IU Scott Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Also like that Fox brought back the old NBC NBA music for their college coverage. Between that theme music and the CBS college basketball them music to me those are the two best theme songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Password Is Taco Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Wins matter and spine matters. Smith is soft regardless of opinion- plays 6’4 not 6’7”- free throws have to improve and Archie needs to continue to be animated with failure. Lack of effort should never be acceptable and it isn’t- lack of execution, tighten the rope as you explore the right people to execute your processes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Password Is Taco said: Wins matter and spine matters. Smith is soft regardless of opinion- plays 6’4 not 6’7”- free throws have to improve and Archie needs to continue to be animated with failure. Lack of effort should never be acceptable and it isn’t- lack of execution, tighten the rope as you explore the right people to execute your processes Think you must be on the wrong board Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BGleas Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, Password Is Taco said: Wins matter and spine matters. Smith is soft regardless of opinion- plays 6’4 not 6’7”- free throws have to improve and Archie needs to continue to be animated with failure. Lack of effort should never be acceptable and it isn’t- lack of execution, tighten the rope as you explore the right people to execute your processes I’m confused? Who didn’t play hard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapnRon Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 49 minutes ago, Bowhunter said: Wait till we play a really good team on the road. Doesn’t have to be Duke. Top half of this conference on the road will expose our poor free throw shooting and lack of outside consistency. So we might lose on the road in the Big ten? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, Password Is Taco said: Wins matter and spine matters. He's right. I've never seem mollusks play basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierDoc Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 I think Archie and the team deserve some recognition for their ability to get quality looks near the basket as well as their on-ball defense. They rarely got beat off of the dribble today. The result was high percentage shots by us, while UL was forced to score from 3 or offensive boards most of the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 minute ago, IUFLA said: He's right. I've never seem mollusks play basketball. Well, I wouldn't want to tangle with a "jelly fish" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Survive and advance....pretty simple. We won a game against a quality opponent. I have nothing to be critical of. Thought the boys that saw the floor all played with heart and spirit. Hard fought win and I like our character. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier987 Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 44 minutes ago, IU Scott said: You can't ever say anything positive can you. We played very well in the second half and won a big game against a good team, We are 8-2 and have some good wins so why nt be happy with a win. In terms of good wins - I believe we now have 4 top 50 KenPom wins. The most in the country 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13th&Jackson Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Hoosiers have won 3 straight one possession games with an all Freshman backcourt on the floor at the end. This team will only get better. LVille has Jrs and Srs all over the roster and no freshmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artesian_86 Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Future secret weapon????? Gotta also remember, as this team is starting to get healthy and gel a bit. Freshman stud, Jerome Hunter.....when he gets healthy, can be just what the doctor ordered for this team! That is, if he can hopefully make it into a game for the first time this year. If any of you guys have not gotten a chance to at least see some high school video of Jerome play, you are in for a treat. He is an absolute stud. Just a shame he has to deal with these ongoing medical issuses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 8 minutes ago, 13th&Jackson said: Hoosiers have won 3 straight one possession games with an all Freshman backcourt on the floor at the end. This team will only get better. LVille has Jrs and Srs all over the roster and no freshmen. Just imagine if it was "back in the day" and we had Romeo and Rob for 4 years. Banners, baby... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steubenhoosier Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 Last year, we didn’t get our 8th win until December 29th, and by then, we also had 6 losses— including v Indiana State and IPFW. This team has taken on the personality of its head coach, hard nosed and won’t back down. It is still a work in progress, and I don’t think that we will ever be accused of “beautiful basketball “ this season, but I believe that this team is playing closer to how this board and the fans in general have wanted for the last 5 years or so. Not there yet, but I’ll take a win like today’s every game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierhoopster Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 52 minutes ago, Proud2BAHoosier said: While that is good news, it would be better if he could make more of them!!! Baby steps 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, IUFLA said: Just imagine if it was "back in the day" and we had Romeo and Rob for 4 years. Banners, baby... Or just think if we had Tom Crean ( bless his heart) still as our coach. Three close wins, most likely would be three cruel loses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, milehiiu said: Or just think if we had Tom Crean ( bless his heart) still as our coach. Three close wins, most likely would be three cruel loses. And all 3 probably wouldn't have been close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckraker Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 So... who won the handshake, Archie or Chris? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13th&Jackson Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 3 minutes ago, IUFLA said: And all 3 probably wouldn't have been close Georgia State says hello Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooksjrherbert Posted December 8, 2018 Report Share Posted December 8, 2018 I like the fact that we can feed the post under Archie and our guys are willing to do this. Always seemed under Crean we didn't want to feed it inside even if we had the advantage. This leads to our better FG % I think. You will always get better shots goin inside out. Big W today. Go Hoosiers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchenry34 Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Watching the replay right now. While I know that I am looking through the lens of a victory, I am really encouraged. Several times we added a new wrinkle to sets that we have used in every game this year. We drew up a back cut read on a Baseline Out of Bounds play that was very well conceived. We did not connect as Green lost the ball out of bounds but it was really well executed otherwise. The other thing about the offense is that the staff has moved the spacing around a bit and moved Romeo around a bit to get him the ball at the top of the key with the help spread out a little bit. Defensively we have great energy and simply cost ourselves an incredible defensive performance with giving up too many offensive rebounds and the flurry by Louisville at the end. I think it was clear that we were ready for the actions that Louisville ran and had a fighting spirit the whole time. The defensive mistakes were honestly fairly limited. I think that they stood out a bit because they tended lead to dunks and also because they came in clumps. Overall though, I was braced for something worse when reading comments about the game but came away very pleased. The slow start was more a matter of missing great looks than not being ready. It is clear that they knew what plays they planned to run on the first few possessions (especially the first) as the execution was tremendous. We produced just as many open looks with our offense as Louisville but we simply do not have as many confident shooters. This was clearly our best game since Marquette and I think that our staff won the day in several respects. Our substitution pattern was quite good I thought and we had a game plan that utilized our posts as passers against a team where dribble penetration was going to be a challenge. This team has taken on Miller's personality in a lot of good ways. (If they can take on his shooting ability from college as well, they will be very good Perhaps a couple more weeks to gel just before Conference season and this team starts to look more like the team we had hoped for. Big game next Saturday in terms of continuing to re-establish IU as the premier program in the state and setting up an 11-2 start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgambill Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Password Is Taco said: Wins matter and spine matters. Smith is soft regardless of opinion- plays 6’4 not 6’7”- free throws have to improve and Archie needs to continue to be animated with failure. Lack of effort should never be acceptable and it isn’t- lack of execution, tighten the rope as you explore the right people to execute your processes I’ve missed most of this thread but he sure didn’t play 6’4 and soft on that posterizing dunk! He actually played decent today imo. If we hit our free throws that’s a 10 pt win or If Al knocked down a couple of those open jumpers. Much better handling pressure too. Just needed to rebound better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKIM01 Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Artesian_86 said: There are always gonna be "fun suckers" on these boards after a close win and even a blowout win. You really just have to look at all the positives and compare them with the negatives. I look at it this way...a huge positive that has been missing is Justin Smith's overall play, another positive was a reduction in team turnovers and the biggest positive is we WON THE GAME! We are not going to blow out alot of teams, especially in the BIG Ten. This conference is way too loaded. This was a huge nonconference win.....Louisville will be going to the NCAA tourney. Say "fun suckers and sunshine pumpers" five times fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muckraker Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Two of the top ten dirtiest programs in all of college sports took it in the 'nads today, and that is enough to make this old man smile! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artesian_86 Posted December 9, 2018 Report Share Posted December 9, 2018 Yessssss! Marquette upsets #12 Wisconsin by 4. Our schedule keeps looking up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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