Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[AH1971]

Just now, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Bailey is pretty clearly starting at the 5

Not if they sign Federiko or Miller.

And I don't really care who starts the game. I care more about minute allocation and Bailey won't play the bulk of his minutes at the 5 if they do get a legit rim protector. 

[CSP]

4 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Not if they sign Federiko or Miller.

And I don't really care who starts the game. I care more about minute allocation and Bailey won't play the bulk of his minutes at the 5 if they do get a legit rim protector. 

Federiko wouldn't start. Bailey is playing the bulk of his minutes at the 5. I'm not sure how much more clear our current roster could make that. 

[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, AH1971 said:

Not if they sign Federiko or Miller.

If they sign either Federiko or Miller it's no longer clear, but I would still speculate that even then, Bailey starts at the five. We seem to have too much roster focus on the 1-3 (Wilkerson, Conerway, Miles, Dorn, Drake, Enright) and will start three of them, along with Tucker D and one other. I would guess the one other is Bailey.

[pumpfake]

We're conditioned by 9 years of teams that struggle to play up to their individual rankings.  As someone else alluded to, we'll need to be better than the sum of our individual parts.  I'd argue that is required for any team to be really good.

Getting back to respectability is going to require quality coaching and hopefully DD is the level of coach we're all banking on.

[AH1971]

3 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Federiko wouldn't start. Bailey is playing the bulk of his minutes at the 5. I'm not sure how much more clear our current roster could make that. 

Bailey isn't going to play more than 25 mpg, he's not good enough defensively at either spot. Telling me that in the event they sign Federiko/Miller on top of Alexis, that duo is only going to play ~15 mpg? Nonsense. 

[pumpfake]

1 hour ago, Herotime said:

Anyone have a list of big men were going to after? Freddie2x, Baba?

I remember a mob movie with a character named (something like) "Jimmy Two Times" who always said things twice.  I like "Freddy two times".

[Okram]

1 hour ago, 94Bulldog said:

so he’s a bouncier Malik Reneau, got it.

Not really.  Good/disruptive defensively and limited offensively. Which is fine because they thankfully won’t be dumping the ball to him and waiting around for something to happen very often. 

Edited April 25, 2025 by Okram

[CSP]

7 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Bailey isn't going to play more than 25 mpg, he's not good enough defensively at either spot. Telling me that in the event they sign Federiko/Miller on top of Alexis, that duo is only going to play ~15 mpg? Nonsense. 

huh lol

now.. I'm not saying he's playing exclusively at the 5, but he's pretty clearly playing the 5. 

He and Alexis can coexist, for sure.... Alexis played a lot with Haugh, who is a comp for Bailey. 

[CSP]

57 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Timberlake.   Optics for him were off the charts. Some   IU fans were upset when he didn’t come to IU and that was a huge miss 

you were excited when I brought up his name hahaha... double quoting me and everything 

[AH1971]

2 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

huh lol

now.. I'm not saying he's playing exclusively at the 5, but he's pretty clearly playing the 5. 

He and Alexis can coexist, for sure.... Alexis played a lot with Haugh, who is a comp for Bailey. 

What's confusing? He's not a 30+ mpg player in the B10. He was barely a 30 mpg player on a terrible A10 team. Brings a lot offensively, he gives you next to nothing defensively. IU isn't good enough defensively 1-4 for him to play the bulk of his minutes at the 5. And if he is playing the bulk of his minutes at the 5, it'd be an equal rotation with someone like Miller or Federiko....I could live with that. 

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

What's confusing? He's not a 30+ mpg player in the B10. He was barely a 30 mpg player on a terrible A10 team. Brings a lot offensively, he gives you next to nothing defensively. IU isn't good enough defensively 1-4 for him to play the bulk of his minutes at the 5. And if he is playing the bulk of his minutes at the 5, it'd be an equal rotation with someone like Miller or Federiko....I could live with that. 

does it sound any sort of realistic to add either of those two, at this juncture? 

[AH1971]

3 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

does it sound any sort of realistic to add either of those two, at this juncture? 

Of course. You still have a massive deficiency at the 5 defensively. You have close to 20 mpg to sell at the 5 spot, which is right in Federiko's wheelhouse. 

[CSP]

22 hours ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

 

Same exercise from their LAST college season... 

Enright - 1.1; 32.5

Conerway - 1.0; 27.0

Wilkerson - 3.4, 44.0

Miles -  2.4, 33.5

Drake - 1.2, 39.6

TDV - 3.3, 47.3

Bailey - .5, 41.5

 

 

13-33.8= 38.5% ..... bazinga

Dorn+Alexis added..... 

 

16.2 - 43--- 37.7%

[JimmerNoe]

I expect we will pay big for one of the remaining “good” bigs. We are probably one of the few still sitting on money and have plenty to sell

I expect we get Curtis. This would leave us with Bailey, Alexis, Curtis, and one more quality portal big splitting the 4/5 minutes that are not filled by Devries at the 4. I think this will be fine. Not overwhelming but top half B10 frontcourt.

I’d like to take a flyer either on a freshman/euro guy or pay a premium and grab one more “stud” of any position.

[Silat Player]

1 minute ago, JimmerNoe said:

I expect we will pay big for one of the remaining “good” bigs. We are probably one of the few still sitting on money and have plenty to sell

I expect we get Curtis. This would leave us with Bailey, Alexis, Curtis, and one more quality portal big splitting the 4/5 minutes that are not filled by Devries at the 4. I think this will be fine. Not overwhelming but top half B10 frontcourt.

I’d like to take a flyer either on a freshman/euro guy or pay a premium and grab one more “stud” of any position.

It sounds like we're in bad shape in the frontcourt if Alexis plays any bigger role than say Peyton Sparks did. Just a spot player here and there. 

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, Silat Player said:

It sounds like we're in bad shape in the frontcourt if Alexis plays any bigger role than say Peyton Sparks did. Just a spot player here and there. 

wait why? 

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Of course. You still have a massive deficiency at the 5 defensively. You have close to 20 mpg to sell at the 5 spot, which is right in Federiko's wheelhouse. 

Not seeing that at all. In your scenario--- one of Miles, Enright, Drake, or Dorn isn't playing much at all. 

[RaceToTheTop]

29 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Bailey isn't going to play more than 25 mpg, he's not good enough defensively at either spot. Telling me that in the event they sign Federiko/Miller on top of Alexis, that duo is only going to play ~15 mpg? Nonsense. 

I'm not even sure what I had for breakfast this morning and we have people who are already sure about how much a player will play that they never have watched anything but a transfer portal reel.

[AH1971]

1 minute ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I'm not even sure what I had for breakfast this morning and we have people who are already sure about how much a player will play that they never have watched anything but a transfer portal reel.

I do remember what I had for breakfast (bagel sandwich and coffee, 2 sugars 1 cream) and feel perfectly comfortable expressing my opinion on a message board.

Thanks for chiming in. 

[JimmerNoe]

26 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

What's confusing? He's not a 30+ mpg player in the B10. He was barely a 30 mpg player on a terrible A10 team. Brings a lot offensively, he gives you next to nothing defensively. IU isn't good enough defensively 1-4 for him to play the bulk of his minutes at the 5. And if he is playing the bulk of his minutes at the 5, it'd be an equal rotation with someone like Miller or Federiko....I could live with that. 

I could live with that too, and I think that’s probably the plan. I think there is one more big coming and they will each play 20ish minutes at the 5. Then you’ve got Devries at the four and Bailey sliding over at times.

there will be some mop up minutes for the bigs like Alexis or Curtis but I find it hard to believe coach is banking on them playing much more than that.