IU Snowflakes
Just a pathetic effort on all ends... IU wanted to hand it to us in the first half turning the ball over on every possession, but there was no effort made to get guys open. Nobody stepped up with Stauskas being held in check, and the offense was just stagnant. However, I think this team needed a little wake up call after being on top of the world for the last two weeks. Frustrating but not the end. Pick it up for Nebraska and Iowa on Saturday.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^
-This team is definitely top 25 caliber... They were due for a let down game. I mean this is college basketball, and this team wasn't meant to go 40-0.
-I agree GR3 really disappears, and he needs to regain his form that he had a couple games ago
-I've seen flashes of Burke in Walton ever since Wisconsin. He is really gaining a three point shot, but needs to get much better on his drives to the basket. However, he is still not Trey Burke, as there will NEVER be another exact copy of Trey.
-Ummmm worse than UNC who cannot hit 50% of their free throws even at home??? Worse than last season's team that couldn't hit the front end of a one-one when it mattered???
-80-75 earlier this season at Breslin
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:45 PM ^
It seems like you think I believe those points... I was attempting to discredit the inevitable doom and gloom Michigan fans that make these types of hyperbolic statements every time something goes wrong for us.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:06 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^
"now we are looking at a tie for the B1G at best"
Did you think about that before you typed it? I'm just curious what would make you conclude that's the best case scenario that could possibly happen?
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:41 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
We are not tied for the lead, we are in the lead.
February 2nd, 2014 at 4:28 PM ^
No, we are tied. Both teams are 8-1 in conference.
There is no tie-breakers for the reg. season title- if there are teams with the same record and the end of the season, there are co-champions.
February 2nd, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
well I was thinking one senario is MSU could lose one more game than we do before the end of the season. but there are probably one or two other scenarios too.
February 2nd, 2014 at 6:18 PM ^
Not sure we really have a tougher schedule than MSU. I think they are comparable.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
I understand Open Threads can be overly dramatic but the LeVert hate reaches critical levels more often than not.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:26 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:40 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 4:28 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 4:40 PM ^
So dumb. Nik spent most of the 2nd half standing. There were at least a dozen possessions on which he didn't look for the ball, and Yogi was helping off him.
February 2nd, 2014 at 5:07 PM ^
He was standing in the corner, which is what the offense calls for. Would you like to run right over to where Caris is dribbling around and bring a double team with him? Caris had several opportunities to kick the ball out to Walton and Stauskas and never did - just bulled into the lane and got very few good looks.
February 2nd, 2014 at 8:06 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^
He takes too many isolation shots when he's not a great shooter. He leads the team in TO's tied with walton who is a freshman point guard, so expected. He is last in FG % of all starters and all rotation players except Irvin. He is a pretty bad defender for being 6'7''. His hands are always at his side at the perimeter. It's a love hate with him but man he is not improving in the areas I listed.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
needed to make those free throws.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
They may have lost their chance today
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:07 PM ^
We can never shoot in that fucking arena.
But I agree with the people above who thought there was just way too much 1 on 1 play in this game. What we got was usually off of ball movement there just... wasn't a lot of it. That and Ferrell being unconscious is pretty much the story.
I hate Caris isolation plays.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
Proof we need Stauskas to shine if we're going to win.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
I don't care about shots not going in, or Yogi going insane. That stuff happens.
What doesn't happen is your team's best player just watching the game. He doesn't deserve excuses: he wasn't "held in check," he just didn't want the ball. He didn't even come out for it on more than half of our possessions, just stood or jogged and watched.
That's awful, and what bothers me way more than the loss. You can bag on GR3, but at least he took it to the basket for the and-1 late. Nik ... just watched.
He needs to be chewed out if he wasn't sick or injured.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^
Wonder if it was his ankle. He rolled it again against Purdue.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:16 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
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February 2nd, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
Michigan eFG% - 43.33%
Michigan OREB% - 26.67%
Michigan Free Throw Rate - 40.00%
Michigan Turnover % -15.89%
Indiana eFG% - 62.79%
Indiana OREB% - 39.13%
Indiana Free Throw Rate - 34.88%
Indiana Turnover % - 20.88%
Other stuff:
Indiana - A/T ratio of 0.462, 53 possessions, 1.19 PPP
Michigan - A/T ratio of 0.800, 54 possessions, 0.96 PPP
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
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February 2nd, 2014 at 3:12 PM ^
Nothing to replicate. Yogi just played very basic ball denial, and Nik didn't work. Half the time he didn't even force Yogi to deny him, he just stood there and didn't look for the ball, even when the dribble was coming towards him and it's his responsibility to come to it.
Either Nik fixes it or he doesn't, but this one was more terrible offense than great defensive gameplanning.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
Still the rest of the schedule to go. The sky's not falling.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
It seems like we always lose there, even in seasons that we have a better record than IU.
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
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February 2nd, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
February 2nd, 2014 at 3:13 PM ^
Um, he's the only one trying to do anything off the dribble?
Seriously, do you people even watch the games? Caris had to go Kobe because our other supposed stars didn't want to touch the basketball. He's the last guy to blame.