Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[Dillion 477]

High level shooter? Imagine us bringing in someone with leal stats in the transfer portal. Let alone running plays for him lol. This place would loose it. Leal looked scared to death to shoot the ball half the time. Don’t even get me started with how he looked handling the ball against pressure basically backing ppl down from 80 ft. I love that Woodson played him last year but it had a lot more to do with being sick of watching the others on the team play. Hell I’d would have rather watch Dallas James lay then half the guys last year. I really hope we start to get more talented players than leal and those guys because practice/team hype emergency bench guys.


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[ronzo4IU 434]

And I wonder why it’s so quiet on the Leo Curtis front?

[Mopladysman 1,450]

9 hours ago, Napleshoosier said:

Leal would be a f’in great addition to this team.  Are you Debbie downers getting a grasp ?  Obviously no no don’t!  FFS!  Leal will be the glue of all f’n glue that makes this team bind!  Wake the F up boys !  Let’s go Hoosiers and let’s go Anthony Leal!  ✌️

He really glued the previous teams together.  I loved watching them in the Illinois game and appreciated the extra time I had not watching them in the ncaa tourney. 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 12,105]

Holy cow... all because of SR speech lol 

These posts are crazy 

[Gnet550 1,053]

I think some of us have just been so conditioned to having not one but two bigs in the Woodson system we forget that you don’t have to have a 7 footer plodding down the court. Think Houston, the Villanova championship teams, etc…have a 6’9” guy who is athletic and make your team high energy. It’s a shift in philosophy from what we are used to, but the bigs lineup hasn’t worked. I’m all game for a new perspective

[HoosierHoopster 8,426]

I’d like to see us add a versatile 6’9 or so shotblocking forward. If we’re really trying to bring Leal back (I remain very doubtful), I would consider that a strange and unnecessary move. We don’t need a traditional big and that would not fit with the roster and system DeVries is putting together, but we could certainly use another forward to add to rebounding, shot blocking, depth

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2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I’d like to see us add a versatile 6’9 or so shotblocking forward. If we’re really trying to bring Leal back (I remain very doubtful), I would consider that a strange and unnecessary move. We don’t need a traditional big and that would not fit with the roster and system DeVries is putting together, but we could certainly use another forward to add to rebounding, shot blocking, depth

How do you convince to them to come here with little mins, though? 

The 11 guys we have now... 10 look like guys that will command mins. 

[Scotty R 3,765]

If you ask me if our players 11-13 is Goode, Leal and Sisley that makes for a deep team. I just don't understand the bitterness towards Leal and Goode in coming back to the team.

[Brill 26]

If Leal does get a waiver and wants to come back, I'm fine with that. Let him come back as a walk-on. With no bag of $$'s.

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38 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

How do you convince to them to come here with little mins, though? 

The 11 guys we have now... 10 look like guys that will command mins. 

It’s for depth not necessarily big minutes (no pun intended), and fwiw people didn’t think Dorn would commit for the same reasons 

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1 minute ago, Brill said:

If Leal does get a waiver and wants to come back, I'm fine with that. Let him come back as a walk-on. With no bag of $$'s.

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As a general point of information, but from what I've read, walk-ons are now ancient history.  You can have 15 scholarship players but any number of total players over 13 results in a financial penalty in terms of revenue sharing.

[Stuhoo 89,821]

50 minutes ago, Gnet550 said:

I think some of us have just been so conditioned to having not one but two bigs in the Woodson system we forget that you don’t have to have a 7 footer plodding down the court. Think Houston, the Villanova championship teams, etc…have a 6’9” guy who is athletic and make your team high energy. It’s a shift in philosophy from what we are used to, but the bigs lineup hasn’t worked. I’m all game for a new perspective

I watched an NBA playoff game Friday night. One team’s starting lineup went: 6’6”, 6’7”, 6’4”, 6’2”, 6’2”.

And that lineup had only two shooters that were crushingly incredible outside shooters. All five were guys that had to be guarded at the three point line though.

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9 minutes ago, Scotty R said:

If you ask me if our players 11-13 is Goode, Leal and Sisley that makes for a deep team. I just don't understand the bitterness towards Leal and Goode in coming back to the team.

Why do you feel the need to make sh up? Who exactly is “bitter” about Leal?? Haven’t seen a single “bitter” post about him. Not seeing him as a fit for this team isn’t bitterness, good grief 

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7 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

It’s for depth not necessarily big minutes (no pun intended), and fwiw people didn’t think Dorn would commit for the same reasons 

If we grabbed the defensive equivalence of Hatton I'd be tickled to death. 

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8 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Why do you feel the need to make sh up? Who exactly is “bitter” about Leal?? Haven’t seen a single “bitter” post about him. Not seeing him as a fit for this team isn’t bitterness, good grief 

The bitterness is from the comments about senior day two years ago. Talking about how he is part of the toxic environment under Woodson.

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9 hours ago, akumanina said:

NIL money must be so sweet. Otherwise how is he gonna earn that much money fresh out of college? Or is this what coach D wants?

 

1 hour ago, Mopladysman said:

He really glued the previous teams together.  I loved watching them in the Illinois game and appreciated the extra time I had not watching them in the ncaa tourney. 

 

11 hours ago, Golfman25 said:

I would agree.  At this point we don’t need any players.  Certainly not players tied to a toxic regime 

 

11 hours ago, Golfman25 said:

You must be a “true” fan.  :)

 

11 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

The victim mentality consists of things like losing at home by 25 points and then using your postgame press conference to dump on the fanbase a la Luke Goode.

And lol, did you live through the past two years? Woodson driving a wedge was obvious in multiple facets. The Twitter burner accounts, giving players NIL bumps to hate on the fans during senior night speeches, Woodson’s actions. It was very transparent.  

Anthony Leal neither plays a position of need nor is good enough to warrant bringing that mentality back into a brand new locker room. Leave the Woodson era and the Woodson guys in the rearview. 

 

11 hours ago, TheWatShot said:

Imagine going through Senior Night twice and still trying to get a waiver to keep playing. 

 

Won't be a popular opinion, but I hope it gets denied. Not interested in players who blame fans and can't handle criticism. 

 

10 hours ago, Hoosier987 said:

Put me in the camp of no to Leal. Move on. 3 Senior nights? Gimme a break. This is an older team DeVries has coming in…I assure you we don’t need any “leadership” from Anthony Leal…of which he would provide little to none. Would be a mistake inviting him back. 

 

10 hours ago, Hoosier987 said:

I’d agree.  It’s time. To. Move. On. He’s synonymous with a losing era that had little to no accountability or appeal.

actually should say 2 eras because Leal played for Archie too. Another failed era. 

 

10 hours ago, Mopladysman said:

And arrogance without achievement 

 

12 hours ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

No one forced him to say anything about it at all during his first (of apparently 3) senior night speeches. He didn’t have to choose between dumping on the fanbase and dumping on his coach. He chose to dump on the fanbase to support his coach, which he was free to do.  Same as I’m free to not like him for it and hope he’s not back next year. Mike Woodson intentionally drove a wedge between the players and the fanbase. Leal was one of the most vocal. I don’t want anyone from Woodson’s program around next year. 

 

13 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Why do you feel the need to make sh up? Who exactly is “bitter” about Leal?? Haven’t seen a single “bitter” post about him. Not seeing him as a fit for this team isn’t bitterness, good grief 

I detect more than a hint of bitterness in the ten posts by six different people I quoted above yours.

;)

It’s all good—different opinions; but some animosity towards Leal that extends beyond his bball skills? Yes.

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Weren’t a lot of us clowning Chad Baker Mazara and all these 6th year seniors? But we’re thrilled with Anthony Leal coming back for a 6th year? Lol… If he wants to pay his way for another year of school to be a practice player then he’s a real IU guy through and through, I suppose. Seems like a good time to move on after 5 years though, even if he is sometimes pretty good at defense.

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22 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I detect more than a hint of bitterness in the ten posts by six different people I quoted above yours.

;)

It’s all good—different opinions; but some animosity towards Leal that extends beyond his bball skills? Yes.

Meh, several of those are reaches Stu.  “”How is he gonna earn that much money fresh out of college?” “Tied to a toxic regime.” “He really glued the previous teams together.” Those aren’t bitter as to Leal - the comment was bitterness to Leal and Goode not generally. And Goode?? What posts are bitter about Goode??  

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16 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Meh, several of those are reaches Stu.  “”How is he gonna earn that much money fresh out of college?” “Tied to a toxic regime.” “He really glued the previous teams together.” Those aren’t bitter as to Leal - the comment was bitterness to Leal and Goode not generally. And Goode?? What posts are bitter about Goode??  

Sure! But those posts certainly are not about how he could help as a basketball player; very much (to varying degrees) about how he would effect team culture.

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4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Sure! But those posts certainly are not about how he could help as a basketball player; very much (to varying degrees) about how he would effect team culture.

Right. And half (or more) the pitch of Leal’s value is about what he brings off the court as a sixth year CBB player. People feel differently about that… and his fit on the roster in basketball terms… so the less than enthusiastic reception to the idea is unsurprising to me, especially after the past four years.