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Rapid Reaction LIU-Brooklyn vs. Indiana


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  • The Hoosiers Struggled early, but were able to overcome their slow start on way to a 73-72 victory Tuesday Night.

Welcome to the 2013-14 version of the Indiana Hoosiers everyone! That was what we should come to expect for this season. The unexpected. We are talented. We are also very young. We came out like most would have expected, jumping out to an early lead. Then, our youth seemed to take over it seemed. Suddenly we turned into a jump shooting team, missing shot after shot. Will had about as bad of a half as one will ever see him have. I can't even say we "righted" the ship. We survived. That is it.

The announcers appointed Will as the player of the game, but this was all Noah Vonleh. His 17 and 11 were so much bigger than Will's 19/7/6. Some will disagree with that, but without what Noah did in the First Half, we don't win this game. Yogi put up 17 points in a game where he was frustrated most of the night. Troy had 9 and 6. Jeremy had 6 and 6. Beyond that, it was slim pickings for the Hoosiers. Stan had some key minutes on both ends as did Devin.

As a team we did what you would expect on the boards. We out-rebounded them 48-35. One area more wouldn't have expected us to improve in this type of game is with the turnovers. We had 14 in a game that was up and down, and as ugly as the women in West Lafayette. We did have 13 assists on 27 field goals. I don't expect there to be many games where we shoot under 40% and win. This counts as one. A lucky one.

As fans we don't like to see this type of a win so early in the season. There will be positives that come from this game. Noah took this game and put it on his shoulders in the First Half when it seemed we had lost control. As a freshman the only thing more impressive is his patience in hectic moments. This game was no fun for anyone. There is no sugar coating that. This is just one game that will help the kids that matter more than all of us. They are young, but they all helped us age a little more on this evening.

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I haven't gone to Inside the Hall to hear the post game stuff, not sure if I will find the time to do that or not.

Did he say anything about Stan not taking a shot in the second half and why that never happened?


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Is Will supposed to pass on open shots? I liked that he kept launching. He is clearly the team leader, no fear! Even though we have many weapons, I think scoring the ball is going to be problematic.


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Never really been a big fan of Will taking 3s, he should stick to his mid range and drives. I love yogi but he needs to relax a little, i understand his frustration because hes used to winning these games in November with last years squad. Noah is becoming my favorite player next to Troy, Noah kept trying even though we were down early in the first half. As said a million times we are super athletic but young, lets just hope we get these jitters out now. Oh and nice recap keep it up!

I think Yogi was more frustrated with the officials. 

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Cody Zeller could not make it to this thread, so I will forward his tweets from last evening to express his pre and post-game thoughts:

My hotel room in Boston tonight better have the Big Ten Network. I want to see what these new look Hoosiers are all about!

I was way more nervous watching that game alone in my hotel room than I ever was playing in front of 17,000 fans!

 

It's always a good night when UK gets beat. Michigan State is the real deal. They have a lot of veteran guys who can really play!

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In all honesty. It has to be really hard to watch IU after graduating as a player. You put so much into playing for them and now you have no control like fans


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Obviously we aren't a 3 point shooting team and I think it took the first half for this years team to realize that. It seemed CTC probably made that adjustment at halftime to let these kids know that we need to set up an offense and pass up a couple open look 3's and make the extra pass to find the easy 2pt bucket. It seems that's when the game changed. Hopefully they'll take that away from this game and continue the teamwork instead of the "I'm open, so I'll shoot" approach they had in the first. Going to be a fun and frustrating team to watch at the same time this year, but I did love the confidence I saw from the young freshman Vonleh. I think this guy will be special.


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Obviously we aren't a 3 point shooting team and I think it took the first half for this years team to realize that. It seemed CTC probably made that adjustment at halftime to let these kids know that we need to set up an offense and pass up a couple open look 3's and make the extra pass to find the easy 2pt bucket. It seems that's when the game changed. Hopefully they'll take that away from this game and continue the teamwork instead of the "I'm open, so I'll shoot" approach they had in the first. Going to be a fun and frustrating team to watch at the same time this year, but I did love the confidence I saw from the young freshman Vonleh. I think this guy will be special.


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IU definitely settled in the first half. Sheehey is part to blame on this one. He pulled up too quickly quite a few times which set the tone for the half. He started to take over in the second half when he got the ball trough the normal offense. Great teaching experience for Crean and this young group.


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I think Yogi was more frustrated with the officials. 

thats also another way to look at it, i feel it was a combo of both. Im almost surprised he didnt get a flagrant for pushing that kid down and looking back, if you noticed he wasnt upset when they called the foul on him, he knew he was wrong.

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