IU Basketball News and Notes

[ap2345 11,375]

16 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Nice. The floor was getting pretty yellow recently.

Looks like they sanded it and repainted it. It looks a lot better

[Trish 14,538]

Woody left a stain so bad on the floor of Assembly Hall that they had to completely refinish the court. 

Thanks Woody and great job to Dolson and Company!

[IUHoosierJoe 2,175]

58 minutes ago, Trish said:

Woody left a stain so bad on the floor of Assembly Hall that they had to completely refinish the court. 

Thanks Woody and great job to Dolson and Company!

I’ve heard they had to sand the cigar smoke stains and humps out of it, lol

[steubenhoosier 1,936]

Still feel the need to take potshots. What does that say more about? The crappy coach who no longer is part of the program? Or the fans who can’t/ won’t let the past alone?

[yogisballin 2,462]

1 hour ago, steubenhoosier said:

Still feel the need to take potshots. What does that say more about? The crappy coach who no longer is part of the program? Or the fans who can’t/ won’t let the past alone?

Most need to take the approach I have. Just forget about Woodys tenure altogether and it doesn’t bother you near as bad. 

[jermhoosierfan 425]

16 hours ago, steubenhoosier said:

Still feel the need to take potshots. What does that say more about? The crappy coach who no longer is part of the program? Or the fans who can’t/ won’t let the past alone?

I have no problem being petty when it comes to the "King of Indiana".

[HoosierHoopster 8,861]

1 hour ago, jermhoosierfan said:

I have no problem being petty when it comes to the "King of Indiana".

Personally, I just have no problem being petty

Hey, I'm a lawyer

:)

[HoosierDevils 103]

This will connect a few controversial/polarizing topics - Mgbako & Woodson. I like to check in on how former IUBB players are doing and thought this was interesting from the 3 Man Weave's evaluation of Texas A&M: 

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[Mackenzie] Mgbako is finally free of the warped positional situation he found himself at Indiana, and is now surrounded by shooting and spacing. Already this summer, Bucky is focused on ‘moneyballing’ his shot profile, as Mgbako was too often seduced into suboptimal shots under Woodson at IU.

• He was taking probably too many long two-point shots in his last season and was doing that a little bit earlier, and he’s limited that. He’s been getting to the basket more. I’d much rather have threes than long twos, and so his analytics for points per shot are the best on the team right now. So we just got to stay the course because he’s an elite shooter, and now he’s getting much better at attacking the basket.

If Mgbako leans into that hybrid 4 prototype, and embraces his crossmatch value as a floor spacer from the second forward position, the Aggies will be hard to guard.

I feel like there's at least a few kids who garnered a lot of hate from certain fans last year, and I'm really curious to see how they'll perform under different coaches. 

[Uspshoosier 54,692]

https://x.com/umhoops/status/1958875999921172768?s=46

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,804]

10 minutes ago, HoosierDevils said:

This will connect a few controversial/polarizing topics - Mgbako & Woodson. I like to check in on how former IUBB players are doing and thought this was interesting from the 3 Man Weave's evaluation of Texas A&M: 

I feel like there's at least a few kids who garnered a lot of hate from certain fans last year, and I'm really curious to see how they'll perform under different coaches. 

He can be so good.  I saw that potential immediately.  The mentals also hurt him when we were struggling as a team which affected him adversely.  Reneau and Mgbako are gonna have really good years this year.  And maybe Myles Rice too.  Putting a speed guard who isn't a great shooter in a system with 3 bigs was wild.  So, my guess is Rice does well this year too.  

[jermhoosierfan 425]

1 hour ago, HoosierDevils said:

This will connect a few controversial/polarizing topics - Mgbako & Woodson. I like to check in on how former IUBB players are doing and thought this was interesting from the 3 Man Weave's evaluation of Texas A&M: 

I feel like there's at least a few kids who garnered a lot of hate from certain fans last year, and I'm really curious to see how they'll perform under different coaches. 

Wasn't this board saying that he would be utilized as a stretch 4 instead of a 3 the last 2 years which is what A&M looks to be using him as?  He wasn't used effectively the last 2 years, although he didn't exactly take over games like he probably could've when the team was really needing shots to go in.

[Uspshoosier 54,692]

1 hour ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/umhoops/status/1958875999921172768?s=46

It’s behind paywall but wanted to post a national media write up that has IU at 26 in their top 50 

[Stuhoo 90,802]

12 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

Wasn't this board saying that he would be utilized as a stretch 4 instead of a 3 the last 2 years which is what A&M looks to be using him as?  He wasn't used effectively the last 2 years, although he didn't exactly take over games like he probably could've when the team was really needing shots to go in.

He can be a fantastic stretch four on offense with proper spacing and scheme; it will help if he's not relied upon to handle the ball or pass much. And on defense he can easily guard other fours. But they better have some active rebounding from their guards because he is pretty glued to the floor and doesn't have much burst to the ball.. 

[Demo 24,672]

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1959068171517743579

Love it. 

[mike vannice 491]

11 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1959068171517743579

Love it. 

Is that Acimovic and Ristic in the background with Kenny?

[Demo 24,672]

16 minutes ago, mike vannice said:

Is that Acimovic and Ristic in the background with Kenny?

Yup. You are way more observant than I am.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 93,254]

[sirhoosierlot 3,956]

SIAP Puerto Rico trip vlog 

 

[Pagoda 5,420]

3 minutes ago, sirhoosierlot said:

SIAP Puerto Rico trip vlog 

This and the shorter videos posted during the trip are really helpful when we’ve got an entirely new roster the fans don’t know or have a connection with.  I feel like I know some of the players much better now, and what do you know, I’m more interested in the season!

Good job by IU on this.

[mamasa 16,082]

In the midst of moving (too old for this crap), found a signed IU hat w Brain Evans, alan Henderson, Pat Knight and others on it. One good thing came out of the move!