MikeRoberts

I like him but glad to see him plying a supporting role and hopefullly he learns from playing against Rice in practice

It’s his first game, he is going to be one of our top players on both sides of the ball

He will start over Mgbako eventually

POY would be amazing but I dont expect that or anything. If he is top 3 center in the bigten then we are in good shape. I imagine Rice will be top 3 point guard so that’s pretty good in a 20 team bigten

Agree except Ballo screens and clears the lane better than I have seen centers in recent IU history.

Couldn’t agree more. No way Gallo doesn’t start or at least get starter minutes over Carlyle. Tucker is going to be one of our top 5 players and make it hard to keep off the court in important moments. glad to see Rice ball out and so far be exactly what we need

That’s my take as well. I like Carlyle on D but didn’t see much offensively. Maybe it was an off night offensively but I didn’t see anything that would say he gives us more than Gallo. i think Carlyle and Tucker will be our 6th and 7th man and eventually Tucker starts over Mgbako.

Yeah because that is what I wrote right?

I did get up to go to the bathroom so maybe I missed something but he looked slow and was pretty non existent outside of that 5 points he scored in 2 possesions

I think Gallo gives us more than Carlyle and I hope Tucker gives us more than Mbako

Rice, Ballo and Reneau have been good. Not much else

Both teams are sloppy

Let us know when your feed starts. I still have the “this event hasn’t started yet”

Ugh is right, why aren’t they wearing the candy stripes?

Eric Suhr always seemed to make the right plays when he was out there. Definitely a Charlie hustle type but I always felt comfortable with him out their even though he was an undersized walk on

No. poor coaching can be masked by superior talent. We should have the superior talent in almost every game this year but we won’t win almost every game this year. Coach K could win a natty with this roster but with Woodson I don’t think that is even in the realm of possibility

I’m likely in the minority but I would rather see IU win the bigten tourney than the regular season. 2 reasons: 1) we’ve never won it which is crazy awful and 2) it would show us peaking at the right time

We will play for than 31 games… so yes, 25 wins is a failure in my opinion given this roster for perspective, Purdue has had MORE than 25 wins, so 26+ in 7 of the last 9 seasons

That is so awesome because he is also a great kid. Going to try to post the pic of him training my son at my house

Great, agreed! but I think he will do just enough to retain his job and that sucks if so. 28 wins or more is great and he should be applauded, less than 24 is fireable… I have us winnning 25 and will be disappointing yet not fireable and we will be stuck in pergatory until Mike Woodson wants to leave

I’m pretty certain we all want IU to succeed wildly. i think many of have seen enough from Woody to believe this won’t happen or at least not consistently with woody. Therefore, a decent, not horrible, not great year is the worst case scenario and in my opinion that is what I believe we will see. Top half of the bigten but not competing for nor winning it, maybe 13-7. Not winning the bigten tourney and getting a 4-8 seed in the tourney and winning 1 or 2 games. I believe we should do much better than that given the talent of our roster but I have no expectations they do better because of woody. if my prediction is correct it is worst case scenario because we didn’t accomplish much and yet won’t be fired.

True, maybe he is like Schwarber after all

Not sure I would say he wins with top talent either. He had one of the best players in all of college basketball and a first round draft pick point guard complemented by a senior led supporting cast and didn’t win the bigten and didn’t win the bigten tourney and won 1 game in the round of 64.

Woodson has a lot of good players, they need a good coach. The talent is there and he brought in everyone of them so hopefully his approach with them is the right one and can get them to play well together. i think many of us have our concerns he will do that. If Painter had our players they would be picked to win the bigten and top 5 in the country. Coaches and media don’t have the same level of respect nor expectations for a Woodson coached team

Maybe we should look at getting Luke Murray as our head coach?