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Which is kind of insane. Speaking for myself, I don't see ever donating to the NIL.

In that situation you hope to go to your bench to bring in a guy who at the very least doesn't hurt you. Maybe Cupps gives you minutes that night. Maybe Newton. Maybe a guy like Essegian. Galloway is still on the team and although I think I prefer him at SF he can play the 2G no problem. With just the 4 guys Woodson is supposed to be adding already, there really should be no excuses. If you add Carlyle, you have enough to go out and win a bunch of games. If you can't or don't, you aren't the guy.

I know this is the way of things now but I really hate not getting to see a player grow and get to know them anymore. I hope Gabe sticks around.

I already made a decision about the future, I am hoping to be entertained while I wait this dude out.

One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is us forcing the issue on tempo next year. If we are truly going to be deep, we have a little size at the guard position, let's run some full court press and get into a little more uptempo game. I don't want to see our guards walking up the floor to dump it to a big guy. We need to get out and run.

I am whatever on any of them but Conwell has made the Freshman to Sophomore leap successfully already and he is a kid who grew up in Indianapolis. I know, I know, people don't care where guys are from but all else appearing to be equal or close to equal, give me the homegrown kid. He is the one least likely to face culture shock or homesickness which can impact play as well.

I want him to do well enough that he figures he can leave with his head held high. The goal is him leaving but with a product that is more fun to watch and looks more attractive to the guy that will shortly be replacing him.

I don't think it is building the relationships he struggles with. It is maintaining them. I think he is good in the initial meetings but he struggles to maintain everything because that never had to be a priority at any of his other jobs.

I think you want a guy around 35% to be a really good shooter. Anything under 30 and you only want that guy taking as a last resort. To your last paragraph, that kind of touches on my point. Say you want to set up Reneau on the pick and roll so you pull Ballo out of the paint. If UConn does that, his defender has to go with him. Ballo's doesn't. So that means an extra defender to slide over on the pick and roll and if you pass the ball out because your play is too well defended, the open guy getting the ball is about zero threat to do anything but have to give up the ball to reset the offense. Either that or drive right back into the lane where his defender is waiting. Guess we will find out.

Seth Davis makes extra money from interactions on Twitter. Have you seen the activity on the Trilly Donovan discord rooms? Speculation like Davis did is a good way to juice his biweekly Twitter earnings. I am not entertaining Stevens to Indiana ever again. Furthermore, so much has changed since he was in college, that isn't necessarily the slam dunk it would have been even 5 years ago IMO. He has been out of the coaching game for a long time too and quite a bit has changed since he left. That being said, if I woke up one morning and pigs were flying, Purdue coeds were hot, and Brad Stevens was our coach, I wouldn't be mad.

You can play two bigs, that isn't the issue. I didn't watchmuch of UConn but it seemed to me that while Karaban was a "big" he wasn't a big who needed to be in the same space as Klingan to be effective. Ballo and Reneau both basically need to get the ball in the same areas of the floor to be effective. I think Ware had more range this year but we didn't put him out on the floor, we put him in a clogged lane with Reneau. Both of those guys generally wanted the ball in the same space. That is what people mean when they say 2 bigs. It isn't so much that they are big players with height. It is that they get in each other's way on the floor because they both want/need the ball in the same areas of the court which makes them easier to guard and also tends to decrease options for other guys on the court. Additionally, these guards we are bringing have better stats but the majority of their better play appears to be oriented around getting into the paint. They MAY turn into good shooters but their numbers behind the arc last year aren't ones that say they WILL be better than average shooters. Offense is about creating a bunch of options to score and then having the right guys to take advantage of those options. Playing Ballo and Reneau at the same time reduces options in ways that playing Clingan and Karaban doesn't for UConn.

Got me there...lol.

Exactly. "It's not my job to get Miller Kopp shots."

If my aunt had nuts....

Nah, you don't get to claim objectivity and state that in defense of Mike Woodson. Every one of Woodson's detractors understands the importance of guard play. That is the reason they have been complaining about running Race and Trayce together. Running Reneau and Ware in at the same time. Failing to go and secure better guards to the point of leaving a scholarship open instead of landing one. Mike Woodson doesn't deserve any kind of credit for doing the type of things that non-NBA coaching experienced, dumbasses on message boards have been saying needs done every offseason since he got here. "Hey overpaid, arrogant dipshit, congrats on finally doing what everybody and their grandma has been telling you to do since you got here (at least when it comes to recruiting). It only took enough people to seriously advocate firing you for you to figure out." Why do we give out brownie points to a guy who HAS to fill up half his team and was kicked millions of extra dollars by billionaire buddies to go get players? Of course he was going to get some guys. He woke up and remembered to breath today, wanna give him an award for that too? Here, Good job Mike. You have apparently met the most basic requirements of your job by getting some what appear to be good players. Now the real test comes in. He has assembled what I am told are gourmet ingredients. So I expect more than a classy ingredient Big Mac next year. That is where chefs make their hay. Anybody with money and access can acquire ingredients, the proof is in the taste and presentation.

Man, if only Mike Woodson would have had the ability to change that the past three years. Glad that his luck finally changed miraculously after a bunch of people started screaming about firing him for being lazy, not doing his job, and running an awful system.

So what I would be looking for next year: -At least 2-1 in the Bahamas -Win against the sacrificial lambs by an average of 20+ -Depending on schedule, at least 1 or 2 more wins against the P5 programs we are likely to play. -In the BIG, draw a line after the 9th team in conference. We should win 60% or more of the games against the teams above that line and 80% or more against the teams below. The post season is kind of a crap shoot but I think making the tournament as a seed lower than 6 and winning at least one game should be the absolute baseline expectation. I think that would be reasonable AD expectations.

Slow day, maybe he can get clicks from the Indiana fans. (Seth Davis when he woke up this morning probably)

We agree there. I don't like the staff. That puts a damper on everything going on for me right now so I am going to come off as pessimistic. They have pissed me off so I am just not getting excited about all of these players and it really has nothing to do with them, it has to do with me not liking Mike Woodson anymore. It is going to take a monumental turn around from him in the win column and to drop some of what I view as laziness and jack-assery to turn things around on him for me. I 100% believe that "Tyme" character on Twitter is speaking for the staff. It puts me in a weird place where as an Indiana fan, I want to cheer for the players and win on one hand, which on the other I kind of want Woodson to fail at this point. Finally, I feel like we do this excitement dance every year and we will have members of the staff (through things like "Tyme") and our fanbase bragging on how awesome we are, in the most douchey ways, like has happened for the past 8 years and we just aren't at that spot. I want the staff to STFU and win something and getting a few recruits with a boatload of money isn't winning sh** in my opinion. We need to stop acting like we won the offseason championship every year. (And FWIW, I know that is hard for people who just want to be excited about the program. I get it.)

A title next year would shut me up, so I wouldn't say nothing. Frankly, with all the crowing I am hearing about the new way we are recruiting and how well we are doing it, anything less than Top 3 in the BIG and a Sweet 16 should be deemed a failure. My bar is set high for year 4. If we aren't beating other P5 teams in November and December and completely blowing the crappy teams out of the water, I am sharpening the pitchfork and dousing my torch in jet fuel.

That was me. The optics of it blow along with their burner boy Tyme talking **** all over Twitter. You can check my history, I have said we will get players and that the things happening right now are the least important things. We win the offseason like every year around here. Every year. "Yes! We landed Romeo, watch out Purdue *******!!11" "We got TJD, the wins are going to start rolling in now!" "Huge get landing Lander, just the PG we have been needing." "Add JHS and Reneau to this experience group of guys and we are going to be making noise" (This was the closest to coming true but was still like a double digit loss team that got spanked in the tournament's second round by Miami." "Wow, we landed Kel-El Ware...if he shows out and getting X back with Cupps and the others, we are going to have a tournament team. Wish we would have got another guard though..." These guys look like upgrades. Great, I am happy we are landing players. Can you true fans tell me what kind of expectations I am allowed to have next year then?

The same landscape as it is now. People were crapping on the idea of hiring Dusty May but that is the pool you will be picking from. The "big" names aren't leaving their jobs anymore because the "big" names are often already established at places where they make good money and have job security.

First... Hahaha haha Second, I hope they have our past 20 years staring them in the face.

I think the big guy from Arizona.

Nobody is squirming.