[December 17, 2022] Indiana State (9-2) at Duquesne (7-3)

[SycamoreStateofMind]

I'm going to sit this one out from here...

 

[pbutler218]

Bummer loss. I'm already looking past NIU to be 10-3 headed back into the conference slate.

Honestly, the way we've been playing lately gives me NO reason to be confident.....even NIU. We're not putting together a full-game effort. If we would have kept our early game effort (like we started out at Duquesne) then I'd feel differently right now. We must be better......consistently.

 

[Bobbyk60]

Honestly, the way we've been playing lately gives me NO reason to be confident.....even NIU. We're not putting together a full-game effort. If we would have kept our early game effort (like we started out at Duquesne) then I'd feel differently right now. We must be better......consistently.

Seems the team cannot be trusted during crunch time.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

They'll get it figured out. Four game road swings are tough. Remember the 86 Celtics? Lost a Christmas Day game at the Garden after blowing a big lead? They then became the greatest team of all time. We might not get to that mountaintop, but we'll figure it out. Just think about how much fun it's gonna be when we learn to keep our foot on the opponent's throat!!!

 

[pbutler218]

They'll get it figured out. Four game road swings are tough. Remember the 86 Celtics? Lost a Christmas Day game at the Garden after blowing a big lead? They then became the greatest team of all time. We might not get to that mountaintop, but we'll figure it out. Just think about how much fun it's gonna be when we learn to keep our foot on the opponent's throat!!!

Fingers crossed We "can" be fun to watch......or very frustrating to watch as well.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Our roster is still evolving. We still are several players shy of what HCJS needs to efficiently run his system. Be patient. At 9-3.

This isn't Y5 of an established coach that has had 4-5 classes to cycle through for his system.

 

[pbutler218]

Our roster is still evolving. We still are several players shy of what HCJS needs to efficiently run his system. Be patient. At 9-3.

Jason, did you get a chance to watch a replay against Duquesne and if so your thoughts going forward? We "started" out fantastic....then faded.

 

[Jason Svoboda]

Jason, did you get a chance to watch a replay against Duquesne and if so your thoughts going forward? We "started" out fantastic....then faded.

Caught bits and pieces of the game when we were in San Diego. Watched the last 4 before half and then about a 7m stretch from around the 9m mark until we lost the lead. We still lack some high level guards. The difference that I saw was when crunch time came around, their guards made shots - Grant, Clark and Rozier and our guys missed 'em.

We need to go out and find an absolute dog at PG. Need a guy that can consistently make shots when we need them. None of our PGs are in the Top 5 in PER on our team. That isn't usually the case.

 

[sycamorebacker]

They'll get it figured out. Four game road swings are tough. Remember the 86 Celtics? Lost a Christmas Day game at the Garden after blowing a big lead? They then became the greatest team of all time. We might not get to that mountaintop, but we'll figure it out. Just think about how much fun it's gonna be when we learn to keep our foot on the opponent's throat!!!

If I remember right our ‘01 team that won tournament lost several in a row at the end of the season. Might have a little mixed up.

 

[SycamoreStateofMind]

They'll get it figured out. Four game road swings are tough. Remember the 86 Celtics? Lost a Christmas Day game at the Garden after blowing a big lead? They then became the greatest team of all time. We might not get to that mountaintop, but we'll figure it out. Just think about how much fun it's gonna be when we learn to keep our foot on the opponent's throat!!!

At 25 years old I walked into the office of the CEO of Union Hospital and told him I wanted a job that was open that I wasn’t qualified for.

He said, what makes you think you’re ready for that job?

I said, if Theo Epstein can be GM of the Red Sox at 28 years old then I’m certain I can handle this job.

He said, oh now you’re Theo Esptein?

So ITF - I ask you (tell you) oh now we’re the 86 Celtics…

 

[pbutler218]

Caught bits and pieces of the game when we were in San Diego. Watched the last 4 before half and then about a 7m stretch from around the 9m mark until we lost the lead. We still lack some high level guards. The difference that I saw was when crunch time came around, their guards made shots - Grant, Clark and Rozier and our guys missed 'em.

We need to go out and find an absolute dog at PG. Need a guy that can consistently make shots when we need them. None of our PGs are in the Top 5 in PER on our team. That isn't usually the case.

Yeah, once Voss got T'd up he was done.....and it was looking like he "was" going to have a huge game. Our point guard play wasn't good with Gibson so it seemed Larry played a lot. And, of course we let our former player have his best game to date.

 

[IndyTreeFan]

At 25 years old I walked into the office of the CEO of Union Hospital and told him I wanted a job that was open that I wasn’t qualified for.

He said, what makes you think you’re ready for that job?

I said, if Theo Epstein can be GM of the Red Sox at 28 years old then I’m certain I can handle this job.

He said, oh now you’re Theo Esptein?

So ITF - I ask you (tell you) oh now we’re the 86 Celtics…

Damn straight baby! Get on the train or get left behind!!!

Or, give me a break for an analogy...

 

[Eric33_5]

If I remember right our ‘01 team that won tournament lost several in a row at the end of the season. Might have a little mixed up.

I remember losing to Creighton, Southern Illinois on a Dearborn buzzer beater on Senior Night and I believe then Southwest Missouri State. We lost 6 out of our last 7. The loss to Creighton I believe is when we had the current streak of home game victories in division 1 basketball @ 22. My favorite Menser moment was the fuck you three at the end of the first half against them in the 2001 conference tournament from nearly halfcourt.

 

[Bluethunder]

If I remember right our ‘01 team that won tournament lost several in a row at the end of the season. Might have a little mixed up.

It wasn’t just the last several in a row it was a horrible last month. We entered February that year in first place and finished in 5th. I think that team went 2-8 for the month or something like that.

Got to St Louis and played SIU in a rematch from senior night a week earlier and won. Then got Creighton who knocked us out in the semis of Arch Madness the year before and Menser went off for 32 or something crazy. Then knocked Bradley out in the finals.

Ahhhhh memories.

 

[Gotta Hav]

My take-aways.

1. I could see this loss coming around the six minute mark.
2. Voss is a head case.
3. I appreciate Julian Larry playing downhill, but more often than not, he needs to tap-the-brakes, or hit the off ramp.
4. Neese. The greatest...and most useless Pump Faker of All-Time.
5. Is it my TV, or are McKnight's legs really short for a 6' 9" man?
6. Bledson, Voss, Henry and gawd knows who else, need to STOP with the FLEXING.
7. When the head case came back in, I knew we were going to lose, and that he was going to throw up some crazy 3 like it was an ISU Campus Intramural Fraternity game, and he did.
8. Did I mention that Neese's game has gone backwards? Where's that sweet lil turn-around fade away jump shot that he used to have?
9. Henry constantly runs his mouth to the ref's as if it's going to make a difference. He spends most of his time JAWING.
10. Avila needs more minutes, more touches, and if there is one person that needs to take leadership of this team, it's him.
11. Gibson and our other D2 players showing that they are LEGIT D2 players.

Hmmm. So several of my observations weren't wrong after all. Go figure. Haters goin' hate.

And McKnight really doesn't need to see the floor the rest of the year except in any blowout wins that we may have. How he was All American whatever is beyond me. And those two R.T. Greenish high post passes of his yesterday that turned into easy layups for NIU, was the worse DI basketball play that I've watched all year. #embarrassing