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Philly Cheese steak over Caprese Ruben over Sloppy Joe

I guess that rules out a "In Woody We Trust" sign... 😉

I didn't think Cupps was a good matchup on Buie, and I was wrong... He did pretty well guarding him... Last game against Nebraska, XJ and Trey guarded Tominaga with very little success... So, Gabe, here you go... Also, the Allick kid who came off the bench for them last time and produced 8 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals, has gone back to starting... Kids got a great motor and will get all the 50/50 balls if you let him...

Found this interesting... 13:29 - OTHER PROGRAMS ALREADY CONTACTING BRUCE THORNTON'S MOM Given the fact that other programs would get in trouble for tampering if they contacted Ohio State’s players because no Ohio State players have entered the transfer portal yet, Craft said that teams from across the country are finding ways to contact Thornton's family rather than Bruce himself. "Talking to Bruce yesterday after practice, I completely underestimated this kind of fallout with the way college basketball is now," Craft said. "Other coaches, other programs can't talk to him specifically, but he said from the moment rumors went out that Holtmann was going to get fired – so like a 40-hour window – his mom was on the phone non-stop talking to X program or X coach and trying to figure out what Bruce was trying to think about doing."

That would be sad ... Kid comes to play when he's out there

Newton is a big X factor... Watched a few of his high school games, and the kid has a monster motor... Not a really good shooter from what I saw, but he'll attack the basket and defend as well as anyone we have now...

@IU Scott I respect you as a poster, but if you're in charge of something, that's the absolute worst thing you can do

And I had to get Chico Ruiz in there... I go to the FAA Tech center in Atlantic City once in a while... All Phillies fans down there... The old timers all hate Ruiz 🙂

I was doing ok til I put Jay Buhner in the SD/Seattle box by mistake... Buhner wasn't a good pick anyway... I had to laugh @5fouls with your mention of Sixto Lezcano... Saw him play in when he was with the Cardinals in 81 and remember he was part of the Ozzie Smith - Garry Templeton deal to the Padres...

I read a lot when I was a kid, and mostly it was about sports, and specifically, baseball. Collecting baseball cards helped... I think @5fouls and I employ a lot of the same strategies on the older players. The "> 2000 hits" you can pick from a lot of older, well known HoF players and score really low, while I think most people who play stick with players from today or the recent past...

Hawkeyes taking it to Sparty in East Lansing... Up 8 4 minutes before the half...

And those kids that mop up the court with a towel... Can them too... Christ, haven't they seen those cool, round Swiffer mops everybody else has?

Hey, I got it right in the first post... Then I read an article on Rutgers recruiting class...

I agree... My point in the whole thing is, what was a good shot for Alford was waaaay more expanded than it was for say Darryl Thomas, or even Keith Smart...So of course he took more shots, but he did it within the flow of RMK's offense... And the end of the NC game, it wasn't drawn up for Alford...they simply ran the offense and Smart had the first good look...

Yeah...remind me who was the best shooter on the 1987 team? And who took the last shot? It was done within the flow of the offense...

He's beholden to you? Was RMK?

We'll simply agree to disagree... Good?

Not at all...Like I said, he's probably spent, and filled with a bit of emotion... This is another example, to me, of the piling on I'm not a fan of...People who want a change are looking for anything to say about him to substantiate their position... Christ sake where the Assistant AD for Basketball Administration sits is a big deal...Think about that... I'm not saying everyone has to rally around him...Be as critical as you want... But I hate to even think what this place is going to be like when it's confirmed he'll be back next year (which, unless he quits, and I don't think for a second Mike Woodson is a quitter, is going to be the case)... We've already lost a couple of long time posters over the constant negativity...And I think we'll lose more... Me? Not going anywhere...Sorry

Which is why you keep it simple...Especially after an emotional loss...

Of course it does...I've heard him say "And that's on me" more times than I can count... I'm not sure what you want to hear at a press conference... I said in my post, your reaction can NEVER be driven by emotion...Which is exactly what drives most of the narrative here in my opinion...

I think most coaches agree that the WORST time to start looking at what went wrong in a loss is right after the game when emotions are still high...Emotional people don't make good decisions, or aren't going to say the right things. A cooling off period helps...it can be addressed the next day. Apparently Mike Woodson has read a leadership book or two... Your second paragraph is right on...No, we don't know, though many assume they do...and you know the old saying about "assume." I went back a few times and looked at the Purdue game at Mackey. Our start on offense was probably one of our best starts of the year...The ball moved well, and we were getting easy buckets. So we can do it, we just don't sustain it...Especially when a good team makes their run. We don't know how to step up and stop it. Experience will teach us that. And I'm not sure what y'all want Woody to say at the press conferences...Again, after a tough loss is probably the worst time for a coach to talk, but he sticks to the program. I mean, what's he supposed to say? He's trying to keep the confidence of his kids up. I'm not a big fan of calling them out in public, but he knows his kids better than I do...I saw Knight do it to Alford because he knew it was going to elicit the response he wanted. You motivate different people different ways... I'm not sure what people think a donor is going to say at this point after we paid Archie Miller $10 million dollars to skedaddle and now Dolson goes back to them for $14 million to buy out Mike Woodson after 2 fairly successful years, and one mediocre (and not quite over) season. I know what I'd tell him. And Dolson isn't going to admit a mistake that really hasn't been born out to be a mistake by anybody but the press, and some overly emotional internet posters... And I appreciate the sentiment... I don't see the ship as burning...We'll have new on the court leadership, and I think Cupps, Mgbako, and Reneau will all step up and assume the mantle...Patience is a virtue

Another pretty easy one today...22...The Milwaukee Brewers\Seattle Pilots connection always works well...And I'd always hoped to slide Mickey Owen in there some day...Always remember the Tommy Heinrich quote after Owens' infamous passed ball in the the 1941 World Series..."That was a tough break for Mickey to get. I bet he feels like a nickel’s worth of dog meat."

However you want to characterize it Scott... He handed Bailey the keys to the offense after Clary got injured, put D'Marco Dunn in the 2 spot and won 3 in a row... So he kept it that way... If you watched their Michigan State game a week or so ago, you could see Clary was clearly unhappy...

Get what? That I don't buy into the false sorrow BS after losing a game? The whole "we caught Mike Woodson smoking cigars and drinking wine after a loss!" Is hilarious to me... What should he be doing? Locking the whole coaching staff in a room and run grainy black and white 8mm film footage of Hank Iba's offensive schemes? Have a midnight practice and run the players til they drop? SMH

Of course it is... Quinn Buckner is a cornerstone of what Bob Knight built, and the greatest on the court leader our team has ever known... I'm not sure who Mark Alter is, but it's a sure thing he's not in the Indiana Basketball Parthenon...