Eddie was a hell of a player and lit a lot of people up…most people don’t realize Eddie has Springs Valley’s career scoring record and not Larry. 

Oh, I agree.  I’ve just always gotten a kick out of that story and I thought it kind of fit the topic.

Doesn’t get the talent man. The athletic teams rip them up.

Marcus – I agree w Millzy. If in fact our players could defend the other players it might work but alas …….. the players I have mentioned have been burned by lesser guys …….. the solution is team defense and I do not mean everybody relies on Pritchard to save their butt

That works if you have one “Doug”.  What happens when you have a whole squad full of “Dougs”?  To quote one of my favorite movies of all time. “Well, you get what we had here last week”  Replace week with last several years and there you have it.

I guess if we want a “glove” we need to recruit somebody named “Jimmy”

I remember when I was in high school and our team was preparing to play Springs Valley, who had Eddie Bird (no Larry, mind you, but he was still a pretty damn good player.)  We had no one who our coach thought could guard him sufficiently, so he just decided we’d put “Doug” on him.  Doug was  generally found camped out near the corner awaiting a kickout for three.  He was slow, couldn’t jump very high, and wasn’t a defender by any stretch of the imagination.  Coach figured if we put our best defender on Bird he’d still go off and so, too, would the guy Doug was guarding.  Therefore, he said, “what the hell, let’s just put Doug on him and let him do his thing and hope we stop the other four well enough.”  We won that game.

I disagree.  Dean Smith had this thrown at him for yrs and it just took a while.  The system there is different and requires a great deal of discipline on the players part.  He doesn’t win the big dance because he lacks 1-2 real athletic players who shy away from that type of system as we have discussed here forever.  This kid however is special and Wisky could give OSU a run. 

Other than IU this is my second fav team in the Big ten since I spent 3 yrs in Madison.  Bo is a great coach and this kid has blossomed and to his credit also stayed in school (which as a kid is not hard when you live in either bloomington or madison).  I look fwd to some great battles with Wisky in the next few yrs…Unlike pUKe – with The Charlie Sheen whannabe coach… I

Jerry loves to analyze the game and his comment is right on as usual.  Not sure one person covers him like a glove in the Bo scheme.  You need help D.  An athletic guard is the best bet and VO or WS are the best we have. 

I would assume Oladipo and Sheehey are the best options, if playing with proper intensity (which Crean has really been emphasizing in his twitter rants).  But yeah, that might lead to more JH and VJ on the bench.

Likewise, I thought this kid graduated last year.  Kids like this that we root against seem to stick around forever.  If he were a Hoosier, he would have been gone in the blink of an eye.  One heck of a ball player

You have to force this guy to go left also.

I also bet that Jordy will be able to better keep his man in front of him this year.

If he plays like he did last year against us it won’t matter.  He was making contested shots from anywhere on the court.  He was unconscious.

I say put Abell on him this year and se what he can do. 

Unfortunately for us Hulls is a liability on the Defensive end but his offensive ability demands that he be on the court.  Not so much for Jones IMHO.

My point is the same many of us have been making for the last 2 seasons , we have too many offensive players who kill us on defense and cause the losses. Our Pomeroy numbers prove this case.

My case therefore is to include in the lineup WS or VO or RA or whomever can handle the picks and defend this kid when we play them. This may mean Hulls and Jones on the bench more than they are used to being.

My memory also tells me that Pritchard was forced to defend him several times and did the best job of anybody . If we don;t get our defense in order we will be looking at another pedestrian season and 2 losses again to Iowa