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Reneau is much better than serviceable. He’s averaging 19 a game and has been one of the most effective inside scorers in the country during his college tenure. We’re a top 20 team with Reneau.

He's 38% for the year on good volume. There's a role for that on every team.

I think Dorn could be a highly effective 3 and D guy with the right personnel around him. Pair him with 2 elite guards and a big that is a threat to score and the floor is spaced that much more. I have no qualms with him being the 3rd guard next year under those conditions. But those conditions need to be met for him to play a large role, otherwise he's fine being that 7th/8th man off the bench. I think Sisley has all the physical tools to be good in this league, he just needs confidence. Way too early to give up on him.

Our own worst enemy at times.

Disagree. Get three high level starters in the portal, one of them being an all-conference caliber player, and there's enough leftover between Sisley, Dorn, Miles and the three freshman to form a complimentary rotation.

Yes Hawthorne is at Kentucky redshirting this year and Odih is at St. John's where he elected not to redshirt and is playing sparingly.

Most of the players with eligibility left were tied to Chester Frazier. Frazier brought Sencire Harris and Amani Hansberry with him from Illinois. Hansberry followed Frazier to Virginia Tech and Harris ultimately ended up at Cincinnati where he's largely been a non-factor in a 7th-8th man role. Jonathan Powell is the one guy I fear we missed out on. He ended up at UNC. Wondering if Powell is regretting his decision as he has taken a major role reduction after being primed for a big sophomore jump.

Both Conerway and Enright would have looked much better with a legit post scorer. We don't draw any post double teams and conference opponents are very willing to blow up screens. Very tough to initiate offense when you can't play inside out.

Yep. DeVries has back to back years worth of tape of Javon Small and Lamar Wilkerson to show portal guards that should once again make his system an attractive destination. But it's imperative that he gets the necessary front court bodies that this years team lacked. His job likely depends on it.

Yeah, the staffs grave misevaluation of Bailey cost them this season. Bailey is essentially a 6'10 guard who was terrible defensively in the A10. Not sure what the staff saw in him? This is a 22-23 win team had the staff been able to retain a guy like Reneau who was ran out of town here.

DeVries is light years better than Archie at this stage and doing it with a much less talented roster. DeVries needs dudes, not hard to see. We’ll see where he stands next year without having to build a brand new roster on the fly.

Anywhere from 5-7 in portal seems apt. Need to find an all-conference caliber player like Wilkerson and then two other high level starters, preferably a PG and C.

You’re not going to get 7/8 elite players in the portal. No team is. You recruit your future and supplement your needs in the portal. Next years team needs 2 stud guards, 2 athletic bigs who can defend B10 caliber players, and a depth piece or two.

You need roster retention. Can’t go out and buy 11-12 new players and rely on freshman every single season. Dorn and Sisley are absolutely pieces you need to keep. How much they play and what kind of role they take on largely depends on their development, especially in Sisley’s case, but you don’t want to get in the habit of throwing 12-13 new faces together every single year. You need some level of continuity.

I don’t believe Tucker has lived up to his hype, but you can just tell this is a guy at the end of the road. I think the wear and tear of multiple surgeries and playing through chronic pain the last several seasons has finally taken its toll.

Enright, Alexis, etc bust their @$$ and play with emotion every time out. They’re very limited as players though.

I see a team that’s vastly undersized and vastly undermanned. Reality is that this is one of the least talented teams in the conference. I don’t think effort and hustle is an issue like it has been in years past, we’re just not very good. Wilkerson is the only guy who would start on every B10 team and Tucker would maybe start on a handful of non-contending teams. Sam Alexis, who does give a ton of effort and energy, was the 10th/11th man for Florida last year. Him being our go to big says it all as to where this team stands.

? He’s a top 30 kid in his class. This team is vastly devoid of talent, not sure IU is in a position to turn down talent at the moment.

Not really. Kory Barnett took the HC job at Oral Roberts, Tom Ostrom had previously coached here with Archie and had been fired, and Chester Frazier was never going to coach at Indiana. The only miss from the West Virginia team that IU could have used was Hansberry, but that guy was attached to Frazier at the hip who came with him from Illinois.

He is a good coach all things considered. His gimmick isn’t going to work in the B10. He’s going to be in a world of hurt next year without Stirtz. He’s a wannabe Bo Ryan on his best day and it ain’t 2014 anymore.

Just be glad we didn’t hire Ben McCollum.

Win or lose it’s just horrible basketball. Imagine hiring this guy after Archie/Woodson.

Got to think IU dodged a bullet by not hiring McCollum. Just a brutal style of basketball to watch.

In the B10, obviously. And Michigan’s 3 and 4 are 6’9, their 5 is 7’1 and one of the better rim protectors on the country.

Need somebody taller than 6'8 as your starting center in this league. No chance Josh Harris starts next year, would be negligible if he did, especially after missing the entire season. I'm intrigued by Daniel Freitag and Preston Edmead as lead guards next year, both of the PG variety. Freitag is a former ~top 100 recruit who briefly played at Wisconsin as a freshman and is averaging 20 ppg and shooting 38% from 3 on volume as a sophomore at Buffalo. Edmead is averaging 15 ppg as a true freshman at Hofstra shooting 40% from 3 on a whopping 7 attempts per game. I'd imagine both will be portaling this year. I like Zion Sensley from UC-Santa Barbara as a 4 man. 6'8 with a 7'+ wing span and is freakishly athletic. Has one of the best DReb% in the country and is a 38% 3 point shooter. Need a 6'10, 6'11 banger who can rebound and block shots as your 5 man.