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Louisville would be an interesting comp. They’re coming off a slightly disappointing season, are starting from scratch again, and have a similar budget.

Who is going to come here to play 8mpg at backup PG who would magically save us if Burton goes down? These guys can read a depth chart. Quality players want to play. And any quality PG or center isn’t coming for 5-8mpg and the part that comes with that. You have to fill those slots with developmental guys (we don’t have), frosh, or guys who can play more than one spot.

I don’t think they could be any more obvious about it short of a flickering “No Vacancy” neon sign hung outside of Cook Hall.

Can we break our losing streak in Madison? Pls

Maybe I’ll have to relisten but I thought he specifically said his move is to get into the midrange, look for a shot and if it isn’t there look to pass. And that’s a pretty good self assessment! Lol.. Don’t get me wrong, I like Burton. He sounded like a solid kid in the interview too. I think he’ll do a ton a great things for us. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him put career assist numbers with Sherrell and Yigi rim-running. Not sure if he’ll ever look like FVV tho…

I can’t really see that comp. Two different style players. VanVleet was/is a strong often physical defender who was a pass-1st floor general type. I think Burton is a smaller, quicker scoring type PG who is also a solid passer and defender. If he’s trying to be more like FVV then that’s great but I can’t personally say I’d expect to get a FVV type player with Burton.

The Spurs have picked first for Wemby, Duncan, and David Robinson. At least 2/3 were egregious tank jobs. Yet the league punished the Pacers for not even fully tanking this year, in reality what was just accepting being bad in an obvious down year. NBA is a shitshow run by r*****s.

He’s got a Star Wars tattoo. Maybe he covered it up with that?! Complete dork

Todd’s a smart guy. If I didn’t know better, I’d say he was reading this board as I made that point about a dozen times during the Woodson-era as everyone pined for a small ball, 3pt launching, uptempo squad. :{ The pros have an 82 game season and 7 game playoff series to smooth out the variance in a way college teams cannot. With that said there’s a lot of real estate between what we did last year and the Mike Woodson/Matt Painter “play two bigs and play everything through the paint” style. One of the more popular and successful styles has been essentially one athletic big with some athletic wings and guards who can shoot. But Villanova definitely rode some stone-cold small ball lineups to tons of success. Devries has to do what he thinks is prudent even if that’s loading up on beef in the paint at the expense of 3’s. Michigan is the undisputed top dog on the block and they definitely play big, so it’s not a surprise to see teams adjust to them.

I agree with all the question marks. But it’s the whole staff’s scout this time and you have to trust that they see something with the Lindsey/Mustaf/Harris combo the way they went after them. Jersey posted about it recently but others have too. It’s pretty wild we are poised to go from basically a team that shot some of the most 3’s and hardly any 2’s to a team with questionable 3 point shooting (even on low volume) that will probably live at the rim. If I’m being completely honest and it were any other team besides IU I’d probably say it reeks of an over-correction. But I’m perfectly happy to trust these guys one more year going into Y2. I’ll say that my optimistic disposition here is really helped along by Cig coming in and wining a National freaking Title in football. lol…

Mins 1 - 33 Burton/7 Lindsey 2 - Lindsey 22 / 10 Harris / 8 Frosh tbd 3 - Mustaf 24 / Harris 12 / 4 Frosh tbd 4 - Sherrel 19 / Mustaf 4 / Sisley 17 5 - Yigi 29 / Sherrel 11 That’s a pretty typical 8 man rotation. If you can get a decent rugged bigger guy (big wing or stretch 4 type) who can rebound a guard 3/4’s you could easily go 9 man rotation and drive the Sisley and frosh numbers down a bit. The flip side is if one of the frosh or a soph Sisley is really good and needs to be on the floor 20mpg, you have to find more mins. You’re just simply not going to get a good backup PG AND backup big both projected at getting 10mpg. Their agents/advisors can look at the roster and do the same math I just did and see there won’t be room.

If we’re playing a backup big we get this late in the portal 20mpg, I’d say it’s highly likely we’re missing the tournament.

This is the key. It’s not happening at IU because there’s no team or culture to retain them to. Yet anyways.

Nobody really knows the market but I’d hope like heck we’re not paying Sisley $2M. He was an end of the rotation guy who surely couldn’t have gotten a million anywhere else.

I envy you. I still occasionally wake up in a cold sweat from a nightmare where IU is down 1 with 15 sec to go and Woodson is on the sidelines telling everyone to clear out for Rice.