str8baller

We’re discussing a player, not staffs. there are a bunch of players who weren’t good shooters who had one good season. Including our own Trey Galloway. But you’re not interested in seeing that because you just engage in rah rah feel good platitudes instead of actual discussion.

This was your statement: ”Thekid's a Hoosier, let's give him and the new coaching staff a shot here instead of tearing them down due to a previous coaching staff/players disappointments.” Thats not basketball. It’s just rah rah fandom. Worse yet you accused me a maligning the kid when I never did. I don’t have a response because it doesn’t deserve one. Post something about basketball and we’ll talk.

He’s doing his best to lose them too.

Tough to tell with Duke at times with how bad the ACC was.

Shocked they didn’t pay their bets…lol. The main problem I see with Enricht is his FT shooting. Makes him unplayable at the end of games. Complain about Rice and Mbako all you want—and I have plenty—but those guys won us a couple games with their FT shooting that would’ve been lost if left to Leal and Galloway. Michigan was in a bunch of tight games largely because Wolf and Gayle were awful ft shooters. Duke is the opposite. So if we’re getting the guy as a rotation piece, then I say great. If the plan is to have him be the primary ball handler and close games, I think there are some red flags in his shooting numbers.

I can. And I did. Because you framed it all as “cmon guys we’re all Hoosier fans” rah rah nonsense which I have no interest in.

It’s crazy. Did they say he has a twin who is still in HS? He jumped a grade past his own twin???

That’s a lot of emotion…which you’re entitled to. I haven’t “tore anyone down.” Just discussing basketball.

We’ll find out next year. I heard it all this time last year about Rice and Carlyle from you guys. We’ll see if you’re right this go around. If he shoots 40% from 3 and 80% from FT line, we all win.

If the refs swallow the whistle for a while it’ll let Houston claw back into it. If they don’t Duke is a pretty good ft shooting team.

Basically this. I will say that I don’t dislike Scheyer as much as I thought I would and his team this year isn’t nearly as annoying as some past Duke teams

Injured shoulder or they went from cream puffs in Noncon to actual competition? He’s a horrible FT shooter, so when I see that it’s hard to give him the benefit of the doubt. Whomever mentioned Galloway above is exactly who I thought of when seeing his numbers. I’m sure he’ll hit some 3’s but largely unplayable at the end of games. Which again is fine with me since he’s a backup.

Gotta be good at both. Hurley knows that. His crappy defensive team got bounced from the tournament on the second day this year.

I heard the same about Rice last year and if you just take out the games at the end where he was tired… Whatever the excuse is he hasn’t made a ton of shots in 3 years with career 43/37/67 splits.

And 9 years on Crean and 7 on Davis and Sampson. If Florida wins you can throw them with UConn as programs that have emerged as blue bloods since our last title.

He better be with those shooting splits

I don’t even know what expectations mean for a first year coach. There’s no stumble so bad that it could put his job in jeopardy. He works for IU so he could miss the tourney 3 straight years and he’s getting a 4th. But I guess for me personally, I know what Woodys general expectations were last year when allowed to buy his own team. I know what a few first year coaches did at our aspirational peers last year. So if CDD can’t match those markers, I’ll be looking for answers why just to satisfy my own curiosity.

Technically he won 2 tourney games

We beat Purdue and won at MSU which is probably one of the better wins of the year. We were 2nd right behind WVU as the most egregious tourney snubs. WVU basically had a nearly identical year to us last year by the numbers, with the caveat they had worse injury luck. Nobody will be happy with that type of season, nor should they be.

I think the $4mil number was disputed and it was close to 2. Also, no way Goode is getting 1.5. But the point remains he if did that he’d have a couple mil to throw at a starting center and a couple mil to make a bench which wouldn’t get you much. (Plus sisley). I will say though if by now we had an expected lineup of Dix, Conwell and Dvries plus Goode and Sisley off the bench and pieces later people would be elated, although I agree with you that filling out the rest of the roster would be tough. That’s a tourney team but maybe not much more.

Honestly, good for NW and good for the B1G. That program could easily be a perennial bottom dweller without a good coach. As it is they should compete for the middle of the pack most years which helps the depth of the league.

You have to have a strategy and stick to it. I know a lot of college fans don’t watch the pros, but for those of us who do we are pretty familiar with salary caps and letting good players walk that are too expensive. If CDD isn’t good at that he will fail. If he is he will have success. At this point, I don’t even know how you would begin to assess that until he has a roster. I like Dix as a player, but he’s far from make or break. Hell, i like Conwell more, but if CDD thought he was too expensive then you have to stand firm and rely on your judgement.

That’s logical because teams without big budgets need to mine talent locally. But IU has, even under Woody, pulled kids from everywhere: West Coast, east Coast, Florida, midwest, etc… we have the budget and profile to be competitive. CDD should be competitive nationally. I take it as almost axiomatic that he will be. I think we agree on everything else.

Again, I’m not worried about time or CDD. I’m just pushing back on the implication that IU should be looking regionally if guys don’t go far from home. Woody was, as you point out, a disinterested recruiter. So the fact he was able to get guys to IU from all over the country makes me think CDD can do the same. The fact that those kids didn’t do well here is more about Woodys coaching, imo. The year before he pulled in Ware off the west coast did well enough to be a first round draft pick.

Ok. How about Kaleb Banks going to Louisiana? Did he work out good enough for you? Or Love to Arizona? It’s largely irrelevant whether they worked out anyways, when taking the ability to recruit someone somewhere.