Tenn will be a great defensive team. They were flying around. Some killer big guards too.
Thanks for the reply. No doubt we have players to be maybe top ten good. The offensive scares me. Long stretches of lots of dribbling and no scoring. We can’t be great and have those 5-7 minutes scoring droughts in the game.
Agree on all. One minor quibble with Rice were the few times I thought he over dribbled. But overall he was great.
And Tennessee shot very poorly from deep too. It kills me how fans see one game, an exhibition game no less, and they project out the entire year one facet of play from that one performance. Tennessee and IU will both have much better shooting performances going forward. Guaranteed. Or does that not fit into your agenda?
Over dribbling, and balls sticking too long, is a by product of most of the stuff Woodson runs offensively. I think Rice executed what we traditionally know of Woodson's offense, very well.
Agenda?? Or was that maybe a concern coming in with this roster and it shows it didn’t improve.
It didn't improve? Based on an October charity game? This is exactly what pushing an agenda means.
It literally improved, dramatically, within the game.
Carlyle I fear wont live up to alot of peoples hype as a 14ppg+ scorer. Atleast not this season.
I gave up wasting time on bsmitty. He's an obvious Purdoo fan. Every post he makes is tearing down IU or defending the Broilees. He makes it obvious when he gets super defensive on anything negative said about Purdoo here.
There is an obvious effort to push the tempo. I would venture to guess that (save Ballo, Hatton and Dallas) anyone who gets the rebound has the green light to get it and go. I still get frustrated at the lack of player movement in the half court. I’m not going to kid anyone, I’m no basketball savant. But I judge an offense based on how I would feel trying to defend against it. There isn’t much that we do that seems to make the defense work. Guys are stationary a lot. But there are a lot of ways to skin a cat and as long as it wins I guess I don’t really care what it looks like.
Didn't watch him a ton, but I did see him on the perimeter set to shoot and calling for the ball. Didn't come to him, but had it, I have no doubt he was pulling the trigger. He looked like he put on weight and looked better moving with and without the ball I thought, for the limited time I saw him. I think he'll be solid for what he is: a backup PG. With both Carlyle and Galloway, I think they'll take some of his minutes so I doubt he'll get much more than 10 a game, but I think he'll be fine and will be one of our better spot up shooters.
Cupps was fine last night in limited minutes. Attacked the basket on multiple occasions and played solid defense on Ziegler.
Which means they were 4 for 8 in the second half. Kinda fits the narrative of what he said no?
someone in here posted how Ballo go his shot blocked in yesterdays game. UT had two guys that played above the rim and were excellent shot blockers. No cause for concern getting your shot blocked by those guys.....
Not your narrative, the narrative of the poster who said there was major improvement over the course of the game.
That's not our full bench but you know that. Add Tucker and Galloway who will play in front of everyone listed.
Easily, probably lower, considering they were #3 last year but probably 110 in offense. They don't have a go to guy or a main scoring threat and that showed at end game.
right, but that's a positive for IU... which doesn't fit bsmitty's narrative.
How is that spin? 0% in the first half to 50% in the second. No spin whatsoever. That does not constitute improvement over the course of the game?
Once again, an observation based on an opening exhibition game. He might not average that much, but let's get more evidence first.
21 percent for the game, won't happen very often this year, and they beat a decent team on the road while shooting the ball that poorly, I saw a bunch of positives.
The problem is...I'm right,you are wrong. A stupid person calling the person who is correct, stupid, proves they are in fact, stupid. Thanks for playing along.
