Lol, this is very junior high and borderline creepy. I guess it's highly classified.
Dumb comments like this one are why you're best left on ignore.
Any houseplant can figure out why the program (via its conduits to true insiders who share some tidbits on the premium boards) might not want certain pieces of information to leak out.
I'm gonna stop there. I'll just say from what I've seen...
The Williams situation isn't sketchy or an own-goal. What happened is completely prudent.
You can insist something is bad or some obvious mistake was made here as much as you want even though you admit you have less information than me. But you'll just look like even more of an idiot and an eyesore in the process. I'll trust you'll make the wrong decision as you usually do.
You’re not wrong but it’s really, really hard to be “steps ahead” right now in the NIL era, when quite literally everything (and all plans) can change in an hour. Not an exaggeration.
I think you are being overly literal about a figure of speech.
TJ being "ten steps ahead" doesn't mean he goes into each offseason and each season with a literal ten-point checklist he can see before he even starts and he's going to nail all of them.
No. It means he's good at seeing the optimal pathway through a situation (more than most coaches) and going out and executing that path and when things change, as you properly note they very much can very quickly, either dealing with it or coming up with a contingency that works almost as well.
Jumping on Buchanan as the new starting center after Jackson left and Purdue decided to splash some cash on Cluff is a perfect example of this effect. We "missed" but had a soft landing.
TJ and this staff are always thinking ahead as much as one can in this environment.
That was about why an injured Gilbert couldn’t travel with his team to the tourney…. Nobody questioned the injury, just why he didn’t travel with his teammates and support them from the bench.
Gilbert traveling with the team to support his teammates from the bench would have probably been fine. But it sounds like a mutual decision was made: Gilbert was going to stay behind so the team could put the chatter about shutting their starting SG down for the year behind them. Concentrate on the men about to play. Gilbert was going to stay in Ames to concentrate 100% on his recovery in time for the pro scouting process. He wasn't much on an NBA radar, but he was still going to have some chances to showcase his talents to professional scouts and who knows maybe he can land in the D-League or get a nice contract to play in Europe.
Much easier to do that when the groin is better and he can be at his best.
Different than traveling with the team? Sure. Reasonable, though? Yes.
There just isn't any "there" there.
