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Sam_Boger

PITT Transfer Josh Newkirk is headed to IU!

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Such odd choices by our staff. A PG who can't shoot coming off knee surgery. Sure, sign him up. We are Indiana.

He was ranked around 120-130 overall coming out of high school. Oladipo or Sheehey he's not.


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Ehhh..


May be good for Creans offense.. until he has to shoot the ball. Good future back up PG?


Or a future candidate for creaning.


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This is another move, like Gelon, where you have to see what other pieces fall into place. It's a great pickup if you have a impact freshmen point guard and then Newkirk backing him up. You don't want the 2016 team to have a freshmen pg starting and a bunch of freshmen guards as your bench too.

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Gosh i keep forgetting RoJo is still on the team. Seems like its been years since IU basketball ended.

 

So far we have a couple of role/project players for the 2016 class. Great. 

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Admittedly CuJo is not an immediate big impact PG either as a Fresh. I like Bruce Brown better.

Also I would rather see RoJo on PG, Blackmon at SG, Alkins at the 3. Newkirk backs up Rojo.

I just don't think Alkins is a realistic commit.  Once again, I hope I'm wrong.

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You're probably right. The key to this signing IMO is who else we're going to bring in for 2016. If we can go something like Davis, CuJo, Brown, Gelon and 1 of Alkins/Leaf/Maker,Bridges then I really like the Newkirk pickup. It's one more veteran player who has been through the grind in a major conference. His numbers might be pedestrian, but next years team is going to need some vets.

Adding 4-5 freshmen to Newkirk, RoJo, Bryant (hopefully), Hartman, OG, Holt, Morgan, is a nice blend of youth, talent and experience. With Newkirk, we're not adding 6 freshmen next year.

I think Rob will be our PG starter next year.

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Haven't seen enough of the kid to judge him. I'll look forward to reading a report from someone who has.
Strategically I like it from class balance and roster building standpoints. Assuming JBJ leaves I would have preferred 2 frosh guards and a grad transfer to 3 frosh guards in the same class. Newkirk fills the transfer role. Now go get Brown and Jones closed.

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You're probably right. The key to this signing IMO is who else we're going to bring in for 2016. If we can go something like Davis, CuJo, Brown, Gelon and 1 of Alkins/Leaf/Maker,Bridges then I really like the Newkirk pickup. It's one more veteran player who has been through the grind in a major conference. His numbers might be pedestrian, but next years team is going to need some vets.

Adding 4-5 freshmen to Newkirk, RoJo, Bryant (hopefully), Hartman, OG, Holt, Morgan, is a nice blend of youth, talent and experience. With Newkirk, we're not adding 6 freshmen next year.

If we get 2 of Bridges, Brown, Alkins, Leaf, CuJo, Davis I can live with these early signings. This one in particular. I understand the veteran PG thing. It makes sense to balance out roster too. Just not an exciting signing when those aforementioned players are on the board.

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