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Khamenia is going to be an absolute demon for Hurley. That’s scary. People are also going to HATE him

Time to fire up the Jake hall vision board

He seemingly wants to go back to the west coast so likely not an option anyways, but I was a little hopeful they would get involved with Brady Dunlap from SLU as an off the bench shooter. He would fill that role really well, but I haven’t seen anything connecting him to IU and I think he’s taking visits out west

I’m curious if they leave a spot open in case that nutty fin Muurinen wants to throw them a bone and play in college for a year. But if it’s evident that won’t be an option, they should grab someone from the portal. Unfortunately for a lot of players, there’s going to be a bunch still in the portal into the summer because we’re approaching like 3000 athletes entered right now I believe.

*PAM’s music intensifies*

I’ve seen some consternation about hall’s athleticism and lateral quickness but I think he has enough other weapons to his game to mitigate any issue from a jump up in competition. The obvious first aspect is he’s a flamethrower from deep. He also has a great pump fake and a decent enough dribble. He’s also be playing with a primary guard who can actually beat his defender off the dribble which should create space for all the off ball players. I think his strengths make up for any concern about athleticism. He’s a killer. I have belief in anyone who scored over 3,100 points in high school to be able to find space to score.

ND Okafor from WSU is a guy they’ve contacted. He’d probably make some sense as a 15 minute off the bench front court player

Reibe won’t take a bench role so I’d imagine he’s out. Not the end of the world, he’s a pretty flawed player. He did not give UConn good minutes in the tournament; teams were attacking him defensively and getting him in foul trouble with ease.

What does a successful day portal wise look like today for everyone? The obvious is a sherrell announcement. Beyond that, my largest priority would be locking up a visit from Jake hall as well as a back up point guard.

I think it’ll be fine because no one expects Darian to say “it’s not my job to get open shots for three point shooters” or similar nonsense.

He probably wouldn’t get bashed so much if he didn’t continuously do bash-able things. Food for thought

Uh that was a joke

Graphic design team searching for usable highlights from last year that aren’t Lamar threes for the announcement video

I really like what I’ve seen from rancik and it seems like he’s a plus defender but I think it’s a stretch to comp him to yaxel (even if it’s just comping the role). Yaxel is such a unique basketball player that very few can emulate.

Exactly my thoughts

I think it’s far more likely it was the plan all along and fans have been scarred by IUBB the last 25 years and misinterpreted a quote from Rabjohns about budget size. I think Ryan Carr’s immediate past made him uniquely qualified to get massive amounts of donation if there was assurances that the same pitfalls that were made last year were not repeated. I also think it was a clear strategy to target players with multiple years of eligibility left as an effort to not fully rebuild the roster via the portal every single year, especially as the high school recruiting is still getting back up to speed post Woodson

Sting operation to out the non believers of the burner verse

Hilarious that KJ is tweeting gifs as still images. Buddy is focused on recruiting, not how the internet works. Go off king

I think it’ll probably be very difficult to convince reibe or tiller to come if they take rancik. I could be wrong but I don’t think either will want any type of shared starting role and definitely don’t want to come off the bench.

Yeah I don’t understand the sentiment that he’s not committing today from that Goodman tweet. Especially when the tweet says they’re the leader. There’s far too much smoke from last night in general to suddenly panic from a Jeff Goodman tweet

Reibe also took an official in high school. Even if it was the prior regime, you have to feel that gives a boost as a small amount of familiarity with the school

Yes. IIRC IU was one of his finalists (they were all adidas schools)

Didn’t have to fund a buy out this offseason…..

Ah, the verdell jones special. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

That would be so brutal if it was Richardson who lures him away.  The one that slipped away still being a thorn in our side.