hskr4life

Gary 15 and 5! Welcome back big man.

Free Throws ain't free.....

Credit Stony for shooting it so well this half. They've hit some big shots with a hand in their face.

100% this-- even though the dude made one from about Fairbury.

Only up 7 is a whole lotta worrisome.

Gotta try it when you can’t get it done outside.

Bad sequence there for Rice— a guy who is looking for PT

Shooting them… TBD on actually making them. Lol

Honestly wouldn’t shock me to see CU be the first team to hit that threshold on us.

JK?

That’s not just great defense, that’s gotta be some kind of record. Whole team’ll be getting blackshirts for that!

While KT isn’t as gifted athletically, I noticed that his “instincts” really started to come along later in the year last year on the D end. We’ve had multiple players fit that bill at times on that end of the floor. If he continues to build on those instincts, it will continue to make up for some of the loss in athleticism.

Another addition tonight.

Illinois- L

Can you imagine... We're up 4 with 20 ticks left and Iowa is tied with the ball. KT... instead of sealing our game launches a 35 footer into Iowas hoop to put them down 3 causing them to lose and we hold on for a win. SIGN. ME. UP.

Wisconsin- L Michigan St- L

Wisconsin down nearly 20 at home to Providence.

I think you posted the wrong picture. This is actually Derice and he’s a bobsledding legend.

I was going to say, I didn’t notice her and that’s a good thing. It means she didn’t draw attention, called a good game, and belonged. In an age where referees are at a shortage, I’ve been trying my hardest to recruit women (and men) to the HS ranks but it’s tough. Getting HS kids involved in refereeing as early as possible is important as well!

I think this is here to stay. So if we’re going to commit to this, I guess I’m happy we’re doing it every time and drilling it into our bodies/brains. I actually think college posts are usually inexperienced enough to make more mistakes when we do double. Get flustered, make errant passes, etc. We’ve also got a few guys (Sam, KT, and sometimes JLaw) who have good enough instincts to intercept those bad passes. Our D has held each of the first 3 opponents under 55, so it’s hard to argue with those results, even if the scheme seems like it should do more harm than good.

This was not a good game for us. This is one in previous years we lose or it’s down to the wire and we win by maybe 5-7. So to win by double digits is nice, but there’s a lot to get corrected. No need to hash out the hero ball stuff again as that was a large contributor on offense. KT was forcing some shots trying to find a rhythm. Also a little surprised at SH’s forced passes that did or almost resulted in some turnovers. We need those two to be constants and fundamentally sound. Rice did some things in the few minutes he was in. I hope he continues to gut it out because he can still be special AND there are minutes out there for him to be had this year. I thought our post play was tough tonight BUT Rider doubled the post hard. Combine that with the fact that the refs were letting it go for the most part AND raking at the ball wasn’t being called as ticky tacky as some games— it’s not a surprise we did turn it over. We have to recognize that and adjust though. We have not been good at the rim this year and that’s concerning. Post play, on drives, all of it. Even on shots where we get fouled we can’t make it for an and-1, we usually have to shoot 2. It’s not just our posts either. Guards have been poor here too. That’s got to improve. Good: won the boards again with almost 50 of them. Grabbed 14 offensive boards which is huge! 77% at the line is respectable. Mast double-double again. Encouraging thing is our D. Was a little worried about buy in down there from the new guys, but they seem to be bought in. If we can correct things on the other end, and keep that same D intensity… along with a deep bench, we could have something special this year.

Iowa vs Creighton is toughhh to choose. Can I root for the B1G without rooting for Iowa? Lol Better day for the conference yesterday. Michigan and Purdue got the Gavit series kicked off on the right foot.

This is such a weird answer…. And the whole cloud surrounding JG is weird. Add into it the fact that we’ll be throwing in yet another piece to the puzzle to gel… oof.

To be fair, there was a lot of raking today and not many whistles.