IUBB @ Michigan - Saturday, 2/11/23 @ 6:00 on ESPN

[JSHoosier 20,280]

6 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

The announcers? They may not know.

But this I am sure of. He is not out with a sinus infection lol.

And I would be very very VERY surprised to ever see him on the court in an Indiana uniform again.

He's been on the court in an IU uniform about as much as I have.

[JSHoosier 20,280]

5 hours ago, HoosierFan1994 said:

 IU lost these kind of games last year (Illinois, Wisconsin at home; Purdue on the road). They're finding ways to win these games (Minny, Purdue, Rutgers, now Michigan). 

IU has lost these kinds of games for years.  Being able to dig in and grind out these games is a good sign, they look to be developing mental toughness and hopefully a refuse to lose mentality.

We need more consistency from some players though, only 2 guys had more than 4 points.  I'll take the W though; if you said this team would be 2nd in conference after that skid they had I'd say you need a drug test.

[Hoosier Guy 7,529]

9 hours ago, Alford Bailey said:

Growth under Woodson. So many times in the past we lose this game. 

Agree completely. The Rutgers game is an example as well. No way IU wins these two games last year or any year of the Archie era. We’re finally seeing the consistency we all want. I’m really excited for the rest of the season

[Josh 12,649]

11 hours ago, schoosier said:

You obviously don’t like to win either.

Yes, because I get frustrated when JHS plays too selfishly that means I don't like winning.  Brilliant deduction

[Whoozhers 3,694]

I cannot believe we didn’t foul them in the last 8 seconds. It was such a scramble I wasn’t sure I was seeing what I saw.

Anyone have a link to the last 8 second video??

[Josh 12,649]

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10 minutes ago, Josh said:

Yes, because I get frustrated when JHS plays too selfishly that means I don't like winning.  Brilliant deduction

When does JHS play selfishly? That, I don't think, has happened all year.  Definitely not last night. 

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The offense did not look better with JG/MR. And Michigan is a poor defensive team. 

[HoosierHoopster 7,042]

13 minutes ago, Josh said:

Yes, because I get frustrated when JHS plays too selfishly that means I don't like winning.  Brilliant deduction

Not piling on and of course don’t think you “don’t like winning” (lol), but I don’t see any selfishness in JHS at all. He’s being relied on to score, as well as run the floor, bc he can create his own shot and convert, really only he and TJD can on this team (Gallo can get to rim but not create for himself on the dribble). I did think we were too unbalanced last night, but it wasn’t selfishness.

[HoosierHoopster 7,042]

6 minutes ago, btownqb said:

The offense did not look better with JG/MR. And Michigan is a poor defensive team. 

We were unbalanced last night offensively, really no one outside JHS and TJD got anything going, might’ve been a game where Race’s O would’ve helped, but then we won on the road in MU where we almost never do and against a MU team desperate for the W, and the athleticism on D, including JG’s D (better in second half) played a good role in that. MR was just lost out there for much of the game, just a frosh night for him, I’m sure he’ll bounce back from it.

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2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

We were unbalanced last night offensively, really no one outside JHS and TJD got anything going, might’ve been a game where Race’s O would’ve helped, but then we won on the road in MU where we almost never do and against a MU team desperate for the W, and the athleticism on D, including JG’s D (better in second half) played a good role in that. MR was just lost out there for much of the game, just a frosh night for him, I’m sure he’ll bounce back from it.

JG was ok.. he still got absolutely torched on a close out when we were in zone, not sure I've seen that happen before... 

But.. either way, those two showed last night why Race gets 25mpg since returning. He's better, overall and more consistent, than those two. 

[Stuhoo 81,069]

1 minute ago, btownqb said:

JG was ok.. he still got absolutely torched on a close out when we were in zone, not sure I've seen that happen before... 

But.. either way, those two showed last night why Race gets 25mpg since returning. He's better, overall and more consistent, than those two. 

The current Race is, uh, okay.

A healthy Race? Yes please 

[HoosierHoopster 7,042]

Just now, btownqb said:

JG was ok.. he still got absolutely torched on close out when we were in zone, not sure I've seen that happen before... 

But.. either way, those two showed last night why Race gets 25mpg since returning. He's better, overall and more consistent, than those two. 

Don’t want to rehash the same discussion, not going to. What is clear is Race hasn’t been 100 percent since returning from injury and he didn’t play last night. Glad we have 3 guys who each can bring game to the table up front.

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Just now, Stuhoo said:

The current Race is, uh, okay.

A healthy Race? Yes please 

Well.. the other two with gobs less experience than Race and clearly worse defenders... were worse than "ok" last night. 

Yeah, I want Race to be healthy too. Idk what injury it was last night, but his knee looked a lot better against Purdue and Rutgers. 

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2 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Don’t want to rehash the same discussion, not going to. What is clear is Race hasn’t been 100 percent since returning from injury and he didn’t play last night. Glad we have 3 guys who each can bring game to the table up front.

Race the last two games(Purdue and Rutgers).. the knee was fine. 

There isn't really that much to rehash, Race is going to play the majority of the mins at the 4. And for good reason. 

Malik will hopefully get 12-18 mins. I'm not sure there is a spot/mins for JG, currently. 

[Home Jersey 7,712]

3 minutes ago, btownqb said:

Well.. the other two with gobs less experience than Race and clearly worse defenders... were worse than "ok" last night. 

Yeah, I want Race to be healthy too. Idk what injury it was last night, but his knee looked a lot better against Purdue and Rutgers. 

Are you Race's uncle? This horse has been beat to death already man

[BGleas 7,917]

26 minutes ago, btownqb said:

When does JHS play selfishly? That, I don't think, has happened all year.  Definitely not last night. 

Yeah, I haven't seen him play selfishly this season either. Take the Maryland game for example, did he play great? Of course not. He shot really poorly. I saw a lot of fans saying he needed to know that he didn't "have it" and stop taking shots, I can all but promise the coaching staff was telling him to continue to be aggressive and look for his shot. 

The bottom line is we have an excellent defensive team with a dominant offensive player in TJD. But, TJD can't handle the offense all by himself and JHS is our second scorer. We need JHS to not only facilitate but be aggressive in looking for his shot. 

Last night was another example. JHS started slow, but we were never going to win that game if he didn't get it going in terms of scoring. Just like at Maryland, we had no shot to win unless he started scoring. He took mostly al good shots, they just didn't drop. 

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1 minute ago, TeeterInNJ said:

Are you Race's uncle? This horse has been beat to death already man

Ohhh..ok. 

But I had to read JG would play the 3 for 3 years? Lol I'm beating the dead horse? 

That is absolute gold. I got a good chuckle out of that. 

Thats fine, we can drop it... until a week from now and Race only scores 4 points in a game and we have to read this crap about how Malik and JG make our offense look better, again. K

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1 minute ago, btownqb said:

Ohhh..ok. 

But I had to read JG would play the 3 for 3 years? Lol I'm beating the dead horse? 

That is absolute gold. I got a good chuckle out of that. 

Thats fine, we can drop it... until a week from now and Race only scores 4 points in a game and we have to read this crap about how Malik and JG make our offense look better, again. K

Thx

[Josh 12,649]

34 minutes ago, btownqb said:

When does JHS play selfishly? That, I don't think, has happened all year.  Definitely not last night. 

There are times in every game where he thinks he's the only player on the floor.  He decides he's going to shoot the ball no matter what the defense shows him, no matter how open his teammates is, he's the only one on the team.  I call that selfish but maybe you call it something else.  I hate that part of his game