American HoosierX

When it comes to winning time, this team is literally incapable of making plays. Up four with a minute left - next 4 possessions - Race TO, two prayers from Bates and a prayer from XJ to end the game.

I’m sorry but I completely disagree with your first point and could very easily make the same point using your exact logic. What do you gain by pressing down 15 with 25 seconds left? You’re not going to win and you’re not going to learn much pressing players at the end of the opposing team’s bench. If you’re going to do it, don’t get pissed when the other team calls a timeout

Agreed and Howard doesn't have any right to be pissy about the timeout when you/re pressing their subs with 25 seconds left down 15.

He did a hell of a lot better than Stewart did when he was guarding him which was even more perplexing.

Absolutely, that was the worst play of the game for us. Just a totally unnecessary shot.

Also is there a less clutch player on the planet than Xavier Johnson?

Seriously, Woodson is looking like a total moron at this point.

For the life of me I’ll never understand why stewart got so much run in this game

I’m sorry but this coaching staff is moronic. Why is Stewart in and guarding their best player?

I’m sorry but why the f is Stewart still playing.

And he’s shooting about 14% from the field. Al Durham is not the missing piece on an offensively challenged team that lacks consistent shooting. Jesus we’re romanticizing Al Durham now. He’s having a decent season, but if I had a dime for every time I thought we would never be an elite team with players like Al Durham starting, I’d have about 23 dollars.

If you compare the offensive and defensive ratings of what you posted, that tells a different story than the SRS and would indeed indicate significant improvement. I'm not an expert on those metrics or saying we should give them outsized importance, but let's tell the whole story.

Agree that Kopp needs to play better, but he provides things that aren't as obvious. Leadership is one of them as he was definitely the most vocal player during the Northwestern game. He is also underrated as a weak side defender, he knows where he's supposed to be.

After not going to any IU games in years, I happened to go to both of the last two games. Maybe the sample size is too small, but honestly we don’t play that hard, especially Parker and TJD.

Our roster can be not very good, and at the same time the short rotation could have affected our play tonight - doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. I was at the game only a few rows from the court. I saw our guys during time outs, in between plays, etc. I promise you they were gassed starting at about 10 minutes left. TJD was very noticeably struggling at the end of the game. Cite all the other teams you want, the short rotation absolutely affected our play tonight. As for Duncomb, I'm honestly just as baffled as you are how he couldn't get into the game tonight.

I would say very few teams run a 7 man rotation and absolutely none run a 6 man rotation. So your argument is not a good one.

When is the last time you played basketball? The players were straight up gassed with 10 minutes left, any six players would struggle.

Wish he could have hit some shots. He never let up the whole game in terms of his intensity.

I was at the game, dudes were gassed with about 10 minutes left. We didn’t have much of a shot.

I came and asked the question, I believe before Chris started posting on the topic, because my buddy heard from a former player that it did indeed have to do with Hiller. Seems to be some smoke around this one.

But that decision directly affected his ability to do his own job (as running backs coach), so I’m not sure I agree.

Anyone else hearing that retaining Hiller may have played a part in this?

I was living in Houston at the time and we had a pretty solid game watch group at a place called Luke’s Ice House. Watching those Michigan games Vic’s last year was some of the most fun I’ve had watching IU sports. Zeller carried us on his back that last game against UM.

If it was Yogi’s senior season then Vic wasn’t on the team.

I'm assuming there's a "don't" missing there