monskisprodigy

1-11 from three…just not acceptable in todays college basketball. Not finding a shooter will be Woodys demise.

This is bad. Real bad.

Our senior guards are killing us. We cannot win with both X and Galloway being non-factors.

Very encouraged by Sparks and Walker. We need this production so badly. Mgbako settling down, rebounding, being active with his hands. Shot not falling but he’s staying engaged and running the floor.

This unit!!! Boys are scrapping!!!

They look like the old Kobes

Ok boys! Make us eat crow!

Just trying to do too much. Make the freaking easy pass.

Please oh please don't lose to Louisville...for the sanity of this program and my pride haha. I have made way too many jokes about the cards to my UofL brethren to take an L today....it will be very painful.

We all saw the same thing which is funny...how are the coaches not seeing it haha. I commented about this as soon as I saw it. It was a much more natural shot...elevated normally, form was perfect and it hit the bottom of the net. You could see him visually shake his head...thinking "of course that one goes in". Honestly, the max vertical jump on his shots is hindering him by itself, but then he adds a fade away to every shot and it just compounds. If he would elevate normally and go up vertically, more would drop. Need a shot doctor on this team...get in the gym with Hulls. CJ Gunn has the tools to be a big contributor for us. He played well defensively...and if he hits a couple of those open shots, we are having a much different conversation about him. I really would like to see him start in front of Mgbako today, to be active with his hands, cause some disruption and hopefully bang a couple jumpers.

Tbh, I really wanted to play Texas. Winning against UofL doesn’t really do anything for us for March, a loss does, especially if their system trends the way it’s projected to. A win against Texas is big for March, a loss doesn’t hurt us much.

IU - 68 UofL - 63

I don’t disagree. Just saying that even with my skepticism of him coming out of high school, I just didn’t envision a 4 star Mr. Basketball becoming a Tim Priller.

A non MM post. I continue to be perplexed by Leal…I’d love to see a practice and how he plays to be earning zero minutes. Hell, he didn’t even get in for the garbage minutes at the end of the game against their walk ons. I understand he has his limitation and when I watched him in HS I knew he wasn’t going to be a big time player for us…but I thought he’d at least contribute in limited minutes and grow into a role by his senior year. I know we’ve debated this in other threads, but Heck, at this point why not toss him out there for 5-6 minutes to see what he can do. In his limited action he’s been safe with the ball, won’t wow anyone defensively, but maybe can knock down a spot up 3 here and there and provide some energy/hustle. I know I’m grasping for straws guys…but as a former Mr. Basketball, I didn’t see him being glued to the bench the entirety of his career. Hard not to think that Him plus the open scholarship could have been used to fill some serious needs.

I need to go back and watch the game again and focus on Trey, haven’t looked at the stats. But Jay Williams had 3-4 instances where he was calling out Mgbako on defense. I remember one where he was calling out his defensive stance and stiffness, another where he go beat badly on a back cut and did a complete 360 and there were several others. I think the criticism is fair of Mgbako, but also agree that others should share the same if not more blame on the defensive side. I think the focus is on Mgbako, because he was touted as a program changing 5 star stud commitment. To say he is performing short of that assessment is reality.

Maybe proximity? Other schools didn’t want to pay for them to travel?

What’s funny is…he didn’t do his max vertical jump on the one after the whistle. Form looked great, good elevation, and it went in…during the game, he fades and jumps to the rafters. It’s mind boggling no one is correcting that.

Ware playing soft….

Also wasn’t a foul…

I want sparks to make clingan feel every single step on the court. Just a horrible call in him there. He went straight up.

Apparently they aren’t even looking at it?

Wonder if woody took that timeout to see if they’d go to the Monitor to look at the elbow to x.or…to chew x out to freaking play.

I’ll take just one at this point haha.

If this team just had 1 knockdown shooter, just 1!!! They have a chance to be very good with that missing piece.

Gunn can’t make an open look, but at least he’s locking in on defense.