DChoosier

Actually we agree on pretty much every point. I agree the record does not tell the whole story and, although it was not clear, my reference of the 9-11 conf record was not how I meant to define the season. What I meant by mentioning 9-11 was after three years I can see why there is some restlessness and think we are getting beyond saying people have “right now” attitudes because he is going into his fourth (not first or second) season. I’m looking forward to next year, especially if we can consistently play (ie show up) the way we did the last 4 regular season games. Although we went 1-3 it was a four game stretch of playing hard, with less TO’s, better defense, the offense getting a lot of good shots (but missing a ton of bunnies), fewer 30 foot hedges by our big men, seeing that Race and Hunter “belong”, etc. ie...it was encouraging in spite of the record. I think the “changing of the guard” from a player leadership perspective will be a big positive but am still a bit concerned about our offense on the perimeter. Would sure like to see a couple of consistent outside threats to help open up TJD underneath.

I’m curious as to when the “win now” card expires. Having big expectations in year one, which many posters did, yea that’s a “right now” attitude. Year two, ok, that’s pretty quick. Year three at IU? Does not being satisfied going 9-11, and tied for 10th in the conference, constitute having a “right now” mentality? I agree we are seeing improvement on defense, and perhaps recruiting, and it will be very interesting to see how (or if) the team attitude/chemistry/locker room changes with the graduation of the seniors.. We will see what happens with one particular senior leaving as things could possibly radically transform for the better since one alpha personality can definitely influence a team for better or worse. Looking forward to next year and really hoping Archie makes this work.

No. Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors all lost the same amount of time/opportunity as the seniors. Should we also give all of them another year? Students on merit/academic scholarships are also losing out on things. Should we give them their scholarships for another year? This sucks but sometimes life is not fair and people have to climb over hurdles and move on.

It was stupid for him to go to the game. I read somewhere (and have no idea if it is true) that he had food poisoning. If that’s correct at least he is not infectious (cvirus, strep or flu).

The NBA game was cancelled a minute before tip-off. My guess is that they are meeting now and the cancellation will happen before noon tomorrow (if not late tonight).

IU - 73 NB -61

I agree. Many were pissed that he was not a great player but he never had “great player” talent. I was just glad he gutted it out during some tough years.

And this is the 4th year in a row in which we did not have better than a .500 record in the Big Ten. The last time that happened was during the 1930-1934 seasons.

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It’s in his head. He used to have a decent stroke but now he “guides it” and/or has a hitch. Seems to vary by shot attempt.

IU - 71 Wiscy - 68 Going with my heart rather than my brain. Need to stop their multiple shooters.

Get the W and move on. Let’s beat Wiscy and remove all doubt about getting in the tourney.

Two good offensive possessions, with a good defensive stop in between, for IU.

His FT stroke was better earlier in the year. The herky jerky flat motion was really bad on those two FT.

On Dan Dak’s show Fish said that in some games the network controls the replay and in others the school does. In the Illinois game it was Illinois personnel that controlled the replay for this game. Fish went on to say that he could see the replay monitor and that it showed the elbow being thrown but when the refs came over to take a look the UI employee (or whoever UI pays to run it) showed the refs the replay three times but each time stopped before the elbow was thrown. The refs asked if there was anything else to see and the replay guy said no. Fish was beside himself and the refs never saw the elbow. That dude needs to be fired. I hope IU takes this to the league. Missing a call is one thing. Purposely hiding what happened is an entirely different deal.

According to the NET rankings the NCAA is using (to be clear.....I think the NET rankings suck) we are ranked 12th of the 14 BT teams.

IU - 71 Minny -64

I know some Reitz people and Lander is indeed a good student. They also say he is a great kid without attitude.

Illinois - 73 HOOSIERS -65

You mention the dreaded Crean guys (as people instinctively/predictably do) but against PU did Hunter/Franklin/Rob/Brunk/TJD meet the criteria you mention above?

It stinks that Purdue owns us but win the two remaining home games and we will be back in the dance. In the immortal words of Carl Spackler/Bill Murray in Caddyshack....”so we have that going for us, which is nice”.

You can’t remember all the way back to last year?

PU - 68 IU - 61

Is it ok, or an offense that could lead to being banned, to point out that the top three +/- lineups, and the top per minute lineup, all consisted of three “Creanians” from the planet Crean?

Yes, yes, and we got the ball into TJD at the very beginning of the game. That was really good to see.