Would be interesting to see a chart of his preseason predicted record and final record for every team last year.
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Yeah, we got no data on our sophomore led bench (tepid last year), Mackenzie, Ware, or Sparks in Big 10 play. Or, X’s effectiveness after his injury. Could start slow with Ware’s injury. Woodson showed he could coach up some D. The consistency on offense could take more time. I’ll take the over
Yeah ..I'm usually a prove it guy..
And I'm not in love with a bunch of a Woodson's in game strategy..
But the two things for any team.Be available..Have some talent..
I believe we have the second and that's a start...
sorry I think I make this statement around this time every year. Polls mean nothing to me until February, once you have some conf road games under your belt. IMHO.
If this team wants to be ranked before New Years...there are games on the early schedule to make that happen. Win in December, and we'll be top 15-20 come Jan 1.
If this team wants to be ranked before New Years...there are games on the early schedule to make that happen. Win in December, and we'll be top 15-20 come Jan 1.
If we beat Uconn, Auburn, KU, we will be #3 at minimum come New Years
. 5% shot, but there is a shot!!!
We'd likely play Texas as well if we beat UConn, no? Isn't that Empire thing an actual tournament? Win all 4 of those games, and I can't fathom not being Number 1.If we beat Uconn, Auburn, KU, we will be #3 at minimum come New Years
Also can't fathom winning all 4 of those games...
yeah I'll take a split with all of these high tier games. And no embarrassing 20+ pt blowouts on national TV
that's not glass-half-full approach....that's glass overflowing.If we beat Uconn, Auburn, KU, we will be #3 at minimum come New Years
I just don't want to see us wither like we did vs KU or that punk ass AZ team last year.
Have a lot more talent than last year. JHS and TJD were banged up last year.
We "should" be better defensively...and I think that will go a long way to making up for the loss of TJD and JHS.
I disagree... TJD was the 2nd best player in college basketball and JHS was a ball dominant guard that was a 1st round pick. Not to mention, Race was a 5th year guy and Miller was your best catch and shoot tbreat. Both of which you didn't replace.
This year, your lead guard is a guy that in five previous seasons, has yet to put together a consistent full season. You're going to rely on a true freshman be your primary scorer, your main post presence really isn't a true post scorer, and you don't have an established shooter.
TO be fair, he said talent. Ware and Mgbako are upgrades, TALENT wise, to Race and Kopp----and its not even close.
We lost probably the best rim protector in college basketball and should be better defensively?
Yes. Perimeter defense is probably about 10x more important than interior defense. And we were below mediocre defensively last year on the perimeter in a lot of games.
Obviously losing TJDs rim protection is going to hurt. But if our perimeter D is better it’ll more than offset that loss.
Creighton under McDermott has been pretty underwhelming, defensively in his tenure there. However, the last 2 seasons they have been top20 in KenPom. This is significantly better than his average which is somewhere in the 50s.
What's the difference between those 2 teams and all of his others? Ryan Kalkbrenner, an elite rim protector.
TJD was the second best player the last several months. He was nowhere near it when we played KU and AZ, that's all I was saying, They were banged up when we played our Noncon, JHS missed games and TJDs back was screwed from that hard fall. We should be much more talented and healthy for those particular games this year.
Now watch Ware Mack and X be out.
8th place is about the norm for IU. IU finishing in the top-5 of the conference is a big success these days. MM and Ware would have to be lights out to get IU toward the top. Going to have growing pains and probably a sweep by Northwestern and Iowa yet again.
Sure, but they're not upgrades to TJD and JHS. They are the ones you have to replace. I tossed in Race and Koff just reinforce that those were 5th year roll players that are also tough to replace.
1 spot...JHS to XJ...Different types of players...I'll give this one a wash. X is a lot better passer and defender. JHS obviously is better scorer, and probably a better shooter.
2 spot...Trey to Trey...stands to reason he'll be at least a tad better with another year under his belt.
3 spot...Miller to Mack...without question Mack is better, and more talented. The only area where I'd give Miller the nod was he was positionally very solid defensively. And that helped us a lot with JHS and others not being great on the ball defenders.
4 spot...Race to Ware...I used Ware here because it seems like he's more of an outside threat. Talent wise, this one is easy, Ware all day. But I actually call this one a wash, overall. Race wasn't perfect, obviously. But he was pretty darn solid, overall.
5 spot...TJD to Malik...obviously this one is a downgrade by any measure. TJD to Ware would also be a downgrade by any measure. I do think Malik, with a year under his belt, is going to be really, really good. And he's a former 5 star.
It'll be interesting how it all shakes out. Losing two NBA guys, obviously, creates a lot of question marks. Hopefully the answers are mostly good. There's definitely a lot of potential.
Don't count Sparks out. The kid has started every game he has played in college. Sure, it was Ball State, but Woody likes to have a veteran player on the court to start. I like it as the veterans settle the amped up young players down and aren't as likely to turn the ball over or commit early fouls.
I think it would be a good move, but who would start the game on the bench? This is blown apart if Mgbako, Ware and Reneau play well together and are clearly ahead of the others. I would love to watch the practices!
I think it's about right we have no shooting teams are going to pack the paint make us shoot from the seats. I'm predicting 10-10 20-10.
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