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I thought we looked very tentative against Iowa's press. We didn't "attack" it and try to score on it. Can't remember the game last year, but somebody tried to press us, we attacked it and scored immediately, and never saw the press again the rest of the game. If we are tentative against PSU's press, I'm afraid we'll get into that "quicksand" mode where one thing goes wrong, then another, then another....we'll likely have more turnovers than we should.

It does for me, when we're voting for each individual game. We're tracking the voting for each individual game. The player who has the best game (offense, defense, hustle, making others play better, etc) is in the eye of the voter. We all have our opinions on who that is for each indv game. No one's opinion is better than than another persons. That's why we have a voting scoreboard.

FWIW, Leal got the game ball from Woody.

Great team win. Everybody contributed. But when we needed a lift... LEAL !!!! Never been happier to cast an MVP vote to this up and outstanding young man.

Gotta protect the snowflakes...

Grew up on a small hobby farm in NW Indiana. Dad had a Ford 8n. Now that I'm retired, I have 5 acres (of yard) that I mow, and a ½ mile driveway to maintain. Plus I built our house, and did a boat-load of excavation, and finish work with the 2016 tractor (38 hp) that I bought to build and maintain the property (originally 10 acres of yard, but I sold 5 a year or so ago). I've got several PTO implements and just hooking them up, I always get banged up, and start bleeding. Sometimes I look like "death by a 1000 cuts". Most of the time I don't even notice it until I go in the house and the wife says "you're bleeding!!"

I have worked with it about a year ago, but not on a regular basis. Never got cut with it, but if I come within 10' of one of my tractor PTO implements I start bleeding before I even try to hook it up. Thin skinned I guess. But the nippers are great tools for the metal. Especially if you're doing flashing and such. Metal roofing is usually cut to size. (if you engineer the roof correctly...)

Isn't "going under cover" kind of oxi-moronic? He's been "off the grid" ever since he left the army. How much more under cover can you get? I'd rather see Dixon back over Neagley, but I do like the interaction between Reacher and Neagley.

I don't get it....

The only way we out rebound them is if they don't send anybody at all to the offensive glass. I haven't seen anybody but Sparks block out consistently. (credit Michael Lewis for that)

I've had this thought for a while, and have not shared it, and I haven't seen it addressed (so far) in this thread, or others. We have talent. Good talent. It doesn't appear to be used properly. Watching the body language of players, as well as how they play, I've come to the conclusion that we're just not mentally tough. Gallo, Walker & Cupps are. Jury is still out on Mac. Ware is weak, X is out of control, Gunn is who knows what, Banks seems lost most of the time. Knight was great at developing mental toughness. You'd have to be mentally tough to endure all of his "intensity". I don't think the staff has developed any mental toughness. All of the guys on the team are great people with great personalities, but I don't see them as mentally tough on the floor. You look at teams like PU, Wisky, Rutgers. They're all mentally tough. Always great effort. We don't have that.

Might be the fastest thing to Heaven there is...literally.

There...fixed it for you

Hadn't heard that. Could very well be, but I was referring to Leal more overall than just the PU game.

I'm conflicted on Woody. On one hand he doesn't hesitate to get in the grill of a player if there is a screw up. On the other hand it appears (to me) he takes losing far too easily. In the NBA you lose a boat load of games each season. But you also play 82(?). Gallo showed more remorse about losing than Woody did, and that was disappointing to me. With the game so lopsided in the last 10 minutes, I'm surprised Leal & Sparks didn't get playing time. And several of us have pointed out that we don't have a true leader on or off the court. Closest contestant would be Leal in my book, but he doesn't get playing time to lead on the court except during timeouts. And I've seen him try.