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He’s quite thin. No Brunk leaves Geronimo and Hunter as your subs for the bigs. Hunter played like 2 minutes maybe after nearly breaking the backboard on his early 3. Don’t disagree with your overall point he’s just handcuffed. No Franklin and I’m sorry for the Lander fans but he’s nowhere close to be ready to contribute no matter the minutes he sees

Thank you - I’ve never understood with our offensive deficiencies we continue to weave or swing it around the perimeter for half the clock before we get into a set. Which is typically initiated with a high ball screen

Now we’re afraid to shoot in fear of missing

That Galloway 3 was probably the closest. I can remember two now from Hunter and Leal both that nearly got wedged between the backboard and rim.

TJD has definitely improved from the line this season. Something positive in between the bricks I’ve been seeing. Need to win this one - not seeing much from Maryland that is a difference maker unlike last years team

Have always thought they went to the same post move tutor. Which is likely just Joe at the Y

Just read this board...you haven’t heard he’s Tristian Thompson

Bodied again by the same dude

TJD getting bodied by a guy he has a few inches and likey 15lbs on. Soft

Are these marking passes or shots? Might need to track both tonight after wherever Lander was throwing that one

Lander just passed it to the 12 people not wearing a uniform in the building. Slow down

Also our best player?

First 5 minutes we’ve struggled to finish at the rim with our bigs. I’m hoping that won’t be a full 40 minute thing tonight...might need to replace that backboard later this week. Mercy

True that, although that time he got blown by on the baseline late, I'm still not sure he's reacted to that fake to the left, yet. Could be escaping me, but best game he's had in an IU uniform? At the very least best Big10 game

If you guys want to compare a loss to ranked FSU on the road to a game against an average Penn State team then so be it. I'd just note that in that FSU matchup we gave up only 62 points in regulation. Against Penn State we allowed 80 in 40 minutes - I'd say we've got some work to do, but maybe my expectations are too high

Looks like a guy who's been awaiting to finally play a good game and looks incredibly pleased with himself. Loved seeing him going at the basket and attacking. Team needs more of that

I just think last year's Penn State team was far better. Yes they could shoot, but I found them to be incredibly small tonight and not very skilled with the ball (TOs, decision making). Sadly we may not be that far ahead of them in those categories we were able to survive their shooting barrage. I'm not going to pretend I've seen much of their play this season, I just didn't think that was a very good Penn State team tonight.

Would love to see us find ways of getting TJD the ball on the block more. I like seeing him take his defender off the bounce, but I still don't think his skill set will allow for that to work enough. Penn State didn't have an answer for him down there and I found us to still struggle to get it to him down there

I'll bite, for me it's that this was not a good Penn State team at all, and we let them hang around for 45 minutes tonight. Even when we went on that run of 3's to open it up late only to give it up 3 minutes later. Can get away with that at home against a below average Penn State team but our margin for error won't allow that to work against nearly anyone else in the conference. If that weren't a trend I think people would be more at ease after tonight.

Why run it for Al is my only issue, Franklin is the shooter for that play in my opinion

That was off a timeout, what a shot, but that's the shot we get? What in the world

Might have been a flop, but Durham tried to dribble straight through that guy. I just don't get why he's put in a position to be a primary ball handler

Are you kidding me with that Al? Why? No reason for that one

I can't remember a better game from Hunter as a Hoosier, very good game from him tonight

I really dislike when our weave gets so predictable that it's even hard for us to get our handoffs completed, just make it harder than it needs to be