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It’s just nice after all the grief MU fans put out in Twitter about the FBI stuff

Gary seems like such a good guy

You’re telling me the NCAA rule changes aren’t preventing Nike from still buying players?

Color me shocked.

Arizona with the #1 class, Louisville 3 and USC 4 ironically.

I don’t know if it was just always going to be a down recruiting year with so much roster uncertainty or if the FBI investigation legitimately scared players away. Or if Adidas is on the DL right now. Or Bill isn’t working with them anymore and being a straight shooter to close out his career here.

@HighEliteMajor even very loosely scripted plays like “pick and roll with Dedric and Dotson at 15 seconds” would be fine with me. I think it would help the young guys figure out exactly what the goal shot is and automatically give it a pecking order. Instead of having 4 guys not even looking to shoot and just feed Dedric.

Like In this scenario, it is very clearly, first Dotson drives, if he gets cut off, pass it to Dedric. If Dedric gets doubled, whoever the double team game from gets the ball and takes the shot. And that’s it. No fourth or fifth option. Catch it to shoot confidently. Everyone else crash the boards.

Absolutely absurd foul

BShark said:

Kcmatt7 said:

enbeleivable.

This team really brings it out of us.

I almost didn’t drink for this game. Glad I did.

A guy we weren’t even going to play is our best player. That’s how bad this teams been lol. Just enbeleivable.

Fouls magically happening now but not for 38 minutes

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

At least this season has yielded Agbaji. And he should be around for a while.

I hope. He might get a combine invite if he plays like this the rest of the season

Texas Hawk 10 said:

BShark said:

Kcmatt7 said:

BShark said:

approxinfinity said:

Kcmatt7 said:

Woodrow said:

approxinfinity said:

Who were we recruitng still when LV decided to come back?

Romeo Langford

Who wouldn’t have helped this team other than he drives the ball and can actually finish

Ok. So we would have had one less 3 point shooter. Puzzling. I guess we were all in on playing inside out? Also puzzling.

Well, the assumption was that Grimes and Moore could shoot.

And KJ and Dedric would at least be good enough shooters to spread the floor

I was always suspicious about this.

Why suspicious. They were both bad shooters at Memphis. The sub 30% from Dedric wasn't a fluke.

Well in theory they’d both have a year off to improve and they would get better looks playing with better players than being the only two who shot.

When is the last time we had a 4 game losing streak? Because it looks like it’s coming

BShark said:

approxinfinity said:

Kcmatt7 said:

Woodrow said:

approxinfinity said:

Who were we recruitng still when LV decided to come back?

Romeo Langford

Who wouldn’t have helped this team other than he drives the ball and can actually finish

Ok. So we would have had one less 3 point shooter. Puzzling. I guess we were all in on playing inside out? Also puzzling.

Well, the assumption was that Grimes and Moore could shoot.

And KJ and Dedric would at least be good enough shooters to spread the floor

Offhand, but nope a foul on Ochai

approxinfinity said:

BShark said:

approxinfinity said:

Who were we recruitng still when LV decided to come back?

Romeo Langford.

Did we still have a legit shot with him at that point?

The FBI thing came out right before then

Woodrow said:

approxinfinity said:

Who were we recruitng still when LV decided to come back?

Romeo Langford

Who wouldn’t have helped this team other than he drives the ball and can actually finish

The offhand from Osetkowski is bullshit

Dedric Dedric Dedric

Zone may limit Osetkowski too

Offense needs to run through Ochai

Maybe we rebound out of the zone better or something

What a joke of a game for both teams

Zone*

Bill willing to go some says everything about this team

Weren’t they supposed to be policing the dipping your shoulder and bullying your way to the basket more?

Wtf is Mitch supposed to do? Flop?

Osetkowski just pivoted from one side of the block to the other without traveling... somehow

approxinfinity said:

Re : teaching shooting , the only perimeter kid I can remember fixing his shot significantly under Self is Selden. Big men have added baby hooks, TRob kindaaa got more range. But only perimeter player, Selden.

Mason improved a ton.

Svi improves a ton.

But mechanically, I agree

KirkIsMyHinrich said:

BShark said:

Vick isn't in this game mentally.

I feel like Vick would be awesome with adderall.

He just needs a bump of the sugar booger right before the game.

BShark said:

Vick isn't in this game mentally.

Probably shouldn’t have brought him back... We would have had Ochai playing all season

Mitch has a rim presence. Nobody likes getting their shit tossed by a 6’5 white kid

DanR said:

@Kcmatt7 Ochai has the ultimate arc

Great point. Also, proving my point lol. These guys with horrible shots, there is such an easy solution. And you have a court no more than 100 feet from your dorm room.

Put in the lineup that plays the hardest from here on out. This team needs coached like they’re 6th graders

Does Bill just teach a flat shot? Everyone but Vick and Dotson have one.

Garrett has such a flat shot it hurts

Vick and Grimes like don’t realize you have to play defense even when your man doesn’t have the ball

DanR said:

@tundrahok Hell yes, I'm in "watch the young guys develop" mode

Must be what it feels like to be the fan of another team... I don’t really like it.

ESPN is desperate for eye balls. Used to not even cover UFC...

BShark said:

Are there more players redshirting that we can try?

Elliot 👀

This is a friggen big 10 game

This lineup at least has 5 energy guys.

Think we just found our lineup lol

Bwag said:

Are we just completly lost on offense and half the time on defense?

I don’t remember a Self team so poor on both sides since maybe 2012-2013. And they’d beat this team by 15

Can’t double O. Too good of a passer. Go Big Dave and Dedric and man the fuck up on them

Ochai is gonna be a dude

Need to give Dave more minutes and hope he just figures it out.

This team can’t run weave, but I have no idea what to do differently with them.

Bwag said:

BShark said:

I'm not sure if I can blame Self at least from a coaching perspective. This team just can't shoot.

What's our action to try and free up shots?

It is theoretically dribble drive and dish. But nobody is good at that dribble drive part

tundrahok said:

Lawson has 2 steals and a block, but no shot attempts?

Immediate hard doubles.

Joke of a lineup. Mitch and Moore in lol

@HighEliteMajor For me, it is that Dedric can only marginally improve his draft stock next season. Apparently, anything less than a 30 and 20 average isn't going to bump him into the draft. This is his 4th year in college, so likely he will be graduating in the Spring. So even coming back to get his degree isn't much of an argument at this point.

It's time for him to go make money. And I'd bet he still sneaks into the 2nd round. He's shooting the ball better here in the 2nd half.