IUBB vs Louisville - Wednesday, 11.27.24 @ noon on ESPN

[OKHOOSIER 2,260]

Pretty ugly half. Louisville is not a great team, better than last season certainly, but not impressive. A team with more of a pulse would have us down 20 right now. Not gonna be easy to dig out of this hole if the shooting doesn’t improve. I’d like to see more tucker and less Gallo. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,321]

Oh man....half time announcers announcing the 'return of Louisville basketball' a little prematurely I would say.

He forgot the key tenant that they are playing a Mike Woodson coached team. They will get Ran by Gonzaga tomorrow and things go back to normal.


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[Redleader 188]

We averaged a turnover a minute in the first 8 minutes of the game.  Still not boxing out.  Still not guarding the 3 point line.  This is what poor coaching looks like.

[theriverpilot 5,594]

3 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

Watched Auburn last night and all I could think was wow this team would beat IU by 40+

I thought the same thing while watching the Kansas/Duke game.

[JerryYeagley23 3,431]

1 minute ago, RoadRage said:

Is that a woman doing the play by play or just a low T guy?

I think “both” is an answer that can exist in our current reality. ?

[IUHoosier5 1,597]

I defended Woodson because he brought in talent, and I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt prior to the season starting. 
That defense has been thrown out the window. Show us something, coach. This is on you!

[Home Jersey 7,518]

I had a bad feeling about this game after Tennessee beat Baylor, largely on the back of Lanier, who played terribly against us. Not trying to discredit that exhibition win, just acknowledging the reality one of their best players did not contribute in that game nearly as much as he will on average this year. Not calling it a complete false positive, it’s November, lot of season to improve. The difference between IU and the top 10 teams is very apparent. 

[bird4par 265]

1 minute ago, Redleader said:

We averaged a turnover a minute in the first 8 minutes of the game.  Still not boxing out.  Still not guarding the 3 point line.  This is what poor coaching looks like.

NBA coach with mediocre biddy basketball results.  Tough to watch. Can IU please hire a college coach. 

[WayneFleekHoosier 48,321]

Rice looked lost and Hepburn was killing him. Carlyle always looks lost. Galloway has played his worst game in a half I’ve ever seen from him. Tucker just wants to shoot midrange shots all day and not do anything else. I’ve been watching tough, dawg guards all week and we still don’t have one.


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[FloridaHoosierGirl 4,639]

8 minutes ago, RoadRage said:

IU looks like they just met each other a couple of hours ago and decided to play a pick up game!

That's what I told my brother, the Louisville fan, still remains to be seen if they can play as a team.  He said UL was good at 3's so I guess we were both right!  :(

[Shooter 352]

11 minutes ago, NashvilleHoosier said:

I’d put our talent level about 3 times better than theirs. I’d put their effort, intensity and toughness about 75 times that of ours. 

I think effort is underselling the problem. As an example, Louisville has at least 2 players that only want to shoot threes. It's not a secret. On a well coached team, that is drilled into the players before the game until they understand - YOU MUST CLOSE OUT HARD WITH HIGH HANDS ON #93 and #6. MAKE THEM PUT IT ON THE FLOOR. But we close out with hands down and they hit shots, Malik doesn't learn the lesson until his guy has already hit 3 threes.

It's not a problem that simply "trying harder" is going to fix. We are poorly coached.

[Silat Player 293]

L'ville may come out during the 2nd half and miss a bunch of 3-pointers. 

IU may come out and play better. 

But anyone expecting a different IU team overall hasn't been watching the last 3 years. 

IU basketball is what it is. What else were you expecting? LOL

[94Bulldog 597]

6 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

When did we stop sucking?  

[DoctorP 1,036]

Part of me wants to see this season go completely off the rails. If we’re gonna suck then go .500
Regardless, another tourney miss and Woody and his staff is gone. 

[RoadRage 1,817]

Hepburn's blond vanity dye blob, looks bigger than last year?

[mamasa 15,291]

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

I took a break from raking leaves to come inside and check on the game.  Think I'll go back outside and rake some more leaves.

I'm planning on using a different kind of leaf in about 3 hours and 48 minutes....

[OKHOOSIER 2,260]

10 minutes ago, theriverpilot said:

I thought the same thing while watching the Kansas/Duke game.

I mean they basically did last year lol I think it was like 37 points. 

[RaceToTheTop 25,636]

At this point, Carlyle hasn't looked any better than Leal.  

[OKHOOSIER 2,260]

Why do we keep running sets on defense that are isolating Ballo way outside. So epically stupid 

[sirhoosierlot 2,758]

Woooof