Shooter

I am really intrigued by Harris. Interesting "buy-low" candidate as the article put it. He wouldn't be the first shooter to struggle in a limited role, and then find his stroke with more consistent minutes later.

Hoping to see Burton confirmed soon to get the positive momentum rolling. Either Sherrell or Reibe would be great. I'm not that picky here. Mustaf - looks like an athleticism upgrade, but his offensive numbers are a bit rough. Hopefully he's a plus defender and a good cutter?

I find it tough to evaluate guys like Harris who barely played at Duke, or Mustaf who played for a god awful team. Feels like these are high variance guys who you could really overpay or get a bargain on. Should be where Ryan Carr earns his money.

Sucks about Estrella. Oh well, on to the next. At least we found out early with plenty of time to pivot.

He still has Acimovic to rebound for him right? What more does he need?

Wonder if it's truly a pay cut, or they weren't willing to meet a request for increased pay. Either way, staff probably thinks they can get better value for the money. I am bummed to lose Dorn just because he was a known quantity and a decent player. But the role of "good shooter who does nothing else" probably won't be that hard to fill.

I agree, but I'd like another competent option at that spot as well. Like a Sam Alexis level player (but a PF version). Would feel better about relying on Sisley for 20-25 mpg, than 30-35 until he proves it.

I refuse to believe Devries and Carr watched us get killed on the glass all season, and then decided to bring in Adam Olsen as our primary 4. If that proves to be true, I'll join the cause of the doomers. Did anyone watch South Alabama play this year? If he can move a little bit, maybe he gets minutes as a shooting combo forward a la Ben Humrichous.

I've seen random dollar amounts thrown around. Do you have it somewhere that IU is not top 25 in basketball NIL? That would be surprising to me. Talking about 3 top 30 guys is certainly a good sign that we're going to be spenders. We'll see who we ultimately land though.

Fair enough, just the way it read to me. Combined with this from the same poster in the other thread: Which is precisely why we won’t build a top 25 roster yet again. Maybe we can outsmart the room of college basketball scouts this time around???

Can we at least wait until we have our portal haul, to start complaining about our portal haul? And if we do happen to get some of the names mentioned... Burton, Fru, and Estrella are all currently rated as top 30 transfers.

For sure. We had Gabe Cupps as a freshman starter a couple years ago, did he not do it for you?

Moody should be in the mix as a backup guard as well. Ahead of Ristic if I had to make a wild guess

Yea. I reserve judgement until the whole roster is done... but I can't imagine playing that kid significant minutes at the 4 here. Olsen shot 40% on 2s in the Sun Belt. His per possession rebounding numbers are worse than Tayton Conerway.

Not to rub too much salt in the wound. But I have a good source that Dusty May was already calling and recruiting Braylon Mullins towards the end of his tenure at FAU. Obviously I don't think he expected a 5-star recruit to go to FAU. But he probably knew he'd be leaving for a big job in the Midwest, and wanted to get started on a key guy early. Can't say with 100% certainty. But IMO, if we had moved on from Woodson after year 3, it is likely that May would have been coaching Mullins at IU this year.

Everything going UConn's way. They are banking in threes and getting crazy rolls. Everything for Illinois is in and out. Just one of those nights

He is certainly that. We'd have to hope his efficiency numbers improve a bit with better teammates, and not needing to score 20+ every night. Can anybody who watched ND tell me how he was defensively?

That would be a bummer. Certainly he is replaceable, but I'd like to have some level of continuity. We only have two returnees who I consider viable rotation guys on a good Big Ten team. If he leaves, it's just Trent.

Fru was a starter for a good team last season. Do you really think he's transferring from that situation to go be a backup for a team that missed the tourney? Let's be real about where we are right now.

He's sort of a combo guard. Definitely a score-first guy. Have watched him play a few times, and I thought he was smaller than 6'4". He's probably a better shooter than the percentages show - he took a lot of tough shots.

Yea, I think Purdue's title window ended the day Zach Edey graduated. They are still going to be consistently good though as long as Painter is there.

Braden Smith was 4-15 tonight. 13-43 in his last three games. Shot 33% in the tourney last year. Shot 36% the year before that, when Edey carried him to the final. Went 2-10 with 7 turnovers his first year when they lost to FDU. Good player, outstanding passer. But was never good enough to be "the guy" on an elite team.

Extremely ill-advised pass there by Smith. Purdue in early danger time.

I think he's a good coach. No argument there. Just saying one unexpected tourney run is no guarantee of future success.

I am pretty high on McCollum, but... Archie Miller made an Elite 8 at age 35. With an A-10 team. Crazy things can happen in single elimination tournaments. I don't feel much differently about McCollum today than I did two weeks ago.