Player and Recruit Retention News/Discussion & Potential Transfers

[the possum 58]

I challenge any of you millennial fans to go back 40 no 50 years and show me how the game has got better since all the rule changes. The liberal money mongers arguments were, this will speed the game up, games will get over in two hours or less, higher scoring, better quality of basketball. Show how any of this is true today. games today take just as long or longer. Jump ball have been replaced by meaningless tv timeouts that only benefit the hype and the pipes in the office.

This was not done for the athletes, all it has done is made a slew of clowning cry babies. wile you are at it check to see how the scoring has increased over the last 40 years and also see how many more turn overs are averaged per game. Check it all, but don't spend to much time researching it you might actually learn something about the game.

And for all of you crying for Archie to get Oh romeo oh romeo I say no just get the player that does all the right things. I have watched him play twice and was not impressed either time.      

[mdn82 25,510]

I challenge any of you millennial fans to go back 40 no 50 years and show me how the game has got better since all the rule changes. The liberal money mongers arguments were, this will speed the game up, games will get over in two hours or less, higher scoring, better quality of basketball. Show how any of this is true today. games today take just as long or longer. Jump ball have been replaced by meaningless tv timeouts that only benefit the hype and the pipes in the office.
This was not done for the athletes, all it has done is made a slew of clowning cry babies. wile you are at it check to see how the scoring has increased over the last 40 years and also see how many more turn overs are averaged per game. Check it all, but don't spend to much time researching it you might actually learn something about the game.
And for all of you crying for Archie to get Oh romeo oh romeo I say no just get the player that does all the right things. I have watched him play twice and was not impressed either time.      

Lmfao go to bed old man


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[the possum 58]

Just now, mdn82 said:

Lmfao go to bed old man


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Just like a true Millennial you got no real game, but you got plenty of hype.  

[mdn82 25,510]

Just like a true Millennial you got no real game, but you got plenty of hype.  

And your stance is quite possibly the most idiotic and non-sensical thought process of anyone I have ever saw on a message board. Btw, your issue with the shot clock not speeding up the game is just dumb. The game is still two halves of 20 minutes. Money. Yeah money actually means something. It is how you are able to watch and ***** about this stuff. Other than that I got nothing. It was the most idiotic thing I have ever read and I may actually be dumber for having read it. If I am not clear enough, I completely disagree with your thought process and your general outlook on life. Enjoy your soup and cracker dinner in the retirement home, while remembering youth is on my side.


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[KingPG21 6,583]

9 minutes ago, the possum said:

Just like a true Millennial you got no real game, but you got plenty of hype.  

Fighting a mod is literally the best course of action in this scenario, please continue

[mdn82 25,510]

Fighting a mod is literally the best course of action in this scenario, please continue

I am no mod anymore my man. It's all good. I was laughing and smiling ear to ear after that one.


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[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,182]

My main reason is that fouls being reset would be a huge improvement for those games where teams enter the double bonus with 13+ minutes still left to go in the game.

I don't understand the commercial complaint... there's going to be commercials... switching to quarters won't change that.


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Maybe teams shouldn't foul. Then the point is moot. I am against reset.

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[JSHoosier 19,826]

1 minute ago, Joe DeLow said:

Teams waiting 15 seconds to start their offense is the problem. We saw it often with Indiana under Crean. If it wasn't a fast break, they didn't set an offense until half the clock or more was gone. Teams would have to be quicker on offense. Not necessarily shooting, but in movement, passing and running their offense. Getting rid of the incredibly slow working offenses. A high school flex offense becomes almost obsolete.


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It's not that Crean's offense waited to set up, the problem with his abomination of a half court offense is that if the first look wasn't there the only other option was to dribble the air out until a forced shot or turn it over.

That's not a shot clock issue.

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan 6,182]

I challenge any of you millennial fans to go back 40 no 50 years and show me how the game has got better since all the rule changes. The liberal money mongers arguments were, this will speed the game up, games will get over in two hours or less, higher scoring, better quality of basketball. Show how any of this is true today. games today take just as long or longer. Jump ball have been replaced by meaningless tv timeouts that only benefit the hype and the pipes in the office.
This was not done for the athletes, all it has done is made a slew of clowning cry babies. wile you are at it check to see how the scoring has increased over the last 40 years and also see how many more turn overs are averaged per game. Check it all, but don't spend to much time researching it you might actually learn something about the game.

A lot of good points. Wilt scored 100 under those arcane rules

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[Class of '66 Old Fart 83,984]

Time to put this discussion in its own thread?  We're now 2 pages off-topic.

[WayneFleekHoosier 47,964]

Time to put this discussion in its own thread?  We're now 2 pages off-topic.

Yes


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[the possum 58]

1 hour ago, Joe DeLow said:

You apparently have not watched the NBA for about 20 years.

 

 

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Why would I watch something I despise.

[the possum 58]

1 hour ago, mdn82 said:

And your stance is quite possibly the most idiotic and non-sensical thought process of anyone I have ever saw on a message board. Btw, your issue with the shot clock not speeding up the game is just dumb. The game is still two halves of 20 minutes. Money. Yeah money actually means something. It is how you are able to watch and ***** about this stuff. Other than that I got nothing. It was the most idiotic thing I have ever read and I may actually be dumber for having read it. If I am not clear enough, I completely disagree with your thought process and your general outlook on life. Enjoy your soup and cracker dinner in the retirement home, while remembering youth is on my side.


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Of course it is, because you say so. Wow now lets all go to are safe spaces kids.

[the possum 58]

1 hour ago, KingPG21 said:

Fighting a mod is literally the best course of action in this scenario, please continue

And this is fighting in today's dream world. I rest my case.

[Hovadipo 55,114]

And this is fighting in today's dream world. I rest my case.

Knock it off. It's the same thing every time you post here and it's getting old.

[Stuhoo 79,745]

And this is fighting in today's dream world. I rest my case.

In my opinion:

It is extraordinarily sad that you think that anyone who calls you out for being a complete, name calling, politics-inferring JERK... is somehow an indication that the world is super-sensitive.

People have ALWAYS shunned the opinions of complete jerks. There is no element of "liberal money mongering", and there no "safe spaces" "snowflakes", "alt-right", "alt-left", "far right wackos" "bleeding hearts" or alt anythings in the equation.

Just you... being a complete jerk.

[the possum 58]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

 

In my opinion:

It is extraordinarily sad that you think that anyone who calls you out for being a complete, name calling, politics-inferring JERK... is somehow an indication that the world is super-sensitive.

People have ALWAYS shunned the opinions of complete jerks. There is no element of "liberal money mongering", and there no "safe spaces" "snowflakes", "alt-right", "alt-left", "far right wackos" "bleeding hearts" or alt anythings in the equation.

Just you... being a complete jerk.

 

Of course 

[drewheck 749]

Anyone on here follow jbj on instagram and see jaquan lyle was at iu working out whats that about

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[RaceToTheTop 24,957]

1 hour ago, iufaninillinois said:

Maybe teams shouldn't foul. Then the point is moot. I am against reset.

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I would agree except the way the game is called and the rules they have in place, I don't see how that legitimately is done to any large degree.  No reset magnifies a couple of questionable early calls in a half.  I'm for reducing the effects of TV Teddies out there.

[Stuhoo 79,745]

Of course 

 

There's a saying that I'll paraphrase:

 

"When you feel like one other person is being an @$$ to you, it might be them, but when everyone thinks you're an @$$?

It's you.

 

(of course)