IUBB vs Michigan - 01/23/22 @ 3:30 on CBS

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Who’s they?

Michigan?

[Uspshoosier 47,038]

1 minute ago, HoosierAloha said:

Michigan?

Michigan showed great effort today 

[Five Prime 1,114]

I don't think Woodson has any plans to change the starting lineup but coming out with Stewart and Kopp against a team with superior athletes on the wing is going to continue to cost us.  Michigan is very talented they just needed confidence.  And we gave it to them in the first 4 minutes of the game.  Their intensity ramped up and we never matched it.  Hard to say if things would have been different with a different starting lineup but we absolutely were outmatched defensively on the wings with Kopp and Stewart

 

[Honkyman 1,670]

The bench played poorly today. Durr got his 4 points on two nice jumpers (Durr should try to teach TJD how to shoot). Phinisee was back to playing like he usually does.  Bates tried a shot from behind the basket. Does he think he is Larry Bird? Geronimo was invisible. Galloway has no business shooting anything but a layup. He's a terrible shooter and even missed a layup after a nice steal. A three point shot from Galloway is the equivalent of a turnover.  The offense is mostly one-on-one--too little ball movement. The coaching staff has to figure out ways to get Parker Stewart and Miller Kopp more open 3s. Parker hits a good percentage of open 3-point shots. Michigan played like their preseason ranking. They looked like the best team in the league.

[Five Prime 1,114]

And I'll add if we aren't deliberately running sets to get them open looks from 3 then there really isn't anything they do better than the guys on the bench.  I guess they keep the floor spaced for X and the bigs to operate but you can't have two decoys out there at once. 

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Michigan showed great effort today 

Looks even better when your opponent doesn't give much. I guess we took the old saying "it's better to whole @$$ one thing than half-@$$ multiple things" (something like that). Maybe we get two halves of e against psu?

[RaceToTheTop 26,853]

10 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

 Howard ducking Purdue and Sparty was a brilliant move 

I've heard the conspiracy theories that they weren't below the minimum.....any truth?

[TheWatShot 14,380]

Didn't watch the second half. First half we looked like we had just emerged from a Tom Crean 4 hour practice. 

[Uspshoosier 47,038]

8 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Looks even better when your opponent doesn't give much. I guess we took the old saying "it's better to whole @$$ one thing than half-@$$ multiple things" (something like that). Maybe we get two halves of e against psu?

I hope  so but you never know with teams projected in the 8-12 range 

[Alford Bailey 12,424]

Michigans ball movement was excellent today. We were always a step behind.

[RaceToTheTop 26,853]

Parker Stewart taking a few three point shots toward the end of the game frustrates me.  I don't think he passes up way too many earlier.

[rcbowla 7,225]

I saw this coming. Not a good match up after an emotionally demanding game. Didn't expect it to be a blowout but I expected a loss. IU is now incapable of building on momentum until they aren't and for me thats going to take like a 4 game stretch with one of those on the road. This team is decent and tourney worthy but won't really make any noise there.

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[Josh 12,745]

47 minutes ago, coonhounds said:

This has aged terribly

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Tom Cheaty choked it away 

[Uspshoosier 47,038]

2 minutes ago, brumdog45 said:

I've heard the conspiracy theories that they weren't below the minimum.....any truth?

Probably.  He was staring at  3 games against Sparty, Purdue and Illinois in a row and was already 1-2 in the conference.  I’m guessing he would rather make those up when they were playing better later in the season.     They really need those game for their resume so I’m hoping it backfires on him and Purdue and Sparty find a way not to make them up 

[Alford Bailey 12,424]

2 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

I hope  so but you you never know with teams projected in the 8-12 range 

That was the Michigan team we all expected early in the season.

[NOLA Hoosier 1,267]

Honestly, this needed to happen. They have to learn the consequences of sleepwalking through games against lesser opponents just because they won a big one a couple nights before.
 

I’m still fairly confident they’ll make the tourney and perhaps even make it past the first round.

[Five Prime 1,114]

3 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Michigans ball movement was excellent today. We were always a step behind.

Agree and a lot of was because we were getting blown by on the wing then forced to help and then our guys just got lost on the rotations 

[str8baller 5,813]

3 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Not gonna win very many times when the opponent shoots 64% from three

It’s cuz we left them WIDE OPEN!!! 
 

Of course, typical NBA shooters hit around 40-45% on wide open 3’s. The best shooter in the game Steph Curry hits about 45-50% from wide open 3’s. In other words, the best shooters in the world when left open do not shoot as well as Michigan did today. 
 

It happens. It sucks. It doesn’t help that we didn’t play well either, but Michigan played out of their minds today. 

[RaceToTheTop 26,853]

Just now, Five Prime said:

Agree and a lot of was because we were getting blown by on the wing then forced to help and then our guys just got lost on the rotations 

Thought we also had some guys sag in off their shooters instead of trusting the bigs behind them.

[IUFAN1976 3,898]

5 minutes ago, Honkyman said:

The bench played poorly today. Durr got his 4 points on two nice jumpers (Durr should try to teach TJD how to shoot). Phinisee was back to playing like he usually does.  Bates tried a shot from behind the basket. Does he think he is Larry Bird? Geronimo was invisible. Galloway has no business shooting anything but a layup. He's a terrible shooter and even missed a layup after a nice steal. A three point shot from Galloway is the equivalent of a turnover.  The offense is mostly one-on-one--too little ball movement. The coaching staff has to figure out ways to get Parker Stewart and Miller Kopp more open 3s. Parker hits a good percentage of open 3-point shots. Michigan played like their preseason ranking. They looked like the best team in the league.

If you noticed late in 2nd half, he ran several sets for Stewart to get some 3’s and that required people setting screens and him moving.  Most of the time I see Stewart and Kopp standing in one spot and not moving.  I thought our offense was going to be constant movement like that; however, it’s primarily throwing the ball into the post to TJD or Race and everyone else standing around waiting for them to make a play or kick it out when they are double team.  I thank we can do both, pass into the post then go screen away and have someone curl off a screen and TJD feeds him for a wide open shot!  Simple basketball and a way to get Stewart and Kopp more involved