DISQUS

Azur Allen · 1 month ago

gotta love this kid. he's the poster boy for having iu pride. he's always wanted to be a hoosier and his entire family is about that too. they didn't commit because they moved, they moved because he commited. they also don't have unreasonable expectations that the iu offense has to flow thru him, he just wants to be part of the team and win, whatever the role. he's got the same mentality as those indiana born kids whos dream is to play for iu and he knows how special it is. they don't look at iu as the stepping stone but rather the destination. nothing like having solid bball players on your team with a team-first mentality rather than me first. i've known a lot of D1 bball players and almost all of them think me-first. and that's what i love about majority of players crean is getting under his regime, team first players.

JerryCT · 1 month ago

Hopefully he and Etherington can become co- Randy Whitmans

GFDave · 1 month ago

I was thinking the same about Etherington as far as Wittman is concerned, but I think Austin may not have the same rugged frame that Randy did. If he develops the same shot and sense of the game we would be very happy. Carlino is too small to be Wittman. Randy was 6' 7".

stevealford · 1 month ago

I think Carlino is good enough he could come in and get some minutes now. I am looking forward to him playing for us. Hopefully he can talk his buddy Zeller into joining the 11 class. Cody would fit in perfectly. We need a big who can actually play basketball.

Kelin Blab · 1 month ago

It seems like it is a full court press with Carlino and Etherington to get Zeller to IU. I think it could very well happen. I think Carlino is one of the kids in this upcoming classes with 2011 and 2012 I really look forward too and I am glad I will get to him play this year.....Carlino v Teague in January should be nice......

Alex · 1 month ago

Off-topic: A couple of people have told me they've had problems recently getting the site to load or are experiencing slow load times. Anyone noticing any problems?

Kelin Blab · 1 month ago

no problems this way....works fine....

BFowler · 1 month ago

It seems to come and go. I seem to have more problems during the day (peak time maybe).

Alex · 1 month ago

Any details on what the problem is? Just trying to see if I can figure this out.

BFowler · 1 month ago

The bar along the bottom of the screen will tell me "error loading", "Done, but with errors", messages like that. It seems the loading takes some time in the beginning, then it will just come up really slowly, with the messages on the bottom. The content on the right of the screen (the exterrnal links and the ads) seem to take the longest to load, it may be because of the cyclical nature of the ads or the ones that have moving content across the top cause the most problems. Any time I log on the a Gannett newspaper site it does the same thing for me. I do not have a cable modem, it is DSL, so I do not know if I just do not have enough burst or a strong enough stream to handle all the media, but it has been loading very slowly lately.

Alex · 1 month ago

Are you in Firefox or Internet Explorer? If Internet Explorer, which version? Might have something to do with it.

BFowler · 1 month ago

Explorer 8. It could just be me because I have 5 or 1,000 apps running all at the same time, but I have noticed this site laods slower than others.

Alex · 1 month ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into optimizing the load time on the site.

BFowler · 1 month ago

I am looking forward to a Matt and Austin backcourt in about 3 years. I have never seen Austin play, and only highlights of Matt, but I am excited to know they are coming and they want to be here and they are Indiana High School basketball kids (now for Matt). There has always been something I have enjoyed about following a kid's high school career right to IU. If they can come close to the backcourt of Thomas-Whittman, we will have something big going there.

On the Zeller front, it would be nice to have another talented big from Indiana on the team, and I hope the three of them want to continue their careers together. Hopefully, the Spiece kids joining Indiana Elite next AAU season will feel the same way. I still believe that the way to win in college is to have outstanding guards with blue collar (rebounding, stuffing the lane, blocking shots) bigs is the way to win in college. I am hoping Elston-Capo-Pritch-Miniru will provide us that. Hopefully the backcourt of Carlino-Etherington will take us to the top.

JerryCT · 1 month ago

To your point. UCONN won had some championship seasons with exactly that combo. Scoring guards/wings and Emeka Okafor running the floor, defending and rebounding . This is what we can hope for Bawa to deliver...................... the missing ingredient to a Calhoun/Boeheim/Nova type Big East offense

GFDave · 1 month ago

Totally agree. If Bawa gets to the Okafor level, watch out!

stevealford · 1 month ago

Comparing Bawa to Okafor is pretty extreme.
I'll be surprised if he gets any significant minutes this year... or any year.
Is he even eligible yet?

GFDave · 1 month ago

No question. Its more aspirational than anything else.

But I do think he'll develop and see minutes by his junior year. I'm pretty confident in that. He moves well and is so strong, the basic athleticism, combined with size will get him that far. Scoring points consistently? Probably not, but there's time.

Not eligible yet.

JerryCT · 1 month ago

I saw Okafor tons of times live and on TV. For his first 2 years he did not start or play alot of minutes but what he did was run the floor like a deer, set picks, defend and block shots. He only scored on garbage...........In his last 2 years he developed all of that into an art form.

Yes its an extreme wish but by Bawa's junior year he could do those things.

BFowler · 1 month ago

I think definitely especially if you look at recent champions, you could point to one inside guy who was a real player (Hansborough '09, Arthur '08, Noah/Horford '06-'07, Sean May '05, and Okefor '04), but to me the team was not great until they had great guards/wings (Lawson/Ellington, Collins/Chalmers, Brewer/Green, Felton/McCants, Gordon/Anderson). I think the great players are (any more) the great guars and wings.