This Year's Starting Five - Post CH Edition

[Stuhoo]

Josh N

JBj

Rojo (who will guard a lot of 6'6" guys)

OG

TB

 

Bench (in order of minutes played) Juwan, Cujo, DeRon, DGreen, Freddie McFly, MSB (yes...he will actually get a little play before the last minute of a blowout!), GGelon

[Brass Cannon]

I think Rojo starts. Looks like Crean wants to have 3 people pushing the ball. 

Id go 

 

Rojo

JBJ

OG

Morgan

Bryant

 

Got Size Scoring and Defense  with veterans coming off the bench  

 

[HoosierAloha]

What I would like to see...
RoJo--Newkirk--Green
JBJ--CuJo
OG--McSwain
JM--DD
TB--DD

What we'll see to start the season...
Newkirk
JBJ
RoJo
OG
TB

I don't like the three guard starting lineup. If we go to it some throughout the game I won't be that upset though.

[WayneFleekHoosier]

My guess.

Newkirk
JBJ
Rojo
OG
Bryant

Bench order Morgan (3-5), (CuJo (1-3), DD (4-5)), McSwain (3-4), Green (1-3)

Priller and Gelon in spots.
Hartman really hurts our depth quite a bit considering we have Priller and Gelon on roster.

10 guys. They need to stay healthy.



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[WayneFleekHoosier]

I would much rather (I think) run 2 G 3 F lineups IF McSwain is effective as a defender and rebounder.

TB, OG, Mc, DD, JMo for 3 spots

5 guards for 2 spots.

Mathematically half of the game with 2/3 and half 3/2 makes sense if all deserve PT. McSwain was be a big part of that puzzle. If he isn't ready we will see a steady diet of 3 guard sets.


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[Trish]

We have to go.

RoJo 

James

OG

Morgan

Tommy

 

Besides James, this might be the best defensive line up i've seen in years... 

[Miller'sTheMan]

RoJo

Blackmon

OG

Morgan

Bryant

[HoosierAloha]

My guess.

Newkirk
JBJ
Rojo
OG
Bryant

Bench order Morgan (3-5), (CuJo (1-3), DD (4-5)), McSwain (3-4), Green (1-3)

Priller and Gelon in spots.
Hartman really hurts our depth quite a bit considering we have Priller and Gelon on roster.

10 guys. They need to stay healthy.



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I guess a positive to this is that the new guys will quickly learn the "position less" basketball played under Crean for the following season. CuJo and Green will get used to guarding bigger wings and McSwain and JMo will get to guard a range of smaller wings/guards and bigger post players.

[Hovadipo]

Agree with Wayne and Aloha...

Newkirk
Jimmy
Rob
OG
Tom

I think the first three coming off the bench (De'ron, Cujo, and Juwan) are going to be *awesome* and if we get solid minutes out of Fred Mac and/or Green that's just gravy. I get this vibe with Cujo that he's going to be an absolute monster sooner than later.

I (and many here) are going to love this team. I can feel it.


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[HoosierAloha]

I would much rather (I think) run 2 G 3 F lineups IF McSwain is effective as a defender and rebounder.

TB, OG, Mc, DD, JMo for 3 spots

5 guards for 2 spots.

Mathematically half of the game with 2/3 and half 3/2 makes sense if all deserve PT. McSwain was be a big part of that puzzle. If he isn't ready we will see a steady diet of 3 guard sets.


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Depending how far along he is why not start him and have the more versatile JMo coming in as the first big off the bench.

Like you posted, we'll see both the bigger wings (JMo, McSwain, and OG) and the smaller guards (RoJo, JBJ, CuJo, and Green) covering wings.

[Dalton26]

I'm hoping it's

Rojo
JBJ
OG
Morgan
Bryant

Newkirk never impressed me before he got here so unless he made some kind of jump I don't know about I'm skeptical.

[Stuhoo]

2 minutes ago, dalton26 said:

I'm hoping it's

Rojo
JBJ
OG
Morgan
Bryant

Newkirk never impressed me before he got here so unless he made some kind of jump I don't know about I'm skeptical.

 

He made some kind of jump:

He jumped to IU, to a running team, to Lionel's conditioning program, to Yogi as his mentor, to Tom Crean's offense, and to Hoosier Nation.

He made a huge jump.

 

 

[FortWayneHoosier]

same as everyone else

Newkirk
JBJ
Rojo
OG
Bryant

 

Im excited to see Davis play too, I think he can help this team out big time. Honestly all of the new guys are going to be fun to see develop. OG though is gonna be a beast of a player 

[Dalton26]

12 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

 

He made some kind of jump:

He jumped to IU, to a running team, to Lionel's conditioning program, to Yogi as his mentor, to Tom Crean's offense, and to Hoosier Nation.

He made a huge jump.

 

 

That doesn't necessarily mean he'll make the jump to starting point guard on the future B1G and National Champ Hoosiers. I think he'll be a good backup though.

[Brass Cannon]

24 minutes ago, dalton26 said:

That doesn't necessarily mean he'll make the jump to starting point guard on the future B1G and National Champ Hoosiers. I think he'll be a good backup though.

True. I'm hopeful for a Max level jump. Maybe that's greedy I don't care. 

It really is amazing how a change of system can help a player. Michigan fans were glad to see him go. A guy we don't win the Big Ten without was kicked off his previous team for all intents and purposes. 

[Beachfront Property]

On 9/30/2016 at 9:30 AM, Brass Cannon said:

True. I'm hopeful for a Max level jump. Maybe that's greedy I don't care. 

It really is amazing how a change of system can help a player. Michigan fans were glad to see him go. A guy we don't win the Big Ten without was kicked off his previous team for all intents and purposes. 

Different sport obviously, but look at former Purdue QBs Etling and Appleby. They were terrible at Purdue and now they're both starting at major SEC football schools. Not saying Pitt basketball is anywhere near as horrible of a program as Purdue football - just pointing that sometimes the system is the problem. 

[Lt. John McClaine]

I'd like to have Newkirk come off the bench, ideally, but I think we need his speed in the starting 5. So, like others have said:

Newkirk, JBJ, Robert, OG, & Bryant.

A nice blend of quickness and size

 

6th man: Juwan Morgan

Bench: Deron, CuJo, Green

[HoosierAloha]

I'd like to have Newkirk come off the bench, ideally, but I think we need his speed in the starting 5. So, like others have said:

Newkirk, JBJ, Robert, OG, & Bryant.

A nice blend of quickness and size

 

6th man: Juwan Morgan

Bench: Deron, CuJo, Green

I'm excited to see how Newkirk and McSwain are integrated. I really don't want to see a three guard starting lineup. If RoJo has made the leap to a steady point I'd bring Newkirk off the bench.

[Brass Cannon]

Agreed 

Rojo, JBJ, OG, Morgan and Bryant is an insanely good line up that has a lot of size to boot. 

Would prefer to see our new guys come off the bench. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

My starting 5 is like most everyone's since Colin went down with the knee injury:  Newkirk, Rojo, JBJ, TB, OG.     But will that be the same starting lineup when B1G play opens?  I'm not about to speculate but to me the only guaranteed starters come January are TB and OG.  I think any of the 3 guard positions could be up for grabs.