Old Friend

This. What I love is a couple of bad shots go in for a single game (he entered shooting 33% from the floor and still below 40%), and the number of people playing "gotcha!" just grows. He is so close to being an elite player. Just needs to be smarter and absolutely let the game come to him. That's true 100% of the time. Bad shots are bad shots whether they come against UALR or Duke. They're a bad habit and create empty possessions. Anyone who doesn't think that matters is fooling himself. I'll die on the hill and let people try to feed me crow. Bring it.

You're still such a troll. I love it.

I'll pass. Still took two horrible shots and had 4 turnovers. You can love on it if you want to. Not for me. He's got game and a bright future, but the bad shots need to stop. There's no crow to be eaten after one "better" game. We'll see. It took X a full year to get consistently better.

IU 77 Rutgers 61

Indiana cleans up the fouls, giving up offensive rebounds, and makes a couple more layups, we win that game by 30. We're close to being really, REALLY good.

Indiana doesn't need a freshman guard to aggressively "make plays." He needs to get his shots within the flow of the offense and "make plays" the same way.

Perhaps you should watch the Xavier game when he was 1 for 9. Bad shots are bad shots. Makes no difference who they're against.

Kids who take bad shots generally keep taking bad shots. In 6 games, he has consistently taken quick shots and missed them. Most of which he can get any time he wants to and the defense didn't have to do any work at all. I don't assume he'll start making them because he's not a good shooter. What I DO assume is his coach will sit him if it continues because like Johnson a year ago, selfish shots are a turnover for him, and he does it too frequently. He is shooting 33.3% from the floor. As a freshman. He has no business taking the shots he does. A quick "take the first one you get" shot is a bad shot unless it's taken by the right kid in the right circumstance. So far, he is not the right guy to take them, and his decisions have not been good. "Let the game come to you" is something from which he would benefit. I'm not asking anyone to agree with me. I may think differently than most, but I disagree with "he should keep taking the same shots because they'll eventually go in." Maybe. But until they do? Against good teams and in close games, that's what gets you beat. Empty possessions are empty possessions. He creates too many right now between hero passes and missed "bad" shots. I don't mind the ones that come within the flow of the offense. Everybody misses those sometimes. It's the quick ones that he just fires I have a problem with.

Good guys 76 Heels 70

Until he takes bad shots against good teams and we lose in large part because he settles and tries to do things he can't. You'll care then.

Hood-Schifino cannot continue to turn it over and take bad shots at his current rate.

Indiana 32 'Putrid 24

IU 86 JSU 47

IU 96 UALR 56

IU 83 Miami 59