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If Woody puts Mgbako at the 4, then Tucker at the 3 would make sense. Then you can have Gallo at either 1 or 2.

just don't see some guy from Iowa or anywhere else coming in and taking control of the ball over Gallo. Mike is oldschool. Unless you are just a stud...he is sticking with his guys imo.

Mike isn't going to find anyone in the portal that he is going to trust more than Gallo. You can look at 3pt% and quickness and all kinds of other stuff and im not saying Gallo will or won't be our best guard in 2024-2025 but when it actually comes time to play games and you are in front of 17k fans and the world on TV and playing Kentucky or Kansas or whoever....Mike is gonna want his guy (Gallo) in there at the tipoff and throughout most of the game. Gallo plays 30+ min a game. Unless Mike brings in guards who are NBA level talent like JHS, it's gonna be Gallo's team basically imo.

I would rather have Gallo run point and IU focus on getting a shooter. Not sure we need a point guard that can't shoot (Xavier) again. Gallo is def not coming off the bench in his 6th year. And Gallo at the 2 doesn't make sense if we have a Perkins. Neither one is a great outside shooter. I think our best bet is Gallo with the ball in his hands, (Cupps as a backup), and get a dynamite shooter at the 2 spot (Newton as backup), then we have Tucker at the 3, Mgbako at the 4 and Malik at the 5. I wouldn't be surprised if Woody plays 2 bigs again and brings Tucker off the bench. Gallo can be our point imo. I think we need to go get a legit shooter, along with obviously front court depth.

Mgbako has little chance at being drafted unless he can showcase a 40%+ 3pt shot with high volume. He has good size but unless he’s hitting 3s at a high rate, he just doesn’t have the athleticism to do much else at the next level. If he were as athletic as Gallo, he’d be already gone.

I used to (recently even) think the IU job was one of the greatest basketball jobs in America. I no longer think so lol. I think it's just a high paying gig like all the rest now.

TBD and BS both are on easy street. They don't want or need the cauldron and workload of a major college job.

Like everyone else I grew up on Don's radio calls but haven't listened to him call a game in awhile. Does he still call the halfcourt line the "timeline"? love that guy

OT but real quick: you should check out this YT channel called "Awful Coaching"....it is hilarious. I'm stunned he hasn't made a video about Mike Woodson. Maybe some day...

I agree...think Woody is gone barring a miracle year.

when do the fans get a raise? (support a winning team)

no way woody doesn't get fired after next year if we don't make the tourney. question is: do we fire him if we finish in the top 4-5 in the B1G w/ another 2nd round loss? I still think he gets fired unless he either wins the B1G or makes it to the sweet 16 or elite 8 - neither of which is probably gonna happen.

If we cobble together a woefully shorthanded roster for next year at least we can have some confidence that we get to partake in a legit coaching search thread at years end.

undersized avg shooters from small programs are going to be on par with Cupps, Leal, etc....won't improve this team much if at all probably. But, hope I'm wrong.

why would any guard want to come here...? I mean, Woodson excudes a nothingness that inspires nobody except the players that just want to be there because its Indiana and they just want to be somewhere with bright lights: Gallo, Leal, Cupps.

ok but who wants our players in the portal? lol. no offense to them but...They aren't going to a bigger program and get minutes. Their options are probably to go to a smaller school and actually play but make way less money or none at all. Right?

i didn't mean that we the fans have turned him...i said that poorly.

The more and more I reflect on our situation, the more and more I realize how crappy it is. We have turned a former IU hero and Knight-era legend into a program killer. It's almost insidious what's happening here. We are damned either way- damned if we push out an IU great after 3 yrs and damned if we let him run this program into further mediocrity.

Last game at IU for Malik?

I stand corrected lol. Damn, Louisville….

Good news is we probably won’t have to watch most of these guys ever play again after this year,

In every game we have the worse coach.

I hope we lose by 40 now.

As soon as Malik gets the ball I know it’s going to be a turnover…and it is.

Our staff has no game plan or creativity other than throw into the post and hope Ware/Malik don’t get it stripped.