AH1971

I would hope the staff is looking to fill the 6th-8th spots, not the 11th-13th.

The timing of the Pacers run to the finals was probably the hold up in bringing Carr over. Pacers season ended June 22md and the draft was 3 days later.

Doesn’t need to be a secondary ball-handler or creator to be a 3 and D player. I’d prefer my 4 to have a little more size and athleticism, just my preference though.

Of course just my opinion, I just don't see how the staff can realistically come to the conclusion that he's your first frontcourt player off the bench if you have high expectations, based on what he's shown thus far. You're an Aiden Sherrell or Samet Yigitoglu injury away from being a bubble team at best if the plan is to have Sisley and an insurance 5 be your frontcourt rotational pieces. I just don't know how the staff could feel comfortable elevating Sisley to a ~25 mpg role if something were to happen to one of the two proven frontcourt players on the roster. I'm not saying you need to get a Tobe Awaka, but there is a grand canyon sized gap between him and someone like Langdon Hatton.

Yep. A fresh backcourt is the best backcourt. Most these bigs cap out at an efficiency level at a certain minute allocation. Dumb to want to run your backcourt into the ground and then say we only need an insurance big. I'm not sure how that makes sense? Plenty of teams with elite starting backcourts found 17-20 mpg for a big off the bench. Arizona did it. Illinois did it. Morez and Mara each played less than 25mpg last year for Michigan.

I don't anticipate Sherrell or Shamet playing more than 25 mpg a piece next year. Regardless if you stagger them or not, there's still ~30 front court minutes available. Unless we're guaranteeing 15 mpg to Sisley at the 4 (which would be dumb), there's a 15-20mpg at minimum to sell a tweener 4/5. Getting an insurance 5 and letting Sisley be the first frontcourt player off the bench would be staff negligence.

That reads as a "steal a few possessions" guy. That's a Langdon Hatton. Need more than that off the bench.

Somebody like an Aaron Bradshaw who has been a career 16-17mpg player at the P4 level or a low major starting looking for a bigger payday and chance to play elite competition. They are out there. Iowa was able to convince the 2025 Horizon POY Alvaro Folgueiras to come be a 20 mpg guy off the bench, not sure why we can't do that with somebody this year.

But that isn't the type of pitch IU has going into next year. IU has two proven front court players right now on it's entire roster and those guys are expected to start along side each other. Sisley obviously figures to factor into the rotation somewhere, but he's more of a tweener 3/4 than he is a 4/5. You can easily sell 15-18 mpg game to a more than serviceable big and not have to worry about breaking any promises. Honestly, I think Sisley's best path is improving as a ballhandler and perimeter shooter and becoming a 3 and D player on the wing. I'm not terribly comfortable playing Sisley exclusively at the 4 until he improves his strength and rebounding numbers.

IU didn't pay the kind of money they did for either of them just to stagger them. They paid premium money to create mismatches on both ends by playing them together. Still think we need another 6'11-7 foot banger that can defend and rebound off the bench.

I'm not wrong. You said Stirtz/McCollum were going to be a problem for the B10. They went 10-10 and lost to Penn State and Maryland, the two worst teams in the conference. They weren't close to contending in the B10 this year, they were .500. They finished exactly one game ahead of us, with a much easier schedule....and we were not good at all. A fluke tournament run doesn't change any of that.

10-10 is decidedly average, not sure what else to tell you.

I don't even know what you're saying anymore? We don't have room for a 15+ minute per game big off the bench because the names anonymous posters are throwing around on message boards are too big for the perceived role? That seems different from you previously stating that we don't have hardly any minutes to sell.

Oh, so fan speculation lol? Got it. Samet and Lindsay weren't mentioned anywhere before either popped out of the blue.

What names have been mentioned?

Ok? 15+ mpg for a backup big is plenty to sell. You keep saying otherwise.

Team needs a tweener 4/5 that can play 15 mpg minimum, those minutes are there. That is the teams top priority. If Sisley cuts into his minutes, great, but you need front court depth. After Samet and Sherrell you have two other frontcourt players; one who couldn't crack the rotation at the end of the year on an 18-14 team and a reclass who physically is probably a year or two away. Not getting a serviceable big off the bench drastically lowers the teams ceiling.

By big games I assume you mean conference games? There is no way Samet and Sherrell both average 32-33 mpg in the B10. None. Sherrell averaged 24 a game at Bama last year and Samet 28. A foul prone Samet going from the ACC to the B10 is going to average closer to 25 a game than 32-33. You can pencil Sisley in for 15, that's fine. He has to earn that. Nothing of what he showed last year is worth guaranteeing him that.

Plenty of frontcourt minutes to sell. Samet and Sherrell aren't playing all 40 minutes. I wouldn't pencil Sisley in for any guaranteed playing time just based on last years play. Sisley will obviously play, but you have potentially 14-18 mpg to sell for the 4 and 5 spot off the bench.

Not sure what he’s looking for in his 4th school in 4 years, but he would be a decent get for a 13-15 mpg big off the bench which has pretty much been his career role to date. Believe Woodson and staff may have pursued him at one point or another but could be misremembering. Think he was teammates with Mgbako somewhere along the way.

Not really basketball related, but if Cig needs an H-Back/blocker type à la Nowakowski, might be worth the squeeze. His rep Buddy Baker is a big IU guy.

Prices are only going to go up once the portal closes tomorrow.

He’s a really good volume 3 pt shooter. He doesn’t give you anything else however. Suppose you can hide him in certain lineups where you have a ton of size and athleticism around him. I think at this juncture he would be a very good take given how the rest of the roster has come together.

Watched Parker against Temple this year. Dominated the glass. Looked way more physically imposing than 225. Wouldn’t call him a guard at all. Broadcast mentioned he was FAU’s highest rated recruit ever and that his older brother was an assistant on staff.

You just can’t help yourself. No, that isn’t the optics here. Having a full staff in place when the portal opened (along with an increased NIL budget) has certainly helped. No clue how much of a role the new GM has played, but several of our incoming players have ties to the staff.