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Can't lie, the arrogance criticism is killing me. I don't care who it is, be they as brazen as RMK or as winsome as Wooden, every coach at the high, high major level is arrogant to the point of narcissism. No exceptions. Never met her, but I'll bet a mortgage payment that Teri Moren has bulletproof self belief and dismisses outside noise without even thinking about it. In that fishbowl you're not gonna function any other way. Woody should've caught some of that stuff on the way out of his mouth, no question, but to suggest that he demonstrates some inappropriate level of arrogance is just silly. C'mon, there are legit reasons to bust that dude up, plenty of them, that's just not one of them.

Interesting. Since there’s zero chance this is compensation-related, got to assume 1 of 2 things: : 1) Wyoming’s NIL is for $hit, or 2) I seem to vaguely recall player allegations of mistreatment and maybe any investigation there wasn’t gonna end well and ol’ Jeff found a life raft.

If you’re asking me if I’d take him in the role that’s currently available on this roster, a back of the rotation/niche piece, the answer is yes. If Ballo or Reneau goes down and you need 25 mins a night, nope, but I also don’t think any kid you’re gonna bring into the current situation would see their minutes just reflexively ratcheted up from 5 mins to 25. They’re obviously planning to play a more perimeter oriented game and they would just rework rotations to accommodate who’s available.

I get the point you’re making here, but there is zero chance that Hurley’s pitch to Reed was to come back up Samson Johnson. It’s completely different then selling a high end kid on coming to Bloomington where Ballo is going to get 30 mins and it’s entirely likely that your leading returning scorer is going to get the 10-12 mins Ballo’s sitting. I get the desire to have a young big with upside. I wanted Queen as much as anyone. That’s not how that worked out. There were a couple of young bigs in the portal I liked, but the staff clearly prioritized a physically and emotionally mature veteran kid to fill a niche. That’s not the direction I would have gone but it’s completely defensible. Sparks didn’t work because he was simply skill deficient. Assuming that it does turn out to be Hatton he has skill elements that would play and he checks an awful lot of boxes. And 1 element he possesses that a lot of kids don’t, and I don’t usually put my thumb on the scale for local kids, is that he walks in with a clearer understanding of the expectations surrounding IUBB than a kid like Konstantynovskyi or even a high major kid from elsewhere is likely to have, and that’s not nothin’.

I agree with your point here, but I gotta say this, I love Burgess and assuming he’s back 100% from the broken leg I’d take that kid in a New York second.

I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather the League had done nothing than something as perfunctory as this. This just insults fans.

My Dad owned car dealerships and he used to say “There’s an a$$ for every seat.” Inelegant but true. And Hatton just feels like a very snug fit for this particular seat.

Yogi. Ferrell. Is. 31. Just gonna take a leisurely stroll into traffic now.

Enoch Boakye had mild IU interest in HS.

I don’t subscribe to The Athletic so haven’t read the article, but the items posted are interesting and IU with a specific mention.

RIP to Steve Albini. Not a huge name, but if you were into grunge or alternative from the the late 80’s through very recently you’ve liked work he’s produced. Best known album was Nirvana’s In Utero. Also did The Pixies’ Surfer Rosa and albums by The Breeders, Urge Overkill, PJ Harvey, The Fleshtones and about a million other acts over 30 years. This cut is from a criminally underappreciated British grunge album called Seamonsters by The Wedding Present. They were a pretty conventional almost popish band until Albini got hold of them and produced this record. Love it. If you’re into grunge and don’t know this album, you’re welcome.

Not at all. It’s probably exactly what the pitch should be. But that’s a touch different than the way I read it.

https://www.thedailyhoosier.com/recruiting-roundup-hemenway-to-vandy-indiana-elite-trio-shining-on-adidas-circuit/ Couple of interesting things here: 1) Apparently, Sisley, Mullins and Moreno are trying to coordinate their official visits together. 2) I’d be curious to hear this in full context, but Moreno suggests that he’s being sold on walking in and starting. That might well happen strictly on merit, but I don’t remember any other recruit specifically suggest they were promised anything.

Makes sense. No idea what he's studying but there are worse degrees to have then that one.

I imagine you’re right about that. With the exception of Bryson Tiller, who’s actually an older ‘25, when Ya was offering all of those Atlanta kids a couple of years ago almost without exception they were like 16 yo juniors. Wasn’t sure if that was a Georgia educational thing or Ya just gravitating to higher upside kids.

Good, the sooner the better. Sort of hope he ends up at the Adidas Eurocamp rather than playing USA basketball because he’d be measured at the Adidas event. Still listed at 6’11” pretty much everywhere and I’m guessing he’s taller than that. I’m betting he’s closer to 7’1” and maybe 7’3” or 7’4” reach.

It seems to be a Georgia thing. Several of the Georgia kids IU’s offered have been young for the class. Wilkins was really young. He’ll play his entire freshman year at Georgia as a 17yo. Rice is going into his 4th year of college and I believe he’s not 21 yet.

Turns 19 today. Got to confess, it feels a little strange now that these kids are younger than my youngest.

So that’s considered room for the defender to react? Huh

I'm almost never "the refs jobbed us" guy, but that was pretty ugly. But the 2 misses late, and the idea that you'd call a highly, highly questionable illegal screen after 47:45 of not calling a single 1 is......something, masked the 1 that just floors me, the overturned foul call on Brunson. That was easy, it was obvious, and there were multiple unobstructed angles. That's a foul. They get it right on the floor, then the replay office overturns it from right to wrong and supplies that poor Ref with a comically bad rationale. He got the ball clean and any contact after is deemed incidental? Really, is that how that works? Putting aside that he obviously bodied Turner on the block, he then went through him in the continuity of the play. That's a foul. It's always been a foul. Every level. No exceptions. Changing that is insane. And if they'd rightly stayed with the call, Thibs wouldn't have had a challenge on the missed call on the sideline. Imo they had a really bad last 5 or 6 minutes. Really bad.

Not with you on that one. Thought that was a deeply stupid overly aggressive play by Nembhard.

If you would have told me that Haliburton and Nesmth would both be lousy, and they have been, and the Pacers would be competitive, let alone having a shot at winning it I would have said no chance. And what was that BS screen call? You have got to be kidding me.

3 notable things from Edmonds’ stat line: 1) Committed more fouls per minutes played last year than Reneau playing in the AAC while being in no way a rim protector. 2) Shot 45% from the line. 3) Dished out 10 assists in 33 games. Yeesh

T.J. Power to UVA.