Hoosier987

Congrats to Big CJ! Tremendous player!

When Bailey was playing, opposing teams scored at a rate of 60% in the paint. Miller or Fedx2 would serve a purpose on this team...not offensive threats but good defensively. I think Fed has a 7'4" wingspan. We got plenty of guard depth now...which is awesome.

Also shows you that these rankings are pure guesswork outside of several really good players....I'm pretty sure connections will get you far in these rankings even if you're not good. See Kristian Lander as an example - highly ranked, played at Indiana Elite but clearly shouldn't have been ranked in the top 1000. You really have to do your scouting. I felt far too often -- imo -- Woodson was taking the easy way and chasing stars. Simply put, Carlyle had no business being ranked in the top 300, let alone top 20. Anyways, he's moved on, made a nice bag while being here.

Alexis is a depth piece, for sure. Let's hope Kenny can really develop him!

I actually think Torvik had us ranked in the mid 40s. It was they pre-season hype and "stars" that made us preseason top 20 not the metrics...it seemed like the metrics surprisingly had us pegged pretty well prior to the season...Honestly, it was probably pretty easy because last year's team -outside of Goode and maybe Mgbako -- didn't have have shooters. You can't win if you can't shoot. This year we look to have an elite shooting team. With that said, I wouldn't put all my eggs in these rankings. We really need to play first to get an idea of how it is going to go. Right now Torvik has OSU and UNC significantly higher than us, and frankly, I think we will be better than both of them by a significant amount.

If we land Federiko I think we’re in preseason top 25

Really like this pick up! Any updates on Bigs?

So, in theory he could be playing in college at 26. We seem to be seeing more and more of that.

Yup...further proven by CDD tempo last year. It was slower than he typically likes to play. Why? because he didn't feel like he had the necessary shooters to play a high tempo offense. CDD wants to score within the first 12 seconds of the shot clock. They didn't do that last year. This year, it seems we're much closer to what style CDD wants to play.

Bailey is more of a hybrid - he can play forward and center, if we elect to go small. I do tend to agree, that If we're expecting Bailey to be our primary center throughout the whole season, then we better score over 90 + points a game to have a chance of winning. Ultimately, CDD will get a rim protector who will be more of a true center in the sense.

Unless I'm looking at it wrong, I added Drake and he didn't make much of a difference...only 1 spot in the rankings....Federiko was a different story...we add him and there was an 8 spot differential under the rank. I hope we get him. 7'4" wingspan would be great.

That would be awesome, but I'm not so sure. For sure Tucker DeVries...but Goode had a good shooting percentage at the high major level. Lets see if some of these same shooting numbers remain steady at the high major level for some of our new transfers that came from the low/mid major level.

Seems like a solid depth piece. Always a risk grabbing low majors but I’m sure CDD has done his due diligence in scouting these players. Im cautiously optimistic he will make the adjustments in the Big Ten.

Any word on Federiko? Seems like we're going after him. He would be our center/rim protector. Does anyone know what his wingspan is? Doesn't seem to be a huge offensive threat, but if the other 4 positions are, then it seems like he's there more for defensive purposes -- which is what we need.

Thiam would be a great Center for obvious reasons. He's on my wishlist.