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We get Romeo “involved” by giving him the ball during the weave from 25 feet out and hope he can take it to the hole by getting by 2-4 defenders which is getting even more difficult, by the game, as teams realize they can lay off the perimeter.

If it takes three years for players to learn to box out/put a body on the opponents best rebounder.......

Good to see the quick sub of Al for Mcbob

All of those are important but to me the “effort” component has been especially disappointing. I’ve recently watched a couple of MSU games and have to give Izzy credit as, once again, his guys are relentless. It is fun to watch them aggressively hit the boards.

IU 69 Cats 63

In regards to the statements as to why Archie has not gone after shooters.... Although it has not panned out so far, for a variety of reasons, I am guessing that Archie may have thought he recruited at least one shooter between Damezi, Romeo, Hunter and Fitzner.

I get the many posts touting that Bennett, Coach K and Beilein had slow starts and became great coaches. I’m also sure, however, that there have been a ton of coaches that started out poorly and remained poor. Hope we have the former, rather than the latter, but at this point who knows?

It’s going to be interesting to see if we get Brooks.

At least we are consistent.

Romeo and McBob each with 4 points.

Never threatened them in the second half. At some point FS1 is going to regret showing our games. Three blowouts.

Me too.

Asking to play hard 1 1/2 years into this is expecting “instant” turnaround?

Our plays out of time outs are not overwhelming.

NBADRAFT.NET currently has him at 14. Has been slowly trending down.

Wow, hit our free throws and we are right there.

“Boiler Up” has to be the dumbest chant in sports. Sounds like something a person with a hangover would say after eating a big plate of Mexican food.

PU 79 IU 68

Great game. Both teams having issues from the three but they are playing hard. Really going after it. Due to many issues my respect for MSU has gone down the drain but man, they are relentless. They play the way we did for the first 15 minutes of the Maryland game but they do it over and over and over.

Thanks for the update. Franklin is having a hell of a year (and sounds like a great kid). Look forward to seeing him in Bloomington.

I’m sure it did not look good and was noticed. That being said, in this era of social media there are similar negative postings on every basketball or football board in which there is a passionate/nutty fan base (I.e. going somewhere else is not going to ecscape negative comments). As an example the Penn State boards can be brutal in regards to the football team and players but they don’t have much to say during basketball because they don’t care. Unfortunately the choices, if you do not want to see negative comments, are to avoid reading the boards or play basketball at a non-hoops school like Clemson or Boise State. Not justifying behavior but just saying there are many other boards that post positives, like we do, but when things go south the pitchforks come out. “Back in the day” the game would be over and fans would just wait for the next game. Those days are long gone.

I don’t find it surprising/disturbing for a coach to tell his team to focus on the other teams two primary offensive threats. I’m sure that waaaaayyyy back in the day opposing coaches said watch out for Alford coming off a screen or a pass into Thomas without naming other players.

It’s a very sophisticated three-prong system: 1) run a bit of the Crean weave 2) have Morgan post up and try to get him the ball via a bounce pass 3) kick the ball out to Romeo, preferably 25 feet or so from the basket, and see if he can get to the hole by getting past 3-4 defenders

We MUST win at Norhwestern. At PU Morgan will get his second foul within 5 minutes and we will get smoked unless Romeo and Rob happen to go off.

I am not calling for his head but if he was being graded on his job performance so far, on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being “surpasses”, I doubt anyone would give him a 5 (or 4).