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I pulled the 6 out of my ass. I wasn't counting throughout the game but there were several shots he put up where I just felt...ugh. on a normal night maybe they were a good shot, but after a certain point last night they weren't. I am not one of those "shooters need to keep shooting" guys. I think if you are 0-6, 1-7, 1-8, 1-9, 1-10, etc. that at a certain point you have to decide you are giving up way to much to get that elusive 2-1X. So the 6 was about half his shots. Bates was 1-5 and Galloway was 2-4. About 1-7 or 1-8 is where I feel JHS should have started deferring more. Instead he put up 6 or 7 more and missed them all. And almost every miss went right back to Maryland. Everybody was a better option shooting than JHS last night and he took more shots than anyone. I think he is a good player and has a bright future, I just think he had a Freshman-like really bad decision game last night.

The officiating is bad. Terrible bad. It is going to hurt the entire league on Selection Sunday.

He took 6 shots that we should have worked more to get to TJD. The best player on the team (Alpha) and our most consistent player. Jalen is a good player and he may be an NBA guard at some point in the future but he was 1-14 last night. I completely disagree that he needed to "keep shooting" last night. He couldn't hit anything. At that point we needed our NBA guard to get the ball to people who were scoring. He is a freshman, so some slack, but he made bad decisions last night and some of those bad decisions were involved in putting up more shots than any other player on the team and only hitting one of them. When he forces shots he takes shots away from our clear #1 option.

He was 1-14. At a certain point you have to realize you don't have it. The difference between he and Galloway/Bates is that the other two weren't throwing up junk all night. JHS could be our alpha next year, but he isn't this year. I see about 6 missed opportunities in that stat to get the ball to TJD. Yeah, he has to convert, but he wasn't. So at a certain point those shots he was putting up were basically turnovers. That being said, more than any game this year, the officiating was such a huge impact on the outcome IMO that it is hard to truly judge how much he hurt us last night.

Call it whining, bias, whatever, but I look at that chart and well, it is hard not to draw the most obvious conclusion from it.

All of them were playing bad, so limited options. I just think he pushed too much. He did the same thing against Minnesota and we got away with it because they are really bad. When he is having a shooting night like last night, he shouldn't have the highest volume of shots on the team (or near it).

To a degree, I agree...but a few things: 1. Based on the games I have watched, so does nearly every other team in the league. Maryland last night for instance was running a full court press and they were handchecking and grabbing for 3/4 of the court on every play where they could set up the press. Every one. Same for drives into the lane. 2. The Big Ten is a "rough" league where the officials encourage that type of play by how they call games. Then they apply those calls unevenly. Even in non-Indiana games, the home team is allowed way too much leeway when the style of play between the two is similar enough to be indistinguishable. 3. This argument would be easier to buy if we were getting similar calls when our guards are doing the blowing by and getting grabbed. We generally don't. 4. I think quite a bit of the grabbing that happens on our team is because of the high illegal screens that the league allows, at least from what I have seen. 70% of the high ball screens in this league involve the screener sticking his ass out or some other body part at the last minute to bump the defender. It happens quite a bit and to me it adds to the whole "rough" league thing. I don't have time to watch many games outside the BIG so not sure how other leagues are calling that, but those high screens would lead to a whole bunch of fouls if it was only called a third of the time I see the guy setting the screen leaning into the defender to create more contact.

There are a bunch of BIG teams that gave inflated records because of the disparity in how games are called. They aren't suddenly a better team at home. They were a very similar team to what we were last night when we were admittedly playing poorly. They were physical, we were physical. They got a double digit boost that doesn't require any reading the tea leaves to see. It is right there in foul discrepancy. If that game is called straight up, they have to bench people for foul trouble like we did and the game is much tighter. The Big Ten thinks they are doing good with this nonsense because if they have a bunch of teams right around .500, then they maybe sneak 1 or 2 extra teams into the tournament. Yay money. The problem is that it ends up impacting the seeding of the whole league. Say Indiana is a 5 or 6 seed if the games are called straight up and Maryland is a bubble team. The Big Ten thinks it is better to get Maryland in as a 10 seed and Indiana as an 8 or 9 than it is to get the 6 seed. I don't. It sets both teams up for early round exits. "You have to beat the best to be the best...." No, no you don't. It is a one and out tournament. So much of it is luck of the draw and how you are playing on that day. Lower seeds mean less margin of error when you are doing the latter and less likely to have luck go your way in earlier rounds because 1's, 2's, and 3's are less likely to have slip ups than 5's and 6's and 7-10's are usually all similar toss up type of teams.

Refs: "Woodson talks down on us. Not like the other guys in this league." Woodson: "Come on son, that was a sh*t call. You just let the guy get away with that on the other end. You are d*mn better than that." Fran: (Running onto the court waving his arms like a lunatic) WTF WAS THAT! THAT'S F---ING BS. HOW THE F---CAN YOU MAKE THAT CALL. YOU SON OF A B----." (Goes after other team's assistant coach and almost starts a fight) Refs: "We just don't like the way Woodson talks down on us...." The Big Ten is a joke of a league. All the money in the world and running a clown show of an operation. Take a few million dollars out of those contracts and pay people with some real freaking accountability.

Yep, a call should be a call. It is bad enough when you have your own struggles but being in this league is detrimental to the program in every way but money IMO.

Yep. The old 13 point ref special is always a fool proof plan.

The game was won at the line. Big Ten gets 9 teams in the tournament but hamstrings their better teams with lower seeds because of how they officiate games.

That was a travel.

Jalen is a good player, chance to be really good, but it kills us when he plays like this.

I will be happy to get away from ESPN with the new TV contracts. Good riddance.

I would make Fran look sane.

If this game looks to be out of reach with a out 3 minutes left and the calls continue like they are, I am forcing the refs to toss me if I am Mike Woodson. I am talking out in the middle of the floor insulting their wife and their Momma.

I legitimately hate the Big Ten.

Be nice if we could get some rebounds, way too many second opportunities.

Be greedy.

Tonight is huge. Winning this game really sets the table for Saturday and beyond. We get through these next 3 games unscathed and I think we end up with 13+ wins in conference. The prior 5 games were getting the ship back upright. These next 3 decide quite a bit of how we probably look heading into selection Sunday.

Seriously.

Need to lock this guy up.

I also think you bring him off the bench, at least for the first few games. He won't be in game shape right off the bat and you expect rust.

Spilled milk. We should be 8-2 because that Northwestern game shouldn't have been a loss either. Ifs and buts, candy and nuts....