Ohio State Basketball Official Thread

• DeyDurkie5

  

  Classyposter58;1567553 wrote:Matta has never been a big presser because we had basketball teams that only had 6-7 man rotations that would have been dead if they did that for 40 minutes. And also who says it needs to be a press, just do a full court man to man or trap, but a lot of pressure needs to be kept on

  So...press them?
• Laley23

  

  lol. Full court anything, including man to man or trap (honestly, thats 2 of 3 things you could do lol), is a press.
• Classyposter58

  

  Laley23;1567701 wrote:lol. Full court anything, including man to man or trap (honestly, thats 2 of 3 things you could do lol), is a press.

  Yeah but not a hard one ya know?
• vball10set

  Classyposter58;1567815 wrote:Yeah but not a hard one ya know?

  
  twss
• centralbucksfan

  I rarely have missed an OSU game either on TV or at the game. And if you watch, Matta/OSU on occasion, do press and do put on token pressure full court. Craft and/or Scott are up the court doing so when the opportunity is there.
  Don't get too caught up in what goes on when a team/OSU is down and make a comeback by doing the press. Its the nature of the game that one team with a big lead lets up, and the other team has that sense of urgency. Which then leads to a comeback. Unfortunatley, if we had stats to show, when a team is down big, they rarely end up winning the game.
• se-alum

  

  Gotta get this one tonight.
• se-alum

  

  ADV with a bone bruise on his knee, will it take him over a month to recover?
• Mulva

  

  Ugly game so far.
• se-alum

  

  This offense is so bad against the zone. Not only do we not have anyone that can hit the 3, but we don't have anyone that consistently make a shot in the paint.
• Automatik

  

  Imagine if our offense wasn't mud.
• Fly4Fun

  

  se-alum;1568065 wrote:This offense is so bad against the zone. Not only do we not have anyone that can hit the 3, but we don't have anyone that consistently make a shot in the paint.

  It's so painful to watch us play against the zone... I want to gouge my eyes out.
  
  At least we had a mini run to close out the half.
• wildcats20

  

  Ugly basketball.
• se-alum

  

  Zero confidence that Shannon Scott will ever make a layup when he's on the break. Terrible for a PG to be that bad in transition.
• Terry_Tate

  

  Way too many turnovers for a veteran team. Some of them are just unreal bad by Scott, Craft, and Lenzelle.
• Terry_Tate

  

  Q is having himself a game though.
• wildcats20

  

  Stay classy there Minny.
• Terry_Tate

  

  Fuck Minnesota. Still pissed about the brawl in 1972.
• se-alum

  

  Fuck Shannon Scott. He's been terrible the last two games.
• Terry_Tate

  

  What the fuck is going on with Shannon Scott? He isn't aggressive at all like he was a few weeks ago. And these turnovers, fuck man.
• se-alum

  

  Terry_Tate;1568102 wrote:What the fuck is going on with Shannon Scott? He isn't aggressive at all like he was a few weeks ago. And these turnovers, fuck man.

  Probably not aggressive because he knows he can't make a fucking layup.
• Terry_Tate

  

  And this is blasphemy but is Aaron Craft the most overrated player in college basketball? Great defender, but he does not help this offense at all. I'm a little pissed off tonight.
• Terry_Tate

  

  se-alum;1568104 wrote:Probably not aggressive because he knows he can't make a fucking layup.

  He's a good distributor though, he came alive at the end of the MSU game but other than that last 10 minutes he hasnt been himself since the game against Nebraska I believe.
• wildcats20

  

  Terry_Tate;1568106 wrote:And this is blasphemy but is Aaron Craft the most overrated player in college basketball? Great defender, but he does not help this offense at all. I'm a little pissed off tonight.

  He is a good player, nothing to get overly excited about anymore. He has his bright spots on O, but they have become few and far between. Teams have figured out that they don't have to extend out on him.
• wildcats20

  

  All that being said about Craft, you would be very hard pressed to find a better on ball defender in college basketball. The new rules haven't affected him at all.
• wildcats20

  

  Also, where the hell did Lenzelle Smith, Jr. go? Did he not make the trip?