IUBB @ Michigan - Tuesday, 12.05.23 @ 9:00 on Peacock TV

[Hoosier DaDa]

Not sure how you all feel, but super happy with this game tonight.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  It was fun, exciting and maddening.  A lot of good things to take from this IMO.  After our start against the cupcakes, I was majorly concern and still I'm to some extent.  We won our first game on the road in the Big Ten and we are 2-0.  The way this team started the season really thought we would be 0-2 in the Big Ten.  I'm just happy that I can watch IU Basketball and to quote Stuhoo 7-1 baeeeby...or something like that

[hoosierbannerd]

11 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Clearly I am out of the loop... why was crybaby Howard not coaching Michigan?

Heart surgery in September.

[Hoosier987]

Impressive win! Wasn’t always pretty but we got the W.

[Stuhoo]

Well aware that they didn’t make shots, but…

Trey Galloway? 31 minutes and zero turnovers.

Gabe Cupps? 32 minutes and one turnover. As a freshman primary ball handler in his first B1G road game.

[Hardwood83]

 

5 minutes ago, woodenshoemanHoosierfan said:

I thought the same. I've certainly heard worse

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Agreed, also Bardo was much better than usual, IMO. About Gunn he said "he's growing up right before our eyes" and he's right. A couple weeks ago he looked absokutely terrible.But IU doesn't win tonight without Gunn. Any B1G road win is a big deal, so I am very pleased.

[str8baller]

12 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

That's not my point. I'm not defending the post guys. I'm, reluctantly because I love Cupps, saying Cupps sucked defensively. I think that's where our disconnect is.

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He’s matched up against their top scorer and held him to half his season average (half those on FT’s) and you think he “sucked defensively.”  I don’t think so.   
 

I’m somewhat grading on a curve because he’s a frosh in his first true road game drawing a tough assignment in his second start. But even if you don’t think he played well on defense (he did), saying he “sucked” is ridiculous. He…at least…did a solid job on a guy they tried to get isolated against him. 

[gfeltner28]

4 minutes ago, str8baller said:

He’s matched up against their top scorer and held him to half his season average (half those on FT’s) and you think he “sucked defensively.”  I don’t think so.   

Yep McDaniel was 3-14 from the field and 0-4 from 3. He just lit Oregon up.

[Stuhoo]

11 minutes ago, str8baller said:

He’s matched up against their top scorer and held him to half his season average (half those on FT’s) and you think he “sucked defensively.”  I don’t think so.   
 

I’m somewhat grading on a curve because he’s a frosh in his first true road game drawing a tough assignment in his second start. But even if you don’t think he played well on defense (he did), saying he “sucked” is ridiculous. He…at least…did a solid job on a guy they tried to get isolated against him. 

McDaniel forced up a ton of shots against Cupps. He tried to play hero ball because Cupps didn’t look to McDaniel like he belonged on him. And McDaniel went 3-14 from the floor.

Cupps did his job and then some tonight. That kid has an uncanny knack for being on the winning team an inordinate amount of the time.

One more thing about Cupps; he is going to be incredibly frustrating to our opponents. Other teams’ guards are routinely going to force stuff like McDaniel did because they will wrongly assume they should dominate the kid, but Gabe Cupps has a next-level basketball brain. He just doesn’t turn it over much and never will, he’s our best screener of our guards, he makes excellent post entry passes, and he never, NEVER goes under a ball screen.

Little, unnoticed things that again tonight led to Gabe Cupps sitting in the winner’s locker room.

[LamarCheeks]

Like the way this looks …

[Josh]

[Home Jersey]

 

[Home Jersey]

 

[Demo]

26 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

His best game

Easily. It was a team win but it doesn’t happen without Gunn and what Walker gave them in the first half. 

[TheWatShot]

28 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Auburn just lost to Appalachian State... just sayin. 

Appalachian State is a good team, to be fair. 

I feel better about the Auburn game now than I did a few weeks ago. But I can't shake the feeling we'll look a lot less athletic than them and the three-ball will be our enemy again. 

[RaceToTheTop]

Wasn't able to watch it live but followed the score and saw the last ten seconds of the game (or really, like last five minutes in real time with all the stoppages).  Wanting to watch the replay on peacock but they are still loading it.  Hopefully soon as I'm already staying up wayyyyy too late to watch it.

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, TheWatShot said:

I feel better about the Auburn game now than I did a few weeks ago. But I can't shake the feeling we'll look a lot less athletic than them and the three-ball will be our enemy again. 

We will really need Banks/Gunn/Walker to have especially great games.

[Demo]

2 minutes ago, Josh said:

Love it. Ware is just pterodactyl and great switch by Woody. 

[Demo]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Wasn't able to watch it live but followed the score and saw the last ten seconds of the game (or really, like last five minutes in real time with all the stoppages).  Wanting to watch the replay on peacock but they are still loading it.  Hopefully soon as I'm already staying up wayyyyy too late to watch it.

Even though you know the outcome, when you’re watching the 1st half with no X, Cupps struggling with McDaniel and  Galloway playing his worst half in 3 years, you’re gonna think there is no way they actually won this. 

[IUHoosier5]

It brings so much joy seeing Mgbako get into a groove. I would take 11-14 from him every single night. What a game from this team. To face as much adversity as they did (like not converting on TWO straight 3-on-1 opportunities) and get the stops they had to have at the end of the game to win - priceless. This win can be a launch pad for the season. Build on it! 

[realTomCrean]

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” - CJ Gunn 

Once he puts it all together he will be a menace as an upperclassmen