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On the bright side, I could care less about the rest of the tourney now that our boys lost. Supposed to be in the 80’s this weekend in SC. Lots of outdoor projects I can start on. Good, not great season. Bruce, I hope you have an NBA future! The rest of the team, keep practicing, growing, and developing. Someone has big shoes to fill at point guard. TIL next year….
The fact anyone would willingly share made up shit and go "Well I'm sure somebody, somewhere, just HAS to be doing this" is... pretty fucking weird.
And to answer your question - It's possible to reconcile that mental health in this country is in a bad way; while not entertaining the bullshit of AI slop made by some geek in India or Russia.
Mobley just 3-11 from 3 this game which is not good. I wonder how he misses so many shots, it seems like every one is going to go in when he releases it, but 3-11 is not what the team needed today. Maybe he would shoot better if he slowed down a little.
Didn’t pony up the 600 or so to watch it live. Hell, thanks to a visit from our management team this week, I couldn’t even follow the game through the Score app. All I had to do is see how Mobley shot from 3 point land, and I could’ve told you we lost.
Let's see who we can keep. Mobley and Bynum will be getting recruited hard. We keep them and Thompson is what he's purported to be and we should have enough to improve a bit even without Bruce. I'm not sold on Diebler, but given his inexperience, and the improvement in intensity toward the end of this season, I haven't written him off yet either and hope he can show growth. I would love to see him add a wise old head to the staff to help him out with high-leverage situation play choice and design and substitutions, but my expectations are also dependent in part on the level of program commitment from the administration. When they played with intensity this season, they were really pretty good, but too much of the time they didn't have that intensity and situational IQ was lacking. Lots of games lost on the margins based on those issues. I really want to see a commitment to physicality and consistent intensity.
I still that was the last play they drew up. Defies logic. You got to throw that ball much farther ahead and find Mobley for the final shot. 4 seconds is not enough time for Bruce to go 94 feet.
Well you can't control whether the refs call fouls but I do fault this team for reliance on hero ball instead of teamwork. This is another reason lack of depth hurts, you can't leave guys on the bench if they aren't executing the gameplan.
The refs were complete dog shit down the stretch and TCU got away with a ton. HOWEVER like I keep saying, if the team were properly prepared and played somewhat like the 2nd half in the 1st half we win easily and the refs aren't even a factor
A lot of what happens next year depends on how they finish out the roster. I realize the results in the portal have been poor (for the most part) so far ... which begs the question, will Diebler get good players in the portal this season? I hate to say it, but with NIL being problematic, I am doubting them at this point. Most of the guys he's brought in through the portal have not been what the program needed, their best add this past season is Tilly who started and helped but not quite what they needed.
If it were Duke I could give the benefit of the doubt. But this is not an overly talented TCU, we are probably more talented overall. They had to have known they were going to pressure the ball and trap at all chances, and they looked like they never saw it coming.
Diebler is going to have to do something next year besides the bare minimum and beating Purdue to accomplish the bare minimum or he needs to go. They looked like they weren't going to make it at all and they ended up getting there so i'm not gonna say fire him now but it's games like this that don't have me overly optimistic that he's the guy to get us out of the funk.
I still that was the last play they drew up. Defies logic. You got to throw that ball much farther ahead and find Mobley for the final shot. 4 seconds is not enough time for Bruce to go 94 feet.
Well you can't control whether the refs call fouls but I do fault this team for reliance on hero ball instead of teamwork. This is another reason lack of depth hurts, you can't leave guys on the bench if they aren't executing the gameplan.
I get it, man. This is a very discouraging loss. All OSU had to do was play as a TEAM and operate with a strategy designed to play against TCU. Apparently Diebler thinks he can just coach his offense in every game. Nah, sometimes you have to work with what the opposing defense gives you. In this game, they give you pressure and you have to keep passing the ball until you get a wide-open shot. Obviously OSU allowed themselves to be held down offensively by failing to recognize the most basic game strategy here. And as a result, TCU is now 16-0 against teams held to 65 points or less.
I don't think Diebler even really has an established offensive identity, and that is a problem in its own right, he thinks he knows what he wants to do and tries it sometimes but too often it just ends up 5 guys trying to play 1 on 1 ball. When they actually played like a team this year the results were great, but it was not even close to consistent enough.
Edmunds had FOUR FOULS with 10 minutes left and not once did they attack him to get him out of the game. Then of course he hits the easy game winner. Another thing 100% on the coaching
If it were Duke I could give the benefit of the doubt. But this is not an overly talented TCU, we are probably more talented overall. They had to have known they were going to pressure the ball and trap at all chances, and they looked like they never saw it coming.
Diebler is going to have to do something next year besides the bare minimum and beating Purdue to accomplish the bare minimum or he needs to go. They looked like they weren't going to make it at all and they ended up getting there so i'm not gonna say fire him now but it's games like this that don't have me overly optimistic that he's the guy to get us out of the funk.
I get it, man. This is a very discouraging loss. All OSU had to do was play as a TEAM and operate with a strategy designed to play against TCU. Apparently Diebler thinks he can just coach his offense in every game. Nah, sometimes you have to work with what the opposing defense gives you. In this game, they give you pressure and you have to keep passing the ball until you get a wide-open shot. Obviously OSU allowed themselves to be held down offensively by failing to recognize the most basic game strategy here. And as a result, TCU is now 16-0 against teams held to 65 points or less.
The final minutes were pretty much a microcosm of some of the major lingering issues that still plague this program
Giving up shots that are way too easy way too often (TCU's last 2 buckets were a wide open 3 and that comically easy close put in for the winner) and the offense going cold for 3-5 minute spurts way too often, which of course happened in the closing minutes.
This man's whole career to this point is built off of beating Purdue and pretty much that alone.
I'll give the credit that he got them to the tourney when it looked like that wasn't going to happen at a point, but He's going to have to do something a lot more than the bare minimum next year (and of course beating Purdue to accomplish that) and the way he had the team completely unprepared for the first half of this game is not giving great confidence that he's going to be the guy to get us out of this funk.
Gopher fans are getting restless. If they're looking for a coach, I tend to think Muzzy is gone after the university has apparently punked her on the promised arena.
I have a feeling that the AD under the aggy is sliding back to where it was pre-Geiger where it was more than willing to accept mediocrity in everything except football.
That was a well-matched game. It came down to who had the ball on the last full possession. I would echo the sentiments that the final play was unacceptable. That can't be the effort for the last shot. Bruce couldn't dribble anywhere all game, and the play is for him to dribble? Come on now.
Hopefully, we have Mobley and Bynum back next year. Because those 2 have quickness to go along with talent.
