Tasmanian Devil

Really? You’re in the middle of a thread titled “Fire Mike Woodson”, ask not to have character assassinations . . . But THIS ^^^^^ has you up in arms? I can only imagine the angst if he’d stolen cookies from your cookie jar . . . Why are you really in this thread? You’re now trying to be the forum police? C’mon - you’re better than this.

He is the King of Nothing https://youtu.be/FhiCCcHkBVE

Outscored 30-12, 18 point difference. Lost by 17. If you’re trying to get over a hump, why make it into a mountain?

There’s a lot I could have included. But I didn’t want to write Ben Hur.

Listen, I loved Woodson as a player. He was a legend. And I understand the character assassination you feel is unnecessary. At the same time, Woodson has brought some of this grief upon himself. This goes beyond running an antiquated system that no one else competing at a high level uses. It’s about effort - or lack thereof. And we’re not just referring to the lack of effort in the Louisville and Gonzaga games, or in the last 7 minutes Friday night. How about going to sectionals when your team is not playing - and all your rival coaches are there? How about taking a minute of your day to send a text to a committed player (McNeeley) so to keep building a relationship? How about going to scheduled dinner with a player in town on a recruiting trip but instead blow it off so you can continue smoking cigars and playing cards? Vince Lombardi once said “Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.” That’s the issue I see with Woodson. His team’s effort is a direct reflection of their coach. As coach of IU, there are a lot of great benefits and privileges, and he’s enjoying the wine, the cigars, and the golf. But the other things - the things that go a long ways toward being successful - he’s content with doing them once in a while. You can’t be once in a while, you can’t be sometimes. If you are, you get what we see in Indiana Basketball.

On 11/28, you said this: ”Nine straight. That’s my benchmark. Any slip ups and time to move on” Any slip ups and time to move on - and we didn’t just slip up, we completely quit in the last 7 minutes. Ended the game on a 17-1 run by Nebby - the same Husker team that lost to Sparty by 37 the game before. Do you still defend this? Not asking to be snarky or “call you out” but, my God, if Friday doesn’t kill what support you have left, what will?

Do you think that is a coincidence? Or maybe that occurs because of issues in the way we play that allows them to excel?

This didn’t age well.

17-1 run by Nebby over the last 6:51 of the game. if this game doesn’t convince you Woodson needs to go, nothing will.

Pathetic. Luke Goode hit a 3-pointer to cut it to 68-67 with 6:51 remaining. The Huskers went on a 17-1 run to close out the game. IU shot 35 three pointers, hitting 8 (22.9%). Nebraska went 8-14 (57.1%). if you think tonight was bad, just wait until we play the better 3-point shooting teams from the Big 10. Gonna get REALLY ugly.

Zach Osterman from Indy Star picked Nebby by 6, 81-75.

And both are inside players. How many guards has Woodson “developed “?

I’ll bet right now you give him 6 wide open shots from the arc, he isn’t shooting 18.2% on them.

Held them to 11? Or they are just simply bad? We have given up - on average - 21 three-point attempts per game to our opponents. The only other game this year we’ve given up less than 20 is Sam Houston St (17). We’ve given up 30+ attempts three times. Nevertheless, I counted at least 6 of the attempts from last night that were wide open shots. Again, the Gophers suck - that was the lowest 3-pt percentage last night (18.2%) an opponent had shot against us since last January against Minnesota (15%). The point is, we can’t keep giving up wide-open looks from beyond the arc or it’s gonna kill us. So far, we haven’t played good enough competition for it to matter. But when we get into the Big 10, it certainly will. We’ll play 10 games against teams shooting 35% or better, and you can’t convince me they will all miss those wide open shots like I saw last night - and have seen so far this year.

Same crap as Providence - Minnesota is getting wide-open 3s, but they can't shoot (20%). Not sure they could hit the Atlantic Ocean if they were on Daytona Beach. We should be winning this game by 30. But our defense is terrible. Good teams in the league are gonna kill us.