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Louisville up 1 on Cincinnati with 12:05 to go

Dybantsa picks up his 4th foul with 17:49 left in the second half. Wisconsin down 11

I'd like to see performance be rewarded but I agree in the grand scheme it's not super important. Gotta get Bailey figured out. Also wonder if as the season goes on Enright and Conerway eventually have a similar dynamic. Might need more size / athleticism / shooting on the floor. That would free up some minutes for Dorn / Miles. But I doubt we see any lineup changes tbh.

Have we seen Bailey and Alexis on the court together yet? Maybe we try that for a stretch during this game. I'm excited for the game. Not sure how we'll slow down Haggerty

Can we start Alexis without crushing Bailey's confidence? We will need Bailey to play a lot regardless but we are so much better with Alexis on the court so far. Highly doubt the starting lineup changes for this game, maybe all year, but I'd still like to see it lol

I think it makes no sense to project this season based on a team from several years ago where we have no players or staff leftover from. I look at the Indiana team today and see a group of basketball players (already an improvement from the last two doofuses) that have some significant athletic limitations and are playing at a higher level than they have previously, for the most part. I also see a B10 conference that's looking pretty good this year.

My concern has nothing to do with "only" winning by 20. It's how we've played.

Sorry, I forgot that the floor is automatically 20 wins - they must not play every game on the court anymore and I missed that somehow. Haha

That would be 8 wins... we will see how we do during B10 season. Possible, yes. Not as sure as you that it's not happening.

Connor Enright is 3/10 from 3 this year. Appreciate what brings on defense and in the locker room... but the lack of shooting / ability to space the floor from him and Conerway is looking increasingly problematic. What if we win 17 or 18 games? Haha I'm not writing them off at all but we've got very real limitations this year. Will probably upset some teams we shouldn't and have some fun along the way... just establish a strong culture this season and really need to build a better roster in the portal for year 2.

This is worth a watch. He addresses many of the questions/points raised here. The last question is about the difference on offense first 3 games vs last 2 games "A little bit how we're being guarded, like we talked about. The switching, we don't get to move it quite as easily. When some of the actions where they're not switching, you set a pindown and now a guy comes off a screen and he's got an advantage because his guys trailing vs. when they switch it, they're coming off and taking away that next pass so now you've got to get to a second action. So it just takes a little bit for us as an offense right now and that's what we're working on getting better at - how do we exploit that and use that to our advantage? And we'll get there. It just hasn't been very clean these last couple games."

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