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Welcome to the 2019-2020 IUBB Season

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Figured it was time to start a 2019-2020 season thread with the home opener tomorrow. To get this thread started off right, here’s some great news from our friend Jeff!

 

 

 

 

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Personally, I'm very excited to see how this team carries the momentum from the back half of last season into this one. Last year, I believe we saw Archie and Co. start to find their identity and start to really work within Archie's system.

Top things I'm looking for:

- Are Al and Armaan legitimate backup PG options to Phinisee? This will be one of the most critical factors for success this year, in my opinion.

- Is Devonte going to be a star and the catalyst for this team's success? Every good tournament team needs the guy who's going to get the bucket no matter what in crunch time.

- How good is TJD going to perform in the B1G as a freshman? I think he's going to surprise some people, but it's overly optimistic to expect Noah Vonleh level production.

- I want to see that lockdown defense of Archie's past teams. We have the right personnel with some time in the system. Need to see some significant results.

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TJD Vonleh comparison is interesting. TJD won’t be the rebounder Vonleh was. Vonleh seemed to grab every defensive rebound.

Better passer, better teammate. More invested.


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I should clarify it was made more to demonstrate the high bar of a freshman coming in and being B1G basketball ready. Vonleh didn’t miss a beat. Zeller came in ready. Bryant was not too far behind. I’ll be thrilled if TJD is in that Bryant to Zeller range of ready for college.


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Was just looking over at another site. Andy Bottoms doesn't project IU making the 68 team field in March. Haven't looked a ton, but a buddy mentioned that this follows the trend of most way too early projections. 

I am optimistic and bullish on this team when healthy, but then again...I think I say that every year. Hoping Archie get's these kids playing hard, and we surprise a lot of people. 

Excited to kick off the season, and will be there in person as always rooting for my Hoosiers. LETS GO!

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