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* coaching instability
* player progress
* winning against major competition
* depth we thought we had, but we don't
Maybe it is emotions right now but this seems to be a let down for the moment.
How does the team bounce back after that? Do they choke away a win at home against Minnesota? Is their stock suddenly plummeting? The Kelvin Sampson hangover should be over. It's time to start playing basketball.
If they didn't learn it, our next opponent will be glad to teach them again.
I pray the "up" side of the last several weeks will soon be seen.
* This game, if anything, was an anomoly, let's not get too carried away. Jordan Crawford missed a break away dunk, which was absurd, and Michigan State was hitting EVERYTHING.
* I still like IU to win the Big Ten tournament next week, that is, assuming that they bounce back and let this loss go.
Whoever said DJ should be a 4 is absolutely correct. I thought maybe we could get something out of a 6-11center like eli. Eli, DJ, Ellis, Gordan, Basset. Size is what usually wins the Big 10. We always have pretty good gaurds....I think its time to focus on the big men. That is what brought helped us win in 01-02. We had jefferies, newton, odle, leach...that gave us some decent size that could be rotated.
I don't know. We need to get a damn coach.
I don't think there's such a thing as a good loss, but maybe this is one that will cause the Hoosiers to wake up and dislodge their heads from their rectums. It could be the perfect wake up call that this team has needed in the wake of the KS dismissal/resignation.
This concept seems to not be a priority for this team.
To be fair, if memory serves Sparty looked fairly crisp in the spring of 2000.
This team needs some love and support despite our collective disappointment. Maybe you guys who can actually attend games can do that for the rest of us this week.
We have 2 tournaments to play and I badly want us to recover. Keep in mind UCONN losing big at home against Providence before they turned it around.
We will be lucky to win two game in the NCAA. Next year with anew coach we can start building again.
Yeah, you're right...shellacked is perfect!
when we fired the head coach these guys loved? A Sampson lead IU team beat these guys by 19 a couple of weeks ago. If we love IU basketball it is time to support this team more than ever. They have won 24 games for our school in the regular season so far and they can get 26 wins in the regular season. It has been a long time since any IU team did this well. Next week is senior week and several players, DJ included, will play their last home game for IU. I hope the fans get control of their emotions. Seems like many of you are more upset than the players. They need ALL of us for the remainder of the season. Many of you seem to have given up on IU. I happen to love my school and our teams. Win or loose I have loved IU for 42 years. One bad game can't change my support for IU. No matter who coaches IU they will loose games and have bad games. Coach K just got 800 wins but
he also has lots and lots of losses. FANUP GO HOOSIERS!!!
I say DD runs their asses into the ground this week. Forget the Minnesota game, it means very little. Punish these guys, have them running stairs at Memorial deep into the night this week. Hell, pull a Herb Brooks and make the team hate DD. But we've got 2 weeks to get this collection of individuals to play like a team.
For the love of Ted Kitchel though, make these guys do SOMETHING every time they're caught on tape whining to a referee. Get your butt back down the court, even if you get fouled lightly, you should still be able to finish a lay-up.
That is a prodigious streak. Man.
I second the comment extolling vermouth.
Also, it's a sad day when I turn into a "silver lining" guy.
But don't jump off the ledge just yet. It was a perfect storm of sorts for IU to drop this game. The discouraging thing was how badly they got beat...but this game is more fluke-ish then anything.
The game to watch will be on Wednesday, if the Hoosiers come out flat after being embarassed, then it's safe to say they're probably not going to get that intensity back the rest of the year. IF they come out fired up and smoke the Gophers...then maybe, just maybe, they'll be able to make a run later this month.
Its just a game, not bball but losing to MSU, the true test lies ahead and I think this team will be fine. I want to see a GREAT effort against Minny and then when I go to see the Hoosiers at PSU sunday I am hoping to see a re-focused team that is ready to achieve the goals established months ago.................
You people calling our players names are showing your IQ, thanks for getting that out of the way, makes your points if you have any lack any SUBSTANCE............
PS: I would like some of what that guy is smoking that would take ALL those guys above EJ, he does turn the ball over but makes more than up for it with ALL the other things he does. Get real, he is leading the BT in scoring while being injured MOST of the season, shooting a TON of FTs at HIGH percentage, once again people see what they want to see...............
MSU was hitting their shots, but their shots were undefended. Unless you're Crawford, you will have pretty high shooting percentage when you have wide open dunks. Unless it was Dakich's plan to let MSU have open shots, the players have decided that they won't run their coach's defense, either.
I think Dakich needs to bench the starters and let them earn their way back into playing time in the remaining games. Having players who look like they don't care whether they win, lose, or get badly whipped is embarrassing.
fixed SAT scores, cold hard cash, houses....
Bring back KS at least it was just phone calls.....Hell he may apply for that job once amaker gets canned.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=AuPi6YU...
oh wait...that can't be it.
At this stage in the season, NO TEAM in Indiana's position should get blown out that way.
1.) We have the two best offensive weapons in the Big Ten.
2.) We have two of the top three rebounders in the Big Ten.
3.) Bassett has emerged as a threat.
4.) We were competing for a Big Ten title
5.) Our assistants haven't changed...did KS make that big of a difference?
It seems that the coaching switch has had a bigger impact on the team that we ever could have imagined. I mean we are competing for a Big Ten title and we play like that? It was like they weren't even trying.
My thoughts:
1.) A sweet sixteen berth would be a miracle at this stage.
2.) Our players need to stop pouting or just quit. I'd rather watch Taber, Ahlfeld, Finklemeier, Mike White, and Bradon McGee play.
3.) DJ, I love you, but I hope you chewed the team out because that was pathetic. If Dakich won't, then you have to, or it's a lost season. The last two games were bad...but this one was pathetic!
4.) I pray that this was the eye-opener that Northwestern and Ohio State was not...or else we're not going to win another game this season.
5.) Maybe this will knock us down to a six seed...I'd rather be a six seed than a 4 or 5 seed. (Keeps us away from the 1 seeds longer...if we made a run).
What does he play in the pros anyway ? Point ....no. Shooting guard , expected to defend 6'6" guys better than he is .Ray Alen, Caron Butler, rip Hamilton, Ginobli............no. He needs an extra year with a better coach.
We just didn’t come to play at all,” he said.........EJ quote
Both Gordon and D.J. White said they were embarrassed by the loss.
After reading these quotes it is clear that this team is NOT a team. They are a good group of individual players who have not been TAUGHT team stuff. KS is a helluva coach but what has carried over? I think those games they won ( PU and MSU), they were inspired by the possible loss of their coach and played for his job....after his firing, it seems they have nothing to play which is sad.
As I have said before despite our record this season has been a dissapointment and however it ends, I am just ready for a good new coach hired without a $80K search committee and a hire with the future in mind of this program, not some well establish older guy who will be done in 3-5 years.....
EJ as a sophmore would:
*Become a better ballhanlder
*Improve his scoring guard skills and playmaking
*become unstopable with a mid range game
*would be a POY candidate and could be at SOLID top 5 or higher pick
He leaves this year....
his ballhandling will be picked apart
his turnovers will be a red flag
and his recent shooting woes be another red flag
My gut tells me.....understanding the people around him with his family....EJ stays another year....unless we hire another horrible coach