Indiana at Rutgers - 13:00 EST on ESPN2 - Official Game Thread

[Trish 11,483]

Let me guess...that's the best half of basketball Rutgers has played all year.

 

Sounds like a broken damn record.

 

 

no it's not, our defense just lets them walk into the lane. If their PG would make his shots, we'd be down 10 by now at least. 

 

Let's not forget, their playing without two of their best players. 

[crazywillie 192]

Iu gives me headaches...crap

[HoosierAloha 30,024]

Let me guess...that's the best half of basketball Rutgers has played all year.

 

Sounds like a broken damn record.

 

They're definitely a tourney team, derp derp.

 

That first half is the story of our season.  Take care of the ball = score, get sloppy and poor defense = opponent scores. 

[8bucks 6,338]

Sorta surprised the board hasn't crashed after that

Apathy.

[KingPG21 6,582]

Apathy.

This. Just kind of passively watching while doing other stuff

[hermanbgoode 27]

Horrible end to the first half. Yogi and TW are just being turnover machines at this point

“Good, bad or indifferent, I will work guys through mistakes,” Crean said. I’m not ready to rush them (to the bench) every time a mistake comes, but you do have to put them in a position to understand what is tolerated and what’s not."

From today's Bloomington Herald-Times. Apparently, Tom is just working the guys through mistakes.

[HoosierCoop 3,885]

I have already warned my staff not to pay attention to the flying stapler.

[BlueDevil 8,655]

From Bozich: ESPN2 announcing crew for #iubb-Rutgers calling this one from a studio.

[hermanbgoode 27]

no it's not, our defense just lets them walk into the lane. If their PG would make his shots, we'd be down 10 by now at least. 

 

Let's not forget, their playing without two of their best players. 

Don't worry, Crean has identified communication lapses - and the decrease of verbal communication more generally in society - as IU's problem on defense. And he's addressing that problem!!

From today's Herald-Times:

Perhaps at the top of the to-do list is honing in on the communication lapses that the Hoosiers cannot afford against the league’s better teams.

 

“To me, we can be a lot better at that,” Crean said. “We can be a lot better. ... To me, it’s just a commitment to say, ‘No, I’m not going to let my man get it,’ or, ‘I’m going to make sure he knows there’s help. Communication in sports, because of the way things are ... with so little verbal communication being required of people, it’s going to get harder and harder. The bottom line to me is, for those couple hours a day when you got them, you have to absolutely make them talk and hope that it’s going to carry over onto the court.”

[Alford Bailey 12,339]

From Bozich: ESPN2 announcing crew for #iubb-Rutgers calling this one from a studio.

We don't even rate a live announcing crew?

[Whoozhers 3,645]

Hate to be negative. But, there just isn't anything to be positive about our IU team. Atrocious first half against a bad team.

[coonhounds 8,768]

We don't even rate a live announcing crew?

never knew they even did that

[BlueDevil 8,655]

We don't even rate a live announcing crew?

Now that I read that you can totally tell by their audio sounds that they aren't there

[coonhounds 8,768]

Were going to own them this half

[ThompsonHoosier 3,414]

Same Crean IU basketball, different day!

[HoosierAloha 30,024]

Thank goodness for Max.  Yogi seeking out his again.

[theriverpilot 5,589]

Max playing his tail off

[hoosiers55 69]

Yogi deserves to be on the bench

[BlueDevil 8,655]

"This feels like a conference game" it is?

[FloridaHoosierGirl 4,583]

From Bozich: ESPN2 announcing crew for #iubb-Rutgers calling this one from a studio.

Low budget?