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F'ing Jeff Howard lol and his hair.

F***

Stan and Noah need to be in this game.  They have the 4 min timeout.  

6 min to go in this game and we have Austin and Howard in this game we are winning by 2.  Is it 2010?

  Yes I did and honestly he is playing solid minutes lol.  

  Tom Pritchard as a senior minus the five painful fouls in five minutes?

  I just threw up in my mouth.  

F'ing zone...

  Is it bad that I cringe less with him than Hanner right now?  

And I was starting to wonder if Jeff Howard was smoking weed too since he didn't come in the 1st half...

He did ok there, but man Etherington should not be on Newbill.  

  Yep.  

Agree there man.  Same as Hanner.  Upside is huge.  If it pans out great.  If not, we should have had Luke, who was a basketball player.  I think we should have had 2 Lukes, and one less Peter Jurkin.  His upside in length is there, but his body hasn't been since he was a sophomore in high school.  You have to plan like he won't play.  We never have.  We are always scrambling for bigs.  I don't get that with the amount of scholarships we have.  

  It has to be suspension.  Crean may sit someone for short spurts, but doesn't sit them the whole game.  

Jeremy Hollowell hasn't played.  

  This is where I am.  I have no doubts how good we can be.  How high our upside is.  How good we should be next year.  Certain things can be avoided to limit this bad of a season.  We aren't going to be title contenders every year.  It would be nice to balance out the recruiting of wings and bigs.  That factor has caused so many issues throughout Crean's tenure.  In modern basketball, you can't plan for attrition.  In the past it was a little more than non-existent.  Now, you have to have a balanced lineup to maintain the ability to keep going.  Beyond that, who Crean picks will either make him a genius or an idiot.  I prefer less emphasis on athletes and more on IQ.  There has to be some balance there.  

God…  Noah with a late 2nd foul 2 games in a row.  Can't do that.  

  Completely agree.  His IQ and understanding angles gets him in the right position more times than not.  Doesn't mean it always ends pretty, but that dude is always around the ball.  You can't teach that.  

We needed that!

You know, I am all for putting the last couple of games on losing Fischer and that extra important inside presence.  IMO, this comes down to years of over-recruiting wings for Crean and lack of concern for impact depth inside.  Even if he thought Luke was that man with Hanner, you have 2 positions.  You aren't playing 3 bigs the entire game when you run 10 guards out there.  That is my biggest beef with the structure of this team before Luke left.  Coaching is another discussion.  I just feel these guys don't have as high of a BB IQ as is needed to be successful.  You don't have to shoot 60% to be successful if you are playing smart and careful with the ball.  

  Lol, its everyone else's fault.  

We need to get this down to 6 or so the way we are playing.  This is crazy how bad we are playing.  

Yep.  Love our zone.  

  We were fortunate enough to be there when they hired O'brien too.  We need to quit playing in PSU in January.  

  Nope.  We can't get a body on anyone.  Worst defensive game of the year by far if this continues in the second half.  Syracuse was a half.  This is as bad as that.