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We don’t win without TJD’s 20 and 10 double double, but man I’ve been looking forward to seeing Hunter get to go off. Just 1 foul as well

Nice to see Hunter get his first 16 point game,he and Al matched shooting numbers tonight. And Good push to get the 10-point W

The interesting thing to me about this back and forth is that you both make good points. Hunter is getting under-utilized and he was one of the only guys putting up points in this game while Al and the other starting guards were struggling to score, Hunter did play more n this game however and Al did generally take care of the ball. I keep coming back to watching and wondering why CAM won’t open up our perimeter game, the team trying to score is like getting blood from a turnip at times. Frustrating. But then the team also has had games where they’ve shown great resilience and clawed out the W. We can win ugly, I’d just like to see more spacing and flow in the offense with more shooting to spread the floor and to allow us to keep pace with on the offensive end

I have felt strongly for some time that Hunter doesn’t get enough run / sets, because CAM doesn’t value the 3 ball enough (we have been towards the bottom in 3-point attempts) and Hunter has struggled defensively. I generally believe in CAM’s defensive philosophy but the team repeatedly fails to execute extending the pac line to the perimeter resulting in the other guys having strong games from behind the arc while we minimize the arc in our offense. We don’t have truly elite three point shooters but we do have guys who can spread the floor better, but that game has been minimized. Hunter should play more with sets run for his offense (my opinion). Lander should play more to speed up our transition game. We’re starting to see more of that but it’s late in the season

Agree and that was visible immediately after the call on the replay.

I guess you have to be careful how you type in Matthew Loves Ball on YouTube .... ;)

Us - 75 Bucknuts - 71

Great to see Al have a banner game, man those free throws at the end were clutch. Along with Al’s clutch scoring down the stretch, a couple things / stats stood out to me - real plus - minus leaders were Franklin (shocker right) and Hunter. Franklin +9 in 44 min (iron man), Hunter at +7 in about 17 min (Leal +8 but 2 min), and that 3 in double OT. We shot over 70 percent from the stripe, 14-15 in OT, and otherwise we lose. Seems like the strategy was to keep going inside to force NW to avoid fouling since they struggle with fouling - I was hating our shot choices and passing up shots until I started to realize how the fouling was piling up, I mean we shot 38 FT’s — to NW’s 12. Talk about winning ugly. And Al and Franklin, 11-12 and 7-8 respectively, were key. And a half-time score of 23-20, and a final score of 79-76? Nuts

You’re not wrong

OK this Zoom hearing clip, which went viral yesterday, is just hysterical. And my firm knows this guy here in Texas, lol.

Mo Pete! Nice reference

A couple thoughts to add here -- A good friend of mine out East watched/scouted both Oladipo (at DeMatha) and Geronimo. During Vic's recruitment and commitment he told me Vic was going to be a stud in college, that he was then a double-guy with boards as a guard, that his D was way ahead of his O which was still developing, but that he was exceptional and would do really well at IU. Couldn't have been more right. Around when Geronimo committed he told me Geronimo was better at the same age as Vic, further along, also better defensively at his current development but better than Vic was at that age. That's seriously high praise. Then coming into this season there were several comments from inside the program that Geronimo was wowing guys in practice. I think he's farther along already than his court time is indicating. His stroke looks smooth to me, fwiw. Back on the Adidas Gauntlet he was shooting around 36% from deep, Jerry Meyer scouted him and tabbed him a good spot-up 3-point shooter, his limitations were his handle/straight-line drives. I remember reading somewhere that he shot close to 40% his junior year (not sure if that's right but that's what I remember). He was the 2019 NH Gatorade POY, and with that he had a GPA just under 4.0. The kid is good, smart and a hard worker, he's just going to get better, great work ethic. Not calling him Vic, but I think he'll develop into an exceptional player and should start by next season, imo.

IU -- 67 NWU / where all my money goes to my kid's ridiculous tuition -- 63 -- That's reason enough why we have to win!

Congrats and welcome aboard CJ! Character and dedication pay off, great to see him headed to our IU

Not sure but can’t imagine he would go from playing 17-18 mpg and having won the gold jersey to losing all his minutes to Jordan. Makes more sense to me that, as Cam said, he’ll play when CAM thinks he’s ready again

Gotcha thanks!

Cool thanks — I have no idea just going with rumors at this point, being kept out of 2 games for a Covid protocol violation seems extreme but again no idea

Drake was undefeated until 6-12 Valpo knocked them off today

Hey Bow how goes it — I’m really hoping to see Hunter back. Loved the end game shots today but damn our starting guards were shooting bad until then

No standard protocol per se, completely up to CAM, but while not standard you often see teams do 2-3 games. Especially after just having won the gold jersey you would think we’ll see Hunter in the next game or maybe the one after. He probably has to pass another first

Finally!

Pretty wild that this is the first time since 1960 that Duke and UNC have played each other unranked

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