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20 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Passing Walt Belamy and Alan Henderson for the rebounding lead is one heckuva accomplishment. In defense of guys like Bellamy, TJD and maybe even Henderson will have had to play at least ten more games over his career than Walt, no? 

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41 minutes ago, str8baller said:

Passing Walt Belamy and Alan Henderson for the rebounding lead is one heckuva accomplishment. In defense of guys like Bellamy, TJD and maybe even Henderson will have had to play at least ten more games over his career than Walt, no? 

Different era but Bellamy only played 70 games (3 seasons) and averaged 15.5 boards per game over those three years. In his final game, against Michigan, he had 33 boards!!


In any case…hard to compare eras but love what Bellamy, Henderson and TJD did for IU.

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13 hours ago, DChoosier said:

Different era but Bellamy only played 70 games (3 seasons) and averaged 15.5 boards per game over those three years. In his final game, against Michigan, he had 33 boards!!


In any case…hard to compare eras but love what Bellamy, Henderson and TJD did for IU.

I remember Archie Dees a little. But, Walt Bellamy was the first guy to really imprint on my memory. He was like some kind of monster in basketball shorts. Tremendous talent and in some ways, ahead of his time.

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The Hoosier Hysterics with a good interview with TJD.  Starts around the 20 min. mark.  Comments about the Northwestern situation around the 48 min. mark.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hoosier-hysterics-podcast/id1609450696?i=1000563203153

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2 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

All great stuff. If Trayce can hit 3s at even a 30 percent clip opposing teams are going to struggle on defense.  

 

My cutoff is 33% (and Trayce will be routinely wide open from three).

If a player can hit 33%, with offensive rebounds that gets them to over 1 point per possession on three attempts.

 

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8 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

My cutoff is 33% (and Trayce will be routinely wide open from three).

If a player can hit 33%, with offensive rebounds that gets them to over 1 point per possession on three attempts.

 

If he’s hitting them at 33 percent and teams continue to leave him wide open. Well never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake.  

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1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

There's a ton of 'stuff' in this interview:

  • Originally it was two players who the coaching staff knew broke curfew pre-NW. Trayce and Race knew about the other three and made sure they sat too.

Actually, it sounded like at least 1 of the assistants knew about the other players, and effectively asked Trayce/Race if they should tell Woody, and its unclear if Trayce/Race knew about the players before being asked. Although, it sounded very much about it being 100% about breaking curfew and not about smoking which was widely speculated.

Relevant breakdown based on the interview

  • No information about how and by whom the initial two players were discovered
  • There was then a team meeting, and 2 were punished (unclear if suspensions at this point)
  • Woody asked if anyone else broke curfew, and no one admitted it
  • An assistant later texted Trayce asking what to do about the other players that missed curfew, and Trayce/Race decide that they shouldn't play
  • Another team meeting is held for additional punishments

Unknowns

  • Were the suspensions completely because of curfew, or perhaps the initial 2 weren't suspended, but the lying about it which escalated to suspension for everyone
  • Did Trayce/Race know about all 5 at the initial team meeting, and at the time felt uncomfortable ratting the other 3 out in that setting but were able to take a stronger stance after some time to think about it and backing from an assistant
  • OR were Trayce/Race in the dark about who skipped curfew at first and only found out about it from an assistant

Wild Speculation - Fife caught all 5 players, but only told Woody about 2 to prove a point but realizing that 5 players potentially getting suspended would mean a likely loss decided to conceal the other 3 (seems like an MSU thing to do), but someone else caught wind of this and eventually this was a contributing factor for Woody firing Fife. 

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9 minutes ago, PB1230 said:

Actually, it sounded like at least 1 of the assistants knew about the other players, and effectively asked Trayce/Race if they should tell Woody, and its unclear if Trayce/Race knew about the players before being asked. Although, it sounded very much about it being 100% about breaking curfew and not about smoking which was widely speculated.

Relevant breakdown based on the interview

  • No information about how and by whom the initial two players were discovered
  • There was then a team meeting, and 2 were punished (unclear if suspensions at this point)
  • Woody asked if anyone else broke curfew, and no one admitted it
  • An assistant later texted Trayce asking what to do about the other players that missed curfew, and Trayce/Race decide that they shouldn't play
  • Another team meeting is held for additional punishments

Unknowns

  • Were the suspensions completely because of curfew, or perhaps the initial 2 weren't suspended, but the lying about it which escalated to suspension for everyone
  • Did Trayce/Race know about all 5 at the initial team meeting, and at the time felt uncomfortable ratting the other 3 out in that setting but were able to take a stronger stance after some time to think about it and backing from an assistant
  • OR were Trayce/Race in the dark about who skipped curfew at first and only found out about it from an assistant

Wild Speculation - Fife caught all 5 players, but only told Woody about 2 to prove a point but realizing that 5 players potentially getting suspended would mean a likely loss decided to conceal the other 3 (seems like an MSU thing to do), but someone else caught wind of this and eventually this was a contributing factor for Woody firing Fife. 

Yeah gotta think that assistant was fife if that story was true. Otherwise we would have axed another assistant.  
 

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2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:
  • Originally it was two players who the coaching staff knew broke curfew pre-NW. Trayce and Race knew about the other three and made sure they sat too.
  • Next year the team has decided there's no "strikes" for punishment. You screw up? You sit.

That sounds like leadership, accountability, and the long overdue culture change.

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