Auburn is #4 in hoops. Wtf

[Noodle]

Crean was better than Woodson.

 

[Noodle]

Do they?

Yes. Yes, they do have too much talent to get blown out by a mediocre (at best) Louisville. Piss poor, lazy coaching is cancerous.

 

[Spartans9312]

You can have an off-night offensively but there’s no reason to be so pathetic defensively. I didn’t see more than half the game but what I saw set defensive teaching back 50 years or so. Everybody’s worse off for experiencing that crap. It will make a great instruction tape for those willing to use it as an example of piss-poor design and execution and desire.

“This is not how you play defense, gentlemen. If you think it is, go play s*****.”

7 turnovers in the first 8 minutes.
Point guard paints his fingernails so we look good losing…that’s what is important.

As a good portion of us said, “what we had with Knight is never coming back”

But also the college game is long gone.

 

[Spartans9312]

Yes. Yes, they do have too much talent to get blown out by a mediocre (at best) Louisville. Piss poor, lazy coaching is cancerous.

I wish your team luck in fighting the cancer that has infiltrated “college basketball”….If Painter can continue the attempt at player development from Freshman thru Senior then he is worthy of our respect

 

[Univee2]

7 turnovers in the first 8 minutes.
Point guard paints his fingernails so we look good losing…that’s what is important.

As a good portion of us said, “what we had with Knight is never coming back”

But also the college game is long gone.

Effort should always be there. Easy to say. Guess you can’t demand it anymore. Make a bad play, look at the ref with a pained expression, throw up your hands and don’t get back to play defense. Ass, meet bench.

 

[ulrey]

Yes. Yes, they do have too much talent to get blown out by a mediocre (at best) Louisville. Piss poor, lazy coaching is cancerous.

Define talent?

 

[Spartans9312]

Effort should always be there. Easy to say. Guess you can’t demand it anymore. Make a bad play, look at the ref with a pained expression, throw up your hands and don’t get back to play defense. Ass, meet bench.

Substitutions are pre-determined

 

[Spartans9312]

Define talent?

Run fast, jump high….is how most people define it.

Team building and roster construction are the real talents.

 

[ulrey]

Run fast, jump high….is how most people define it.

Team building and roster construction are the real talents.

How bout shooting?

 

[Univee2]

Define talent?

I think we always over-value our talent. Many say that Mgbako and Reneau will be in the NBA. I don’t see it. Too slow and not enough natural athleticism. I may be wrong, but I thought Ballo and Rice were First-Team All-PAC-12. If so, that’s an indictment of that league’s talent.

Bryson Tucker looks to be the only natural basketball player. And he’ll be in the portal at year’s end.

Our crimson-tinted glasses always cloud our vision. We’ll be lucky to be a .500 team this year.

 

[Mas-sa-suta]

I was advocating hiring Bruce Pearl when they hired Mike Davis full time. I saw his teams here in Evansville, dealt with him personally on a couple of events. The man is a bundle of energy, enthusiasm, optimism, etc. And his teams play hard.

But I knew even then that it would never happen. He's not a cultural fit -- and the culture of IU basketball is more sacrosanct to the decision-makers than winning is. This doesn't make sense to me at all. If your culture is an obstacle to success, you shouldn't be protecting it -- you should be actively changing it. And I firmly believe that this is the single biggest problem with IU basketball.

Changing coaches is fine. But sometimes a situation needs more than that.

The late Mike Leach would have e been the turnaround football coach....but once again, IU was and is a Woke institution; Leach would have pissed off some early DEI hires, and would have left on his own initiative.

 

[Spartans9312]

How bout shooting?

Have to have 3 shooters in the floor at all times. But also have to realize there is a pecking order.

It always cracked me up when the analytics guys said Race Had to shoot the open 3. It’s so dumb

 

[Spartans9312]

I think we always over-value our talent. Many say that Mgbako and Reneau will be in the NBA. I don’t see it. Too slow and not enough natural athleticism. I may be wrong, but I thought Ballo and Rice were First-Team All-PAC-12. If so, that’s an indictment of that league’s talent.

Bryson Tucker looks to be the only natural basketball player. And he’ll be in the portal at year’s end.

Our crimson-tinted glasses always cloud our vision. We’ll be lucky to be a .500 team this year.

Rice and MgBako have the ability. The team is full of mercenaries. Leal is the only one there for the Uni….Woody doesn’t care for him.

Effort is lacking in the whole program. What I thought Woody would fix by being hired he has made infinitely worse

 

[BradStevens]

Yes. Yes, they do have too much talent to get blown out by a mediocre (at best) Louisville. Piss poor, lazy coaching is cancerous.

How would you know? You haven't seen that at Purdue in your lifetime, have you?

ETA: I forgot about your football team.

 

[GeorgeStrait IU]

A personal 'what if' for me is if Jason Collier and Luke Recker could have stuck around and played the way Knight wanted them to play. Michigan State won the national title and IU had beaten 3 of the 4 Final Four in what would have been Collier's senior year/Recker's junior year.

Collier was all ACC his senior year and nearly averaged a double double for GT (without looking it up, 17 points, nearly 10 rebounds a game). We all know what Recker did at Iowa. I think 2000 could have been the year IU hung banner number 6, had it all shaken out right.

YES!
sr: Collier
rs so:Haston
jr :Recker
sr: Guyton
sr: Lewis