Penn St. vs Indiana, Sunday, 1/5, Noon, BTN, Palestra in Philly

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Malik is this year's James Blackmon? Hoosiers go on a run by benefiting from an injury...

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[Whoozhers]

MM is a good player. However, he possesses the uncanny knack of making the most air headed turn overs at crucial points in a game known to man!

Tighten it up young fella.

GO HOOSIERS!

[Napleshoosier]

What was up with Rice?  I know he was outta control a lot but slipping and sliding?  Does he need new shoes?

[IndianaSconnie90]

17 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

LOL what on Earth does this mean? The team who scored more points and shot better won? No way!

It's not just that IU shot better. This is disingenuous. PSU shot HORRIBLY today

[WayneFleekHoosier]

What was up with Rice?  I know he was outta control a lot but slipping and sliding?  Does he need new shoes?

Seems so. He was the only one I really noticed it from


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[Napleshoosier]

1 minute ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Seems so. He was the only one I really noticed it from


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Yup!

[Hoosier987]

28 minutes ago, Napleshoosier said:

What was up with Rice?  I know he was outta control a lot but slipping and sliding?  Does he need new shoes?

Maybe new shoes. Rice has been a shot maker. The question is Carlyle…clearly over hyped. Dude needs to sit on the bench and be behind Leal at this point. 

[yogisballin]

1 hour ago, IUFAN1976 said:

Carlyle needs to sit on the bench 

Carlyle in his last 5 games, is 1/14 on 3pt-fg. Good for 7.1%. What in this world has happened to him

[HoosierHoopster]

1 hour ago, AH1971 said:

We’re better in defensive rotations without Reneau but the offense was AWFUL in the first half. That’s where you need a guy like Reneau in the half court. Offense was much better in the 2H, primarily due to beating their full court pressure. Going to need Reneau when B10 teams inevitably muck it up and force the game to be played in the half court. 

Yes and no. We need Malik, but not the Malik-Ballo front court. Had we played that today this would’ve been a L

[HinnyHoosier]

WTH??

I wake up to a road W? 

[Hoosierfan1901]

1 minute ago, HinnyHoosier said:

WTH??

I wake up to a road W? 

IU almost blew the 16 point in the 2H, but a win is a win

[IUFAN1976]

3 hours ago, HoosierX said:

Carlyle’s confidence is shot. He’s unplayable right now.

I agree, his shots aren’t even close to going in

[IUFAN1976]

2 hours ago, yogisballin said:

He looks like an NAIA player at best. Good lord

Something like that!  How in the world did score that much at Stanford?  He must have shot 30 time a game.  Definitely Woodson did do his homework, imagine that!

[Golfman25]

Stole one on the road.  A few more and the path to 10+ wins is much clearer.   

[IUFAN1976]

1 hour ago, yogisballin said:

Carlyle in his last 5 games, is 1/14 on 3pt-fg. Good for 7.1%. What in this world has happened to him

Mike Woodson syndrome, lol

[LamarCheeks]

Went to Charlotte this weekend for a late holiday visit with family. 

Was driving back during the game. Figured it wasn't a big deal to miss this one -- because we'd surely lose. 

Joke's on me, I guess. Maybe I shouldn't watch anymore (though I plan to take a gander at the replay)!

Don't know many details of the game, but a road win is a road win! 

[HoosierHoopster]

17 minutes ago, LamarCheeks said:

Went to Charlotte this weekend for a late holiday visit with family. 

Was driving back during the game. Figured it wasn't a big deal to miss this one -- because we'd surely lose. 

Joke's on me, I guess. Maybe I shouldn't watch anymore (though I plan to take a gander at the replay)!

Don't know many details of the game, but a road win is a road win! 

With Malik out, Goode started and was effective offensively— 12 points on 3-5 from outside. Bigger picture, because it wasn’t the Ballo-Malik front court game, we had a fairly balanced inside-outside game, shot 23 3’s (39%), Bako went for 20 (4-8 from the arc), and Ballo dominated inside with 25.

If we play that kind of offense/lineups we are much closer to the team people expected coming into the season.

But Woody was forced into these lineups because Malik was injured. If he has half a brain (highly questionable), he will learn from this game and run more 1 true-big lineups going forward instead of the predictable, ineffective, low-scoring 2-big inside game he stupidly has insisted on. Hope to see him utilize some brain cells and not just revert when Malik is back

[Stuhoo]

2 hours ago, HoosierHoopster said:

With Malik out, Goode started and was effective offensively— 12 points on 3-5 from outside. Bigger picture, because it wasn’t the Ballo-Malik front court game, we had a fairly balanced inside-outside game, shot 23 3’s (39%), Bako went for 20 (4-8 from the arc), and Ballo dominated inside with 25.

If we play that kind of offense/lineups we are much closer to the team people expected coming into the season.

But Woody was forced into these lineups because Malik was injured. If he has half a brain (highly questionable), he will learn from this game and run more 1 true-big lineups going forward instead of the predictable, ineffective, low-scoring 2-big inside game he stupidly has insisted on. Hope to see him utilize some brain cells and not just revert when Malik is back

More importantly, pretty much every key guy that played was on the floor for loose balls and that energy was for all 40 minutes. And Penn St. usually just might be the hardest working team in the conference.

RMK: “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle.”

Well for the last two B1G IU games? Talent hustled. IU outworked Rugers and more impressively, also outworked PSU.

[HoosierHoopster]

47 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

More importantly, pretty much every key guy that played was on the floor for loose balls and that energy was for all 40 minutes. And Penn St. usually just might be the hardest working team in the conference.

RMK: “Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle.”

Well for the last two B1G IU games? Talent hustled. IU outworked Rugers and more impressively, also outworked PSU.

I love hustle, 100% — but it wasn’t more important. The 2-big play kills us, that’s fully clear. We balanced our O with outside shooting and played to it without the 2nd big. Without that, we lose.

[Stuhoo]

15 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

I love hustle, 100% — but it wasn’t more important. The 2-big play kills us, that’s fully clear. We balanced our O with outside shooting and played to it without the 2nd big. Without that, we lose.

They’re both niiice.

I would think that a successful starting lineup will stay in place—Woody is stubborn, but not nearly as stubborn about who starts.

There was a stretch today when we had Leal, Hatton, Tucker, and Carlyle on the floor at once and I was thinking Malik would have been our entire offense at that point if he was available.