Malik is going to destroy whoever comes off Xavier’s bench! I don’t see their starting bigs playing 40 minutes.
-2.5 @ Xavier
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Still can’t throw it in the ocean from deep. Otherwise love the intensity and also the lack of folding in a hostile crowd like previous Hoosier teams. We’ll be good.
Agree. We have the depth to get this done. But there’re getting a few too many dribble drives
Both bigs are winded. They are thin in that area. Notice they are jacking up shots.
Hope Geronimo and Bates figure it out soon. I give on Kopp against good teams.
Who would have thought that XJ would get a tech in a critical spot
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Very bad timing. His 3 got us to just being behind 1
These refs suck. Missed at least 3 moving screens since the 11 minute mark. The X tech was dumb. Multiple missed travels by their bigs.
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Xavier has punched above its weight. IU hasn't played badly . . . just not great yet. I'm guessing that Xavier regresses to the mean in the second half . . . and IU finds another gear.
My sense is that Kopp has jacked a few ill-advised shots up. Not sure I want him in there for offense. If he is, then he has to hit the shots he takes . . . .
RMK used to emphasize the last two minutes of the first half (and second half) and first two minutes of the second half. I get the sense that Woody listened to RMK. Gotta see the next two minutes to see whether the IU players have absorbed the entire lesson.
My sense is that Kopp has jacked a few ill-advised shots up. Not sure I want him in there for offense. If he is, then he has to hit the shots he takes . . . .
RMK used to emphasize the last two minutes of the first half (and second half) and first two minutes of the second half. I get the sense that Woody listened to RMK. Gotta see the next two minutes to see whether the IU players have absorbed the entire lesson.
I saw X say miss it to the bench and I said you better not!!! Had a bigger bet on the -1.5 so worked out!
Well, that was a kick in the nuts for anyone at -2.5
Until they get 7-8 threes a game and can shoot FTs, this team will be limited. The problems from last season have not been fixed at this point. Plenty of time, but those two issues will hold them back, no matter how good TJD is. Reneau gives us more than Race. Kopp doesn't give us a lot at this point, time to see if Gunn could give us more maybe.
The Nostradumbass is getting pretty damn scary folks. Who wants me to read their fortune???
Hey, I called the -3 being a bad bet but the over hitting. Paye thayt mayn hiss munny.
I got absolutely stupid lucky and had this -1.5 right before tipoff. Took the same alternate line at plus odds in first half and took alternate odds Xavier +2.5 live all at plus odds. Long story short hit for over 500 profit. What a good day and the beers keep flowing!
Lost the farm holding a k high, straight flush. .... Turns out, it was a 6 not a 9... Damn I love alcohol.... sometimes.
Ye of little faith. He didn’t take a shot. Just like the rest of our bench. People saying miller is clearly better should be put out to pasture. That guy sucked for 25 minutes and got praised for finally hitting an open three and FTs.
i don’t have TikTok but my son says his worth is in his posts. I said he can post from the bench
I actually think he try’s to over compensate with social media to try to improve his confidence. Not working.
Looked so tight to me when he came in the game. I think CMW should try and feed him minutes in any games we should win comfortably to determine if he's going to be in the rotation. We really need him, but he can't play like tonight. To me the question is not Tamar vs Miller, it's should Malik be starting over Race. I guess it doesn't matter who starts, but I think Malik's extra length makes a difference and makes us a tougher team. Race doesn't seem to know what his game is on O right now. Thought he played pretty good D on the block, but that was about it. Took more 3s than 2s?
Take away the techs and the momentum they killed and make a couple more FTs and this is a comfortable double digit win even if we don't shoot any better from deep. I hope CMW gets that message across. That's what it's going to take to eke out a win or 2 vs the likes of UNC, KU and AZ let alone to be at the top of the conference or make a tourney run.
If he misses that three I don't think he gets on the bus back to Btown. Easiest three in basketball, he better freaking make it.
I tell you why Malik isn’t starting. He had 4 fouls in 16 min.
It was the last 5 of first & first 5 of second half that coach emphasized as the most important.
But Bates's D wasn't very good last night. Until he plays better on D, as you know, Woody won't give him major minutes. Based on how he's played on offense so far this season he's done nothing to justify playing ahead of Kopp no matter how bad Kopp is. So Cav, when is Bates going to "break out"? He didn't do it against Morehead State or even Bethune Cookman much less Xavier. When? We're waiting.
Don't disappear when he does. I'll be here. His D is much better than Miller's. Woody said Miller was the worst defender he has ever seen last year. That quote slipping out in a press conference was gold.
I hope he does break out, don't get me wrong. But, something just isn't there right now. If he worked as hard as you've said (not sure how you know that) and got so much better all around, that should already be translating into his game performance and it hasn't. Apparently not in practice either or he would already be starting as you think he should. Why? It's not like, as I mentioned, a matter of playing against great competition in every game or not having a lot of cometition in practice to help him get better. IU needs him to be able to perform against really tough teams and players. For whatever reason he just can't at this point. Was he overrated?
In general, this team needs to see development over the course of the season and I think they will get better, individually and team wise. But the bench needs to come through against teams like Xavier and someone, anyone, needs to push MK out of the starting lineup. My confidence in Bates being that guy just isn't there right now.
And whined and cried about every one of them. At one point TJD had to go over to him and tell him to calm the *$%^ down.
But that’s not the full story, is it?
He got called the worst defender by Coach Woody (early last season),” Indiana senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis said on a podcast published earlier this week.
But somehow over the course of the season, Kopp went from Woodson’s defensive doghouse to this:
“I thought his defense last year was phenomenal,” Woodson said last month. “I mean, from where he started, when people thought he couldn’t really defend, he was one of our best perimeter defenders last year, which was kind of nice to see.”
Kopp’s ability to develop over the course of the season from worst to phenomenal was no accident according to Woodson.
“He’s very coachable,” Woodson said. “In the big league, we call him a true pro, because he listens and he tries to do all the things that’s asked of him,” Woodson said.
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Would love to see Miller catch fire but it appears more and more unlikely as time passesBut that’s not the full story, is it?
He got called the worst defender by Coach Woody (early last season),” Indiana senior forward Trayce Jackson-Davis said on a podcast published earlier this week.
But somehow over the course of the season, Kopp went from Woodson’s defensive doghouse to this:
“I thought his defense last year was phenomenal,” Woodson said last month. “I mean, from where he started, when people thought he couldn’t really defend, he was one of our best perimeter defenders last year, which was kind of nice to see.”
Kopp’s ability to develop over the course of the season from worst to phenomenal was no accident according to Woodson.
“He’s very coachable,” Woodson said. “In the big league, we call him a true pro, because he listens and he tries to do all the things that’s asked of him,” Woodson said.
Can Miller Kopp hold off the competition as IU basketball’s three-and-D specialist on the wing?
In the immediate aftermath of his team’s season-ending NCAA Tournament loss to St. Mary’s in March, IU basketball head coach Mike Woodson was asked how his Hoosiers needed to improve th…
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