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Yup. But our guys, under Woodson, are capable. That should be a really good game

We’re ranked if we beat illinois

I’d say no after the L to M but we’re close now

Also finished at 10’s — team has continued to improve on taking care of the ball and that’s a good part of the W’s

So we’re giving up the blowout W — but we’re still gonna close it out with a strong W on the road and well over the spread. Nice W, not let up after stomping PSU

Jinx!

Hmm. I think we might just beat the spread

Hoosiers 71 Terrapinheads 67

You must’ve missed my little smiley face — just joking with you. Definitely a tough game to call without Rob. They beat Illinois though without their stud, then won on the road ag Rutgers — MD’s guards are scoring better — i’d like to have Rob’s D, others are going to have to step up

Homer :)

Agree, though I do think having one of them start is important for spacing (and I'd like to see better use of our outside game, the inside game with TJD and Race would be better if we were using the shooters more, and our scoring would increase).

Kind of a hard one to predict. Losing Rob aint gonna help. MD's had some clunkers, lost bad to Rutgers, lost to NWU at home, but then just beat Illinois and Rutgers (on road), convincingly. They're looking a lot better. Meh, I'll predict later....

Reading tea leaves, sounds like he's gonna be out for a while whatever the nature of this injury is. That stinks. Hope he can get back sooner rather than later.

Butt-kicking Day Then.

I don’t see how Gallloway wouldn’t strengthen the starters. Better D, much better to the rim, moves without the ball better, assists well, more active generally, quicker, and one of our top performers statistically on both sides of the ball. Kopp’s a good 3-point shooter, but he’s not scoring very well on a per minute basis, doesn’t take many 3’s, and he doesn’t do much on the glass or get to the rim well. His D is ok, but not strong.

He's good, and he's absolutely needed for point guard depth. Next game isn't far off, we need his perimeter D and on ball depth.

This swat was fantastic (courtesy of ITH)

Phin can't catch a break with the injuries. Kid's a killer defender, hope it's not too bad and he bounces back soon.

Steph Curry!

Just branding, Prov doesn’t have the same cache - should be above UK

A little NBA lineup example, Clippers -- Largest comeback W since 2009, down 66-31 with about a min in 1st half. Down 66-36 at halftime, Clippers coach Ty Lue opened the third quarter with several of his starters on the bench. Lue didn't play starters Jackson, Nicolas Batum and Ivica Zubac in the second half, opting to go with guys such as Amir Coffey (29 points), Kennard (25 points) and Terance Mann (16 points). And that worked. They're erased a deficit of 24 or more points 3 times this season. The lineup is not etched in stone, the coach inserts players, as needed, when a lineup isn't clicking.

We're what, -47 in the past 7 or so games early 1st and 2nd halves? I don't have that stat but it's something like that. I don't understand not seeing that we repeatedly start slow, usually both halves, and get down, because we have not one but two guys who are just not strong defenders, who are out there to shoot 3's, but still are not shooting them -- we're again shooting the 3 by numbers towards the bottom of the B1G. Having 3-point shooters together on the floor doesn't help when they're not shooting. Then also not seeing that both Galloway and Geronimo are among our top players in conference both defensively and offensively, by the numbers (see the stats in the GG thread, they're pretty clear). And Galloway assists by the numbers, per minute, right there with X and Phin. When they come in we tend to get back into the game, from the hole that the same starting group repeatedly creates. There's really no good reason not to insert one of them into the starting group, imo.

Shawshank. It may be appropriate that you've quoted a get out of jail hope letter vbg -- we've been locked up a long time

IU 72 PSU 65

Sooner the better. It's time