str8baller

Time and place. Fri night in the summer, have a good ol’ time with some brews or weed, if that’s your thing. But the night before a game is idiotic. Not only violating team rules, but from a physical standpoint. There’s 30 games a year. About half those are on the road. Being prepared and in bed on time the night before a game is the bare minimum level of discipline.

That would be disheartening. If you’re playing whack a mole with discipline issues, you’re in trouble. You can have one head case, but not several. Pretty soon the players will just think you’re punishing them to punish them because so much punishment is being doled out, even if the punishment is justified. I think XJ being part of the five hurts as he has put together a pretty good stretch of play and decision making. Hopefully he rebounds from it.

I’m fine with that. Making the tourney was my preseason goal. otoh, a week ago we were a projected 7 seed. Missing the tourney would be a bit of a black eye. More so than i originally thought.

What do you consider ‘working out?’

This is true. And as I’ve posted several times I trust woody on this discipline issue. But program…? That’s got nothing to do with tonight. I don’t follow recruiting, but this team needs a huge influx of talent. Without that there’s no program.

If we did that’s not a bad thing. I can teach most high schoolers effective defense in half a season. A good motion type offense takes multiple years.

Nobody is done with him. I just think one of the IU greats would’ve stepped up. It’s NW. He’s bullied lesser teams all year. Nobody is asking him to outplay Cockburn tonight. Just disappointing he’s not progressed to that level. I felt the same way about zeller, and he was much better than TJD. You need those players to be a big time program.

Nah…first year. Set the tone. Even if it means missing the tourney. If you don’t do it now you have no chance later.

We match up well with them. And it’s home. It’s literally the game we need to win to be a tourney team (we’re a 9-11 seed now). I don’t have confidence we win tho.

And we never will be. Time for the Knight haters to wake uo to the fact that he was the only thing holding up an inept AD for decades. If we’re lucky we get a decent coach before we die. I have faith woody can lay some ground work.

******* pathetic. If we don’t beat Wisconsin at home, we’re done for. We should win that game though.

I don’t know why this can’t be a 25-10 game for TJD but that’s who we are

Who cares? He iced the game for his team

Yea, i agree on replay. still think the rule is dumb.

Terrible call

I think so too. We took enough bad calls so maybe we deserve it. :/ Let’s take advantage of it

Need two stops

It’s 90% over

These flagrant rules are so stupid. I’m sorry but i hate this type of basketball

I hate to say it, but this is the type of game where TJD has to come through. This is kind of sad.

Has nothing to do with stubborn and everything to do with recruiting. That’s just college basketball

This game is over i think

I get thw tight spot but as a staff this is where u have to be able to manufacture some offense. This is pathetic so far

Cmon…scrap this out

Of all the games, this is one where they should be forcing TJD