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I agree. Have been saying we have finally have a year where we play better/overachieve. This was test 1 and we failed. Many more tests upcoming but they get harder.

Would have tried to double Nigel and let someone else beat us. I also have no idea why TB has to guard Happ 15 feet from the basket when he has no jump shot. Happ just ran by him. Play the Cody 1 man zone there.

See this is the thing. We try to go around and avoid them and guess what it is not a foul then. Yes if he leans into Nigel he gets smashed and gets that call.

How many of you knew that we would try to have Yogi flash across the court, running towards the scorers bench to catch the inbounds pass. I was telling my family that would be our play before they even broke the huddle. If I knew this Wisconsin surely would too. I would be ok with a shot that misses badly if we could just get a shot. We have to be like 10% on end of game plays

and yet he didn't

Thank you. We put guys on Nigel who could not guard him and he went hard at the goal and we fouled him. When we drive we do not go strong and try going around the guy and that is not getting a call.

Failed to get a good shot at the end of regulation too.

Have to get shots at the end of the game too many times we don't even get a shot.

Again why guard Happ out that far

Does Bryant need to guard Happ that far out? Didn't DD say he had no jump shot?

I think Crean can find some unheralded kids but since the Hulls class he has not had many stay four years. Need to rectify that. Does us no good to get a diamond in the rough only to have him transfer or get kicked off the team before they really shine bright.

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Great. the recent article that discussed the sprints they had to run for excessive turnovers was all I could think of about something like this. I think this will make a big difference but who knows.

Where did you see he is letting up on the team? Is this in relation to the high intensity of his practices or letting up in a different way?

To be fair, they may not have known they were at the women's game.

Thanks. I said something similar but my post disappeared.

MSU may not win the regular season but I think they will be a contender for the BTT.

I don't think Maryland is "tough" enough to win the BT. They have a lot of paper talent and I think that is why they started off ranked high. I would not at all be surprised to have them ranked lower than us by the end of the BT season. Personally I love that we are not getting any respect. Right now the disrespect fuels better effort in practice and against all opponents. This team does better when the underdog than the favorite

Never ever said that. UPS seemed confused about why people are questioning us and not Maryland. We had a chance early and flopped they did not. Thus, no one is questioning them. Now, for us I love that no one is giving us any love. This team needs to keep an edge about them. I love how we are playing and honestly think we are set up well for a deep run. Great outside shooters. Great PG play. TW is playing under control in areas he can flourish. We are not asking too much of TB. And finally we are playing defense like we care. We have the talent. We are building confidence and hopefully we keep an edge.

Did Maryland stink it up in Maui? We are having to fight our way back into the conversation. Maryland never left.

I think one reason Troy has not been turning it over as much is that he is not being asked to drive as much. Yogi controls the drives far more since JBj went down. Troy will still drive occasionally during half court sets but not nearly as much. I think this change came from Crean. If you have been close enough to hear Crean has often been on Troy "we have to drive that ball". "Got to get more drives" ETC. Even his halftime talks with TV he has mentioned that a lot. That focus encouraged TW to drive even when the lane was not there. Since the injury, he has spent s lot more time on the baseline and when he gets it outside he has been shooting more.

We have the talent and I think Crean has shown he can coach good teams well during the season. If we can keep from fading down the stretch we should be considered a contender. Another good week and we will find ourselves in the top 20.

I think the last ten or so games matter for us because it gives us a chance to get some wins vs top 25 teams. We have some nice momentum and confidence is high. That will help as we enter the meat of the schedule. Hopefully though as teams actually start to play better D against us, we can keep moving the ball well. Right now teams are playing so far off is we can pass around the key with very little difficulty.

I agree. I defend DD often but he needs to shut it on this one. Not like DDs time at IU was all rosy and successful

I remember your story. It matches what a lot of broadcasters would say when they watched practice the day before and the joked about how hard we went at it during the walk through. Stephen Bardo was asked the year after we lost in the sweet sixteen if he thought Crean wore the team out. He repeated some of what you shared and echoed the effort our players put out in practices. Kelvin Sampson commented to one of his assistants (Dakich) that Creans teams were known to wear out at the end of the year. Hopeful this is an area where he has learned over time and has a better plan.