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I think the extra point is the NIL amount. IU is spending heavy and already has to land the highest rated big in the portal plus a haul of stong players. The guy you’re selling to you’re actually buying, and the price has to be right. How much more is the program spending and what is reasonable to spend on a guy who won’t play much at all barring injury and then will bolt, and how much are other programs offering? program has deep pockets/ donors but they’re not bottomless and need to balance the spending with wants and needs for next season

Pritch!

That’s crazy. Very, very rare

I like the 'summertime in the 812' line

Ok what’s your cut? :)

Or a 4, he's absolutely versatile

Absolutely on Mt Rushmore. A legend, RIP.

SIAP - From Rabby Jeff Rabjohns @JeffRabjohns Four deep to start June: Indiana coach Mike Woodson and assistants Kenya Hunter, Yasir Rosemond and Brian Walsh are all out recruiting today. #iubb 247sports.com/college/indian…

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Suck on that LeBron!

Obviously a typo lol

Several of these guys would’ve taken the IU gig. It’s not even that strong a list but Woodson doesn’t belong on it. Imagine our IU with a top 10 or so coach. So much potential. Maybe one day we get to see it again

From what i saw his assists were mostly inside, which went along with our finishing at the very bottom in outside shot attempts. We don’t have a kickout game - not saying that’s necessarily on Malik, it just wasn’t there. I’m hopeful that changes with the added shooting. With TJD it was Race where the ball often got stuck when he tried to go iso. Malik has an outstanding individual offensive game but his ability - recognition of when to kick the ball back out is still a question mark, imo, as I said above i think it’s mostly on staff, but need to see it this year.

Yeah good points, defensively he’s still a work in progress— and that appreciation spectrum idea sounds like it’d make for a fun thread

I have felt similarly, as much as I like his excellent footwork and mini hook, but think it’s part of the play through the post / up front system. Plays haven’t been run for kickouts, complete failure to use the outside shot. For me, it’s on the staff. Malik is a heck of a player, imagine him at KU, UCONN, etc. I’m hoping Woodson, who still will of course play his 2 big scheme, will now have sets and actions that use the perimeter as a much larger part of the O — if he does I think we’ll see Malik passing out better, kid has game, the staff needs to use it better.

As somewhat younger but also part of that trajectory, 10 and in Bloomington from our 76 NC through the 87 while at IU, I see now it’s my fault as I then left for law school and the program went downhill shortly after. Ok kidding aside it is crazy when we just look at wins and tourneys, but it’s not really. The RMK termination of course started the slide, the U failed in replacing him, then the Sampson disaster (caused by the administration’s choices more so in how to deal with it than the hire) destroyed the program overnight and we’ve been on the long trail to climb the mountain back ever since. That doesn’t mean we’re not part of the blueblood history, but yeah, we haven’t made it back. We’re not one of the elite ball programs now, but while I don’t think anyone thinks differently, we have seen some great years in between that show the promise of this program remains. I mean Tom freaking Crean had IU as one of the best teams in the country for several years. We had swag even though his coaching was, well, you know. So it starts at the top. I am one who is well off the Woodson bandwagon, he’s not the guy, but he could be the next step up the ladder. We should be pretty damn good this year. We’re not an EE team but it all comes down to getting the right guy next hire. If I were a student I’d see what the program can be again, that I think is the real frustration driving this thread.

Worth checking out, Canadian province. I grew up playing hockey in Quebec in the summers, spent some time in Montreal, and Prince Edward Island is a nice vacation spot

Great to see and hear. What you do is well intentioned, valuable, and certainly appreciated by the students -- and their parents. I remember visiting office hours a few times while at IU (late 80's, it's been a while lol) and encouraged my kids to do so at their schools. The extra credit you offer is a huge benefit, and worth it not just for the individual credit to the students but for the motivation it creates to better understand the subject and learn. Good for you!

Ever been to Prince Edward Island? It’s pretty cool. Red sand beaches

Sadly, I can’t stand either this C’s team, led by a pretty boy who thinks he’s better than he is (I like Brown though), or Dallas, led by crybaby Luka. Lol. But then I’m a jaded Pacers and PG/always injured Clips fan….

It's like you're Mike Woodson's personal defender. You simply ignore that Woodson did not run sets or actions for perimeter shooting, and the team continued to shoot at the very bottom of DI ball. But you try to put that on Cupps and Gallo?? It's on the coach, his 3 years at IU have consistently shown he has his teams go inside and ignore the perimeter, and he himself has been quoted, several times, dismissing the importance of the three-point shot. You have no proof, at all, rather, you just ignore the obvious. I'll wait and see what happens this season, and if he finally gets around to having the team shoot a good volume of 3's, I'll be the first to congratulate him for waking up (Rip van Winkle).

The thing is, it's not a chicken and egg situation. When we had Kopp there was no real difference in volume of 3's. And Bako was shooting 38% in conference last year but Woodson still wasn't running sets or actions for outside shots and the volume never changed. The proof will be in the pudding, this year. You can say we didn't shoot a good volume of 3's (at least above the bottom of ALL D1 ball, lol), but this year will be the test of that. Let's see what Woodson does now. There will be no excuse for not using the perimeter this year, a lot more. I hope he does, if he doesn't, we'll lose against the better teams down the road.

But we still shot on volume from the outside at the bottom of DI. JHS was a midrange guy. What we need to see is Woodson wake up to the current century and open up the perimeter game. What he absolutely could do this season is play inside - out, use the shooters we now have on volume— not just a Kopp style shoot now and then but spread the floor with guys inside and kickouts and actions so the perimeter is, on volume, a real part of our O. It doesn’t have to be, and won’t be, a Crean-style let it rain, but unless we’re using the outside shooting as a good part of the O we will lose to the teams, especially in March, who do.

Look at those arms. One thing for sure, this team won’t get pushed around.

That, injury potential and the need for summer rest after an 82-game schedule and for some, playoffs