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Post by rmcalhoun on Jan 6, 2024 23:26:59 GMT -6
You cant push buttons that are not there we've got the 5 we have and middleton/hendricks. Thats it..... Ride or Die
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Post by reevo on Jan 6, 2024 23:35:22 GMT -6
Please repeat after me…….we are soft…. we are soft….we are soft…I better stop before I start using the nickname for a cat to describe our players.
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Post by david75bsu on Jan 7, 2024 6:05:47 GMT -6
This is a bad loss. It shows the team and maybe even the coach are not ready for prime time. We may lose a lot of games. A winning record is probably in jeopardy. Sad!!!
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Post by universityjim on Jan 7, 2024 8:41:43 GMT -6
I better stop before I start using the nickname for a cat to describe our players. I already do and have for a while. The shoe fits. |
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 7, 2024 9:22:52 GMT -6
You cant push buttons that are not there we've got the 5 we have and middleton/hendricks. Thats it..... Ride or Die Yeah, this group can conceivably become smarter, but not really much more physical. They can play harder, they can focus and be mentally tough, maybe... Which gets part way there, but the "toughness" issue goes partly to lack of physical strength. Hard to be really tough when the other guy is bigger, stronger, faster. Mike Lewis was unusual to be able to do that as a player, I don't see that trait in any of these players excepting maybe Middleton and Bailey. They are physically mature, good sized guards, good athletes.
Jones needs a year or two but has potential in that respect. As some of the other freshmen become sophomores they might have a chance. Not going to happen this year except maybe the smarter part. Most all of them after all can become smarter... Pearson, Jihad, Anderson just aren't strong physically, are skilled enough to be good players, but not physical, I don't see that changing.
Somebody said it above, Coleman, Sparks, Jacobs and to less degree Sellers all could respond physically to a challenge last year, not that they always did. We miss that.
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Post by universityjim on Jan 7, 2024 9:49:12 GMT -6
MAC Results Saturday 1/6/2024
Western Michigan 82 Buffalo 77 at Buffalo
Central Michigan 71 Ball State 65 at Ball State
Northern Illinois 66 Ohio 78 at Ohio
Kent State 69 Eastern Michigan 71 at Eastern Michigan
Friday 1/5/2024
Miami 64 Toledo 68 at Toledo
Bowling Green 67 Akron 83 at Akron
KenPom Rankings of BSU and Opponents after 1/6/2024 Games
Akron (10-4) 92
Kent State (8-6) 132 LOSS
Toledo (8-6) 156
Ohio (7-7) 168
Bowling Green (10-4) 216
Northern Illinois (6-8) 248
Miami (6-8) 265
Ball State (8-6) 285
Western Michigan (5-9) 289
Eastern Michigan (8-6) 294
Buffalo (2-12) 325
Central Michigan (6-8) 328 LOSS
Indiana State (12-2) 57 LOSS
Minnesota (11-3) 79 LOSS
Evansville (10-5) 193 LOSS
Old Dominion (4-11) 258 WIN
Little Rock (8-9) 271 LOSS
Southern Illinois Edwardsville (8-8) 281 WIN
Bellarmine (4-13) 290 WIN
USC Upstate (5-10) 295 WIN
Arkansas Pine Bluff (5-9) 349 WIN
Detroit Mercy (0-17) 358 WIN
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Post by cardfan on Jan 7, 2024 10:29:55 GMT -6
You cant push buttons that are not there we've got the 5 we have and middleton/hendricks. Thats it..... Ride or Die You’re not wrong. Coach put together a bad roster. Good kids, bad roster and lost two guys that before the season were being counted on for key roles. Have to have strong enough depth to counter injuries. Don’t have it. Have to have both depth to pull guys when they under perform. Don’t have it. Who you gonna put in for guys turning the ball over in key situations? Who you gonna put in when a guy won’t block out, or keep his man in front of him? We got nothing. I will say this; I’m betting Lewis takes steps to have a much different roster next year, one way or another. If he doesn’t he’s toast. And I’m betting some guys will walk on their own. The key? He’s GOT to raise money for NIL and pretty much buy some players. I know he finds that unpalatable but these are the times and this is the reality. |
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Post by bsu0 on Jan 7, 2024 12:08:55 GMT -6
We do not have a chance in any sport save Volleyball. Give it up guys.
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Post by redbirdman on Jan 7, 2024 12:12:41 GMT -6
Cardfan agree with the post. I also think the team yesterday played as though they were tuned out or worn out. CMU is no doubt one of the worst league teams. Therefore losing to them at home leads to the conclusion we need to reevaluate our team for the rest of the seasons games. I think this morning that we will be hard pressed to win a road game in the MAC. Finishing .500 for the year looks like a mountain. I would be happy to have both Cleary & Bumalough on the bench right now over what we have. Scariest rhing is this not so much the coach as it is we just don't have the players to win in the MAC this year.
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Post by thebsukid on Jan 7, 2024 13:07:29 GMT -6
Reevo, you are on the mark!
My Gosh we are soft!!
Hopefully, we lose 4-5 sitting on the bench and are non stop recruiting to the extent possible.
I’m not sure the Knight way of Coaching kids works in these times; I hope Im wrong.
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Post by lmills72 on Jan 7, 2024 13:54:11 GMT -6
Scariest rhing is this not so much the coach as it is we just don't have the players to win in the MAC this year. The coach is responsible for obtaining those players. My hope would be that Lewis was overconfident in his ability and that of his staff to "coach players up" and thought he could actually change their mentality and win with this group, and that he is sadly realizing the error of that line of thought and can correct it in coming seasons. If he cannot, it will be a relatively short stay in Muncie for Coach Lewis, although I figure he's got a minimum of 2 more seasons to fix things if he can. |
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Post by coastalcard on Jan 7, 2024 14:45:35 GMT -6
You cant push buttons that are not there we've got the 5 we have and middleton/hendricks. Thats it..... Ride or Die You’re not wrong. I will say this; I’m betting Lewis takes steps to have a much different roster next year, one way or another. If he doesn’t he’s toast. And I’m betting some guys will walk on their own. The key? He’s GOT to raise money for NIL and pretty much buy some players. I know he finds that unpalatable but these are the times and this is the reality. We have just enough money to be half-assed at both major sports That’s why Indiana State, Butler, Evansville…..are leaving us behind. |
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Post by prestonp on Jan 7, 2024 15:19:52 GMT -6
If our bench is any evidence, I think the recruiting plan needs seriously reevaluated.
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Post by 00hmh on Jan 7, 2024 15:29:15 GMT -6
You cant push buttons that are not there we've got the 5 we have and middleton/hendricks. Thats it..... Ride or Die I will say this; I’m betting Lewis takes steps to have a much different roster next year, one way or another. The two recruits already mentioned look like they would add significant athletic ability, might play bigger than current bench players for sure.
A year would also make some difference with even the same players, worst cases we might see the kind of modest difference we see with Hendricks. That would not be enough. Even with a lot of improvement in the smarts department.
I am optimistic about change with Doughty, Jones, Brown, and maybe Bell who all could physically be better, that should make a bigger difference than with Hendricks since they all start out with a reasonable amount of talent.
Seems very likely though we'll see a couple move on. Right now, Adams and Bell and Hendricks. Watt unless he's going for a doctorate.
Lewis if he gets that NIL will be after that one more difference maker, we have so often missed on. Without getting NIL...
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Post by Lurkin McGurkin on Jan 8, 2024 7:53:11 GMT -6
If you're going to recruit kids that are smaller, less athletic, and less talented, they'd better be pit bulls.
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