College Bball Thread

[Stuhoo]

8 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

They do have Newman coming in after sitting a year.


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They have four players between 6'4" and 6'6" who have potential: Ivey, Newman, Gillis, and Morton. I believe all were composite ranked between 75-150 (maybe Gillis was worse). None of them have played a college minute, and all will have their ups and downs ..  at best.

Williams is a mediocre defender and a terrible rim protector. Stefanovich and Thompson are 'minus defenders' too. 

I'm looking for them to all but assuredly pick up a grad transfer in the next month.

[Brass Cannon]

5 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

I honestly think Eastern is addition by subtraction.

He’s a good/great defender but his offensive ineptitude is a killer.


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Your basically replacing him with a freshmen though. Virtually guaranteed the defense won’t be as good.  And yeah the offense will probably be better. But losing Haarms already hurt their D bad and now this. Their offense might be a bit better but it’s going to be a lot easier to score on them. 

[Brass Cannon]

7 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

They have four players between 6'4" and 6'6" who have potential: Ivey, Newman, Gillis, and Morton. I believe all were composite ranked between 75-150 (maybe Gillis was worse). None of them have played a college minute, and all will have their ups and downs ..  at best.

Williams is a mediocre defender and a terrible rim protector. Stefanovich and Thompson are 'minus defenders' too. 

I'm looking for them to all but assuredly pick up a grad transfer in the next month.

Tough year to try and integrate a guy into the system via grad transfer.  

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32 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

 

By my count, their rotation players from last year were:

1. Williams
2. Haarms
3. Hunter
4. Proctor
5. Wheeler
6. Stefanovich
7. Eastern
8. Boudreaux
9. Isaiah Thompson

They have two red-shirt freshmen and three true freshmen coming in. The only one over 6'6" is a project freshman.

Williams is really good, but they appear to be a 16-15 team that has gotten worse.

 

Painter seems to do his best coaching when there's a challenge involved.

[323SGrant]

I hope we can, at a minimum, split the two games with them next season.


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

One that will trip in February.


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Yes, but by Fran measures it’s as good as he can hope for.

I’m not convinced Garza comes back. That makes a huge difference.


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[MikeRoberts]

They have four players between 6'4" and 6'6" who have potential: Ivey, Newman, Gillis, and Morton. I believe all were composite ranked between 75-150 (maybe Gillis was worse). None of them have played a college minute, and all will have their ups and downs ..  at best.
Williams is a mediocre defender and a terrible rim protector. Stefanovich and Thompson are 'minus defenders' too. 
I'm looking for them to all but assuredly pick up a grad transfer in the next month.

Could Archie get his win against Purdue finally? God I hope so


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[ElectricBoogaloo]

I didn't know you could transfer to the NBA from college!

[CS2]

16 hours ago, Brass Cannon said:

Your basically replacing him with a freshmen though. Virtually guaranteed the defense won’t be as good.  And yeah the offense will probably be better. But losing Haarms already hurt their D bad and now this. Their offense might be a bit better but it’s going to be a lot easier to score on them. 

Purdue fans are pretty consistently calling both of these defections addition by subtraction and that both were going to lose most of their minutes.  Painter always did well with that lock down defender so I think the Easter loss hurts them.  

[Brass Cannon]

47 minutes ago, CS2 said:

Purdue fans are pretty consistently calling both of these defections addition by subtraction and that both were going to lose most of their minutes.  Painter always did well with that lock down defender so I think the Easter loss hurts them.  

If you have two guys who are so bad that they are addition by subtraction both getting 500+ minutes you got real problems in that team. 

Losing these two guys sets them back a year probably 

They are now going to be relying heavily on freshmen if not in starting line up then their main bench. Remaining players aren’t great defenders and then freshmen off the bench.  They got by last year with their D they don’t have the guard play to really step up the offense that much. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

If you have two guys who are so bad that they are addition by subtraction both getting 500+ minutes you got real problems in that team. 

Losing these two guys sets them back a year probably 
They are now going to be relying heavily on freshmen if not in starting line up then their main bench. Remaining players aren’t great defenders and then freshmen off the bench.  They got by last year with their D they don’t have the guard play to really step up the offense that much. 

As much as I hate to say it, I think it’s a better roster than last season and opens up more for Williams down low. Won’t have the experienced length of Haarms or Eastern but Purdue will probably be better than they were last year.


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[TheWatShot]

17 hours ago, MikeRoberts said:

Could Archie get his win against Purdue finally? God I hope so


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They'll still find a way to sweep us. Pretty obvious we can't rely on Assembly Hall anymore. 

[Brass Cannon]

54 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

As much as I hate to say it, I think it’s a better roster than last season and opens up more for Williams down low. Won’t have the experienced length of Haarms or Eastern but Purdue will probably be better than they were last year.


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We will see thin up front and questionable guard play are huge warning signs. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

We will see thin up front and questionable guard play are huge warning signs. 

You really only need one center in college basketball. And they bring in the infamous 7-3 white kid that Painter loves in Zach Edey.


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[Brass Cannon]

11 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

You really only need one center in college basketball. And they bring in the infamous 7-3 white kid that Painter loves in Zach Edey.


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So who plays when he’s on the bench or in foul trouble?  He only played more than 29 minutes once last year. That’s a lot of basketball 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

So who plays when he’s on the bench or in foul trouble?  He only played more than 29 minutes once last year. That’s a lot of basketball 

That’s only 10 minutes you need from the freshman. And it’s likely Williams is in the 30-33 area like Swanigan was his SO year.


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[TheWatShot]

1 hour ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

You really only need one center in college basketball. And they bring in the infamous 7-3 white kid that Painter loves in Zach Edey.


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That kid is extremely raw. He probably would have redshirted if Haarms had stayed. 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

That kid is extremely raw. He probably would have redshirted if Haarms had stayed. 

Haarms was raw too and played 17 minutes a game. Haas was raw and played 15 minutes a game. I don’t think it’d be too much to ask for him to play 10 a game.


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[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

And speaking of Purdue. Matt Painter threw out some HUGE truth bombs.




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[Brass Cannon]

15 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

And speaking of Purdue. Matt Painter threw out some HUGE truth bombs.




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Wow he’s not wrong but you as a coach should not say that stuff in public.