ElectricBoogaloo

    Oladipo 3PT% last year: 44.1% Hulls 3PT% last year: 44.4%   Oladipo's basketball IQ was pretty darn good as well. As a senior, Oladipo would have provided great leadership as well.   Suddenly Jordan Hulls became Winston Churchill in people's eyes. He was a great senior leader, but Oladipo would be a great leader too as a senior.   Oladipo was by far the better all-around basketball, making this question a piece of cake.

I think the idea that Oladipo wouldn't provide leadership in his senior season is ludicrous. Oladipo would be a leader and the best player on our team.

First:   pre·science ˈpreSH(ē)əns noun 1. the fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge.   What's all this about 3 point foresight?   Second:   I didn't think it was possible for people to undervalue Oladipo, but here we are. 

    I don't know what this team is capable of really. We lose to dog teams and then beat top 10 teams. There's no sense in trying to predict the rest of the season. I just hope we get 5 more wins from somewhere plus a B10 tournament win or two.

I'll disagree and say Oladipo by a WIDE margin. Another year of growth and development and he would just take over games. He is in Rookie of the Year discussions in the NBA. Nobody else who left last year is even in the same stratosphere.

You are officially hired as my assistant coach.

    I couldn't tell you specifically what we are doing wrong since I'm not a bball coach. Here are some ofmy thoughts, and anyone can take them with a grain of salt:   -Sheehey is always making cuts along the baseline against man defense but I don't see it as much against zone even though getting in behind the zone is a great way to attack. Sheehey is the only guy who seems to make these kind of cuts period. More guys should be active cutting to the baseline or through the lane.   -The dribble-handoffs that we always see don't do anything against a zone. No D1 zone is fooled by that, and they maintain integrity. Instead of dribbling around the perimeter we should be making quick passes around the perimeter, to the post, to someone at the FT line, etc. Get the zone defense rotating around and make it easier for guys to cut through it or find some space. The down side is that we don't have many good passers and we like to turn the ball over.   -Dribble penetration done right. Dribble penetration against a zone is great but only to the extent that the zone collapses to help and you find the open man. Dribbling too far into 3 defenders and expecting the refs to bail you out is not a good strategy (Stan, Yogi, Troy, Jeremy).    -Outside shooting. We just aren't great at it besides Yogi. The 2-3 is untenable if there are three shooting threats spread out on the perimeter. We don't have that threat.   -Offensive rebounding. Zone defense is notorious for lack of boxing out but for some reason we don't hit the glass at a higher rate against the zone. This is my big qualm about bringing Vonleh out to the perimeter. We will have a lot of missed shots and need him inside to grab rebounds. I don't think a big would come out to guard him. He's comfortable shooting open threes but if any perimeter defender is in front of him he won't pull the trigger (from what I've seen).

Yeah, Yogi was a man possessed against UM. Still, the stats bear out our wide gulf in half court offense vs man and vs zone. I think ITH or another blog put together the analysis. I'll try to look it up tomorrow.

This brings up another point, maybe for a separate thread. Our half court offense against man to man defenses (ie Wisconsin and Michigan) is actually quite productive. Why can't we run a competent offense against the zone?

    In this day, I think highly rated sophomores are definitely counted on to at least contribute if not become one of the best players on a team. I think everyone had big expectations for Hollowell in particular.

I disagree, a BIG team with a .500 record will definitely get in. Possibly even 1 team sub .500.

I can't wait for another offseason of hearing how much work Hollowell and Perea are putting in to make themselves better. Whatever they're doing, maybe it's time to try something else.

  Some Rutgers/St John's predictions since then. Is the coaching staff just laser focused on Crawford in 2015? Briscoe seems like he would be a great addition.

He looks OK as long as he doesn't try to dribble. I'm not sure what he provides at this point other than some defense.    Jump shot is not looking great, loses the ball when he goes to the hoop and does not rebound as well as he should for his size.

I agree that Howard has been good at playing defense and taking care of the ball, definitely better than Hollowell, Perea and Davis. There is no reason Johnny Marlin should ever see the court. He adds nothing on offense, has given up a couple turnovers, and can't play defense.

Basketball is really not supposed to be this difficult. The more talented team should win 9 out of 10 times and we are definitely the more talented team. Same story with NW and the first Illinois game. It comes down to coaching as the only explanation. We have 5* burger boys and other high rated recruits looking like imbeciles on the court. Only one place to lay the blame.

It was overlooked, just like Dirty Dancing 2.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true   JBJ #19 (up a bit?)   Jaquan Lyle #41 (wow, quite a drop)   Robert Johnson #46

Lots of bad weather predicted for Saturday. Might be hard to visit unless it's a longer weekend or Sunday day trip.

Ryan Marable ‏@CoachMarable1h How meaningless are individual accomplishments @BCPBasketball @robjohnson4_ scored his 1000th point for us 2 weeks ago and nobody knew #team

Same AAU as Michael Humphrey.

Also, per ITH:   "Nebraska favored by 1 over Indiana according to Vegas, 1.5 according to Sagarin and 3 according to Pomeroy"   In case anyone was doubting Nebraska's team this year.

Yep, and Minnesota is surprisingly good this year.

Nebraska is 9-1 at home, with their only defeat being a 1 point loss to Michigan (undefeated in the conference). Don't let the name fool you, this is going to be a very tough game.

  Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you meant he might be visiting IU.