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25 minutes ago, InArchWeTrust said:

I'll admit I have several pages left to get through and someone may have touched on this but I think Romeo's passiveness is part of the issue too.  So many time he will just give the ball up and just go stand in the corner.  I agree coaching should he telling him to be more aggressive but surely that has happened.  

I've been pretty critical of the IU offensive system this year. I don't think any coach can make these pieces into a good offense due to shooting limitations, but I know that good coaching could pull more out than Archie has to this point. And Romeo has definitely not been used well enough. He's not getting the ball in positions that set him up to score. A very simple offensive wrinkle would be to have Romeo run curl screens off Juwan in/near the paint on every possession. Romeo and Juwan are 2 of the best finishers at the rim in the Big 10. If either guy gets a quarter step on a defender, it's a bucket. This at least puts pressure on the defense and forces defensive movement and switching to get better matchups for our 2 best players...

That said, I only give coaching a portion of the blame. The rest falls on Romeo and his teammates. It's not the coaches' fault that he rarely moves without the ball. When a guy drives and kicks to Romeo, he always catches in a standstill, when he should be getting himself in position to catch that ball on the move and get to the hole. When he does that, he finds success. But he lets the defense have the advantage far too often. Romeo is also best as a slasher, but the fact that teams don't have to guard the 3 point line means that he's facing a lot more packed lanes, especially because Indiana's best player also plays in the post. The personnel on this team are basically the worst fit for Romeo's skill set.

As frustrating as this team, and Romeo's season, have been, I don't think teams can really use this as a knock in recruiting. It hasn't been great, but it's also not been bad. He's still a projected top 10 pick. He's not having the season the Duke freshmen are, but they're historical outliers. Look at Grimes and Nassir Little. Those guys were nearly as heralded and are having much more disappointing seasons.  

 

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12 hours ago, mdn82 said:

Lol extremism at its finest in the last couple of pages. Go Keion!


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Yea.  I've noticed both here and on another IU message board that the chronically most negative posters are out in all their glory. 

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9 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Hasn't he been close for about three months now???

I believe, unlike TJD, Keion's announcement setting will be a bit different.  When we start getting more tweets like this I'll believe an announcement is coming. 

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4 hours ago, InArchWeTrust said:

I'll admit I have several pages left to get through and someone may have touched on this but I think Romeo's passiveness is part of the issue too.  So many time he will just give the ball up and just go stand in the corner.  I agree coaching should he telling him to be more aggressive but surely that has happened.  

Romeo does need to be more aggressive. It starts with coaching though. All of you know I’m a big Archie supporter. I still think he’ll succeed. However, he hasn’t done a great job this year

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4 minutes ago, ap2345 said:

I feel like in the end staying home and playing with TJD and Franklin at IU will win out. But who knows with the way things have been going. This does have a Romeo recruitment feel to it imo as well.


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TJD and Franklin being the main factors. I agree

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3 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

Hasn't he been close for about three months now???

Gotta be careful in believing what you read on the internet when it doesn't come from the source. All Brooks has ever said was that he was ready to get this over with but wasn't going to rush. I think some "insiders" got a little too confident in the tea leaves and put out some very incorrect stuff. Which is sort of their MO...post pro IU comments when the rumor mills start to pick up, make it seem like it's confidential intel and hope it sticks. The fact is no one has ever known where Brooks is going because I don't believe (much like the Romeo recruitment) they know yet where he's going. So all the "it's a done deal, staff has been informed" crap is nothing more than people who enjoy the attention of pretending to be in the know. If there ever were to be inside recruiting info leaked on a message board it would come from someone inside the player's "camp". It would never come from the staff so the people who continuously claim to be in the know on every recruitment are just making stuff up. Sam Story included.

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14 minutes ago, KzooHoosier82 said:

Gotta be careful in believing what you read on the internet when it doesn't come from the source. All Brooks has ever said was that he was ready to get this over with but wasn't going to rush. I think some "insiders" got a little too confident in the tea leaves and put out some very incorrect stuff. Which is sort of their MO...post pro IU comments when the rumor mills start to pick up, make it seem like it's confidential intel and hope it sticks. The fact is no one has ever known where Brooks is going because I don't believe (much like the Romeo recruitment) they know yet where he's going. So all the "it's a done deal, staff has been informed" crap is nothing more than people who enjoy the attention of pretending to be in the know. If there ever were to be inside recruiting info leaked on a message board it would come from someone inside the player's "camp". It would never come from the staff so the people who continuously claim to be in the know on every recruitment are just making stuff up. Sam Story included.

I was more or less joking with that post. ... Kinda tongue in cheek (mainly for the reasons you stated -- "insiders" who claim to know what's going on, but really don't have any more of a clue than the rest of us.) ... But I've appreciated everyone's lessons on what to believe and not to believe! 

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