Transfer Portal w IU Interest

[JF87 1,503]

12 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

I didn’t  say I wanted them all to go IU I just liked seeing kids with Indiana hit the portal all at once 

I'm waiting on some Purdue players to hit the portal.  I'd take Gillis and Caleb Furst.  

[trc1969 39]

I beleive in the end this is going to be a fruitless endeavor. Trying to build a team out of the portal is a daunting task, bringing in a couple portal transfers a year to help aid your team from the previous year is one thing but trying to construct pretty much a whole team is another. Plus, I have lost all faith in Coach Woodson's ability to coach a team play college basketball effectively. (Can't wait to hear the excuses he come up with after losses next year)

[Stuhoo 81,379]

34 minutes ago, Napleshoosier said:

I will!  :)

Atta boy Nips. Stepping up for the team.

[RaceToTheTop 26,134]

39 minutes ago, Go_Hoosiers said:

Couldn't agree more. We had an amazing "rim protector" last year and our defense was awful. Our rim protector didn't help us much when the Japanese Steph Curry was bombing 3s on us.

That being said - of course Woody is shopping for a rim protector.

Imagine our defense without Ware last year.

[RaceToTheTop 26,134]

25 minutes ago, trc1969 said:

I beleive in the end this is going to be a fruitless endeavor. Trying to build a team out of the portal is a daunting task, bringing in a couple portal transfers a year to help aid your team from the previous year is one thing but trying to construct pretty much a whole team is another. Plus, I have lost all faith in Coach Woodson's ability to coach a team play college basketball effectively. (Can't wait to hear the excuses he come up with after losses next year)

 

[RaceToTheTop 26,134]

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

Trevor Andershock's latest IU portal targets list.  

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/article/indiana-hoosiers-basketball-2024-transfer-portal-target-tracker-228951222/

Behind a paywall, unfortunately.

[Class of '66 Old Fart 85,028]

4 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Behind a paywall, unfortunately.

Didn't realize that.  My apologies.  Look at the first post in this thread and it has all the names he has in his article plus 2 additional that were mentioned earlier this afternoon. 

[Silat Player 293]

38 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Imagine our defense without Ware last year.

I don't care about defense anymore. I want to outscore teams next year 120 - 115 every game.

Give me the old Dan Issel, Kiki Vandeweghe, Alex English type of IU team next year. We'll load up on scorers from the portal and just outshoot them and out-tempo them next year. 

A complete opposite team...LOL

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[IUFAN1976 3,303]

18 minutes ago, Silat Player said:

I don't care about defense anymore. I want to outscore teams next year 120 - 115 every game.

Give me the old Dan Issel, Kiki Vandeweghe, Alex English type of IU team next year. We'll load up on scorers from the portal and just outshoot them and out-tempo them next year. 

A complete opposite team...LOL

That sounds like a Crean coached team

[HoosierHoopster 7,111]

1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

And who , pray tell, is going to guard the five? Certainly not Malik Reneau.

Don’t need it. Seriously, this is just outdated thinking. Run an athletic running, shooting team with length, what exactly did our rim protecting D produce this year, pray tell?

[HoosierHoopster 7,111]

57 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Imagine our defense without Ware last year.

Ware was outstanding, but imagine our D with length and speed. Our D wasn’t good this year, our D under Woodson continues to drop 

[Hardwood83 4,774]

4 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Yeah, I'm convinced the staff thinks they are getting Bruce Thornton.   I've picked up on that from the burners.  Curious to see if that holds up.  The more Ohio State keeps winning, though, isn't helping matters. lol

Wow, do I hope that happens! Pair him with a solid scoring SG, Walker and Trey off the bench and we're on to something! Probably too good to be true :(

[Stuhoo 81,379]

3 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Don’t need it. Seriously, this is just outdated thinking. Run an athletic running, shooting team with length, what exactly did our rim protecting D produce this year, pray tell?

A team that is athletic and running will never feature Malik Reneau.

And yet next season we again will feature Malik Reneau.

[IUFAN1976 3,303]

1 hour ago, JF87 said:

I'm waiting on some Purdue players to hit the portal.  I'd take Gillis and Caleb Furst.  

Gillis yes, but not Furst, he seems slower than MR and isn’t shot blocker 

[IUFAN1976 3,303]

1 hour ago, trc1969 said:

I beleive in the end this is going to be a fruitless endeavor. Trying to build a team out of the portal is a daunting task, bringing in a couple portal transfers a year to help aid your team from the previous year is one thing but trying to construct pretty much a whole team is another. Plus, I have lost all faith in Coach Woodson's ability to coach a team play college basketball effectively. (Can't wait to hear the excuses he come up with after losses next year)

I think we have 7 open scholarships, he could still land a couple high school recruits and then fill the last 5 spots with portal players, that would be doable

[HoosierHoopster 7,111]

Just now, Stuhoo said:

A team that is athletic and running will never feature Malik Reneau.

And yet next season we again will feature Malik Reneau.

But does it have too? You’re saying just run the same failed 2 post player play that’s a failed time warp experiment. The bigger issue there is there’s no way Bako doesn’t start with Malik and Bako hasn’t turned into a wing, bring in another “rim protector” and it’s the same look as this year and that’s a guaranteed failure.

Do we want to get better - change through the portal, or stay the same?

[go iu bb 6,236]

4 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

But does it have too? You’re saying just run the same failed 2 post player play that’s a failed time warp experiment. The bigger issue there is there’s no way Bako doesn’t start with Malik and Bako hasn’t turned into a wing, bring in another “rim protector” and it’s the same look as this year and that’s a guaranteed failure.

Do we want to get better - change through the portal, or stay the same?

I get what you're saying but do you actually think that Woodson will change?

[Stuhoo 81,379]

4 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

But does it have too? You’re saying just run the same failed 2 post player play that’s a failed time warp experiment. The bigger issue there is there’s no way Bako doesn’t start with Malik and Bako hasn’t turned into a wing, bring in another “rim protector” and it’s the same look as this year and that’s a guaranteed failure.

Do we want to get better - change through the portal, or stay the same?

My guess? We will stay the same, but with better guards.

[HoosierHoopster 7,111]

Just now, go iu bb said:

I get what you're saying but do you actually think that Woodson will change?

No

:(