He wasn't ready. Another casualty of horrible roster construction.
Conor Enright Commits to IU
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He started some games as a freshman out of necessity. Needs to get stronger. Taller wouldn’t hurt either. He might be nice to spell someone else’s minutes as a senior. Who can afford that time to wait in this competitive world of “Be (Winning) Here Now”?
As an "amateur fan", not to be confused with a "professional fan"....I am high on CDD and not so high on Enright. I have to assume that he will be a situational role player. He won't be able to guard the 6-4 studs from UConn, Duke or Louisville. He can shoot, which is needed. But, I need to assume that with a portal rich in available talent....that CDD is targeting the elite and best who can fit the system. Both will be necessary to be in the top side of the B1G.....available and compatible. Mid major talent won't get it done. Will be interesting to see who is next.
So we will want him starting and playing 35 mins a game by March, perfect.
Welcome Conor!
Glad to have someone who buys into Coach DeVries and Indiana, and can help build the culture.
Drain some threes while you're at it!
Kid seems like a pretty good passer to me. Scrappy. He'll be able to play. Needs to get that free throw percent to 75 or better though.
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Glad to have someone who buys into Coach DeVries and Indiana, and can help build the culture.
Drain some threes while you're at it!
Kid seems like a pretty good passer to me. Scrappy. He'll be able to play. Needs to get that free throw percent to 75 or better though.
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I doubt CDD is looking at Enright as a starter, but someone who can if pressed into it. Certainly a better option than a freshman Cupps, from a year ago. I heard someone on a podcast talking about the portal and as they said, it's not like a draft where you get your first round pick first; you have to decide if you want a kid on your roster and take him when they are in the portal. I'd guess that's the case with Enright.
I'm concerned about the whole class at this point, but certainly PG is a puzzle. Enright is listed as the #18 PG in the portal right now. 9 of those above him have committed elsewhere. We've not been mentioned with any of the other 8, as far as I know.
I had seen the name of Jizzle (seriously) James from Cincy mentioned as a possibility, due to Drew Adams ties, but he's now staying at Cincy. Also saw Isaiah Swope of St Louis (formerly of ISU) mentioned early, but he's not in the portal. I saw us just mentioned the other day respecting Daquan Davis of FSU, a lower rated soph who has some upside, and he's already comitteed to Providence. That seems to indicate they are in scramble mode concerning PGs. Maybe they'll look to D2.
Overall, it seems like Dix, Bigunda and Freeman are about all we've got going on at present. We really need 2/3. P. Payne of A&M just went in the portal and we've contacted him, but it's a weak portal year for Centers. We're going to need two, right? So the 2nd will probably look like the guy we had this year. They list Bigunda as the #1 portal center.
My guess is we overpay Flory by about a million, it gets national news that IU spent 3 mil for him. We then think we win the off season. We run our offense through flory, anddddsddd We suck againnnnnnnnn
If FB is the #1 rated portal center (so far), it is a weak portal year for centers.
Why do you continue to insist that our coach is a dumbass?
You have some insider knowledge that the rest of the basketball world doesn't seem to share, about DeVries?
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Well we will pay him like the best player this side of the Mississippi this year, don’t worry.
Our previous coach was a dumbass. This one yet to be determined, but hiring Drew Adams is a piss poor start.
Well we have three players and ten million dollars to spend so we may need to start overpaying at some point.
I've talked about Enright a lot here. I like him, I'm just not sure about if I like him for Indiana. I do think, though, he'll be a leader that will help establish the culture and standards for Coach. No doubt in my mind about that.
Here's one of the posts I wrote about him that may (or may not) help people out:
Post in thread 'Report: DePaul transfer guard Conor Enright set to visit Indiana' https://indiana.forums.rivals.com/t...ight-set-to-visit-indiana.252268/post-4330617
5th year covid option is gone. Many of the better college bigs don't fit in the pros so many stuck around. NCAA is a going to be a bit younger next year
Sucks as a human being. His dad is a POS that F$&&$ us with A hope. Hanner was families doing. We cheated to get Hanner with the Adams family. Drew is the most like his dad as any father son you can imagine. Drew had zero friends in HS and was creepy as can be.
The reason (singular): it's Cav. Guy forms an opinion and that's it (see R Langford and A Leal) and he's known this guy and his family since they were kids. I've heard multiple people talk about what a good hire it was, so to say there are differing opinions is an understatement.
He got his first job with IU under Crean because of Ahope. Then got with Steve Alford because of ties with his dad. I mean I puked when I saw this.
You think someone can't be good at their job and a POS personally? They can and there are plenty of them. Like I said, no one else I've heard discussing the hire has said it's a bad one outside of you and your comments are almost exclusively personal. He could be a bad person, and still good at his job, that happens frequently.
Yes. Lots of turnovers. Holtman wanted to push the pace and Enright took that to heart. Some of them were because of trying to go way too fast. Others were things he was probably used to being open at a little bit lower level.
I knew him growing up. I could give you 50 people that I know that would tell you they feel the same way with me from Bloomington. He has had his dad get him to where he is now, and has never done anything great in his career. I have zero reason to think that’s going to change here.
What makes his dad a POS? Just curious I often hear people call others this but its a pretty strong thing to say about another human so I assume you have alot of info to back up why he is a POS?
We need two more guys that are starter worthy just to have the possibility of a middle-of-the-back BT team next year. So yes, overpaying for 2/3 of our top choices would seem to be a practical necessity.
Telling your son he isn’t good enough to play basketball anymore and pulling him off the team because you lost a game. They both were cry babies. Drew would actually cry when playing sports.
Again mark Adams business model was going to Africa and getting basketball prospects to come live with him and he would funnel them to schools. Including Hanner. He got paid off for this. Including getting his son a job at IU for Hanner. You know Drew’s first job under Crean. That makes you a POS in my book.
Aau ties to Indiana maybe flory is tied to him. Makes me think he got told he should concentrate on Indiana and Drew would be great for ties here. Which makes me think he isn’t getting the staff he wants and is listening to outside people.
IMO that’s a big mistake. Kelvin just had an interview saying basically people always are calling him asking him to hire certain people to fill assistant and bench coach roles. He said the only people on my staff are family and my former players. They have to to be your culture and part of you. If Drew Adams is our culture we are F$&@“!!
That would be good. Establishing a culture is important, and due to the short term transactional nature of CBB, it is going to be really challenging to do. We need to build a program. That’s different than building a team of players for a year.
Been an assistant at IU, Nevada, Bradley and Cincy and grad asst at Tenn. Not an unusual resume for an asst job at IU. Again, you're referencing, it seems, your memory of him as a kid. Maybe he's moved past that, but his background is consistent with the job (unlike his first stint at IU, even though he was a recruiting coordinator, so having played and been a grad asst at UT would still qualify) and I've heard other folks say it was a good hire and no one has questioned it like you. Maybe it is a bad hire, or maybe he's good at his job and a POS person. All I can say is judging from his background it makes sense.
Sure makes sense on paper I just know him and who he is. Not smart, not a hard worker. These things haven’t changed. I know people that know him very well who I’ve talked to this week. He’s a shade ball. We shall see.
I saw hanner play on that AAU team with Yogi several times and I remember thinking how is this guy ranked in the top 20 in the country. All he could do was dunk over smaller players and he had no shot at all. I remember seeing them lose to a Illinois team with Fred Van Fleet and thinking Van Fleet is going to be a player. Even Hollowell was not all that impressive on that AAU team when I watched them. I guess I should have realized at that point " the movement" was way overhyped.
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