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What’s the amount of money you make where it becomes okay to be boo’ed and heckled? Is it 6 figures? Can we boo the 50k 13th rando on the bench? Is there a NET rating for the team? Some advanced metrics? Maybe it’s a bell curve where mediocre gets more slack since you have to boo those sub 300 teams but also can boo the top 50 since they all get paid.

Connerway jacked his foot so he wasn’t an option. Alexis is gassed. I’m not sure Sisley is acclimated defensively and this is not the game for that. Some of you act like there’s an answer on the bench. Sometimes you can’t make a steak out of hamburger.

To be fair those Italians aren’t known for their basketball.

I see everyone’s feeling optimistic and level-headed this afternoon!

Yeah me too. How the heck do you score half a point???

If you listen to what Carr says in his interview, he said (without saying) that this roster is not “it”. He does call it unbalanced and correctable but you dance with the one who brung ya. Despite not being world-beaters, I am proud of every member on the roster. We don’t have any head cases. We don’t have headline makers. No one is failing classes or throwing potted plants at walls. They’re all giving effort. That’s important to me. On the other hand, so is winning. So step one may be done but there’s miles to go. Maybe CDD is a fantastic coach but a poor talent evaluator. I’d take that over the inverse any day. Also Carr is a big proponent of building through the draft AKA high school. That’s a key to every successful program—all sports including IUFB.

I don’t understand why this isn’t widely understood and accepted. Indiana may have a great talent pool but they don’t check the boxes outside of throwing money at the program which by itself won’t change things. We are recruiting kids who are the children of parents not old enough to remember IU winning a championship 40 years ago. And the facilities are mid. Can the program evolve into a powerhouse? Sure. Absolutely. But so can dozens and dozens of other schools.

The makeup of that team was chef’s kiss.

It may time to admit that there’s a strong possibility Coach Devries knows more about basketball than me.

Now I don’t know why they’re at the Virginia International Speedway.

They’re probably all in Ames…

Why does Kansas play with a rubber outdoor basketball? Likes like it’s a couple of bucks away from being a playground ball.

Yeah zero sympathy. Kohl Center is worse than purgatory.

What the. Let’s try that from full court cause why not?

Thanks for tuning into the Larry Scirotto show.