Enjoyable article TJ. Yes, always hope that this time they have the right guy!

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Enjoyable article TJ. Yes, always hope that this time they have the right guy!

great article.  i think this system will be more exciting to watch.  Hopefully more effective too.

Excellent article.  Great primer for the hoops season. 

TJ - do you have a starting 5 forecast at this stage?

Nicely done article. Thanks for the insight.

@red-x I'm always thinking about that kind of thing so, yes. Of course, the coaching staff's answer would correctly be "that stuff gets sorted out in practice" but projecting now, I would have the following:

Tayton Conerway, Lamar Wilkerson, Luke Goode, Tucker DeVries, Reed Bailey

Rotation behind them: Jasai Miles, Nick Dorn, Conor Enright as the main guards and then Sam Alexis, Trent Sisley and Josh Harris as the main "bigs"/forwards.

@tjinman1987  it seems that adding Goode, should indirectly help our post depth as well.  Adding another 6-6 plus wing to the rotation, should allow us to almost exclusively play 1 "big" rotations.   Bailey, then Alexis, then Harris... is a decent amount of post depth if/when you're only playing 1 big all the time.  I'd still LOVE for DeVries to pull a rabbit out of the hat, and get another impactful, main rotation big...but as it stands, we're not really in dire straights like some make us out to be.

I wonder if everyone will still be singing "Kumbaya" when Iowa has a better season than IU. 

Awesome article TJ. This has been said ad nauseum but will be said again by me - I am simply so excited to watch a team that shoots the 3 well (please don't be a jinx).

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@red-x I'm always thinking about that kind of thing so, yes. Of course, the coaching staff's answer would correctly be "that stuff gets sorted out in practice" but projecting now, I would have the following:

Tayton Conerway, Lamar Wilkerson, Luke Goode, Tucker DeVries, Reed Bailey

Rotation behind them: Jasai Miles, Nick Dorn, Conor Enright as the main guards and then Sam Alexis, Trent Sisley and Josh Harris as the main "bigs"/forwards.

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I wonder if everyone will still be singing "Kumbaya" when Iowa has a better season than IU. 

"If" my guy, "If"!

Posted by: @gthomas

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I wonder if everyone will still be singing "Kumbaya" when Iowa has a better season than IU. 

I do think whether DeVries fails or succeeds here will be determined in large part to how he does compared to May and McCollum.  The fans all wanted Woody fired after year 3 and May hired.  Most then wanted McCollum over DeVries.  The administration has botched every single hire these past 25 years when the fan base usually had it right.  That simply cannot happen again.  I do really like DeVries though.

@dbmhoosier I know I will always have an eye on what McCollum is doing.  He just landed Trey Thompson, a guy IU and Purdue were both recruiting.  On the old site, I spent many a post advocating for McCollum.  Now that Iowa has him, and we have DeVries...a situation that very easily could have happened in reverse... I think it will be a regular topic of conversation, especially for a few years.  

Obviously its not definitive, or even remotely close to it, which one will be a better B10 level coach.  And even if McCollum does show that he is, it'll never be known if he would have fit in, and thrived, at IU.  

I personally don't love DeVries pedigree.  Being a McDermott disciple doesn't really move the needle, for me.  But he has been a consistent winner.  And how impressed the main WVU media guys were with him, after having guys like Boelein and Huggins for years... speaks volumes.  

McCollum not being too excited about the IU job annoys me.  He's a good coach and I get he may not like the IU circus, but that said, I hope he struggles.