"Rebuild" has developed a weird valence in the pro sports world where it's "sucking, basically on purpose, and demanding admiration for doing so".With totally different expectations. This would be a rebuild.
Losing TSJ, Domask, Coleman, Dain, Hansberry
Gaining Boswell, Booth, Tre, Davis
Hate to say it but that's a bottom half Big Ten team unless Brad works some serious magic(which is possible)
Indiana still doesn’t have shooting. I believe he can mess it up stillPurdue
Braden Smith (12.2 PPG)
Fletcher Loyer (10.6 PPG)
Camden Heide (3.4 PPG)
Trey Kaufman-Renn (6.4 PPG)
Caleb Furst (2.2 PPG)
Maryland
Ja'Kobi Gillespie (17.2 PPG at Belmont)
Rodney Rice (7.4 PPG at Virginia Tech)
DeShawn Harris-Smith (7.3 PPG)
Julian Reese (13.7 PPG)
Derik Queen (No. 10 in ESPN 100)
UCLA
Dylan Andrews (12.9 PPG)
Sebastian Mack (12.1 PPG)
Kobe Johnson (10.9 PPG at USC)
Lazar Stefanovic (11.5 PPG)
Berke Buyuktuncel (4.5 PPG)
Currently the number 1 ranked team in the transfer portal
Rutgers
Dylan Harper (No. 3 in ESPN 100)
Jeremiah Williams (12.2 PPG)
Tyson Acuff (21.7 PPG at Eastern Michigan)
Ace Bailey (No. 2 in ESPN 100)
Emmanuel Ogbole (2.1 PPG)
Wisconsin
Chucky Hepburn (9.2 PPG)
John Blackwell (8.0 PPG)
Max Klesmit (9.9 PPG)
Carter Gilmore (1.8 PPG)
Steven Crowl (11.2 PPG)
If Indiana lands 3 of the top 15 transfers as it's looking like they will. You can put them in this list too. Not even Mike Woodson could mess that up
Many have brought this up. Ironic since this was the first thing Knight looked for.Indiana still doesn’t have shooting. I believe he can mess it up still
I agree with you. I I believe he is better, but was trying to be nice and say at the least he’s just as good."Just as Good?" No. Boswell is the much better player with more upside. The important numbers...shot percentages and assist to turnover ratio for Rice...they are downright ugly. Heaven knows why this message board guy is so enamored with him. Once Boswell dials in his nutrition and gets Fletched up, I think we'll see even greater improvement than we did from freshman to sophomore year from him. We are getting the guy with far more potential who will make our team much better in the long run than Rice will make Indiana.
Not a chance that's real. I can't imagine that.
Can’t imagine that being true but who knows.Seen were asking for a house in the negotiations and possibly job.
I saw one of Morez Johnson’s high school games when he was matched against Lathan Sommerville, who has signed with Rutgers. I believe he is 6,10”. Morez was dominant and so much more polished and effective. Lathan Sommerville is a bully, by the way. Morez has a high basketball IQ like Coleman, he has a sweet shot and great form on his shot. He is a natural baller, so smooth, quick and athletic. Illini fans will love this guy.Again, I think people are gonna be surprised by the impact of Rez. I think he will be in the running for BFrosh of the year. I am not an Insider!!!
Myles Rice - 44% FG, 27% 3PT, 3.8 AST, 2.6 TOThe important numbers...shot percentages and assist to turnover ratio for Rice...they are downright ugly.
OK and...Myles Rice - 44% FG, 27% 3PT, 3.8 AST, 2.6 TO
Marcus Domask - 45% FG, 29% 3PT, 3.9 AST, 2.3 TO
Myles Rice - 44% FG, 27% 3PT, 3.8 AST, 2.6 TO
Marcus Domask - 45% FG, 29% 3PT, 3.9 AST, 2.3 TO
Yep, exactly right in my view. Every year is a complete rebuild henceforth. Every dang year."Rebuild" has developed a weird valence in the pro sports world where it's "sucking, basically on purpose, and demanding admiration for doing so".
But rebuilding is just what college sports is. The entire Big Ten is rebuilding, that's everyone. We rebuilt this season.
I was at the rematch when Lathan got his revenge. That kids gonna be a really good one as well.I saw one of Morez Johnson’s high school games when he was matched against Lathan Sommerville, who has signed with Rutgers. I believe he is 6,10”. Morez was dominant and so much more polished and effective. Lathan Sommerville is a bully, by the way. Morez has a high basketball IQ like Coleman, he has a sweet shot and great form on his shot. He is a natural baller, so smooth, quick and athletic. Illini fans will love this guy.
No interest from me. Course, I don't have any input whatsoever so who cares what I think.
Any interest in Ivisic?
He is a handful but It’s his attitude that turns me away; Morez has Illini class and tremendous skills.I was at the rematch when Lathan got his revenge. That kids gonna be a really good one as well.
Rice was a freshman Marcus was a 5th year senior this is not a comparison. Also Myles was shooting 36% from 3 until he went through a slump (likely fatigue from having to sit out a year due to cancer)Myles Rice - 44% FG, 27% 3PT, 3.8 AST, 2.6 TO
Marcus Domask - 45% FG, 29% 3PT, 3.9 AST, 2.3 TO
I'm pointing out the comparison to rebut the notion that those numbers for Rice were "downright ugly".Rice was a freshman Marcus was a 5th year senior this is not a comparison. Also Myles was shooting 36% from 3 until he went through a slump (likely fatigue from having to sit out a year due to cancer)
Rice's ORtg on sports reference was 106.7. Domask this year was 116.4. Domask as a freshman was 110.9, and his worst was 107. Rice could improve to be as good as or better than Domask, but he might not, and he was definitely a tier below him this year.Rice was a freshman Marcus was a 5th year senior this is not a comparison. Also Myles was shooting 36% from 3 until he went through a slump (likely fatigue from having to sit out a year due to cancer)