IU @ Maryland Official Game Thread 9PM ET on ESPN

[Whoozhers]

OG's Thunder Dunk was a thrill and hopefully signals he's back!
About the only positive take away from this game. Somebody needs to file a missing persons report on Bryant. What the heck happened to him?


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[Trish]

OG's Thunder Dunk was a thrill and hopefully signals he's back!
About the only positive take away from this game. Somebody needs to file a missing persons report on Bryant. What the heck happened to him?


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He's not a big man anymore. Crean wants him as our stretch forward [emoji23][emoji23]


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[brandct]

2 hours ago, Whoozhers said:

OG's Thunder Dunk was a thrill and hopefully signals he's back!
About the only positive take away from this game. Somebody needs to file a missing persons report on Bryant. What the heck happened to him?


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Didn't he have a big dunk toward the end of the Illinois game? I don't think it will motivate him that much, but he really did not play well last night so I do not expect him to be that bad to often.

[coonhounds]

Og thunder dunk gets docked alot of points considering how he played all game and the fact maryland didn't want to foul and was not the worst thing in the world for them. I didn't get excited about a awesome play and instead just got pissed off. Kind of like down 15 against louisville but this one was worse lol

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[JSHoosier]

One thing I'll mention, I am utterly sick of how much this team loves shooting the 3.  Early in the shot clock, hand in the face, or both, doesn't matter they'll heave it up regardless; Blackmon took a few with a hand in a face (and a couple were early on top of that).

[Bruce038]

TB is going to have to work on his vertical

Can't jump over a phone book....just a fact

[WayneFleekHoosier]

Actually newkirk was the only one going to the rim. He was hesitant to shoot outside. A good thing. OG sat on the bottom of the 3pt line. He wasn't involved. We looked sick getting blocked so much! DD talked about our unforced brain fart turnovers about 6-7 a game. Damn it our boys aren't taught the fundamentals of the game. And there is NO excuse for it. Just a mix of thoughts. And very dissatisfied ! And it's not just a bad friggin hairday damn it. No way Knight could watch one of these games. No way!


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Bad day Nips?


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[WayneFleekHoosier]

FYI. When you know the losses are coming and that we aren't very good, the losses are easier to stomach.

This has been my strategy since Nebraska. But the IPFW and Butler losses were very painful.


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[Alford Bailey]

That was not a great Maryland team and still the only reason we were in it was because Blackmon got hot. Even when we are able to hang around like last night we have no go to guy in the last couple minutes. This will continue to cost us ball games.

 

[Str8Hoosiers]

2 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

That was not a great Maryland team and still the only reason we were in it was because Blackmon got hot. Even when we are able to hang around like last night we have no go to guy in the last couple minutes. This will continue to cost us ball games.

 

This is what i don't understand... The final play... I know we have no go to guy... but isn't our best option JBJ in that situation... why not switch the play for JBJ instead of Rob (since Rob was having a not great shooting night)? Or as DD said all game Rob is damn near perfect from the right wing... so why run the last play for Rob to go to the Left wing.... Know the strengths and design a play to go to those strengths...

 

I didn't read this whole thread, so maybe it has been mentioned, but the ending very much reminded me of the Nebraska game... a couple missed free throws, and a blown layup by JBJ and I knew the result would be the same at those moments. (not even to mention the stepping out of bounds before that)

[Alford Bailey]

Just now, Str8Hoosiers said:

This is what i don't understand... The final play... I know we have no go to guy... but isn't our best option JBJ in that situation... why not switch the play for JBJ instead of Rob (since Rob was having a not great shooting night)? Or as DD said all game Rob is damn near perfect from the right wing... so why run the last play for Rob to go to the Left wing.... Know the strengths and design a play to go to those strengths...

 

I didn't read this whole thread, so maybe it has been mentioned, but the ending very much reminded me of the Nebraska game... a couple missed free throws, and a blown layup by JBJ and I knew the result would be the same at those moments. (not even to mention the stepping out of bounds before that)

Another example of Crean trying to outsmart the room.

[Hovadipo]

This is what i don't understand... The final play... I know we have no go to guy... but isn't our best option JBJ in that situation... why not switch the play for JBJ instead of Rob (since Rob was having a not great shooting night)? Or as DD said all game Rob is damn near perfect from the right wing... so why run the last play for Rob to go to the Left wing.... Know the strengths and design a play to go to those strengths...

 

I didn't read this whole thread, so maybe it has been mentioned, but the ending very much reminded me of the Nebraska game... a couple missed free throws, and a blown layup by JBJ and I knew the result would be the same at those moments. (not even to mention the stepping out of bounds before that)

I didn't go back and look, but watching live it seemed like the last play was meant for JB but there was a missed screen (shocking) and the play broke down and Rob was option 2.


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[Hoosierfan2017]

Hey at least we threw a normal inbound pass and not a home run toss like usual. We got a shot off this time. Baby steps. 

[HoosierAloha]

FYI. When you know the losses are coming and that we aren't very good, the losses are easier to stomach.

This has been my strategy since Nebraska. But the IPFW and Butler losses were very painful.


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When you really take off the crimson shades it's amazing what happens. I figured we'd be right in the game not because we're good but Maryland is an average team. I thought we'd get beat because of some horrendous plays down the stretch.

Why would the entire team run back after OG's huge dunk with 10 seconds left...?

To put it lightly we,re a stupid basketball, undisciplined team. What was the thought there? We'll take a few more seconds to foul them, why even try to steal it to win the game. Time and score!! Why wasn't Crean screaming for a timeout when he saw his players trotting back and not going for a steal?! I think Turgeon's timeouts worked out in favor of IU rather than Tom "need to save these timeouts for the flight home" Crean. The collective bball IQ of this team and staff is sickening.

[JSHoosier]

6 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

When you really take off the crimson shades it's amazing what happens. I figured we'd be right in the game not because we're good but Maryland is an average team. I thought we'd get beat because of some horrendous plays down the stretch.

Why would the entire team run back after OG's huge dunk with 10 seconds left...?

To put it lightly we,re a stupid basketball, undisciplined team. What was the thought there? We'll take a few more seconds to foul them, why even try to steal it to win the game. Time and score!! Why wasn't Crean screaming for a timeout when he saw his players trotting back and not going for a steal?! I think Turgeon's timeouts worked out in favor of IU rather than Tom "need to save these timeouts for the flight home" Crean. The collective bball IQ of this team and staff is sickening.

Just imagine the out of bounds play drawn up when Crean finally uses those 800 timeouts he's saved.  It'll be amazing; amazingly awful perhaps but still amazing.

[BGleas]

2 hours ago, Str8Hoosiers said:

This is what i don't understand... The final play... I know we have no go to guy... but isn't our best option JBJ in that situation... why not switch the play for JBJ instead of Rob (since Rob was having a not great shooting night)? Or as DD said all game Rob is damn near perfect from the right wing... so why run the last play for Rob to go to the Left wing.... Know the strengths and design a play to go to those strengths...

 

I didn't read this whole thread, so maybe it has been mentioned, but the ending very much reminded me of the Nebraska game... a couple missed free throws, and a blown layup by JBJ and I knew the result would be the same at those moments. (not even to mention the stepping out of bounds before that)

JBJ was the first option on the play, but it didn't work out, RoJo was the second option. 

[HoosierAloha]

Just imagine the out of bounds play drawn up when Crean finally uses those 800 timeouts he's saved.  It'll be amazing; amazingly awful perhaps but still amazing.

It's painfully obvious that he's not drawing up good plays or the players aren't paying attention. It goes to show how special the Zeller years were when IU was top 10 in PPP ATO.

[Str8Hoosiers]

3 hours ago, BGleas said:

JBJ was the first option on the play, but it didn't work out, RoJo was the second option. 

I would need to go back and watch it but why was option #1 not there?

Maryland do a good job defending him? Bad play drawn up? Rush?

And why was option #2 Rob on the left wing instead of the right (assuming DD was correct with his analysis of Rob's shot percentage).

 

[BGleas]

1 hour ago, Str8Hoosiers said:

I would need to go back and watch it but why was option #1 not there?

Maryland do a good job defending him? Bad play drawn up? Rush?

And why was option #2 Rob on the left wing instead of the right (assuming DD was correct with his analysis of Rob's shot percentage).

 

The play for JBJ was on the right side. They ran a flare screen for him to fade to the right corner for an open 3, but it appeared JBJ was too wide to start so the entire thing got clogged up along the sideline leaving Newkirk no room to make the pass. That's when he swung the ball to the left side for the RoJo option. 

[brandct]

The play was set up for Blackmon it just broke down and Rojo was the next best option. He got a good look at the basket.