NotIThatLives Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Anyone have prop bet over under access on Battle for this game? If it's anything less than 15 take the over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Sometimes what looks good on paper doesn't transfer to games. We see it all the time in any sports and recruiting. Maybe the guys we have just aren't catching up on the schemes. It's kind of like cooking a meal. Occasionally you get some bad food that wrecks the whole meal....but I'm nowhere close to making widespread assumptions about players or staff in early January. Just not my style because each season is in effect it's own silo. You have to play it out. With that said it's early January and we have plenty of time to either correct our mistakes or change things up either with rotations or schemes. I'm curious if we start seeing a little more zone? Maybe that would help? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, NotIThatLives said: Anyone have prop bet over under access on Battle for this game? If it's anything less than 15 take the over. Time for someone to have a career BAD night instead of what we normally experience! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Euroclydon Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Better take care of business at home. The road Ws may be few and far between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronkonagurski Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 Let's play better basketball and win a game. That is what I want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13th&Jackson Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 OSU -1.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parakeet Jones Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 We are home court dogs in SSAH. Dang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawatchHoosier Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 6 hours ago, Drroogh said: Time for someone to have a career BAD night instead of what we normally experience! Battle scoring 50 tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCHoosier32 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 11 hours ago, Parakeet Jones said: We are home court dogs in SSAH. Dang. against an unranked team who is maybe the 5th best team in the conference. yikes! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted January 6 Author Report Share Posted January 6 (edited) Ohio State is a pretty young team too, starting 4 sophs and a senior...As I said they have only played one true away game (at the Bryce Jordan Center, which could never compare to SSAH). The Buckeyes turned it over 15 times (PSU had only 8 TOs)... And we know all too well what that can bring I don't see a good matchup for Gabe in this one. Rutgers tried freshman Jamichael Davis (who's about the same size as Cupps) on Thornton and he scored pretty much at will. When Dale Bonner is in the game, he might be able to cover him, but again, a bigger stronger kid who's 22 years old and has a bevy of experience... Penn State's Kanye Clary had a good scoring night against the Bucks, and he's a lot like Xavier Johnson, only he looks to score more than facilitate... Hopefully X can have some success going to the basket... Edited January 6 by IUFLA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGleas Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Excited for this game. I think IU will come out and play really well, and I'm sure Woodson laid into them after Nebraska, so I think we'll have an inspired effort. Looking for Mgbako to stay out of foul trouble and have a big impact. Feels like he's been getting in foul trouble more and more. This is a really big game, hoping IU can start rebuilding some momentum beginning tonight. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post IUFLA Posted January 6 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted January 6 4 minutes ago, BGleas said: Excited for this game. I think IU will come out and play really well, and I'm sure Woodson laid into them after Nebraska, so I think we'll have an inspired effort. Looking for Mgbako to stay out of foul trouble and have a big impact. Feels like he's been getting in foul trouble more and more. This is a really big game, hoping IU can start rebuilding some momentum beginning tonight. That second foul on Mac when Williams shoved him off with a forearm on the break really hobbled us... The trailing official couldn't see it, but somehow could see Mac's swat at the ball... The official that was parallel to them swallowed this whistle.... 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGleas Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 2 minutes ago, IUFLA said: That second foul on Mac when Williams shoved him off with a forearm on the break really hobbled us... The trailing official couldn't see it, but somehow could see Mac's swat at the ball... The official that was parallel to them swallowed this whistle.... No doubt, that was big. Mgbako is very important to what IU does. The two big turning points early in the game Wednesday was that bad call and the play where Mgbako and Ware both went for the defensive rebound and instead knocked it out of bounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoB2011 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 9 minutes ago, IUFLA said: That second foul on Mac when Williams shoved him off with a forearm on the break really hobbled us... The trailing official couldn't see it, but somehow could see Mac's swat at the ball... The official that was parallel to them swallowed this whistle.... That was an awful call and put us in an unfortunate early bind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUCrazy2 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 20 hours ago, Seeking6 said: Sometimes what looks good on paper doesn't transfer to games. We see it all the time in any sports and recruiting. Maybe the guys we have just aren't catching up on the schemes. It's kind of like cooking a meal. Occasionally you get some bad food that wrecks the whole meal....but I'm nowhere close to making widespread assumptions about players or staff in early January. Just not my style because each season is in effect it's own silo. You have to play it out. With that said it's early January and we have plenty of time to either correct our mistakes or change things up either with rotations or schemes. I'm curious if we start seeing a little more zone? Maybe that would help? I agree and disagree with this. I don't think you can pass judgment on a year until it is complete, but you can continuously evaluate. Also, on time, yes there is plenty of season to go but we don't have all that time to figure things out. If our goal is the tournament, we need to start putting quality wins on the board right now. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoyeCowbell Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 2 hours ago, BGleas said: Excited for this game. I think IU will come out and play really well, and I'm sure Woodson laid into them after Nebraska, so I think we'll have an inspired effort. Looking for Mgbako to stay out of foul trouble and have a big impact. Feels like he's been getting in foul trouble more and more. This is a really big game, hoping IU can start rebuilding some momentum beginning tonight. To spin this in the positive, I think it's because he's more engaged on the defensive end. He still has a lot to learn and experience to gather, but he's putting himself in better positions more frequently than he did at the beginning of the season. And as @IUFLA said, the push off was blatant. That impacted his and the team's rhythm and flow by sending him to the bench. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John S Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Watched TJD play several minutes in exciting Nuggets Warriors game the other night. His foot work and body control on D was very good. Wish he could give lessons to Ware and Reneau. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeking6 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 And I'll ask this question as well. What has Ohio St done to be a universal road favorite vs us tonight? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 If we don't win tonight, I fear this board will be in full meltdown mode. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inequality Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 13 minutes ago, 5fouls said: If we don't win tonight, I fear this board will be in full meltdown mode. Maybe it is a good thing the Colts and Pacers are playing at the same time, so maybe less people on the board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parakeet Jones Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 18 minutes ago, 5fouls said: If we don't win tonight, I fear this board will be in full meltdown mode. First of all, I think we will win tonight, so I want to be clear about that. In regard to your concern, I think it would depend on the type of loss. If we lose a close, hard fought game, I would expect some frustration but not a meltdown. If we lose in the same manner as the Auburn, UConn, and Nebraska games, then you are likely correct. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUProfessor Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 If we can't beat a not-so-great OSU club at home after the drubbing on Wednesday night, it's hard to see a realistic path to the Dance. So this is a really big game. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForHumanity Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Can X play like a 6th yr senior? How do the subs play? Do we stay out of foul trouble? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCHoosier32 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 10 minutes ago, IUProfessor said: If we can't beat a not-so-great OSU club at home after the drubbing on Wednesday night, it's hard to see a realistic path to the Dance. So this is a really big game. this is what i'm saying. i'm already accepting that we'll win very few conference road games. if we lose this one at home, do we also lose at home vs Purdue, Wisconsin, and Michigan St.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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