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Been saying he should start for 3 years now. Not the most athletic, not the most talented, but he’s the best all around basketball player on the team.

25 FTs to 8…

So brushing shoulders with the shooter after they’ve already shot and landed is a foul on the shot?

WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Trying to hard to make the big play. Need to stay disciplined and put this away.

Let’s see if they’ve learned how to step on someone’s throat

Dude this is getting absurd

Woodson needs to start working these refs

Can someone please guard this Northwestern reject?

The officials are officially pissing me off

Like, how many threes do you need to miss before you’re like “ya know, I’m just not very good at this.”

Why is Race still shooting threes?

Man I have an uneasy feeling about this one. Someone change my mind.

Wasn’t that the case with Kaufman as well?

I hate to say it, but I think best case scenario has us competing with every team that matters for Sisley and his game just screams “Duke” to me. Assuming he continues to improve, it wouldn’t surprise me if he never plays a college game. You just don’t see many kids with that combination of size and skill set at that age. NIL already has Adam Silver talking about dropping the draft age requirement and there will be another CBA before Sisley graduates.

Good thing we’ll have an opportunity to show him why he should pick IU!

I think we’re all pretty happy with Woodson’s recruiting to this point, but there’s one thing I’ve noticed that has me really excited; and it’s something I think we’ve been lacking for a while. The kids coming in aren’t just talented, they expect to win and know what it takes. JHS & Reneau - Starters on a National championship winning team who had to earn their spots against D1 talent and played top competition week in and week out. Jakai Newton - Led his team to a 24-6 record and #2 ranking in the state. Lost by 3 in the final 4 to the eventual state champs. Has had to compete for PT with multiple D1 players on his team throughout HS. Kaleb Banks - Led his team in scoring, rebounds, and steals. Led his team to a 21-9 record and #9 ranking in their class. Lost by 1 in the state sweet 16. Gabe Cupps - Led team to two consecutive state title games (first one as a soph) in Ohio’s most difficult conference (or playing the most difficult schedule, can’t remember which). Lost 1 game in 2 years. IIRC, we’ve had another PG that led his team to the title game as a soph and junior. He ended up being a pretty good player for us… CJ Gunn - Didn’t have quite the same kind of team success as the others, but led LN to a respectable 17-7 record in a very good conference. Broke out individually averaging 24 and 6 and showed continuous improvement throughout HS. This isn’t meant to be a knock on our current players, but I just haven’t seen this combination of talent and pedigree on the same Indiana team in quite some time.

Listening to his interviews, I think (and I’m hoping) Woodson took this approach because he realized there was a LOT that needed to be fixed in a limited amount of time and he felt it better to build chemistry with the guys who’d spend the most time on the floor together. IIRC, he mentioned they didn’t even start practicing offensive sets until late November/early December. That leads me to believe he may not have felt he had the luxury of mixing lineups.

As a lifelong IU basketball and Miami Dolphins fan, this off-season has been f****** awesome.

The verdict is still out on offense but our defensive improvement between Miller’s last season and Woodson’s first leaves zero doubt in my mind Woodson will get him squared away on that end of the floor. I think his biggest hindrance next year will be his frame. If he doesn’t put on some size he’ll struggle with the physicality in the B1G. If he does, it will adversely affect his shooting and it can take months for shooters to adjust to added muscle. Just look at Yogi. High percentage 3 point shooter in HS, 30% his freshman year, and 40%+ every year after. Luckily Gunn has good form and probably hasn’t hit his ceiling in terms of shooting percentage.

He’ll have to adjust to the level of competition, but I don’t think distance will be a problem…

Id say 4-5 more wins should be easy, especially if X continues playing the way he closed out the season. We should’ve had 4-5 more this season even before X hit his stride but just couldn’t close. I don’t anticipate having that problem next year though. That said, my expectations for the tourney will be tempered until some of our guys prove they can shoot the ball consistently outside of 15 feet. We played 25 games between the start of the B1G season and the loss to St. Mary’s. 23 of them were against high-major competition. We shot at or under 30% from 3 in 15 of those 23 games. That isn’t going to get it done.

Pretty sure Quinn Cook was on that Dematha team as well.

I’ve always wondered why Guyton rarely comes up in these discussions. IIRC, he’s put together a pretty good coaching resume at lower levels and has always been a great ambassador for the program.

Part of me wants to laugh, but the other part of me wishes we had the kind of offensive production his teams had. He was a subpar coach overall but damned if I don’t miss watching us absolutely starch UNC and drop a 37 piece on Purdue at Mackey…