Vinny

Now these dicks can call a travel.

I like our resolve. Gotta keep on it. Can’t let them get comfortable again like we did with Saint Mary’s.

When two centers are diving all over your starting PG.

I don’t know if there is a call to get a technical for flopping in college. I’ve seen it in the NBA. BS that Essegian is getting a flagrant out of that. Absolute BS. He stands there and Richardson runs right into his chest.

Maybe the review will take it away, Richardson initiates the contact.

Richardson is a good shooter. And a good actor.

Alley oop out of travel is a new one.

You called it!

They’re trying to keep Juwan and Brice from getting down hill by bringing help out on the perimeter, if they can start cutting through and taking that contact off the hip the fouls will come. Right now they’re just pulling it back out.

That’s a jump ball on this end, Meah was held down on the other. It is getting worse.

Ulis was in position, what a joke.

There it is defense!

Didn’t see last night, but against Iowa they were very petulant.

Counting on that lack of shooting. If we can stay in the passing lanes we can do it. We also had 6 days to get ready. Have 6 days for Indiana too. Great opportunity to start 2-0.

26 turnovers and zero fast break points off of them is a head scratcher as well, lol.

I get where you’re coming from, but it’s actually him being out that has brought Essegian into the starting lineup. Will he stay when Berke returns is the question.

Good call. According to this article written Nov. 26th 2018 when we were 5-1 for the initial NET rankings and number 14 that year. Torvik had us #3. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2018-11-26/college-basketball-rankings-ohio-state-tops-first-net

Welp, Creighton did it.

My goodness, Maryland is beating OSU 50-17 at half.

Last game Essegian had a great pump fake and take to the lane. He anticipated the help and passed behind it to a cutting Gary for an easy basket. He baited the defense into it and made it pay off. I think we’re going to continue to like Essegian.

I think even our athleticism went up from last year. Getting to line 20.7 times per game vs 14.7 last year, rebounding margin is better, +5.4 vs +0.4. I know our competition is about to significantly increase, but those are our numbers right now.

I’ve watched the second half of this NW vs Iowa game, and I gotta say, I’ve found myself rooting for Iowa. NW has big guys that whine about everything to pair with Barnhizer who whines about everything. One of NWs bigs even got a foul upgraded to a flagrant by acting as though someone Essegian’s size threw him down. Martinelli is really good and can make something out of nothing.

I hope it’s Berke once he’s healthy.

I said a little better but more importantly, I think that they’re ahead of where last year’s team was at this point. Not shooting the three well the first few games made us have to figure out other ways to score. We can get to the line and are good once we’re there. On defense we’re long and can rotate a lot of guys in without much of a dip in performance. I’m almost talking myself into saying “better than last year”. Right now, maybe a little better than a year ago. But our ceiling appears like it could be much higher than last year. Just gotta keep climbing to it, and when we get there we’ll be better than last year.