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Further increasing the likelihood that JHS came to IU ready to start (these are true for Reneau coming in ready to play immediately): - His body. 6'5", 210 lb. He's already strong. Compare this to Bates (6'4", 175) and Lander (6'2", 165) and you see he is more physically ready for college ball than either of those 2. - HS competition. He won the HS NC 2 years in a row. Played against lots of very talented players. Practiced against other very talented players. - Defensive play (which you mentioned). Woodson clearly values good defense and JHS comes in as one of the best defenders in his class. 1 analyst/outlet had him as #1. It's not guaranteed that either he or Reneau will be ready from day 1 but it is quite likely they will be.

I don't pay any attention to PU. What has Painter done?

I don't know if mad is exactly the right word but people were certainly complaining about it. They were saying he wasn't taking recruiting seriously and missing the state championship game sent a bad message to Indiana HS coaches that he didn't care about recruiting the state of Indiana. Or something like that. It was all nonsense.

TJD extending his range is good for the team because helps to open up the lane. This helps players like Galloway and Johnson who like to drive to the basket. It also makes TJD himself harder to guard which is good for the team.

Having visits delayed never seems like a good thing.

JS has it mostly correct but it's a bit more complicated than that. Here's what I've found when I looked into this before:

I'm 44 (turning 45 this year) so it's more like middle school when IU was last a real NC contender. In HS they were still top 25 good but not elite and that is when IU started having their early NCAAT exits. It's been such a long time.

"He’s building a program that’s going to be able to compete with the blue bloods, and that’s what Indiana should be with the fan base that they have." IU is no longer considered a blue blood by todays recruits. Understandably so since we've been mediocre or sucked most of their lives. At least they still recognize the huge, loyal fan base.

The stats don't back this up.

Wait, 5*? According to whom? He has a good ranking - #62 in the 247 composite - but that isn't really even borderline 5* territory. IU has a decent baseball team, maybe we could sell that as well.

Kopp seems like a likeable enough fella but I was hoping he'd move on after last season. A "shooter" who starts and plays starter minutes but doesn't shoot or find other ways to score isn't very helpful unless he does a lot of other things really well. Which Kopp doesn't do. He's an ok defender, doesn't rebound, doesn't get many assists (just over 1 per game every year of his career), doesn't draw fouls/get to the line, etc. He's a pretty 1-dimensional player who doesn't even do that 1-dimension particularly well. He does make some humorous videos, though, so we'll get more of those next season. Maybe others are right and having him paired with Stewart on the wing hindered him. I hope so but I'm not holding my breath. I certainly agree with you on the lineups and hope Woodson changes his philosophy on that.

Bates will definitely have to improve his shooting but your argument is not a good one. You look at the percentages but not the volume so 3 of your 4 examples of players who shot better than him also shot many fewer shots. Bates: 17/57 (29.8% - rounds up to 30%, not down to 29% as you stated) Geronimo: 9/29 (31.0%) Leal: 7/22 (31.8%) Lander: 4/12 (33.3%) So Bates took more shots than Geronimo and Leal combined. Throw in Lander and that combination shot only 6 more shots than he did. So what you end up with is 3 small sample sizes in which 1 more make or miss creates a huge difference in percentage. Percentages if those players missed just 1 more shot: Bates: 29.8% -> 28.1% Geronimo: 31.0% -> 27.6% Leal: 31.8% -> 27.2% Lander: 33.3% -> 25% The larger the swing, the smaller and less reliable the sample size. Lander, for example, looks to have improved from his freshman year. However, his freshman year he shot 44 3-pointers instead of just 12. 12 is just too few to really determine if he actually improved his shot or if he just got lucky. Geronimo shot 4/10 (40%) his freshman year, so would you say he is now a worse shooter than a year ago? Probably not, even though his percentage went down his volume almost tripled. At this time, he's closer to a 30% shooter than 40%. So, yes, Bates needs to improve his shooting but please don't use examples of players that shoot far fewer shots than him as better shooters. Maybe they are but that can't be determined based solely on percentages at those volumes.

He just be the rocket's first stage because he climbed high and has since been rapidly falling.

That would be very welcome. We need a team of players with that attitude.

To be fair, 15-20 points wasn't a blowout with this past season's team. Even when they were up by that much the other teams still had a chance. Hopefully next year's team will have developed a killer instinct that has been missing.

You're not. Kenya even said as much in a recent interview.

Let the complaining begin.

F*** yeah!

No, not in the long run. It'll finally settle into a situation where they'll be able to evaluate how much players at different skill levels are able to earn at the schools they're interested in. This will include things like direct deals from local businesses, boosters, etc and how active a school's fan base is on social media (i.e. followers) which would have an effect on how much they can earn through social media advertising. Right now it's new so things haven't settled yet.

You've been conditioned over the last couple of decades of IU being a bad team more often than not and then when they have a chance to be good something goes wrong. IU with TJD next year could be a really good team. IU without TJD has many more questions but probably wouldn't be as good as with him. So the bad thing that could happen right now is TJD not coming back so your brain is telling you that so that you'll be less surprised/disappointed if he actually doesn't even though most signs point to him coming back. That's my take.

I feel weird liking this because I want him to do well but this would seem to indicate that his getting drafted high enough is unlikely so he'll probably be back.

You're right. I misread. I do hope IU gets an official visit instead of just an unofficial one, though.

That makes it sound like he's kind of interested but not really. Hopefully, he'll choose to give IU the official visit and the staff can work their magic. Since he wants those official visits out of the way before August, I guess we'll know soon enough.

At most. I think we'll find out in about a week. No sources, just a guess.

CJ Gunn would probably be #1 on my list of RS candidates followed by Banks then Duncomb. I don't know enough about the players to make a guess at whether or not they'd be open to the idea.