RAPID REACTION - Indiana
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So the staff all of a sudden in 1 year forgot to coach?
Maybe, just maybe, it is the current makeup of the team.
This is the crux of the matter. In hindsight, it would've been far better to bring in 3 underrecruited hardworking defensive specialist types, which I imagine would've been available, rather than going for offense, as these 3 guys are terrible on offense anyway and ridiculously bad on defense. Maybe we could've been better with the lottery picks and great D from the rest of the team.
The Ace giggling and laughing thing while losing pissed me off a bit, and I mentioned it in the game thread. Most other fans thought it was fine. I don't think it's toxic, I honestly don't think most players care enough for it to be toxic.
I don't have an issue with the end result of 0 assists, my point when I mentioned it was I can only remember one instance where there was a possibility of an assist. Jwill butchered that one after a good 2nd quick pass by passing up a wide open three and instead drove and turned it over.
The reality is winning or losing just isn't that important to him. Who the fvck makes a 3 with a minute left down 12 and celebrates....seriously?
As for No. 3 - RU is the cure for any team with 3-point shooting woes. We simply do not defend the three and let teams get way too comfortable from the arc. And then, presictably their shots start falling. Very sad to see the same failures game after game - poor defense and poor rebounding. Clearly Pike knows how to coach both of those things, but he has completely failed to hold this team accountable and get them to listen to him. Maybe in the NIL/Transfer portal era the game is passing him by?
Didnt Ace steal the ball for a layup on the inbound after the misses..it ended up with 2 points anyhow
At some point he realized he was the only one that could make a shot, I don't blame him for that, his FT shooting though is bad.
Ace’s role isn’t to make other players better. He’s a volume scorer. That’s the type of player he was in high school, it’s the type of player he’s going to be at the next level too. You give him the ball and ask him to go get you a bucket.
Ace isn’t suddenly going to become a different player because Dylan couldn’t play last night. He did the thing we brought him here to do, which is score a lot of points with decent efficiency.
Yes apparently. Pike might be trying to save face that he has value by continuing to play him, but it is only highlighting what a bust he was
SBA... Should Be Assists
We don’t play zone because of ACE except to give him a breather , we play zone because our guards , Jeremiah , JMike , Jordan , Acuff cannot keep any guard in front of them and stop the penetration and PJ and Martini are worse at it as wings. Pike has to play some zone but preferably constantly change up defenses because his man to man defense sucks. Stop your hate fest on ACE. If you thought he was the problem last night , you need to be checked into a hospital because one of his 4 blocks hit you on the head.
We haven't played this much zone since Pike has been here. We have had plenty of guards that couldn't stay in front of dribble penetration.
I don't think Ace was a problem on D, I know it.
Previous years we had Myles and Cliff protecting the rim. This year we do don't have that and help rotations stink
You're obsessed with Ace, but he wasn't guarding the guys who killed us. It was Rice and Ballo
I think that is most of it....preseason that was what i was most scared about......the foundation of the Pike's D over the past 6 years was Myles and Cliff
Derkack hasn't been great...most of the season Ace has been OK...Hayes never plays....what else could explain the drastic YoY difference in D
Giving up 34 second chance points was the main issue we lost. You pinning it on ACE . LOL.
Your following post is finally acknowledging the key issue not having a shot blocker which is a huge issue. But ACE is doing something with his blocks.
You claim we had guards allow dribble penetration in the past and although it happened rarely with Geo , Caleb , Paul , Jacob , they also locked you down causing shot clock violations. This team is incapable of causing them. The man to man defense by our guards and wings who are the supporting cast has been atrocious in mostly all the games. You cannot ignore that and place your anger at ACE. It is not becoming of you.
Really watch the game when indiana has the ball and focus on Ace....get back to me with the results. TRUST me he killed us in the 1st half defensively.
Paul had very poor lateral quickness and routinely got beat off the dribble.
Paul had very poor lateral quickness and routinely got beat off the dribble.
Ace played 38 minutes last night as the main focus of the offense. He was taken out at the proper time in the first half, it maximized his time on the bench and minimized his loss of game time. We still had the lead when he returned, it is coaching 101.
Or extended the lead even further and not let them back into the game in the first half.
Putting the game out of reach early .
Having them fight from a double digit deficit in the second half .
The larger point was you don’t pull a player who has made 5 consecutive shots and the team is on a 14-2 run.
The sad thing is that if a few of the others players had a decent game, we would have won even without Dylan.
The portal Trio were terrible with Martini leading the party. On one 3 attempt he missed the rim by at least 5 feet.
Sad- Williams" game has gone downhill- actually Davis and Somerville played a little better.
One point about the game is Ballo elbowed and banged his way to the basket numerous times without one offensive foul called against him and on at least a few occasions he camped out in the paint without a 3 second call.
The portal Trio were terrible with Martini leading the party. On one 3 attempt he missed the rim by at least 5 feet.
Sad- Williams" game has gone downhill- actually Davis and Somerville played a little better.
One point about the game is Ballo elbowed and banged his way to the basket numerous times without one offensive foul called against him and on at least a few occasions he camped out in the paint without a 3 second call.
If anything, Ace didn’t shoot enough, because no one else could hit the side of a barn . . .
He doesn’t make the players better because they aren’t any good. People were telling us this before the season started, but we didn’t want to listen. National commentators like Rothstein and NBA scouts who had the chance to watch us in practice said the supporting cast was not good. Just by comparison, Cooper Flagg has has an up and down season, certainly shining in some games, but also others where his shooting is off or he struggles with turnovers. But his is still the best player on the #4 ranked team in the country, the difference between him and Ace is that he plays with a much better supporting cast.
