Michigan vs. Purdue basketball open thread

I guess when you're soft people beat you up. When they know you'll quit and let them they do it more.

This team. No leadership from anyone. We don't deserve any share of the title. We don't even deserve a 3 seed in the NCAA tourney.

This is just a bad basketball team. They don't deserve to be ranked how they are playing. Winning a game in the tournament would be a gift

This is a real shitshow. Really tired of us making bad teams look good.

on the road. Purdue is no where close in talent but we're turning it over and losing our composure.

The refs need to stop blowing it. At least two of those fouls were called when a Purdue player slapped another Purdue player. This is ridiculous

done - Big ten tournament and NCAA

                      for why Tim Hardaway has disappeared into the aether yet again?  Is he secretly a freshmen trying to get used to playing on the road?  He has the skill to brillant offensively, but he never seems to play poorly.  He either plays awesome or just craters into the ground and he's cratered this game and the last one too.  He's also terrible on defense, but that's just the norm for this team.

We suck we suck we suck!

Real life?

Sorry, but if you see this little effort, you pull people off the damn floor and sit their ass on the bench while chewing them  up and spitting them out.  It almost seems like they are more worried as coaches about not upsetting someone.....hell with it, tear them up, and sit down the players who put forth no effort on D and in rebounding.....both are 90% effort and heart.

damnit..now even trey turning it over

I can't believe a ball fell through the hoop.

You have to think what aren't they doing wrong right now. They have time to fix it though.

As an upperclassman, he needs to pick up his game bigtime.

As an upperclassman, he needs to pick up his game bigtime.

Coach B is starting to piss me off... Great coaches don't allow this to happen. Absolutely zero changes from the garbage streak in the first half, and the team is limping through this half... I don't care if this is a road game... Purdue is like .500 and we are making them look like the 24-5 team... I'm always finding myself saying 'wow Trey Burke just made a sick play/ pass' and never do I think, 'wow Coach B really drew up something great out of that timeout.' Burke can't save our staffs inability to manage this team throughout a game every single night. I love Coach B, and I am thrilled at this program's recent progress, but I just wish there was some more 'in game' fire or something. We look ao discouraged/ deflated, and i think those emotions run through the coach. Rant. Whatever.

my voice is already gone from yelling at everyone

I'm sorry, but Michigan Basketball will never be elite with John Beilein.

Also, is it just the plan to let players throw up prayers in the second half?  There just seems to be a lack of any cohesive plan to even do that with any strategy.  It appears to be get the ball down the floor and throw something up....even that last play by Burke......drive into 3 guys and throw it up.  Perfect time to hit the open man with everyone playing help on you.

the ball was loose there and we don't seem interested in going after it while the guy rolls his ankle, Beilein needs to coach this team better than this

Has Beilein ever gotten T'd up?
Now would be a good time.

we just aren't very good. Can't finish in the lane, missing 3s, turn overs in the backcourt. We are down by 9 to a bunch of plodders.

Is pressing. Badly.

This is the softest team in the Big Ten.  It shouldn't be so easy to come back from a double digit lead against a "top ten" team.  Michigan lets everyone do it.

Vogrich!

Flopper.

Does Purdue not have a training staff? Nobody really came out the help that kid. I feel bad for him.

Wow Burke sucks tonight. Throwing away the any consideration for POY.

Yep, I'm done.

Driving and hitting the open man works....who would have thought of that.......and then fuck, let someone drive back down the fucking middle with no help side D and just fuck

Vogrich makes 3 and gives up 3.

Fuuuuuuuuuu

Neg away. I don't care. I am sick of this team having an opportunity to win the B1G title, only to squander it away by nonchalant, sloppy play. Two times in a week they knew they could win the title if they won out, only to lose the next game to a bad team on the road; both times blowing double digit leads. They don't play with their heads in the game, they don't play adequate defense, and they don't rebound.

I won't "keep this in perspective," or "feel happy for Purdue." We should have easily won this game, only for them to fall apart once again and let the team come all the way back and take a big lead. They take horrible, unnecessary shots, and let the other team go on long runs due to this. When we still had a big lead earlier this game, every player seemed to just take the ball, run to the hoop, and take a shot no matter how contested it was. 

I am sick and tired of watching this team waste their talent away by not playing as smart and as hard as they can. How many more "wake-up calls" will it take before this team starts to care?