Hoosierfan2017

He’s not good enough to play more right now. There are plenty of minute available on the wing. He can’t play on the wing, though, so he’s stuck fighting Race and Malik for minutes at the 4.

Without JHS we’re the same team as last year. Bad guard play. No shooting. Our best player is pretty mediocre against big bigs. Hope JHS gets healthy soon.

We don’t “get” anything out of it. I just view it as the reality of the situation. It was great while it was happening. But looking back it’s hard not to view the 2020 season with a giant asterisk when we were as terrible as we were immediately afterwards, especially when we didn’t have huge losses from the season before. We brought a ton of people back.

And even those who take the view that it shouldn’t be downplayed, you still have to acknowledge that Tom Allen’s success in 2020 should have virtually zero to do with what the AD does moving forward. Dolson can’t sit there and think “well, 2020 was great. Maybe he can do it again. Let’s keep him.” It was a fluke. We’ve seen how he followed up on that season.

Can anyone honestly take the 2020 season seriously at this point? Zero fans in the stands. Players opting out of the season. Michigan, PSU, and MSU all being terrible. Players in and out of the lineup with covid. Games getting canceled - Wisconsin played 2 games over a 6 week period. Following it up by going 2-16 in conference over the next two seasons. I put zero stock into that season. It was a once in a lifetime fluke.

How much 2020 counts, imho, is up for debate. That season was such an oddity. I’ll give you 2019. But by my post I mean that Allen had success in a couple years where we had some good coordinators, those guys left, and Allen’s program has become a dumpster fire. So, sure, those years ‘count,’ but how much Allen had to do with the success is questionable to me given the results since.

11 of Allen’s 17 conference wins came in 2019 and 2020. In the other 4 seasons he’s 6-30. Just absolutely pitiful. Without good coordinators to prop him up, he’s a bad, bad coach. You can’t LEO your way out of this one. Too bad we have 2 more years of Allen freaking out on the sidelines like a maniac.

Dolson, unfortunately, can’t do much to fix the situation we’re in, and it’s completely his own fault. IUFB doesn’t have $30 million to fire him. We won’t be able to afford to fire him until after the 2024 season. Our roster may resemble an FCS school by then. If you’re a talented player on IU’s roster as of today, why wouldn’t you flee the sinking ship? You can go anywhere else and play right away. If you’re a high school recruit, why would you join a sinking ship?

IU simply cannot afford two more seasons of Tom Allen. Dude has got to go this off-season if IU wants to have anything resembling a big ten program moving forward.

Oh yeah by the time Allen is fired the program will be an absolute dumpster fire (not that it’s not already). That’s why it’s a little weird to me that there’s apparently money set aside for once he gets fired, but at the same time I can’t blame donors for not paying $30 million to get rid of him. Just an absolutely disastrous move by Dolson back in 2020.

Allen’s a dead man walking and I think everyone involved with the team knows it. The only reason he’s still here is because we can’t afford to fire him. We’re just waiting until his buyout drops. So, why stay at IU when you can play immediately somewhere else?

Bates has been the biggest disappointment by far for me. The player he was billed as coming out of high school is exactly the kind of player we need, but he’s just not been good

He’s shot the ball well this season. I don’t expect him to stay at 50%, but if he can hit 40% like he did as a sophomore that’d be great. I don’t feel strongly about him either way. I don’t think he’s great, and ideally he wouldn’t be starting, but he’s the best we have at that position.

Because he’s not very good but has to start to maintain some semblance of spacing in the starting lineup (and because we have a glaring hole at the wing). He’s a 36% shooter from 3. Our last conference title team shot 41.5% from 3… as a team. That team had 5 guys taking at least 1.5 threes a game who shoot better than Kopp. But on this team, he’s our ‘shooter.’ Woodson didn’t do anything this past offseason to address shooting, so it’s no surprise that shooting is once again an issue this season.

First, Xavier wasn’t brought in to address shooting. He shot 34% at Pitt. Second, Yeah, he brought them in last year. Then the team finished second to last in 3pt shooting. He didn’t bring anyone in to address last season’s 3 point woes. Saying “but Woodson brought Xavier and Kopp!” makes absolutely no sense. They literally were on last year’s team.

What are you talking about? Kopp and XJ were on last year’s team. The team that was 13th in 3pt %. Them being on this year’s team isn’t Woodson “addressing shooting.” The guy who led our team in makes and percentage last year left and we didn’t bring any new shooters in to replace that production. You don’t address an issue by doing nothing to fix it.

JHS is great but he’s not a shooter. Never has been. Gunn committed when Archie was the coach and isn’t good enough to play right now.

The poster I was responding to was referencing the ‘quality shots’ stat from last year, so that’s what I was talking about. Before today we’ve had 2 games against good teams. TJD and Xavier had 53 of our 81 points against Xavier and 41 of our 77 against UNC. We’re overly reliant on them because we don’t really have good options outside of them, and Xavier is too inconsistent to rely on. He has great games about half the time, duds like today the other half. When Trayce isn’t otherworldly the offense looks very pedestrian.

Miller Kopp was 5-9 from 3 today, the rest of the team was 1-16. 57% from the line. Shooting was our biggest weakness last year and Woodson didn’t do anything to address it in the offseason. Rutgers shot 37% from the field and just beat us by 15 points.

It was, but whatever. No point in communicating with someone who can’t discuss basketball without making personal attacks. Have a blessed day.

Lol. Cute and totally called for personal attack my guy. Very mature. I was wrong about Lander, right abojt other things (like Phinisee being a bad basketball player). You’re not exactly 100% on takes either but you don’t see attacking you personally out of nowhere.

Welp the guys learned today that you can’t just show up with a top 10 ranking and waltz your way to a win. They’re going to hard time this year if this is the effort they bring on the road.

Yeah, we got so many ‘quality’ shots last year because teams left us open on the perimeter due to our lack of shooters, not because Woodson was doing anything special with our offense.

I don’t think you can really call it solid when it doesn’t produce points. Last year in the conference we were 11th in field goal %, 13th in 3pt %, 11th in FT%, and 13th in ppg. Today we have 44 points with under 4 minutes left.

He’s getting triple teamed because we don’t have other scoring options. No one’s really a threat behind the arc so they can sag into the paint.