Samari Curtis
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Fixing whatever needs fixing to win..he’s the coach..do u just try to be a pain in the ass bc that was a stupid question. You seem to be ok with the 12/13 losses..care to explain why? Just curious. Serious question. Please be specific.
What has Archie done to deserve his salary at IU?
Recruited a MCD all american in his first year, however, fails to make the dance even-though they have an all BIG performer along with a guy that shattered the vertical jumping record.
My point has always been what Archie should have done differently that would have made a difference.
Smith is the one guy I would have benched from what I watched. But who do you play in his place? Moore? Forrester? Neither of them were ready to play to this level - does anyone believe Archie wanted to lose? Those two guys playing likely would have resulted in losses anyways. So are people trying to tell me they'd been ok with the losses IF somebody was held accountable?
It wasn't until we started to get healthy that Smith's minutes were impacted; he was taken out of the starting lineup after the Ohio St game and only played 6 minutes total at Iowa. He then came back to play some of his best basketball to close out the season.
Could Archie had benched him earlier? Yeah - but it's hard to do without any depth at the position. Plus, what were Moore and Forrester giving in practice? Maybe they didn't get playing time because of what they were giving day-to-day?
Everyone always has easy answers. Sometime, reality is much different.
No, it isn't.
You're all for Archie "fixing" things - but you can't even opine on what needed to be fixed. And you're calling others stupid? Wow . . .
That Mickey D had a torn ligament in his shooting hand - think that might have impacted his shot?
Al Durham had his finger on his shooting bent sideways - perpendicular to the other three. Think that didn't bother him, either?
We had no post depth thru the month of January - you know, the midst of that 12 of 13 run? Think maybe having DeRon for more than 4 minutes at Maryland might have made a difference when Morgan got into foul trouble trying to guard Bruno down low?
Speaking of that B1G performer - think had we been able to play him at the 4 instead of in the post, guarding guys like Bruno, Kaleb Wesson, wt al . . . he could have been more effective? But we HAD to play him there because he was the best to put in that position.
One thing I've learned over the past decade from people who are a helluva lot smarter than I am when it comes to basketball: Things happen for a reason. And the answers aren't as easy as some want them to be.
If IU has a season like this past one again - especially if they are healthy - then calls for Archie's head won't be unreasonable. By year 3 a senior Green, junior Durham and soph Phinisee out to provide enough guard play. The defense should be better (it has improved the last 2 years). Depth should be better with addition of Brunk and TJD (again, assuming everyone else is healthy).
I'll be surprised if this team doesn't make the dance. We were a virtual play-in game against Ohio St. from making it this past year - even with everything that went wrong. Can't imagine another bizzaro year of injuries like we just had happening again.
None.
There was a lot out of Archie's control this past year, but year 3 tells us what we have. He can either get it done, or he can't. I'll be surprised if they don't go dancing.
It's funny, to an outsider it seems the opposite. You have to wonder about his X and O but he seems to be recruiting well (Romeo, Phin last year.... TJD, Franklin this year).
On top of not having a good replacement, you can't bench Smith for his lack of effort if you don't bench Romeo for his lack of effort.
Which is one of the reasons why I believe the locker room was a mess.
Reminds me of Colin Hartman talking about Vonleh. Said Noah was quiet but Crean didn't get on him for not finishing drills like he did others and the guys definitely noticed.
Anyway, I actually do blame the locker room issues on Archie. Hopefully he's learned you can't coach scared to discipline any player.
That was actually one thing about Knight that was great, he got on his star players more than the other guys which made the other guys pull for the star player (that and Knight was the star, not the kid).
That’s a fair evaluation. Mistakes were plentiful, and the coach was no exception.
One thing I heard last February from a guy I’d consider to be a highly credible source is that some of the players complained about having to play the packline. If everyone is not on the same page it kills any defense, especially this one. Smith absolutely killed us late against Ohio St, Iowa and Purdue at home on not maintaining proper position.
I still go back to that despite everything that went wrong, we were a win over Ohio St in the BTT from going to the dance. And the fact that our TO percentage and defensive efficiency both got better.
Are we where we want to be/need to be? No, but it’s a process. Not 9 year deal, but 3-4 years is reasonable.
"It doesn’t take years to build a basketball program." you should write a letter to beilein and bennett and tell them that
Believe me (hell, believe what you want), if this guy has heard it it likely came from within the program.
I don't take every single thing I ever hear as gospel. But from some individuals who I know have more access to the going-ons regarding the basketball program than most people I'll put more stock into. But, again, believe what you want to believe.
Good question.
Never asked him that - my response was “they knew they were signing up for the packline - stop bitching and play.”
That gets back to my comments to @snarlcakes on these being Archie’s guys going forward - if the guys that were bitching are still here, it’s on you because you decided to keep them. Either coach ‘em up or sit their ass.
If only Miller could evaluate talent and see the future like you do.
Yes, that is why they play them.
"Recruiting did not pan out this year". Really? Adding a Mcd's player and a nice guard as freshman and a transfer that should give us some good 5 back up minutes is not panning out?
Sure, he lost Brooks but other than that what didn't pan out?
Cherry picking. I was responding a poster that had high praise for Archie when he was hired and now acts like everybody should listen to him about how bad of a coach Archie is. Many people outside of IU fans thought Crean should have been kept because of his record, the same record you are referring to as a train wreck.
National analyst Brian Snow says Brunk will start for IU over Davis. Says Brunk is the better player. I give him some credit because he said before this past season started that IU would have problems hitting shots. He nailed it.
You however have no credibility, I can't believe you post so often after you clearly lied about a certain coach being in Bloomington and yet talked so highly of Archie as a hire. We know that when the clown shows up making all of these negative posts that the circus is right behind him.
We lost Morgan & Romeo and we’re young. The excuses are in place.
He’s not wrong. There will be plenty of posters continuing to make excuses for Archie next year. You’ll post your cute pictures trolling posters and Hondo will spaz out like a 3 year old. A lot of posters have already reset expectations to making the tourney as an accomplishment. You’re fanboys
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And you're an overreactive drama queen, just like the rest of your posse (free paw, cryanwhine, etc.).
I am not part of any posse or drama. I am tired of losing and tired of excuses. We were good enough to beat MSU twice. No excuses for losing 11 out of 12. No excuses for come out flat almost every game and getting in a hole. No excuse for lack of effort.
Hopefully there will be improvement in 19-20 and major improvement in 20-21.
As someone outside, y’all are more of a train wreck than almost all other teams in major conferences
Let's see ... IU won the national championship in 1973. And over the next 20 years, the team made the NCAA tournament all of three times -- one of those was 1954. So, that's twice in 19 years ...
We've had it worse.
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