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You can't overlook The Schott factor. It's a bland, cookie cutter and thoroughly mediocre arena for basketball (and much worse for hockey). Even during the height of the Thad era, it never had a fraction of the environment that St John did.
It's like we're trying our best to further announce we don't care about basketball in Columbus smh. I think back to when I was at Ohio State when there was so much (deserved) excitement with Matta and players like Sully, Craft, Thomas, etc...the student section and fans were doing much better in terms of attendance and most, but it seems like that was short lived. Can't really blame anyone at this point though, there's a chance I might just go to the RPAC instead to lift and chase some Lulu Lemon wearing college girls (assuming we turn back the time).
But aside from that, glad to get a win at home. Who knows, maybe we can fart our way into the Tourney somehow. Even if it's a one and done, I see another NIT appearance being a near death sentence for Diebler's career here. Maybe this win gets us there if we can pull off an upset or two in the conference tourney.
Good resilience at the end to hang and and pull it out when they got it close again. Gonna need to clean up the sloppy starts down the stretch but they keep keeping themselves above water.
They only have like 2 guys that seem to under stand dribble or immediately pass forward to break the press don't sit holding the ball and let the trap come to you. And have been awful at getting good shots out of stall ball for years
French judge fucked our Ice Dancing team by giving the US their lowest scores and the Frog/Surrender Monkeys their highest (8 fucking points higher than any other judge).
2 things have changed recently with this team that have ignited their confidence and overall play.
1. Obviously the Harder trade had been an Offensive spark and the whole roster had been affected.
2. The most significant in my opinion is that the play of the guys off the bench, Bryant and Tomlin, has lit a phenomenal fire in Jarrett Allen. Dude is playing angry and nowhere near the soft stuff we've seen from him in playoffs. If that continues there is a real Finals chance for this team.
Staying healthy has always been this teams issue but the bench just may finally be good enough to make it work.
It doesn’t hurt their entire strategy going into season was to treat the regular season at a different “level” so they’re fresher going into playoffs.
THAT is the biggest difference. It was an organizational decision to NOT prioritize winning the East. They decided being “healthy and fresh” was more important.
Good resilience at the end to hang and and pull it out when they got it close again. Gonna need to clean up the sloppy starts down the stretch but they keep keeping themselves above water.
Looking at the schedule, this next 5 games is where OSU really has to try and hold the line. Cannot afford a 5-game losing streak. Gonna be tough games here - UVA neutral, vs UW, @MSU, @Iowa, vs Purdue - all of those look like very difficult games for this team to win, but on the flip side they would all be in the quality win category if they manage to prevail.
