I think it was Alex Bozich/Inside the Hall. I think it won't end up being Braden either, but he is the only returning first teamer. More strange to me that they had the Iowa kid second: Peyton Sandfort? And Rice 4th overall. I'd think he'd be 4th on our team: Ballo, Mbako, Reanu and Rice. But we did have 4 like in the top 22 or so, and yet Bozich picked us 4th in the conference. What's that say?
Haralson
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worth about as much as preseason polls. You know how I feel about them.....polls are worthless until February. It will be an interesting season.
Yes it was Bozich. Those top 2 picks were real head scratchers, as well as picking Rice as our highest ranked player. We shall see.
Blue Ribbon tabbed him 2nd team All-American recently and I’m sure many more publications will follow suit. Braden Smith has vastly outperformed his high school ranking and for that both he and Painter deserve endless credit. But that being said, this is the first year where he actually has “expectations”. Transitioning from feed Edey and don’t turn the ball over to preseason All-American is a monumental ask. He has struggled more times than not when teams played him straight up and didn’t sell out to stop Edey. He’ll see that every night this coming season.
I mean.. Yes.. Without Edey, those baseline drives will turn into alot of forced shots being deflected. He will have a good season, but not rhe best player lol.
He's got to remind some of the Harrison twins? Then you have the Moreno domino, plus he left his high school at a time when the local competition was high. I don't know where he will go but he sounds like a kid that is looking at his options.
Once we ran into a storm that drove us inside of the boat, but that is where the bar was, so it was all good.
Haralson has handled his playing career like like a pro. I don't think there's any way he's not a Hoosier.
Zero chance he's coming off the bench at Indiana. Also, Markus Burton is more ball-dominant than any player expected to be on IU's roster next year regardless of what Carlyle and Rice do.
VanPastorMan
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I'd love to get Haralson. He reminds me of Jimmy Butler in the way he plays.
The consensus seems to be that Mbako will leave after this year and I think that's a pretty reasonable prediction. I think that would open up PT for Haralson, along with TG graduating. Obviously it's wide open if Carlyle were to leave. That would leave Haralson and Tucker battling for minutes. I still feel like the guy who might then be playing behind guys for a season is Mullins.
If it is between us and ND...man, I'd hope we can beat them out. For all the obvious, IU is just a better overall basketball program than ND, reasons...but from a basketball standpoint, assuming Burton will still be there, Haralson is a guy that should want a situation where he'll come in and 1)play right away...he would at both ND and IU, but then 2)be one of the main ball handlers/playmakers on the roster...any team that has Burton on it, he'll handle the ball most of the game, and make most of the plays. I don't see those 2 fitting very well alongside each other. One of them will have to make some sacrifices in their games.
At IU...Galloway will be gone. Seems more likely than not one, if not both, of Rice and Carlyle will be gone. The rest of IU's likely returning guys, and the guys they're in on in 25', are more off the ball type guys, or guys that would be find playing off Haralson more. Even Mgbako and/or Tucker, if either would be back, aren't primary ball handler type players.
Haralson would fit alongside the returning core of IU players very well, I would think. Even Rice and Carlyle are both much less ball dominant than Burton is. One of them, alongside Haralson, Tucker, and Mgbako... yeah...that'd workout very well for all of them.
