IU Basketball News and Notes

[Parakeet Jones 4,127]

This isn’t your typical Hoosier Hysteria type scrimmage. Guys are going hard and coaches are actually coaching. 

[Stuhoo 91,323]

5 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

This isn’t your typical Hoosier Hysteria type scrimmage. Guys are going hard and coaches are actually coaching. 

Tell us more!!

[DChoosier 10,176]

1 hour ago, Parakeet Jones said:

Hardly anyone here. We walked in a little after 6:00 and we are front row behind the basket. 

Did it fill-in a bit?

[Parakeet Jones 4,127]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Tell us more!!

Lamar can shoot. 
Tucker is calling out what to do on defense. 
Sisley is playing a lot with the “starters.” 
Conerway gets in the lane, but it would be nice to see him finish at a higher rate. 
They play much faster which does lead to some sloppy play at times. 

[Parakeet Jones 4,127]

5 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Did it fill-in a bit?

Not really. 

[Stuhoo 91,323]

4 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

Not really. 

Has Dorn played; if so, how does he look?

[Parakeet Jones 4,127]

2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Has Dorn played; if so, how does he look?

No. I read on Twitter he wasn’t playing tonight. 
 

I have been of the opinion that we need one of him and Miles to be our 8th guy. From what I’ve seen from Miles, we better hope it’s Dorm. 

[Parakeet Jones 4,127]

Miles was just carried off. Looks like bad cramping. 

[Hoosierfanyuh 7,242]

I’ll take 10 3’s within 16 mins.

[Hovadipo 62,425]

20 minutes ago, Parakeet Jones said:

Not really. 

You aren’t kidding. There might be 500 people there. 

[HoosierHoopster 8,931]

8 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

You aren’t kidding. There might be 500 people there. 

Looks like the real turnout was for last night

[WayneFleekHoosier 51,903]

Gotta figure out what they want to do with this. Last night was a super cool idea. Scrimmages are fun but the timing and marketing weren’t right. I love the transparency though.


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[Hovadipo 62,425]

2 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Gotta figure out what they want to do with this. Last night was a super cool idea. Scrimmages are fun but the timing and marketing weren’t right. I love the transparency though.


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The HH scrimmage, if it even happened, usually sucked. Proving that they’re going to get after it will probably lead to better attendance going forward. I think they have a good formula to build on. 

[Hoosierfanyuh 7,242]

The way i look at it 

Think last night was a rly good first step for the students 

 

Scrimmage tonight will be for the bball junkies who actually care about that part

 

Halloween stuff will be for the Bloomington children 

 

Exhibition game at perfect time since ppl will already be in town for homecoming 

[ronzo4IU 448]

This is a team of high IQ basketball players from what I’m seeing.  Played tough defense tonight and seem to understand the game well.  Quick instincts and great energy.

Small sample but Alexis was way better than I imagined at this point.  Very impressed with Wilkerson, Connerway, Bailey, Sisley and Tucker.  
This looks like a tough rugged basketball team that will be bringing their lunch pail day in and day out.  

You can tell they have something to prove.

[Stuhoo 91,323]

12 minutes ago, ronzo4IU said:

This is a team of high IQ basketball players from what I’m seeing.  Played tough defense tonight and seem to understand the game well.  Quick instincts and great energy.

Small sample but Alexis was way better than I imagined at this point.  Very impressed with Wilkerson, Connerway, Bailey, Sisley and Tucker.  
This looks like a tough rugged basketball team that will be bringing their lunch pail day in and day out.  

You can tell they have something to prove.

What’s that I hear? Well coached?

Yes please. Yes.

[Pagoda 5,765]

Here are the highlights fwiw.  This is close to the old camera angle, which is kinda cool.

Attendance was sparse, but I think @Hoosierfanyuh's summary of events made a lot of sense.  This was for the IUBB junkies, and I suspect a lot of IUBB junkies got their early fix from the Puerto Rico games, or they may be looking forward to the exhibitions vs actual opponents.  I'm in that camp -- I want to see the Baylor game to get a real read on this team. 

And of course, a pretty big chunk of our fanbase is "dormant" after a rough decade, especially after Woody, and it will take time and wins to wake them up and get them back.  Wins will by far matter most, but aside from that CDD is doing the right things with the fanbase relationship, which is nice to see after the last four years.

[Demo 25,016]

6 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Here are the highlights fwiw.  This is close to the old camera angle, which is kinda cool.

Attendance was sparse, but I think @Hoosierfanyuh's summary of events made a lot of sense.  This was for the IUBB junkies, and I suspect a lot of IUBB junkies got their early fix from the Puerto Rico games, or they may be looking forward to the exhibitions vs actual opponents.  I'm in that camp -- I want to see the Baylor game to get a real read on this team. 

And of course, a pretty big chunk of our fanbase is "dormant" after a rough decade, especially after Woody, and it will take time and wins to wake them up and get them back.  Of course wins will matter most, but aside from that CDD is doing the right things with the fanbase relationship.

Yeah, that angle brings back memories. 1 little thing in there, they’ve been working on Conerway’s shooting footwork. Watch the Troy video from last year and he just struggled with balance because his feet were so close together and he was never gonna be consistent with that. The 2 in this video are better and the 2nd one is absolutely what they want. If that kid can just get to mid-30’s so guys have to respect him he’s gonna create some problems.