[March 8, 2013] Indiana State (17-13) vs. Evansville (18-13)

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Indiana State Sycamores (17-13) vs. Evansville Aces (18-13)

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Scottrade Center - St. Louis, Missouri​
Friday, March 8
2:35 PM EST Tip​
 

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Sycamores will handle the Aces on a neutral court with Arop in the lineup. Watching them play yesterday, I realized that we are bigger at 4/5 positions at all times during the game. Assuming that we haven't given up on the season we will advance in St Louis. Odum needs to call a players only meeting and get the troops to come out and play with some heart. I just hope that they still care.
 
I'm happy to see UE instead of UNI. Incredibly hard to beat a good team 3 times so didn't want to see the Panthers. Evansville flat out was on fire from the field. Some of that was poor defense and some were difficult looks that they just made. I think we match up pretty well with them across the board (with Arop on the floor). We have to do a better job on Colt but I think if Arop plays he can help keep him from going off. Of course none of this matters if we play with the effort we've seen the last 3 weeks. Got one week to straighten it out boys and not leave everyone with a sour taste in their mouth going into the offseason.
 
skdent1414 said:
Sycamores will handle the Aces on a neutral court with Arop in the lineup. Watching them play yesterday, I realized that we are bigger at 4/5 positions at all times during the game. Assuming that we haven't given up on the season we will advance in St Louis. Odum needs to call a players only meeting and get the troops to come out and play with some heart. I just hope that they still care.
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Yes! What he said!

Sycamores 68
Aces 63

Think I'm crazy,.....I've been called worse.....
 
Hate to say it but our team is "toast". Except for Lansing's "lightning in a bottle" team in the ArchMadness his first season the end of the season swoon is becoming commonplace. And I hear how we have more talent at every position yada yada yada. Something not right year after year and it needs to be fixed by the guy we pay to fix it.
 
If Manny is back, I feel pretty good about beating Evansville. I say use Manny and K Smith on Ryan. If we get back to 40 minutes of hard nosed defense we can make a run this weekend. If not, it will be a long ride back to the Haute.
ISU 65
Evansville 58
 

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A lot as been made of the parallels between 2001 and today....late season collapse after being first in the Valley, only to go to St. Louis as a 5 seed to win it all.

Not sure if this has been pointed out or not, but in 2001, the four seed was SIU, who beat us in the last game of the season that year. This year...the four seed is Evansville, who beat us in the last game of the season THIS year.

The number 1 seed in 2001 was Creighton. The number 1 seed this year is Creighton.

Now the grey area....the 2001 team went to St. Louis believing they would win and the fans believed them. Remember Waltman's speech senior night? "The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated."

I'm yet to be convinced this team has that killer instinct. I hope to see that this week. Everything else is in place.

See you in St. Louis...
 
Nice quote...unfortunately, we don't have any seniors. If we "get our shit together" (to paraphrase a popular 70's saying), there's no reason in hell we can't duplicate 2011. Play hard - play SMART - anticipate, staying one (1) play ahead of our opposition.
 
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I am not a defensive expert by any means but why not run a zone against Evansville? It seems like Colt Ryan plays his best when he can run his man off of a curl screen for a short jumper. A zone prevents this type of offense.
 
skdent1414 said:
I am not a defensive expert by any means but why not run a zone against Evansville? It seems like Colt Ryan plays his best when he can run his man off of a curl screen for a short jumper. A zone prevents this type of offense.
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If we ran a zone against Ryan, he'd just kill us from the perimeter. At least he has to work to get open when we play man.
 
ISU_TREE_FAN said:
Hate to say it but our team is "toast". Except for Lansing's "lightning in a bottle" team in the ArchMadness his first season the end of the season swoon is becoming commonplace. And I hear how we have more talent at every position yada yada yada. Something not right year after year and it needs to be fixed by the guy we pay to fix it.
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This x 1,000.

Did anyone else see the Miami all-access piece on ESPN over the weekend? Jim Larranaga said something to his team that I thought was very interesting. He said that this is the time of year where teams can begin to fight each other and start to splinter, and he was warning his team not to become like that. To stick together and play for each other. I have no idea on the exact reasons why we continue to falter down the stretch each year, but it seems from my outsider's prospective that we splinter each year as the season gets long and difficult. It's like the dog-days of summer in baseball. Pennants are won in August when the season gets tough.

The blame goes all around, but the blame should first be put on the ultimate leader of our team - Lansing. Something caused Carl Richard to not want to play in the postseason tournament last year, something caused Kelly to not want to finish school, etc., etc., etc. Something is causing our team to look like they flat-out don't want to play each game. Lansing can recruit and schedule very well, but it's this time of the year where the rubber hits the road.

Color me pissed.

I'm going to St. Louis this year, like I do every year. I will enjoy my time with my friends from college who I rarely see except for at this event, but I am not expecting ISU to win against what is a better-coached team.
 

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The only way you're stopping Ryan is he gets called for his push offs. He's just too good of a shooter. What you need to do is let him get his 25 and stop everyone else. Boxing out and not letting their small guards get Ryan second and third looks would go a long way.

I'd also like to quit leaving their shooters. There is nobody on that team we should help down or double. We just shouldn't. We collapsed multiple times and left Nelson and others WIDE open. Of course they're going to drain those looks. Straight man-to-man, no helping... if you get beat, it goes for 2 instead of 3. The two charges we take a game also aren't worth giving up layups or open 15 foot jumpers, either.

Oh, and Jake Odum needs to be a scorer for 40 minutes. Not 20.
 
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Maybe since Lansing is a very selfish person, maybe his team is just following along. Selfish team come February/March.
 
Just saying, I follow a lot of the basketball team on twitter, and they seem to talk alot to eachother and talk about how they're getting dinner with another player or something. I can't say I follow it too much, but they seem like they're getting along quite well. I think it's great how the attitude has already changed on this board. For the last few days EVERYONE has been furious. But now, people are giving them another shot. That they could win. And I really think they could come back and do great. They seem to do well on neutral courts. Hope they win out.
 
So, I hear we have this sort of big game coming up on Friday. Anyone care to discuss basketball instead of marijuana?

As the old saying goes - defense wins championships. Of the last 6 games we've played, we have not been very good defensively giving up an average of 71.34 points per game. We can talk alot about Lansing's offense and how it may or may not suit the players on the roster, but something has been lost recently on the defensive end.

Offense doesn't travel well, but defense shouldn't slump. What gives? Thoughts?
 

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BrokerZ said:
So, I hear we have this sort of big game coming up on Friday. Anyone care to discuss basketball instead of marijuana?

As the old saying goes - defense wins championships. Of the last 6 games we've played, we have not been very good defensively giving up an average of 71.34 points per game. We can talk alot about Lansing's offense and how it may or may not suit the players on the roster, but something has been lost recently on the defensive end.

Offense doesn't travel well, but defense shouldn't slump. What gives? Thoughts?
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I will take it a step further and add the defense and rebounding wins championships. If we do those two things well the offense will come around.
 
I would expect Arop to play, but not to start. I would expect him to be the first one off the bench. Have not heard anything to support that, but it makes sense.

I agree with many on here that if we D up, rebound well, we can win this game. We have been terrible in true road games, but played well on neutral courts, so we shall see.

One game at a time.
 
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