average shooter, not great, and he’s coming off his 2nd ACL. RoJo has always been a streaky shooter and was awful the second half of last season. I didn’t think we’d be this bad collectively, but I always thought we’d be a poor shooting team this year.

Or maybe it means our team stinks?

I’d also say For the most part Archie manages minutes/subs really good. He did a great job tonight managing Morgan’s foul situation in the second half, and getting him quick rests around the media timeouts. Crean never did that stuff.

Newkirk had 4 turnovers in 12 minutes. I’m not saying Green was good down the stretch, but he had 2 turnovers in 27 minutes. Not sure it was that bad a coaching move, Newkirk was awful tonight.

Really? Up until tonight we’re something like 4 or 5-0 in games decided by 5 points or less. We actually play defense. Tonight was bad, but we take much better care of the ball. We consistently have great scoring plays coming out of timeouts. A huge reason we were even in the Duke game was because of Archie. I think people are way overestimating how bad this roster is. I don’t care what the stars are next to their high school ranking, this is a bad roster. The guards are terrible, absolutely atrocious. We have very little length, inaccurate shooters, and so on and so on. Morgan is a stud, but after that it’s a crapshoot. I give Archie a ton of credit for having this team 5-3 in conference coming into the game.

Depends on how EJ's 1 year would have ended under typical circumstances. Obviously that's not a question we can answer, but that was a legit top 10 team that had conference title and final four aspirations before Sampson ruined it. I love Yogi, I'm a big fan and still follow him in the NBA, but as time passes we tend to sometimes forget that his sophomore year through the first half of his senior year were pretty underwhelming from a team perspective. On the overall topic though I'm with Wayne and Old Friend, an IU program that is performing as it should, shouldn't have to pick. I'd expect Archie at some point soon to be able to land both types of players on a regular basis.

Not necessarily asking you specifically, just using your post as a jumping off point. Why is it so hard for him to say no to Garland, yet everyone thinks saying no to Indiana (fans, program, homestate kid, etc.) is so easy? We've seen brothers play at different schools at the same time, I just don't understand this overwhelming pull everyone thinks Garland has over Langford?