Deepest Roster at IU Ever?

[eyeyoo]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

Yeah, but absent an injury, there's only so much benefit you get from that kind of depth.

 

[Rangeline Fan]

Definitely the deepest bench ever...deeper that any National Title team. Deeper than both the 75 and 76 undefeated teams.

Most definitely THEE deepest IU team ever...

 

[TheSpa]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

You need to manage your expectations. They'll have a chance to be very good, but I'll be surprised if they are. Way too many question marks.

 

[Indiana 2001]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

This same topic is posted every year. It never happens.

 

[bsmitty08]

You will really see the hockey line subbing!

 

[ericrossiu]

91-92 was pretty deep

 

[mcraig33]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

 

[mcraig33]

In the early 90's we were stacked

 

[missionale]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

So deep, even the depth has depth...wait that was in 2013 when Will and Hanner were the 6th and 7th starters...and Hollowell was going to be an NBA player someday(except for the initial depth comments the rest came from TC)

 

[Spa#2]

Final four baby!

 

[Spa#2]

Dont forget priller. He will surprise!

 

[82hoosier]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

IU has not had a been deep in talent for "a long time" so your post might be correct. They are so deep they will likely be listed as a preseason top-20 team.

 

[missionale]

IU has not had a been deep in talent for "a long time" so your post might be correct. They are so deep they will likely be listed as a preseason top-20 team.

On paper wouldn't the 12-13 team be deeper going into the season? Sixth man of the year Will, Hollowell was ranked higher than either OG/JW, Perea who was ranked similarly to TB, Remy, Elston, Creek

With hindsight some of those guys weren't as good as advertised but who knows how good this years freshman will be..they could be great or they could be the movement part 2

 

[Stuffshot]

Definitely the deepest bench ever...deeper that any National Title team. Deeper than both the 75 and 76 undefeated teams.

Most definitely THEE deepest IU team ever...

Depth is a little more important now (because of shot clock ending the stall) but you still need 6-7 top notch players that get most of the minutes.

I don't expect the last 3-4 guys on the bench to play much. Holt's and Zeisloft's PT, for example, could suffer next year just from the newcomers. Time will tell.

 

[Rangeline Fan]

Depth is a little more important now (because of shot clock ending the stall) but you still need 6-7 top notch players that get most of the minutes.

I don't expect the last 3-4 guys on the bench to play much. Holt's and Zeisloft's PT, for example, could suffer next year just from the newcomers. Time will tell.

Like I said...THEE deepest team ever at IU. No other like it. We could put any combination of five players on the floor and compete for a title.

 

[outanames]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

There's a good chance we will lose as many as 5-6 players after next season to graduation and the NBA draft. That would leave 7-8 scholarship players, and perhaps a big hole in the middle again as well. So, if we have a plethora of depth, it's likely to be for one year only in regards to veteran depth. Let's hope this coming season provides all of us a very special one.

 

[whosyurdad]

I have been watching IU basketball for a long time and I honestly cannot remember a team that had a bench as deep as ours is going to be next year. With the exception of Priller, there's nobody left on the roster that would qualify as someone who should only be on the court during garbage time.

If the chemistry of the team stays strong, this could be a special season. Very exciting!

Deepest team ever? No. The roster looks promising this year though.

 

[TheLaffy]

Depth is a little more important now (because of shot clock ending the stall) but you still need 6-7 top notch players that get most of the minutes.

I don't expect the last 3-4 guys on the bench to play much. Holt's and Zeisloft's PT, for example, could suffer next year just from the newcomers. Time will tell.

I bet Zeisloft sees the floor less than 3 minutes a game.

 

[frikkenfrakken]

I bet Zeisloft sees the floor less than 3 minutes a game.

How much?

 

[BirdAlfordBailey]

Deep rosters are nice but do they really need breaks? Every four mins of game time they get a 1-2 minute

 

[Go Hoosiers]

Depth really overrated if players are smart and stay healthy. I mean in reality how many kids did the like of ND, Duke, Wisconsin, and Arizona play this year?

 

[TheLaffy]

Depth really overrated if players are smart and stay healthy. I mean in reality how many kids did the like of ND, Duke, Wisconsin, and Arizona play this year?

I think it helps practice more than anything. Playing against scrubs then doesn't help them at all. And it pushes them because they know if they don't bring it while on the court, they are sitting.

 

[Stuffshot]

I bet Zeisloft sees the floor less than 3 minutes a game.

Well, he averaged over 19 minutes per game last year. I don't expect his minutes to decrease down to just 3 because he's a good shooter, but I do think it's possible they could go down.

 

[ORG]

Yeah, but absent an injury, there's only so much benefit you get from that kind of depth.

Well, it can be an asset to help prevent "end-of-the-season" tired legs.

 

[palos6637]

Ziesloft is one of the best three point shooters on the team and you only give him 3 minutes? LOL

 

[Rangeline Fan]

Ziesloft is one of the best three point shooters on the team and you only give him 3 minutes? LOL

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[TheLaffy]

Well, he averaged over 19 minutes per game last year. I don't expect his minutes to decrease down to just 3 because he's a good shooter, but I do think it's possible they could go down.

He can't guard a lamp and Crean is going to stress D more than anything.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Crean is going to stress D more than anything.

LOL.

 

[Al Bino]

He can't guard a lamp and Crean is going to stress D more than anything.

And what makes you think that your statement is true? He never has been a coach that talks much about D and generally a coach talks about what is important to him.

Last year, even though it was blatantly obvious that the team was woeful on D, all he talked about was going faster, faster, faster.

 

[TheLaffy]

And what makes you think that your statement is true? He never has been a coach that talks much about D and generally a coach talks about what is important to him.

Last year, even though it was blatantly obvious that the team was woeful on D, all he talked about was going faster, faster, faster.

I think Crean is the second worst coach in the country (Only Rice at UNLV is worse....he's beyond awful). But he knows if they don't play D this year, he's gone.

Plus, the three players that want to play in the NBA were all told they need to improve their defense....so, they will do everything on their own to get better at it.

 

[Hoosier North]

I think Crean is the second worst coach in the country (Only Rice at UNLV is worse....he's beyond awful). But he knows if they don't play D this year, he's gone.

Plus, the three players that want to play in the NBA were all told they need to improve their defense....so, they will do everything on their own to get better at it.

Ha, ha, well you just let us know your knowledge of basketball. "The second worst coach in the country" based on what? Your clueless....

 

[TheLaffy]

Ha, ha, well you just let us know your knowledge of basketball. "The second worst coach in the country" based on what? Your clueless....

Please forgive me for laughing at a hillbilly that cries "your" clueless while questioning my intelligence.

And save your "Who cares about grammar on a message board" cry-fest.

 

[Hoosier North]

Please forgive me for laughing at a hillbilly that cries "your" clueless while questioning my intelligence.

And save your "Who cares about grammar on a message board" cry-fest.

You're Clueless (about basketball), sorry grammar is important everywhere.

 

[TheLaffy]

You're Clueless (about basketball), sorry grammar is important everywhere.

Actually, I've been more accurate about the program more than anyone. Zeller's soph year, I said before the first game was ever played, "Our guards are going to get destroyed in the Dance because they are too small." Everyone called me an idiot. This was before the season even started. And then Syracuse gave us one of the biggest beat downs ever while completely shutting down our guards.

Every year I hear, "You're not a REAL fan because blah blah blah" yet my predictions are almost always right.

What's hilarious is the "real" fans call you fake if you think they are going to suck and when they actually do suck, they turn around and say, "The fake fans had too high of expectations."

All while blaming everything on the refs and having a "young" team while giving Crean a free pass.

I've called Crean an idiot for years so I'm hardly an apologist for him. I do think our defense will be much better next year.

 

[RickyRoe]

I'll go with 1991-1992 as a deeper team. Calbert Cheaney, Damon Bailey, Grag Graham, Allen Henderson. I would take any of those 4 over any player on this year's team - sorry Yogi. Add to that you had Eric Anderson, a former Illinois Mr. Basketball and New York Knick. Patt Graham was Indiana Mr. Basketball and McDonald's All-American. Nover added more size, Reynolds added another point guard and defender, and Leary added another shooter. The team had it all, and if it weren't for Laettner hitting the shot to beat Kentucky that team might have beat Kentucky in the Final Four and went on to win it all.

Next year's team is only deep at the 2-3-4 positions. Yogi is our only true point guard and Bryant is our only true center. A team is only deep if they can lose any player and call the next man up without skipping a beat, and I don't think we can do that with Yogi or Bryant.

 

[iubud]

Until Crean proves differently, we will likely start 3 guards. Zeisloft and the new walk on would be the only guards off the bench. Zeisloft will back up 2 of the 3 guard spots. I would love to play a 2 guard, small forward, power forward, and center lineup, but it would go against what Crean wants his teams to do.

 

[hgdownunder]

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Next year's team is only deep at the 2-3-4 positions. Yogi is our only true point guard and Bryant is our only true center. A team is only deep if they can lose any player and call the next man up without skipping a beat, and I don't think we can do that with Yogi or Bryant.

I totally agree. I feel a bit worried about counting on someone who has never played D1 ball to come in and play at a high level. There's a big difference in what Thomas Bryant's freshman year will be like depending on whether it is like Cody's, or JBJ's, or Hanner's (I am not even considering worst possible scenarios here).

We are counting on Thomas Bryant's freshman year being better than Hanner's senior year. While I really, really hope that eventuates, it isn't a sure thing.

And what happens if Yogi is injured. The only other specialist point guard is the new preferred walk on.

 

[russelltodd]

LOL.