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IU- 83 Whoever that team is-68

Yea I don't buy this either, money talks in this era. No one chose to come to IU in the offseason because MW is a good coach. Maybe if you squint and assume players are giving Woody credit for the development of TJD and to a lesser extent KW (which I doubt) I could see Ballo making that decision. We didn't get a couple of the best guards in the portal because we play a sweet guard-centric offense. We got them because we could offer known P4 entities more money than freshmen 5* guards. When getting equal money, the high school guards are consistently not choosing IU (really all high school recruits, but I digress). IU will get players, period. Especially in this era. Add in the right scheme/coach to that? Our recruiting would be nuclear IMO.

We are shooting what equates to nuclear for IU from 2 and from 3 and we can’t put these dudes away. Defense, defense, defense. Going to be a long season if this continues.

I was just thinking it’s been Refreshing to see the free throws drop.

Rice has had a really rough tourney. Hope he gets right, we have to have him.

I could take them seriously if they would quantify reality. A take of “MW is getting things figured out, but Providence is missing their best player and missed a lot of wide open threes.” There is zero nuance with team shill. If we can put them away by 20 I’ll be happy with how the offense has looked, but the defense is an absolutely MASSIVE problem to figure out.

Yea I didn’t think that was him until I saw the shoes. No way to know the timestamp but pretty clearly chillin at the casino spending chill money.

To draw any positives from this farce, we need to come out fired up and put Providence away. If we come out flat and let them hang around in the second half our tourney hopes go from life support to flat lined without like 14+ wins in the B1G, which, lol.

If Providence could make some of these wide open threes we’d be down 5

MR is a nice scorer but I’m not sure how much more evidence we need to see how much better we are when he is on the bench. Our most competent stretches of basketball are when he isn’t playing. Using him out of position at the 4 and Bako at the 3 is coaching malpractice.

Hatton has earned more rotational minutes IMO, not just minutes because MR can’t stop fouling at both ends.

Two bad basketball teams playing bad basketball. This is bordering on unwatchable. Providence looks bad bad.

Ballo guarding a guard 18 feet from the basket. MW is not putting these guys in a position to succeed. The over switching in this N/S/R defense is stuff a middle school coach in Indianapolis could fix. Unreal.

Yea that was my immediate thought. Not that anyone really does, but KC in particular looks like he isn’t having fun and doesn’t fit this archaic system at all.

I think 0-3 is a real possibility if we come out flat again, but I simply can’t imagine us losing to this team. We’re bad, but I think they’re worse. at this point, hoo hoo hoo cares. IU 72 PR 66