You really think McNeeley, Haralson or Mullins were money hunting?
Anthony Leal is the Real Deal
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Exactly. Everyone under achieves under woody. I mean K9 Rice and Tucker aren’t all shit. Neither is Mack and Tamar. We get great talent and have a 90 year old grandpa telling them to play 80s nba style.
No. I think Tucker was. Saw his opportunity and IU was willing to overpay to correct the recruiting failures.
This is true but both can be true. We overpaid for this roster. If the numbers are true.
Fair enough. I think being 10-minutes glue guy is exactly the role Leal was projected to play going into the season. Alas…
Oh I’m sure of it because again, dipshit is picking them. I am sure most were over ranked, but good coaches could do good with any of these guys. Just have to you know, coach them.
And I’d love that. Come in take a charge, get a steal pump up the crowd. If he is playing 34 mins a game that team is not a contender. Period.
And while I don’t disagree that Leal playing 34 minutes would never happen on a team that is a contender. It’s the best option we have at this point.
Please do. And I'll put one together with audio so you can hear him direct the defense. Basketball isn't all about offense. Defense is just as important but not as flashy.
My son played at South with Leal. He believes Leal is coaching the defense. Against MSU (I think) he noticed the zone used was one that Coach Coyle has modified for South to use. My son told me modification but I can't recall at this moment.
Bro it is a crime that Leal has to coach our defense because coach can’t. I’m not arguing, it’s just embarrassing that a final 4 caliber team is where we are in march.
No1 on earth will convince me Bruce pearl or Rick Pitino wouldn’t have this team as a top 15 team in the country. This is more talent then woody has ever had, he wasn’t lying about that preseason.
It’s called leadership.. Leal is been here what 5 years?
Then don't rag on him just because he's doing what our 10+ coaches should be doing. Don't rag on him because Mgbako, Carlyle, and Rice either can't play defense or won't. Appreciate what does bring each game because he's about the only one bringing it. He's not the problem.
Nah… Leal is the 2025 version of Brian Sloan. A player that players overlook but coaches know how important he is.
Actually just about anyone who knows much of anything about basketball knows how important Leals hustle plays are to a Team versus those who go way out of their way to pump ultra-phony Hype about extremely overpaid and extremely underperforming types...
It's the hottest team in the country. Don't be surprised if Woodson makes a deep tourney run and unretires
His leadership and attitude are his best attributes but he will be overmatched against most teams. If want to be a top team though he wouldn't see the floor. He is zero threat offensively and can't have your 2 guard not be a threat and win big IMO. Guard play is generally what wins in the tournament and ours is very inconsistent - every one of our guards has at one point or another shot airballs - Leal, Galloway, Rice and Carlyle - and when they miss, they miss ugly.
he did in the one I looked at: 4 rebs, 3 steals, 2 blocks and 4 assists. The game is more than scoring. On Assembly Call, 2 of the 3 guys voted for Leal as Hustle Player of the game, over Goode, who scored very well.
You just going to conveniently leave out wins at Michigan State and Purdue where Leal started and played 29 and 34 minutes collectively?
everyone on our team has shot airballs.
goode's recovery from early season shooting woes to his run from January 2nd on is very impressive.
I see effort as contagious. I hope Mgbako catches the disease especially on defense.
Love his effort and heart but IU but IU will never be relevant again if we’re playing a kid like Leal significant minutes.
That's not even remotely true. Who he's surrounded with, and the coach that's directing it all, dictates that as much as Leal and his 1 spot on the floor. Put Leal in Auburn's starting lineup, or Dukes, and they're not dropping out of the top 10 or anything like that. Obviously he wouldn't make them better. It would hurt them. But he's not the chump that Cav has constantly made him out to be.
And its typical Cav to keep moving the goal posts on this... His original claims were that he was trash, and that he shouldn't be playing in the B10, at all. That was absurd, and is absurd...and Leal has proven that to be absurd...and so now its that he wouldn't be playing in the SEC...or for top 10 teams. He could. He wouldn't look out of place. But OBVIOUSLY, those teams have better guards than he is.
Teams need role players. Leal is a high IQ player who knows his limitations. He makes the other four players on the floor better.
This team seems to be embracing their roles down the stretch. If Galloway can keep shooting well, they could do damage if they catch a couple breaks.
This team seems to be embracing their roles down the stretch. If Galloway can keep shooting well, they could do damage if they catch a couple breaks.
I really hope he gets his medical redshirt. I'm seeing plenty of others out there getting theirs, Oregon has 2 guys that just got theirs. What's Goode's case look like? I haven't paid close enough attention.
Yeah... I kind of get that sentiment, and it'll be too bad. Maybe he wouldn't want to go through another coaching change though??
