Rob just got back - he has to adapt. Justin started the year awesome and has slipped a bit. I’m hoping he gets back to early season form. Devante is a solid sixth man and I never really believed that DD was all that good. I think he was overrated coming in.
Tend to agree. It was obvious last night that we are not any where near where we need to be. This team simply can't shoot the rock. They don't even really try from the parameter. Good on them that they buckled down on D and got points in the paint to eek out the win against a weak conference opponent, at home. But you have to be able to hit outside shots and 3s to be any good. This team can't, and doesn't.
I agree and it’s probably just an age and experience thing to be honest. He’s had 9 more years to accumulate knowledge over JJ and I think that’s a big advantage.
Were you at the game or did you even watch it? If you saw much to be excited about, good for you. I’ll be back at the end of the month on this thread and we will see where we stand. After watching the rest of the conference and watching us this last month, I don’t see much to be excited about. Yay. We beat the worst team in the B1G at home, and they were short handed. Who is next? I hope it’s OSU. I remain skeptical.
I watched it in my home theater. Every minute. I see you are one of the pessimistic fans, which fits with my long standing theory that liberals are generally pessimists.
I’m not. The last part of that game they played the way they need to play to finish this season strong.
I’m a realistic fan, I’ll be back in a month and we will see who was right. I’d dearly love to be wrong. And if there are chemistry issues as rumored and they are fixed , that might help. But the talking back to Archie, refusing to go into the game, and a variety of other things have me ver concerned. Oh this is a liberal conservative thing, is it?I watched it in my home theater. Every minute. I see you are one of the pessimistic fans, which fits with my long standing theory that liberals are generally pessimists.
Every pessimistic fan claims they're a "realistic fan." The liberal/pessimist thing is a theory based on my observations since the 80s when I started my transition from liberal Democrat to Republican. Democrats were generally pessimistic and negative about America while Republicans were generally optimistic and positive about America. Until recent years I considered it pretty rock solid. I'm not as sold on it now, except it still seems to apply to older liberals.
If we play like this on the road you will be correct. I’m skeptical we can do it , but today was a huge step forward. Defense was phenomenal, as was effort. Let’s get a W at Rutgers and I’ll be happy to eat crow.
Yes, I'll admit that THAT team doesn't have me doubting whether Miller is the guy or not.
That's BS. Both sides are equally stupid when it comes to sports.
When they hit that 30 footer at the end of the shot clock, my first thought was here we go again. But that may have been the last three they hit. They worked really hard on defense today.
And how every single game we go on an extended scoring drought. Ten minutes without a field goal. Fortunately OSU didn’t do much then either.
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I could not believe Ken bet 0. I heard him say this AM that the second place strategy is often to bet low and count on the leader to miss. So he was counting on a low bet. But James had never bet low.
So you are telling me that since Ken cannot replace Alex, that I should.
Yup that one I did. If we can hold court at home we should be good, Big week ahead.
I think we’ve shown enough to know that next year could be special. They’re too young and inexperienced to win on the road but are holding strongly at home. Next year.
I wish I could be that optimistic. I'm not in the Fire Archie! camp by any means (yet), but I'm concerned he may not have "it", whatever "it" is. I'll need to see continued improvement this season, and see a better product on the court next season before being convinced he's the guy we've been looking for to get us back to consistent excellence.
Let's face it, the team and the coaching looks great when they hit some outside shots and don't when they don't. The movement on offense is much better than last year. The defense, rebounding and turnovers are better each year too. I think the team is on the way to being very good.
It all boils down to guard play and outside shooting. Both have shown flashes, but we still have a long way to go.
