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Geronimo good enough to make up for the lack of guard play? Archie better be hitting the grad transfer market for guards hard. This is bad

Senior night is going to be awful

Recruit new guards please! Need some fresh blood. Phin can’t be the only primary ball handler next year

I’m semi joking just this Penn St team is very beatable if you can stop Stevens. We just make the game so much harder with how bad our offense can be at times. Need our guards to do something productive on that end

Hunter back in the huddle? He hit that devil’s lettuce after his coming out party over the weekend and facing a suspension that’s on the hush? What’s happening?

You might be correct. Our guard play is atrocious though so I’d take anyone at this point

Curtis Jones would be a big boost for this team with his shooting alone. Really wasn’t room for him?

We are awful offensively

Doesn’t Durham do this every time he’s handling the ball? Two way street in my eyes

I know it’s early but our offense continues to be very hard to watch. We need a ball handler who’s aggressive and can blow by someone to force the defense to help and open things up a little. If Phin can do that he doesn’t show it near enough

Don't disagree, just for 19 minutes of the second half I thought the adjustments made by the staff were far better than what we were doing for the first 12 minutes of the ballgame. The team's effort has been consistent lately, just a difficult loss yesterday when the game appeared to be ours.

I don’t know about this. I saw plenty of wide open shots in those first 12, especially from the corner. Maryland was unconscious in the first half so I agree they made shots but I wouldn’t go as far to say the defense was perfect. Even in the second half they got some wide open looks from the corner, IU just lucked out their shooting starting showing their true colors. I agree that the team has improved tremendously over the last month which is great to see. Just thought I’d provide a little backup to Brass Cannon at the risk of myself. I’m sure I’ll get torn apart for it but I thought we were hedging far too strongly and thus had to scramble back to defend. That seemed to be adjusted at halftime as Brunk was the main culprit in those first 12 on Smith but seemed much better to start the second half. Just my immediate observations watching the game and not bothering with a rewatch of it. Still not advocating for Archie’s dismissal fwiw, just don’t think the criticisms provided in here aren’t without merit

Love the start. Got the crowd into it. Not hedging and as a byproduct not scrambling on defense nearly as much. Great adjustment from Archie. Got to keep it up though

They can’t miss from 3 and we can’t hit layups. Not a recipe for success

Someone guard please. They are going to put a 100 spot on us at this rate

He’s definitely #1 in the program. No maybe about it Bill. What a shot

I thought there were conditions you could have for transfers such as not transferring in conference or to a team on the schedule? Or does that not apply to grad transfers if Cronk is one? Transfer rules have seemed to lax in recent years, but I'm just curious why this went down like it has. I haven't followed Cronk's circumstances as closely as others, but shocked and disappointed to not only seem him leave, but to another school in the Big10. Anyone in the know have any ideas here or am I off base with these rules and his circumstance?

I’m right there with you, as I want to win as well. But with the offensive system the way it’s been are there any shooters out there eager to hop on board to help fix our shooting woes. After games like this I’d accept a Luke Brown with open arms. I’m just not confident he’d see the floor over the upper classmen as they seem to have a far longer leash even when they make awful mistakes. Just was so hard to watch tonight and it’s not like this has been an isolated performance. We played well against OSU but this was nearly as pathetic as the NW game. Rutgers only scored 59 so it’s not like they played exceptionally well we just stunk out the place

I watched that Georgia vs Kentucky game, which was my first time seeing Crean coach since he left IU, and it’s no wonder why kids want to play for him even if that recruitment had some funny business, which isn’t my point. The freedom on offense has to be appealing to players

I wonder which one recruits would rather play for. I’d think they see the offense and be more excited to play in a system that has far more offensive flow. I like Archie’s emphasis on getting stops but I’m not sure guys wanting to make it to the league are eager to jump on board when you show you can’t put it in the basket

No Bryan. These Hoosiers just can’t shoot 3s. Plenty of those were wide open. Don’t over complicate things they just can’t shoot

People were honestly upset with not being ranked Monday too. This team can’t shoot a lick

I wish someone in the media had the balls to ask Archie why Green plays so much after a game like this. It won’t happen as it would look pretty bad to single out a student athlete like that but I’d love to hear Archie twist and try and answer that.

I had a feeling it would happen going into the season then I saw his defensive improvement and was on the fence but I think we’ll see him transfer after this season. Just don’t see a Big10 caliber player when watching him although he’s not the only one in that boat in my mind.

Damezi is healthy to play and he couldn’t see any time in the first half while Green was doing what he was doing out there. Honestly I can’t with Archie and his tough talk after the NW game. What are we doing?