This is really dumb. But it’s also okay to critique TJ and staff’s game planning abilities. We’ve been pretty good at making adjustments but our first halves have been pretty bad all year…yet we keep trying the same thing over and over.
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This is really dumb. But it’s also okay to critique TJ and staff’s game planning abilities. We’ve been pretty good at making adjustments but our first halves have been pretty bad all year…yet we keep trying the same thing over and over.
TJ said teams are throwing different things at them to start the game that were outside of their scout. Apparently only the other team is allowed to do that
Other issue we have zero leadership on this team. You’d hope Lipsey or Jefferson would but Lipsey is timid vocally and Jefferson is trying to play himself into the nba don’t think he’s much of a team guy/leader tbh
Youre in denial. Its pretty common with our fanbase
Is he really a great coach if he rarely makes adjustments and is stubborn? That’s literally what coaching is.
I actually do think he’s a great coach but when you fall apart at this point of the season every year there’s a reason why.
The trap kills us, it's predictable and teams with a heartbeat know what to do with it. We run zero off ball screens, it's just basic Spain action every time down, which is also really predictable.
Love TJs gladiator approach but at some point basketball is more than just effort. You’ve got to be able to handle the X’s and O’s and that’s where this staff really struggles.
I hope one of these years TJ brings in someone who can identify and exploit mismatches. Our offensive spacing is atrocious and we don’t run plays for our best players. JJ and MM are two of the most talented players we’ve ever had on offense and it’s a real headscratcher why we can’t scheme up more quality looks for them.
Lets face it we only have to be good for 4 or 5 games before the conference season. Like most everybody we have 7 or 8 guaranteed wins. You have to play your A game every night (Houston Cougars excel at this) once conference play begins.
Yeah the trapping stuff rarely works against good teams and we switch on defense that make no sense. We’re constantly putting our bigs in positions to try and defend guards it’s horrible. This team also just lacks leadership as I keep harping on. I said how we responded against a horrible cincy team would tell us a lot about this team and we once again waltzed in, played careless and uninterested, turned it on for 5 min and then gave up. This team sucks and is so grossly overrated.
UCF will beat us to without a better effort.
We basically waste a career day from Milan. Toure, Buchanan, Heise, and even Lipsey gave us nothing today. Turnovers, rebounding, and poor free throw shooting were big issues and defense intensity was really lacking. I may be wrong but I think we only got 3 points from the 5 spot and JJ got dominated by more athletic guys. Really disappointing.
Yup! This is our ceiling. Work our asses off to start hot, then get tired/injured and collapse. Meanwhile, Indiana football is about to win a title practicing less than anyone in football. But if we took that approach, we'd be mediocre all season at best anyway. Lose lose.
Neither of those things are gone
We have pretty much sucked for two games in a row. Maybe it’s a rut or maybe there is a blueprint to beat us that even bad teams can execute.
That sounds like an excuse from TJ. I’m not saying teams don’t, but you have to be prepared for everything and adjust right on the dot.
3 seed, 2 seed, probably 3 seed at worst this year are the last 3 years, TJ is ******* terrible. How dare he lose 2 quad 1 road games mid-January.
Yes they can. But people need to realize Toure is better than Lipsey and he's always gonna be injured.
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It’s a really tough conference and you’ll lose almost any game you don’t play well in, particularly on the road. I think this team might not be the juggernaut we thought they were, but they’re still damn good. Just need to find a way to bounce back mentally and need to find ways to get our role players into the scoring column consistently to take open up things for our big three.
