i hope you enjoy watching the game as much as i do.
go HOOSIERS!

I love the high potency transition offense, yet we can’t seem to run a consistent half court offense when transition isn’t there. Teams who slow the pace, set good “screens”, and run their offense seem to control the game. We run around, jump into position to set a screen, and it’s not effectively done. It’s not set directly on the defender and we don’t come off tight to make it effective. As a result, it’s not effective at all and just running around. This isn’t fundamentally sound and concerns me about Crean’s offense.

Defensively, we struggle with these types of offenses and we get caught going for the deflection, out of position, or not blocking out. This leads to open looks, drives to the basket, and sending teams to the foul line prematurely. I love Crean for motivating, his recruiting ability, and his relations with the Press and fans.

However, I think if one were to look at our losses, it becomes more of a coaching issue than anything else. I hate to question but must. Why are we not setting more screens for Cody to get an open look when needed. Much of our game play throughout seems to be just a transition offense or motion type offense and hoping something breaks loose. This Wisconsin game, Cody did “break loose” for a big first half, but when he struggled to create on his own, we had no screens or what looked like good plays for him. Hulls has been huge for us from the outside. How are we not setting good screens or double screens if need be to get him open. And if I’m missing those, why are they not working?

From my observations:

We set screens on ghost players. A screen should be set on the defensive guy so close, and our guy should be coming of of those screens so tight as to not let his defender get through it. Want to see good fundamental screens……watch Butler and Wisconsin. It’s why they play us so close, make us play their tempo, and get open shots for less talented guys than we have. And they beat us over and over. I’m sick of it. To win against these teams and to win big games, we have go to get some of the fundamentals back into our game to compliment our talent. Otherwise, we’ll just be another decent team in the big ten and a has been in the tournament.

I would like to add to that as well. I true Hoosier fan doesnt just go to the game and set there and eat popcorn all night. He or she gets involved and cheers the team on…. Nothing worse than seating in front of someone and they keep complaining you need to sit down…. You can set on your arss at home, come to the game and get with it

Oh really? You must be ignorant to how good the teams are on IU’s schedule if you truly think that because they play 9 teams that are ranked in the top 25, and my guess is that Minnesota gets ranked by the time IU plays them, so my opinion is they’ll play 11 games against top 25 opponents, plus a team that is knocking on the door of the top 25 in Butler (might as well be a bubble team, if not a team that is in the NCAA Tournament at this point, right?). By the way, 4 of the games they have against top 25 teams are games against opponents in the TOP 5. So “won’t hardly be tested at all until the NCAA Tournament”??? Uhh, whatever you say man.

UK doesn’t lose in Rupp, especially to IU.

Why add another notch to the L column? Better leave UK to themselves.

Of course, nothing is certain. In fact Ucla may be ranked higher than IU at that point as well…

A true Hoosier fan would watch the games to the end, every game, win or lose. We have season tickets and have for the past 15 years. I went to every home game i could over those years. Even when we got destroyed, we stayed till the end. For those true fans around, who watch the game start to finish, we were able to watch guys on the team development from a couple win season to a sweet sixteen appearance and now a top 5 preseason ranking. I do not appreciate you posting on your passion for IU basketball and how sad it was for a couple years. What exactly is sad about seeing a program rise from the bottom and go all the way to, in some analysts ranks, the number one team in the nations preseason polls. The definition of a great story and journey and lesson for any college program out there.