IUBB vs Morehead State - Tuesday, 12.19.23 @ 6:30 on BTN

[Ryno6284 2,853]

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

Be something if a kid we recruited to be a back-up turns out to be the locker room alpha and kicks some needed a$$.

I hope so, someone needs to be that guy!

[Golfman25 5,784]

14 minutes ago, JimmerNoe said:

We are 6 deep right now without X. I am unfortunately with Chris about Gunn and Banks. I know Gunn is trying to be a “scorer” but part of me wonders if it is time to tell him to just be a defensive nightmare and only utilize him as a stopper on guys like Lathan last night. Wide open threes are fine but the misses he is taking are killing us when he comes in. Only runouts off of steals please.

When Banks/Gunn and Cupps are in together we are effectively 3 on 5 on the offensive end right now. Don’t get started on when Woody also uses Sparks in that lineup.


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Add no shots until either a post touch or less than 5 on the shot clock.  What kills us is the quick 3, 10 seconds into the clock that clanks off the rim -- that's effectively a turnover.  

[Golfman25 5,784]

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

Be something if a kid we recruited to be a back-up turns out to be the locker room alpha and kicks some needed a$$.

Remember, he sent us home last year.  He didn't come here to "not make the tournament."  

[Hovadipo 56,974]

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

Be something if a kid we recruited to be a back-up turns out to be the locker room alpha and kicks some needed a$$.

How about a little flip of the script for the "we said this roster sux in may and got laughed at" crowd:

A lot of people laughed when folks were excited about grabbing a low-minutes, super athletic, position-less wing with Final Four experience out of the portal.

He is exactly what I expected him to be and will be a major reason this team goes dancing if/when it happens.

[coonhounds 9,335]

I love to see this

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[RaceToTheTop 26,443]

2 hours ago, Uspshoosier said:

Because one was put on by the schools and the other was put on by a third party.   IU can appeal and I’m guessing they will before the end of the year 

I know, it just makes no logical sense.  IMO, both were home games.

[RaceToTheTop 26,443]

2 hours ago, Josh said:

I sent one reply.  Where are you seeing "three or so"?  What in the world

Now replying to a reply about the number of replies

[Uspshoosier 46,601]

2 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

I know, it just makes no logical sense.  IMO, both were home games.

Not for me.  The games were not played on campus so for me no matter what the crowd situation is they should be neutral court games.   B1G tourney is played in the same building so those games shouldn’t count as home games for Purdue or IU 

[RaceToTheTop 26,443]

8 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

Not for me.  The games were not played on campus so for me no matter what the crowd situation is they should be neutral court games.   B1G tourney is played in the same building so those games shouldn’t count as home games for Purdue or IU 

St.John’s is trying to get a lot of their games played in MSG.  Should those all be neutral court?

I do understand your point about the BTT, though.

[Uspshoosier 46,601]

3 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

St.John’s is trying to get a lot of their games played in MSG.  Should those all be neutral court?

I do understand your point about the BTT, though.

 No since the school is willingly given up their campus games to play there then they should be counted as home games.  If IU willingly gave up their home game to play in Indy and agreed to it then that’s on them and it should counted as a home game.  There is a rule about the number  of games being played on a ncaa tourney neutral court game.   Teams can only play a certain amount of games on those.  I need to look that up again 

[Uspshoosier 46,601]

11 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

St.John’s is trying to get a lot of their games played in MSG.  Should those all be neutral court?

I do understand your point about the BTT, though.

If St John’s season ticket holders package include these games then it’s going to be counted as home games.    IUs situation was that it wasn’t included in season ticket holders package.    Either way IU needs to appeal that game to get it counted as a neutral court game 

[Alford Bailey 12,417]

Not making excuses for IU poor performance but Morehead is the pre season pick to win their conference so a pretty solid team.

[Alford Bailey 12,417]

Should probably give Walker some credit. Went for 18 and 9 after some were saying he shouldn’t see the floor earlier in the season.

[Hornsby 2,329]

Not making excuses for IU poor performance but Morehead is the pre season pick to win their conference so a pretty solid team.

I guess but penn state beat them by 24

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[Hoosier DaDa 2,813]

3 hours ago, J34 said:

I would like to believe him but doubt it.  So does he mean the rest of the year 2023?  Hell we make be talking about this again tomorrow.  We all know that we will be talking about lack energy in the very near future.  

[choosierred1 81]

This team wasn't good when Johnson was playing, he's not the answer.

Agree.

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[Alford Bailey 12,417]

Johnson may not be the answer but when healthy he is the the best guard on the team 

[RaceToTheTop 26,443]

10 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Johnson may not be the answer but when healthy he is the the best guard on the team 

Yeah, I guess I don’t get always looking for the negatives.  Is the team better with X?  Of course.  Does it fix all of the issues?  Of course not.  But it’s a start.

[Rico 3,149]

38 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

Johnson may not be the answer but when healthy he is the the best guard on the team 

He is the answer to our lack of guard depth.

[Home Jersey 8,787]

Was anyone at the game/happen to notice what our staff does during timeouts? 

Something small I noticed watching this game back was in the TO huddles, we had a small whiteboard with our player's initials = jersey # -I'm wondering if we had any other whiteboards that were being used to track stats/help make points of emphasis for the coaches. 

When I was at the Empire Classic, I was right next to the end of their bench and they had two medium sized whiteboards tallying things like deflected passes, dives for balls, forced turnovers, etc. 

Our guys tend to look like they're thinking a lot - too much - and it usually causes issues... step or two slow, bad shot, turnover, etc. I'd imagine as a coaching staff, you'd rather be able to emphasize those kinds of effort/IQ related plays in TOs than remind everyone who their man is. Suppose they don't feel like they can trust the players at this point given the defensive struggles, rightfully so. 

I'd like to assume we're doing something similar to UConn as well and I just couldn't see it, but I'd interested if anyone can confirm.

Don't misinterpret this as a criticism into the staff's approach... the Hurley way is not the only way... despite what people in NJ/CT will have you believe!