Tasmanian Devil

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.

I won’t openly root for us to lose. But, honestly, I don’t believe that I’ll have to root to see the disappointment we know is coming. There is no way with the talent that is on this roster that we shouldn’t have a good year. But we’ve seen this movie before and it doesn’t have the ending any of us want. Just seeing the play from Atlantis told you everything you need to know about how good of a collegiate coach Mike Woodson is. Even in the win over Providence, you could see it wasn’t a matter of us shutting them down on defense, it was a matter of them missing good wide open shots - especially from three point range. Good teams will exploit the crap out of that, especially in the Big 10.

Even Quinn can’t save him now. The dysfunction is too obvious and too severe to save face.

That’s fair. As I said in my post, I loved Woody as a player. He achieved a lot during his time on the hardwood. But you can’t look past the lack of effort and direction. Had he played anywhere else he would never be the coach at IU. At this point, it just needs to end. He’s Dead Man Walking.

Hope you feel better soon.

This is not meant to call you out, so please don’t take offense. But from your posts you seem to be a supporter of Woodson, so I ask (in all sincerity) - did you see my post yesterday evening? Louisville built a 38 point lead WITHOUT ATTEMPTING A SINGLE FREE THROW! Not one. Just how pathetic an effort does a team have to give over 30 minutes of a game that the opponent can nearly double the score on you and you haven’t contested a shot enough to be called for a foul? In all seriousness - what about Woodson and the body of work he has provided to this point leads you to believe he can right this ship? The problems we saw yesterday and today are the same ones we’ve seen the past 3 years. How in good consciousness can you continue to support this?

Let me start by saying I love Mike Woodson - as a player. Guy is an all time Hoosier legend on the court. Stating that makes it all the harder to say these words, but they MUST be said: Mike Woodson needs to be relieved of his coaching duties at Indiana University. We could talk about all the shortcomings, but those have been bandied about ad nauseam throughout this thread. But if anything can ever convince a naysayer who still supports Woody to finally admit that he needs to go, it’s this: Louisville - after leading 37-29 at halftime - out-scored Indiana 41-11 to lead 78-40 with 7:08 left in the game. That 38 point margin was the largest lead of the game for the Cardinals. And they achieved that without shooting a SINGLE free throw. None. In fact, UofL didn’t attempt a charity toss until 3:35 remained in the game. Again, THEY GOT A THIRTY EIGHT POINT LEAD WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM THE LINE! All of us who watched the game saw the uninspired effort, but until you see that statistic does it truly sink in just how truly pathetic the effort was. Even IF Woodson had a system that was conducive to winning (he doesn’t), there is nothing from the body of work that is the Mike Woodson era to make you believe he will be able to get this team to reverse course and play hard - as in playing focused and with purpose. Scott Dolson, please fire Mike Woodson. End this misery for everyone.

Gotcha. in your expert opinion, where do things stand?

Wait - I must have missed this. Our staff had another meeting with Mullins after UCONN last week? When and who - Woody? Walsh?

Which is EXACTLY why we needed to send him packing NOW. It’d be different if Woodson was some kind of NBA horse whisperer that was developing guys straight to the league and winning championships. But he’s not - his first two years he made the tournament because of having TJD on the roster; this year he missed the dance altogether despite multiple 5 stars. Now we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Guy is 66 years old, plays an offense nearly as old. And now we’re handicapping him with questions about whether he’ll be around and there’s no way in hell you want to extend him. IU administration once again has f¥{£Ed this basketball team/program.

NGW also said not to believe an article quoting Dalton Knecht saying his IU visit had to be rescheduled because Woody decided to have knee surgery. Just sayin . . .

Great first post. Welcome to the board. And, for God’s sake, hurry up and get nine more posts so you can rid yourself forever of that nasty Purdue Jockstrap.

He tried biting the head off of a camel once - just so he could finally say he got over the hump.

Was it meant to deliberately piss off the fans? I don’t know - just as much as you can’t say it wasn’t pre-arranged. For all of Leal’s contributions - or lack thereof - this year, he is returning to the tune of $225k. Hell, I’d tell people to “chill” if I got to be a benchwarmer for that kind of jack.

It is if they already knew that they were returning, which they obviously knew since they announced it. Remember also on the Friday before - two days prior to senior day - Woodson told the media he had no idea whether either of them was doing senior day. So we’re supposed to believe that in the span of 48 hours they not only decided they were going to stay, but decided to go through with being on senior day and in their speeches allude to the fact that we “needed to chill”? if you believe all of that, I’ve got a bridge in San Francisco I’d love to sell you . . .

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