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Dumb under pressure

I know the coaching sucks, but another display, 2nd game in a row, where Rice shows he’s a low basketball IQ PG. Hasn’t scored all night. Barely has played because the team looked much better with Leal and Galloway sharing the point. Has Goode, Galloway, MM, all having good games and he goes 1 on 5, not looking at anyone else and puts up that shot.
 
I know the coaching sucks, but another display, 2nd game in a row, where Rice shows he’s a low basketball IQ PG. Hasn’t scored all night. Barely has played because the team looked much better with Leal and Galloway sharing the point. Has Goode, Galloway, MM, all having good games and he goes 1 on 5, not looking at anyone else and puts up that shot.
He's not a PG, but a CG, never was PG!
 
People often think that a close score means a team "almost won". But winning close games takes a lot of good execution and making key plays down the stretch. IU has no leadership, so falling apart at the end is more likely than not.

Rice didn't know what he was doing, and that is because Woodson doesn't maintain a disciplined team.

It means that if they go from being blown out to being in close games, they will still lose more than they win.

They now have to contend with trying to "gel" in February with a losing conference record. Very unlikely.
 
What were the other guys supposed to do? Steal the ball from Rice? He got the ball and didn't look for anyone else the whole time... 1 on 5.
I think I would have inserted Tucker or Hatton in that situation instead of Rice. But, nonetheless:

1. Who inbounded to Rice? Blame for him, too?

2. Was Rice fouled on that shot? Hummel seemed to think the defender (Cox?) crashed into Rice's chest.

Remember, we had refs that couldn't tell whether a ball that made the backboard shake had hit the rim or not.
 
Painter was able to keep a straight face when he said this. Inside he was probably beaming ear to ear about his luck.

"We were just fortunate there at the end that Trey Galloway doesn’t have the ball in his hands, let’s be frank about it, because he was making plays. So now he doesn’t have the ball there at the end and we were able to get a stop there.”
 
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