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Love adding a skilled Euro kid. If we don’t land another big and bring back Goode this roster will be interesting from a play-style standpoint.

An NBA team going ten deep in the playoffs—Nevermind the Finals—is pretty rare. For people who only watch college ball, it’s kind of hard to explain how crazy that is in the NBA. There’s so much rest that teams almost always drop a guy from their regular rotation. Of course, teams rarely press in the NBA and the Pacers are making SGA run all 92 ft. Carlisle is doing a great job.

I’d think the greens would be the biggest problem followed by the bunkers and distance. The rough would be bad but most amateurs could punch out of it like finding the trees at your local. But it has to be nearly impossible to keep a ball on those greens without the spin and accuracy of the pros.

I’m not much of a YouTube golf person, but for tips and drills Padraig Harringtons is the best out there, imo. I’ve watched a couple of those Break 50’s with Bryson and they’re not bad.

Miracle run continues!

I was in middle school when our small school played them. . Played them tough but ultimately came up short. That was a really good team with him and the Nailon bros and a couple other guys that played college ball at various levels.

These guys are a rollercoaster of team. Fun when they win!

Malice in the Palace probably ruined their best chance at a title. Different era but those guys were tough. OKC coach is very well regarded young guy. Be tough to out coach him to the extent the Pacers need, but Carlisle is one of the best for sure. Always thought one of Birds few big mistakes was getting rid of him the first time.

Thomas Bryant playing real mins in a conf finals closer is nuts. Carlisle is crazy. Also, when they said it’s been exactly 25 years, I started to feel really old. I remember going to those Finals with my dad.

Because the ACC is terrible and any half decent team can run off a few unbeaten weeks and get ranked by the pollsters. Maryland and Indiana won’t have that luxury. Lville finished the season ranked higher than Michigan and Kentucky last year despite them being obviously better teams.

Creans greatest sales job was the one convincing everyone that he had to tear everything apart and start at zero needing multiple years to rebuild anything. Those years were miserable. Even at that, I remember some rumblings in year 3. In any event, once that spell was broken and we started to win fans were unforgiving of steps backwards—as we should be. And if we had taken a poll a bet a majority of fans wanted him gone well before his firing.

I’m sure Duke will be just fine but their strategy might not seem as shiny without a Cooper Flagg on the roster. Florida went hard after midmajor dudes and made it payoff eventually. It’s the wild wild west out here.

Certainly could be. I think you’ll be surprised how quick expectations rise. They did with Crean, and a perpetual mediocre coach will be run out, imo. Also, I get what WayneFleek is saying. I respect him as a poster. My point being—which Pagoda made below—is that there’s simply too many unknown variables at this time to get wildly bent out of shape. I get the complaints about rim protection or whatever. But there’s more than one way to design a defense. If you told me prime Bo Ryan was coming back to coach this roster, I’d bet serious money we’d have a top25 defense even without the rim protection. Just a thought exercise to say you don’t need a conventional roster to be good at certain things. Similarly, nobody thought Michigan or Lville would be what they were last year just looking at their roster . I have no idea what CDD has in store, but I’m willing to give him at least a year. But that’s just me; ultimately people can post and feel how they want.

That’s giving your nervousis a lot of credit. We’re like 3 years into a fundamental shift college athletics. Let the new guy cook and enjoy the ride. We’ll learn a lot next year but it’ll hardly be the end all be all of his time here. And if he ultimately sucks…it’s just another day in Indiana basketball.

= “complain “ but not in the king’s English :)