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If Sam Alexis doesn't start vs Kansas State I'm gonna scratch my head

We've looked better, for sure. Not great IMO. UConn, Arizona, Illinois, Bama... those are teams that have played "great" IMO... not to be overly pedantic

Curious to see Dorn with the starters but I think his role as scorer off the bench makes a lot more sense. Alexis starting over Bailey would be the change I'd most like to see. I think Enright fits well with the starters since he doesn't need to score to be effective.

I do not think we look like a great team this half either

Not sure our resources are really that much of a differentiator. Tend to think we may just need to be "patient" ... whatever that means. For me, I give every coach 2 years. If I haven't bought in yet going into year 3, they need to make me a believer by the end of it or I'll want em gone. Typically. Sadly we have a lot of experience with this, lol

Being in the bonus with 13:48 to go may help us salvage our KenPom rating

It's November 20... if our legs are tired, that's a problem in itself, lol. I'm not convinced that's the reason for the poor shooting though.

Don't even run these guys like crazy before the Kansas State game. Make them watch back the past two games in the film room and go over every mistake repeatedly every day.

Voluntarily watching Indiana Basketball the past decade has basically been a torturous form of self harm

We should just play Enright and the bench unit at this point IMO

Holy cow, attendance is REALLY bad

I can't immediately remember seeing Bailey/Sisley and Alexis/Tucker on the court at all this year, though I admittedly have a terrible memory and am not trying that hard, lol. I'd love to see Ant Wright or someone else with a Synergy account run the efficiency metrics on how our different lineups play together.

Been a really ugly 1.5 games here. My goodness. I don't think the issue is about a bad habit of playing to the level of competition necessarily. This team had an issue with slow starts in general during the preseason. We'll see if they look more locked in against KSU/UL/UK... ...Or if the pessimistic read of the roster was a more accurate base case than a lot of us wanted to believe. Either way, I think I'm recalibrating on what a good season looks like for this team. Will probably need a lot of luck to make the tournament IMO. We could definitely upset a few teams if we get hot, though. Please start Alexis over Bailey. He's earned it.

That sequence was ****ing atrocious.

We didn't look very good during the first four minute segment. Lindenwood looks like their KenPom ranking. Lol

Us 99 Them 64

I get the sentiment and think those matchups would be more fun too for geographic reasons. However... KenPom rankings: Butler - 62 Indiana State - 184 Ball State - 268 Kansas State - 66 Marquette - 67 Siena - 170 Incarnate Word - 192 Bethune Cookman - 193 Lindenwood - 334 From a strength of schedule POV, each school serves a different purpose. And we've scheduled the level of competition you mentioned, they're just not local / big names.

Chicago State plays DePaul, Saint Louis, Butler, Minnesota, Iowa, Loyola IL, Indiana Alabama A&M plays Indiana, Clemson, and Ole Miss Lindenwood plays Texas Tech, Saint Louis and Indiana. UConn plays New Haven (360/365[!] on KenPom), UMass Lowell (335), East Texas A&M (333) UNC plays Central Arkansas (348), NC Central (346), USC Upstate (320) Duke plays Army (351), Niagara (316), Howard (319) It's a long season. Lot of factors influence how the schedule is made.

To be fair it looks like UConn, Duke, and UNC all also play 3 teams ranked in the 300s in KenPom. Not an expert on scheduling by any means but seems like we've got a similar framework to the top programs. No longer bringing a knife to a gun fight like we were with Woody. The matchups themselves may not be exciting obviously but I don't think anything to take issue with the staff over. They'd be an outlier to not have any very "sugary" cupcakes.

One of our last super cupcakes. Lindenwood is 334 in KenPom Chicago state is 354. Alabama A&M is 314. Bethune Cookman is 193 and Siena is 170. Kansas State is 66. One spot ahead of Marquette currently.

First half of Illinois vs Bama is some of the best basketball this year so far

I am going to hate playing Illinois this year

With you there.