He also mentioned the fact that he was the #1 overall pick in the NBA and was at the time the highest paid player in the history of professional sports. What a pretentious jerk.
While we're on the subject, I don't know why ESPN had Walton on the game anyway. His 10 minutes of diatribe entirely distracted the viewer from the game. It was almost as if at halftime the ESPN brass thought that the game was such a blowout that no one would care about the lack of color commentary, but instead everyone would be more interested in Walton's thoughts about Oden. ESPN gets a grade of F for its coverage of that game last night.
did you ever see walton play in college? wowzers....
lots of stuff a lot of repeats if you ask me.
the ranking, i believe mili drilled on how is this team #2. thats the way it was voted. and in all reality they backed into the ranking the same way the football team backed into the #1 ranking. we havent played a real solid opponent in a month... the same way the football team beat 1 team with a winning record after the first month of the season...
settling for shots. when quick shots fall its great, when they dont you can give up points the other way or feast of offensive rebounds. thats what im seeing a lot of as the season progresses our quick shots are turning into oppurtunities on the other end of the floor.
living by the 3 and dieing by the 3. 7 of 14 then 2 of 11. i think a lot of this is shot selection. sure they went cold but we settled for average looks. when things stop falling i see it as two options, you can try and shoot out of a slump or try and get to the rim get layups, get fts. we settled, forcing a perm game rather than working inside outside we stuck with outside game. im not saying you have to force feed oden, but get him the ball and let him pass it. or as hes doubled get a swing pass and penetrate. this team has a handful of guys who can do that. and once you get in the 7 or 8 feet range dont throw up some garbage floater off balance. pull up, make another pass or continue to the rim...
slump or wall. ive said it the last 2 or 3 games. whens the slump a slump or is it the wall?
rebounding, plus 3.... id like to see that number increase greatly against a psu caliber team.
trap game. won 10 in a row vs lost 9 in a row... it had all the makings for a lax showing.
points off tos, penn state killed us in the second half with pts of tos 12 to 1. throw in points off bad looks that went the other way for points and that number is close to doubled...
0. number of second half second chance points
14 to 2. fast break points in favor of psu in the second half
12 the number of points psu's bench outscored osu bench in the second half
cook only attempted one shot in the second half after what i felt offensively was a great half, as he gave turned the ball over 3 times.
5 number of fts in the second half. which plays into my settling for shots and poor shot selection ideas listed above.
ive got so much to say, but ive hit all the things ive wanted to say in previous games.
the upsides, a w is a w. who knows how much time is being spent on prep for psu, you really have no idea how well they were scouted. likely a lot of time is being spent on putting in new sets and looks for the tourneys and for uw. with a team like this every game is a learning experience. they never quit and gritted through it and pulled out the w. i see tons of things that they can work on and and the ability to refocus themselves after a game like this.
