(2022) PF Malik Reneau to INDIANA

[CSP]

18 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Romeo was quietly kinda awesome in general. He would've been awesomer if he was healthy. And he would've been awesomest with Woody...or almost anyone but Archie lol.

17 and 6 with one hand as a FR. Yeah, he could flat out play. 

[HoosierFan1994]

I was in a meeting when news broke and I wanted to first pump in the air lol. Awesome job by the staff to land Malik. I said earlier the thing that I like the most is he and Jalen are not one and dones. These are probably 3 year players. The fact that they are winners is something else that stands out. Plus the Big Ten has lacked talent as far as recruiting goes. Would not surprise me to see these two as the B1G tens best players in the next few years. A great day for this program!

[Tasmanian Devil]

On 4/17/2022 at 11:50 AM, Chris007 said:

Everyone supposedly had a great breakfast at Bedrak Cafe this morning. Maybe the staff celebrated with a mimosa?

High probability 

[HoosierTrav]

5 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

I was in a meeting when news broke and I wanted to first pump in the air lol. Awesome job by the staff to land Malik. I said earlier the thing that I like the most is he and Jalen are not one and dones. These are probably 3 year players. The fact that they are winners is something else that stands out. Plus the Big Ten has lacked talent as far as recruiting goes. Would not surprise me to see these two as the B1G tens best players in the next few years. A great day for this program!

The second that JHS proves he can hit an outside shot consistently, he’s gone. Hopefully that’s sooner rather than later. If Woody does a good job developing these kids, it’s going to open the door even more to these programs.

[Alford Bailey]

Great news! Definitely the level of talent on this roster got a big boost.

[Hoosier Roots]

I know one of the biggest knocks on Woodson last year was his tendency to do a whole platoon swap and bench all of our starters during the game. 
 

I doubt that disappears, however we might be heading toward the point where we have enough depth and talent on the team to actually make that work with additions like Malik. 

[Brass Cannon]

3 minutes ago, Hoosier Roots said:

I know one of the biggest knocks on Woodson last year was his tendency to do a whole platoon swap and bench all of our starters during the game. 
 

I doubt that disappears, however we might be heading toward the point where we have enough depth and talent on the team to actually make that work with additions like Malik. 

Yeah I mean at this point we will have 3 of Bates, Galloway, Geronimo, Malik and Race coming off the bench so the bench mob should be better rounded. This assumes Trayce comes back.  If not we will still have 2 of those guys off the bench. 

[HoosierFan1994]

1 minute ago, Hoosier Roots said:

I know one of the biggest knocks on Woodson last year was his tendency to do a whole platoon swap and bench all of our starters during the game. 
 

I doubt that disappears, however we might be heading toward the point where we have enough depth and talent on the team to actually make that work with additions like Malik. 

You bring up something I was about to ask. Do we think Woodson continues this? I'm big on following trends. A lot of the teams in the NCAA tournament went 7-8 players deep. Right now I think our top 7-8 in order are: Trayce, X, Race, JHS, Malik, Geronimo, Tamar, Galloway. If McNeil or Dennis commit they are in the mix and Galloway drops out. 

I think early in the year you play a lot of your guys. But come March the rotation needs to be 7-8 guys. 

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

You bring up something I was about to ask. Do we think Woodson continues this? I'm big on following trends. A lot of the teams in the NCAA tournament went 7-8 players deep. Right now I think our top 7-8 in order are: Trayce, X, Race, JHS, Malik, Geronimo, Tamar, Galloway. If McNeil or Dennis commit they are in the mix and Galloway drops out. 

I think early in the year you play a lot of your guys. But come March the rotation needs to be 7-8 guys. 

Our rotation was much tighter in March. 

We probably were able, in part, to get extended, effective minutes out of our key guys in March because Woody used the bench a bunch before then.

That's an NBA thing, ya know. Our coach is versed in the best practices from the best in the world.

[NashvilleHoosier]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

We have and they. were. awesome.

Didn’t remember this. But based on the fact that Romeo is wearing it this means it was a loss during the epic string of losses I’ve blocked from memory. We must redeem these unis. They’re easily worth a 1.5 points on the spread out of the gate.

[VO5]

1 hour ago, Chris007 said:

The funny thing about Bedrak Cafe is the owner used to own the Mexican restaurant by the mall with her parents. Where 5 guys is now I believe. Super nice people but the daughter wanted to open a different type of place for breakfast and lunch. So she came up with Bedrak Cafe. I've been there twice on Sunday mornings. Once Kenya was eating by himself, the second time he and Ya were there. Everyone should give them a try. Not sure they know much about IU basketball but really good people

Incredible. All I know is they will be much more popular now. 

[VO5]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Romeo was quietly kinda awesome in general. He would've been awesomer if he was healthy. And he would've been awesomest with Woody...or almost anyone but Archie lol.

Man this really bothers me. Romeo was incredible but is undercut because of the team and coach he played for. One of, if not the (besides EJ) best freshman, to ever play at IU. But nobody wants to acknowledge because we underachieved that year. 

[HoosierFan1994]

I’m so excited for next year I might make plans to go to Hoosier Hysteria… and I don’t really like the event

[HoosierFan1994]

Just now, VO5 said:

Man this really bothers me. Romeo was incredible but is undercut because of the team and coach he played for. One of, if not the (besides EJ) best freshman, to ever play at IU. But nobody wants to acknowledge because we underachieved that year. 

He was extremely good but I didn’t think he was a one and done kind of guy. If I remember right that was a down class in general. Most years he would’ve been ranked 11 through 20.

[Stuhoo]

“Son, again, put down that delicious Bedrak breakfast toast. I need to speak with you outside.  … … (walking outside) … … Now, again, you’re going to be playing buddy ball for IU next year.”

*Malik Reneau goes back inside to finish eating toast.

[RaceToTheTop]

2 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Malik's stats for last summer's Peach Jam and for his 20-21 high school year.  And as a reminder, he and Jalen probably averaged no more than 15-18 min/game in their junior year at Montverde and were typically the first 2 off the bench.

FWIW, his AAU team (Nightrydas Elite) played a total of 29 games and went 19-10.  But as you posted, I could only find stats for 6 games as well.  

I don't know if you posted it, but I was able to find his Montverde statistics for this past season (as well as JHS's stats).  As you've already mentioned, with the amount of talent the scoring gets split.  Stats below are for the games posted, so a little more than half of what they played:

Reneau:  17 games, 11.9 points/game, 69/120 from the field (58%), 1/5 from three (20%), 11/21 free throws (52%), 6.6 rebounds/game.

JHS:  18 games, 11.7 points/game, 53/127 from the field (42%), 13/47 from three (28%), 26/34 free throws (74%), 4.9 rebounds/game, 5.9 assists/game.

 

[lillurk]

35 minutes ago, NashvilleHoosier said:

Didn’t remember this. But based on the fact that Romeo is wearing it this means it was a loss during the epic string of losses I’ve blocked from memory. We must redeem these unis. They’re easily worth a 1.5 points on the spread out of the gate.

Believe we won in those, actually!

[TheWatShot]

2 minutes ago, lillurk said:

Believe we won in those, actually!

Nope. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay/_/gameId/401082384

That season was full of ridiculous "you couldn't have scripted this" moments, but this one was right up there for the worst. We had a 3 point lead, crowd going nuts, D was locked in, looked like we were about to force a shot clock violation. Instead, CJ Jackson hoisted one from 30 feet and banked it in. We called timeout, then turned it over. OSU called timeout and got a dunk. All while Archie Miller stood there with the usual constipated look on his face. 

[Redb1rdy]

4 hours ago, monskisprodigy said:

I know Duncomb didn't play much last  year, but was 67 in his class...still a lot of time to develop. 

 But agree...hard to not be hopeful about that list, with some other pieces to be added. 

that kid has a clean jumper too, i think when he gets some mass he could stretch the D a bit as well. He's a sleeper for sure. Duncomb is going to be one of those guys at IU that everyone is going to love in the future. 

[RaceToTheTop]

14 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Nope. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay/_/gameId/401082384

That season was full of ridiculous "you couldn't have scripted this" moments, but this one was right up there for the worst. We had a 3 point lead, crowd going nuts, D was locked in, looked like we were about to force a shot clock violation. Instead, CJ Jackson hoisted one from 30 feet and banked it in. We called timeout, then turned it over. OSU called timeout and got a dunk. All while Archie Miller stood there with the usual constipated look on his face. 

If I remember correctly, that was the game where Justin Smith totally got beat for the bucket that won the game for Ohio State.