IUBB @ Minnesota - Wednesday, 1/25/23 @ 9:00 ET on BTN

[Josh]

2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

There is nothing wrong with the strategy. The play on the court or lack there of... was the reason it was close, and little else. 

 

[Josh]

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

What if I told you that sharing the coaching duties vs. Ya being judge jury and executioner was worth 5 points?

That would be great!  What if I told you it almost caused us to lose to the worst team in the Big 10?

[CSP]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

 

I can't pretend to know more about the situation than the coaches on our team. You apparently can. Have a good one man. 

PS-- your profile picture now is much better, and sane. 

[CSP]

Just now, Josh said:

That would be great!  What if I told you it almost caused us to lose to the worst team in the Big 10?

It didn't. The play on the court did. 

[Josh]

15 minutes ago, btownqb said:

I can't pretend to know more about the situation than the coaches on our team. You apparently can. Have a good one man. 

PS-- your profile picture now is much better, and sane. 

Never question the coaches, always blame the kids.  Got it.

[HoosierHoopster]

35 minutes ago, btownqb said:

I see very little that is misleading about that stat. Race and Kopp were the only ones that could check Battle at all. JG and MR didn't play much in the 2nd half because there was no one for them to guard on the other end. 

If we had taken TJD out... they could have guarded Thompson, sure. But, were you going to take TJD out? 

Did you watch the game? I don't mean that to be snarky at all, I'm just wondering how you  could have that take if you watched. As about everyone else recognized, reflected in this thread, Race was clogging the lane, while contributing basically nothing offensively, and JG and Malik? JG played like 5 minutes in the first half only, and Malik, after playing extremely well in the first, sat all second half, while we continued to fail to score and look terrible offensively, and Race continued to do nothing offensively. He was in TJD's way. Sure, he defended decently, but we almost lost largely because of those terrible substitution decisions. We lose that game, with those lineup decisions, against any other team in the B1G.

[CSP]

1 minute ago, Josh said:

Never question the coaches, always blame the kids.  Got it.

The issue is you want to "blame". There is no blame. It's a team. 

[CSP]

2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Did you watch the game? I don't mean that to be snarky at all, I'm just wondering how you  could have that take if you watched. As about everyone else recognized, reflected in this thread, Race was clogging the lane, while contributing basically nothing offensively, and JG and Malik? JG played like 5 minutes in the first half only, and Malik, after playing extremely well in the first, sat all second half, while we continued to fail to score and look terrible offensively, and Race continued to do nothing offensively. He was in TJD's way. Sure, he defended decently, but we almost lost largely because of those terrible substitution decisions. We lose that game, with those lineup decisions, against any other team in the B1G.

I have watched the game three times. Read what you said, agreed with basically none of it, so I didn't quote you. 

 

[Hovadipo]

17 minutes ago, Josh said:

That would be great!  What if I told you it almost caused us to lose to the worst team in the Big 10?

But we didn't lose. I'd rather it almost cause us to lose than find out what would have caused us to lose.

Who's on 1st?

[woodenshoemanHoosierfan]

Very ugly game and I wasn't happy with our play(except for TJD), but we won and in past years we would have lost this type of game

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[Class of '66 Old Fart]

@Josh you took a statement at face value and I think you really missed the overall context.

[HoosierHoopster]

3 minutes ago, btownqb said:

I have watched the game three times. Read what you said, agreed with basically none of it, so I didn't quote you. 

 

1-4  and 2-4 from the line for 4 points, 4 boards, in 24 minutes. 3 blocks were good defensively. He was just bad offensively.

Malik, 10 points  on 4-5 and 2-2 from the line with a board and a block in 12 min -- and 0 TO's and 1 foul.

JG, coming off the bench, got in only 5-6 min, 1 board, 1 assist, but 2 TOs and 2 fouls took him out. He's clearly shown over the past several games what he can bring.

 

[coonhounds]

I am ok with last night's win as long as it isn't a sign of things to come. That has to be the last egg they lay if they want to put some pressure on purdue and finish to 4 of the big. Last night reminded me of some previous games I don't want to remember. Better be focused Saturday night

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[Hovadipo]

Mr. Unguardable was...unguardable again. I'd hate to be Minnesota if we wouldn't have gone multiple-minute stretches without him touching the ball. 

[Josh]

34 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

@Josh you took a statement at face value and I think you really missed the overall context.

Perhaps so, that's why I wondered aloud if I was reading it wrong.  How do you interpret it differently?

[Josh]

38 minutes ago, btownqb said:

The issue is you want to "blame". There is no blame. It's a team. 

I believe that a team's successes happen when individuals are held accountable.  Don't you?

[Josh]

38 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

But we didn't lose. I'd rather it almost cause us to lose than find out what would have caused us to lose.

Who's on 1st?

There are three of them sharing 1st!

[BGleas]

1 hour ago, Josh said:

If his plan is (purely for example) to go big and pound the ball inside but his assistants decide they want a small lineup, wouldn't that complicate things?  If you have three coaches, you really don't have a gameplan

You're acting like the coaches are coaching in isolated booths with all communication removed once the ball gets tipped. 

I'm pretty sure the coaches are allowed to speak with each other, and I'm sure Hunter and Walsh were aware of the gameplan. 

There was even a moment shown on the TV where Ya was talking to the assistants (I know, imagine that?) about who they were putting in. Ya sent someone back to the bench. 

Ya also clearly made the decision to not put Reneau back in. He specifically mentioned in the post-game taking him out and telling him he's playing well but they're going smaller.

[Josh]

2 minutes ago, BGleas said:

You're acting like the coaches are coaching in isolated booths with all communication removed once the ball gets tipped. 

I'm pretty sure the coaches are allowed to speak with each other, and I'm sure Hunter and Walsh were aware of the gameplan. 

There was even a moment shown on the TV where Ya was talking to the assistants (I know, imagine that?) about who they were putting in. Ya sent someone back to the bench. 

Ya also clearly made the decision to not put Reneau back in. He specifically mentioned in the post-game taking him out and telling him he's playing well but they're going smaller.

Your response is pretty sparky but I'll allow it lol.

You watch more teams play basketball than I do, is this common practice?  To let assistants decide substitutions?

[CSP]

3 minutes ago, Josh said:

I believe that a team's successes happen when individuals are held accountable.  Don't you?

Bates was completely unfocused last night, both ends. TG couldn't understand where and when he was suppose to attack the zone on multiple sets.... we didn't convert a couple of bunnies (the first play of the game) that we normally do.... and our All World FR PG ... stunk it up two games in a row.

What does "hold them accountable" mean? Bench them? put them on trial?... we benched all of them for stretches, but have to play one of TG or JHS. 

Team successes? we've won 4 in a row. SO confused.