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2013-14 Ohio State Men's Basketball (Official Thread)

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Forget about a first round bye in the B1G and seeding in the NCAAs, this team is currently playing where none of that will matter. Shooting and rebounding are not at a level where one can reasonably expect to be a threat to win anything, and time is running short. :getout:

Come on, Buckeyes.
 
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LitlBuck said:
Why does Ohio State men's basketball struggle against zone defenses?

Some of the comments made by Craft, Scott, and Matta in this article are just unbelievable. Lack of concentration. Not every player running the same set, not looking at the basket, and even untied shoes contributing to the struggle. If they do not have this figured out by now, it is going to be a quick ending to the season.
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Wow, can't believe they actually said that out loud. Shoe laces threw the offense off? :slappy:Sounds like something a 3rd grade rec league coach would say. The players and the staff especially need to look in the mirror and stop making lame excuses.
 
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lord vegas said:
Wow, can't believe they actually said that out loud. Shoe laces threw the offense off? :slappy:Sounds like something a 3rd grade rec league coach would say. The players and the staff especially need to look in the mirror and stop making lame excuses.
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Sounds more like Matta was calling out his shoe-tying players, for wasting possessions when they can't afford to be doing that.

"We had a guy stop and tie his shoe twice (during the Penn State game)," Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. "We didn't start our offense until there was 22 seconds on the (shot) clock, and we had wasted possessions on those two possessions."
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BayBuck said:
Sounds more like Matta was calling out his shoe-tying players, for wasting possessions when they can't afford to be doing that.
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HenryMuto said:
If Nebraska wins at Indiana tonight that would really sum up this season. Remember when Ohio State beat Nebraska by 31 earlier this year ? Sure feels like a 100 years ago.
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At the end of that day in which OSU beat Nebraska by 31, OSU was 15-0 and ranked #3. Nebraska was 8-6 and, of course, unranked.

At the end of the regular season, Nebraska will likely have a better record in the Big Ten than OSU (and, at worst, they'll have the same conference record).
 
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LitlBuck said:
Why does Ohio State men's basketball struggle against zone defenses?

Some of the comments made by Craft, Scott, and Matta in this article are just unbelievable. Lack of concentration. Not every player running the same set, not looking at the basket, and even untied shoes contributing to the struggle. If they do not have this figured out by now, it is going to be a quick ending to the season.
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Comments aside, the bottom line is poor perimeter shooting. The Buckeyes shoot 33.3% from behind the arc. That is 223rd in the country. I don't know why every team doesn't zone us for 40 minutes and dare us to shoot them out of it.
 
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HenryMuto said:
If Nebraska wins at Indiana tonight that would really sum up this season. Remember when Ohio State beat Nebraska by 31 earlier this year ? Sure feels like a 100 years ago.
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You get caught up in one game samples. Their very next game Nebraska lost by ONE to Michigan, and they've now won 10 B1G games. So were they really as bad as they looked against us the first time? Then again, you were shocked we didn't blow scUM off the floor after they lost to Iowa, even though the Vulvarines were 3 games ahead of us in the B1G standings at the time.
 
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no arguments with this but I found the stat below pretty interesting. We have to play solid defense with lots of intensity and get some points from Q and I guess that makes sense.
Q and D: Ohio State won't go anywhere in the postseason unless LaQuinton Ross and the defense are both great
The numbers don’t exactly bear it out. LaQuinton Ross (Q) averaged 17.3 points per game in the Buckeyes’ eight Big Ten losses this season and 15.3 points in the Buckeyes’ 10 Big Ten wins. Ohio State lost when he scored 22 against Iowa and Minnesota and won when he scored 9 against Illinois and the Golden Gophers the second time.
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