IU vs. Purdue Postgame Thread

[LazOffTheBench 3,638]

There's nothing to indicate that IU fans would turn on Stevens. It's conjecture designed to silence people about Crean's failures.

[Alford Bailey 12,424]

ame="HoosiersLoveBanners" post="139325" timestamp="1424404014"]Our current AD will have to go cause you know he would sabatoge any chance of firing his golden boy and his golden contract. Afterall, Crean's not part of the problem with Indiana basketball. Let's just keep blaming the students for the poor attendance. I wish Glass would ride right out of Bloomington on the surfboard they gave him at halftime. Does hawaii need a new AD?

He was so proud of himself standing out there.....Got his buddy an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii.

[Alford Bailey 12,424]

Crap. We can't even say "Help is on the way."

What? I thought we were landing Bryant and Maker?

[HoosiersLoveBanners 797]

I'm only in favor of firing Crean if we can get a guy like Stevens here. Anything less than a program changer like that would be a mistake. We have a top program that just needs to shell out the money and more of it... A la OSU, Michigan, Alabama football and UK basketball. Go chase the BIG fish with the BIG bait and he will probably bite. Just my .02.

[Kyleweberiu 386]

What? I thought we were landing Bryant and Maker?

we'd lose in the sweet 16 anyway. The celebrate with rings like we won a championship

[JaybobHoosier 11,970]

Very glad I missed this game. No way we should lose to Purdue at home.

[schoosier 3,526]

Right as always!

Just a rebuttal to your words. Of course, nothing personal. I understand your loyalty just like you understand where I stand. Were all Indiana fans and we want to win. Maybe things will get better for all of us and winning goes a long ways.

[DJ Candypants 138]

Purdue is a good defensive team and I'm not just talking about the big guy.
They were switching on the hand offs and weren't over committing on the drives so our shooters didnt have the time for many good looks.As much as I hate to say it they're just better than us.

Agree, they played extremely good defense. We on the other hand looked really soft. I thought they exposed some of the sloppy handles a few of our guys have, especially jb and rj, but Troy as well. Hate to harp on Troy about that though because he has really made strides.
Someone already said it but the seven footer on the bench is as maddening as anything so far in Creans tenur. Felt sorry for Holt and Stan trying to guard AJ the giant.
To sum it up Painter got these kids to buy in on defense, and they out manned us plain and simple. Even if you take the extreme disadvantage away in the post, Purdues guards out toughed us. We even got some calls we wouldnt get anywhere else. Yogi is excluded from the conversation about being out toughed. Not his best game but that little guy is a beast.

[DJ Candypants 138]

Don't worry guys! My avatar will be coming to the rescue after next year. Some say it's impossible but I have a very strong gut feeling that he's our coach within the next 2 years.

Im feeling your gut here bud. Wait no thats wierd!

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

This board is fickle..

 

Win:  Awesome job by the players, great shooting, good rebounding

Lose:  FIRE THE COACH!  ZOMG WORST COACH EVER

 

- dominated on the boards (I know, coach screwed up the construction of the team even though we've outrebounded bigger teams)

- missed FTs, a few front ends of 1 and 1 (I know, coach ran them too hard and they were tired)

- missed 3s, several of those were wide open just in and out (I know, see above)

 

The fact of the matter, against a bigger more physical team, we need to be hitting our shots or have the refs calling a tight game.  I was a bit surprised we were in it down the stretch with how the game had been called.  We should have had a bigger lead in the first half but after we got frustration with being bumped on cuts and played into pu's hands.  We need to mature beyond that.  We won't win many games with Yogi as the leading scorer.  JBJ, Troy, and RoJo need to step up down the stretch.  I was encouraged by HMP but at 6'9" you have to get more than 1 rebound.  That's not acceptable.

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,017]

Guys,

This one took the fight out of me. Deflated as if the New England ball boy got a hold of me.

So damn hard to have faith anymore. Idk, I think I need to lessen my fan hood a bit.

[shortspacequickness 1,034]

What I want to know is how people let one game cloud their judgment; I know, I know, you have seven years. That's crap. This season has gone as expected. Not what anyone wants. At all.

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,017]

What I want to know is how people let one game cloud their judgment; I know, I know, you have seven years. That's crap. This season has gone as expected. Not what anyone wants. At all.

this season has gone as expected which is exactly the problem. 4th through 9th in the B1G is not good enough any year. We make too many excuses for our program.

[KelleyHoosh 2,263]

How did the crowd sound? The stadium felt like it was buzzing, but then again I was in the student section. 

 

There were a lot of grumbles within GA about lineups, coaching decisions etc. And I have to agree with a lot of them. 

 

Was the refereeing as awful in the first half as it felt? Or am I letting the loud heads from the stands get the best of my judgement. 

 

Honestly more of the same from Crean. Questionable personnel decisions, Yogi seemed to make a few more poor decisions than normal. Rojo and JBJ had a tough game. Stan is pretty trash. 

 

Overall just a really meh game. Purdue is a tough matchup for us with their size. We just can't handle it, and their perimeter D is really good. When you can negate our strength (shooting) and take advantage of our weakness (height) you're gonna have a pretty easy time beating us. 

 

I'm not moving too far one way or another on the fire Crean bandwagon. I just know what to expect at this point. So I'm not losing my head over it. But man, this loss hurt

[Townie 138]

hopefully no Purdue students get trapped in electrical closets celebrating this monumental victory for their program

 

man I wish I had stuck to my recently conceived plan of not watching this team play so long as Crean is the coach. I tried but couldn't show the restraint needed to stay away from this one. Whoops. And welp.

Dude, that's ****** up. I knew wade too... You realize he's from Bloomington right?

 

I hope mods punish you accordingly...

[HoosierAloha 30,077]

How did the crowd sound? The stadium felt like it was buzzing, but then again I was in the student section. 

 

There were a lot of grumbles within GA about lineups, coaching decisions etc. And I have to agree with a lot of them. 

 

Was the refereeing as awful in the first half as it felt? Or am I letting the loud heads from the stands get the best of my judgement. 

 

Honestly more of the same from Crean. Questionable personnel decisions, Yogi seemed to make a few more poor decisions than normal. Rojo and JBJ had a tough game. Stan is pretty trash. 

 

Overall just a really meh game. Purdue is a tough matchup for us with their size. We just can't handle it, and their perimeter D is really good. When you can negate our strength (shooting) and take advantage of our weakness (height) you're gonna have a pretty easy time beating us. 

 

I'm not moving too far one way or another on the fire Crean bandwagon. I just know what to expect at this point. So I'm not losing my head over it. But man, this loss hurt

 

Agree with a lot of that.

 

Like you knowing what to expect at this point with Crean I'm beginning to expect that with officiating overall.  I've watched a lot of games over the last few weeks and it has become almost too predictable with WTF calls. 

 

As for this game, they missed a handful of walks/travel, they missed a couple of off arm push offs from IU players, they missed a ton of hacks/grabs/bumps, and a few push offs from haas and hammons.  IU has to learn to win games against physical teams.  There hasn't been many IU teams under Crean that has been able to do that.  It almost takes playing the "tough" team who isn't tough.  You have to flop like you were hit with a mack truck sometimes.

[KelleyHoosh 2,263]

I will never understand why Hanner tries to take charges. We play so damn soft. Haas and Basil were pumping their jersey in IU fans faces after the game, jumping around celebrating. Hammonds was talking shit to Hanner throughout the game. Not a hard foul to be found. Not a single message sent. Honestly, pretty weak sauce

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,017]

I will never understand why Hanner tries to take charges. We play so damn soft. Haas and Basil were pumping their jersey in IU fans faces after the game, jumping around celebrating. Hammonds was talking **** to Hanner throughout the game. Not a hard foul to be found. Not a single message sent. Honestly, pretty weak sauce

so true. Been saying it all year. We soft!

[WayneFleekHoosier 49,017]

From Facebook, ugh. ( the Crean hate is on full effect now)

[attachment=1692:ImageUploadedByBtownBanners1424412011.272591.jpg]

[cjvz20 896]

I don't know what else u need to see from coach. U give him one of the best teams in country and can't make the final four. I have nothing personal against him but at this point we know what we are getting out of him. Time to give another coach a shot at it. This is not because of this loss but from his overall performance. Tired of the excuses. This our team is young is an old one then coach them up they have played almost a full year they are no longer freshman