• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

2014-2015 B1G Men's Basketball

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
MaxBuck said:
I don't see much difference in the Wildcats under Carmody and the Wildcats under Collins.

Carmody's conference win% over 13 years was .318; Collins's is .333. No reason to wax rhapsodic over Collins quite yet.
Click to expand...

Yeah, achieving a conference win streak in his SECOND YEAR that Carmody didn't achieve once in THIRTEEN SEASONS really pales in comparison to Collins' inability to win a lot more B1G games than Carmody with the same scrub players Carmody put on the team. :sarcastic:

The way Northwestern plays offensively is vastly different. The stall ball game that Carmody ran was not pleasant to anybody, not fans watching it, not players executing it, and talented recruits obviously didn't want to be a part of it.
 
Upvote 0
DZ83CK said:
Yeah, achieving a conference win streak in his SECOND YEAR that Carmody didn't achieve once in THIRTEEN SEASONS really pales in comparison to Collins' inability to win a lot more B1G games than Carmody with the same scrub players Carmody put on the team. :sarcastic:
Click to expand...
I don't gauge competency or performance in terms of short win streaks. Like I said, so far his winning percentage approximates Carmody's. If Collins is able to build on this streak and develop a consistently good team (which for most other schools would be described as "mediocre"), then I'll change my opinion. But it's way too early to do that.
 
Upvote 0
Here is how we can still get #3 seed for Big 10 tournament

Ohio State wins vs Purdue, wins @Penn St, wins vs Wisconsin (12-6)
Purdue losses @ Ohio St, loses 1 of @ Michigan St or vs Illinois (12-6)
Michigan State losses @Wisconsin, loses @ Ind (11-7)
Iowa loses @ Ind or vs NW (11-7)

Ohio State wins tie breaker over Purdue (1-1 H2H and OSU 1-0 vs Wisky, Purdue 0-1 vs Wisky)

Wisky #1
Maryland #2
Ohio State #3
Purdue #4
 
Upvote 0
With a week left, I think it is as good a time as any to predict what we will see and what our own opinions are for All-Conference. My selections lean more towards advanced stats and conference record/stats.

Player of the Year - Frank Kaminsky. This should be unanimous.

Coach of the Year - Mark Turgeon. I assume he will win since Maryland was predicted to be a middle-of-the-pack team. Purdue lost to Gardner-Webb and North Florida, which will really hurt Painter's chances.

Freshman of the Year - D'Angelo Russell. Again, this should be unanimous.

Defensive Player of the Year - AJ Hammons. Purdue has the best defense in the league and Hammons leads the league in blocks. I'm not crazy about the fact Hammons only plays 60% of Purdue's minutes, but I don't see any other obvious candidates.

Sixth Man of the Year - I think this is kind of a dumb award. I can't even find accurate stats for games started, so I don't know who the candidates are. If Troy Williams hasn't started many games, he would be my winner. If Williams has started most games, Gabe Olaseni is the other name that comes to mind.

First Team
Frank Kaminsky
D'Angelo Russell
Aaron White
Yogi Ferrell
DJ Newbill

Second Team
Nigel Hayes
Melo Trimble
Sam Dekker
Denzel Valentine
Dez Wells

Third Team
Travis Trice
Jarrod Uthoff
Troy Williams
James Blackmon
Malcolm Hill

All Defense
AJ Hammons
Branden Dawson
Sam Thompson
Shannon Scott
Nnanna Egwu

All Freshman
D'Angelo Russell
Melo Trimble
James Blackmon
Bryant McIntosh
Nate Mason
 
Upvote 0
Bucky32 said:
With a week left, I think it is as good a time as any to predict what we will see and what our own opinions are for All-Conference. My selections lean more towards advanced stats and conference record/stats.

Player of the Year - Frank Kaminsky. This should be unanimous.

Coach of the Year - Mark Turgeon. I assume he will win since Maryland was predicted to be a middle-of-the-pack team. Purdue lost to Gardner-Webb and North Florida, which will really hurt Painter's chances.

Freshman of the Year - D'Angelo Russell. Again, this should be unanimous.

Defensive Player of the Year - AJ Hammons. Purdue has the best defense in the league and Hammons leads the league in blocks. I'm not crazy about the fact Hammons only plays 60% of Purdue's minutes, but I don't see any other obvious candidates.

Sixth Man of the Year - I think this is kind of a dumb award. I can't even find accurate stats for games started, so I don't know who the candidates are. If Troy Williams hasn't started many games, he would be my winner. If Williams has started most games, Gabe Olaseni is the other name that comes to mind.

First Team
Frank Kaminsky
D'Angelo Russell
Aaron White
Yogi Ferrell
DJ Newbill

Second Team
Nigel Hayes
Melo Trimble
Sam Dekker
Denzel Valentine
Dez Wells

Third Team
Travis Trice
Jarrod Uthoff
Troy Williams
James Blackmon
Malcolm Hill

All Defense
AJ Hammons
Branden Dawson
Sam Thompson
Shannon Scott
Nnanna Egwu

All Freshman
D'Angelo Russell
Melo Trimble
James Blackmon
Bryant McIntosh
Nate Mason
Click to expand...
That is an excellent post and I do not agree with hardly anything except maybe for the Coach of the Year. I think everyone expected Maryland to be one of the top three teams in the conference this year so I would almost go with Painter because not many people were expecting Purdue to do very much this year but I doubt if either Painter or Turgeon win this award because it seems like a lot of commentators are in love with the job Tommy has done at Indiana which I do not understand at all.

I also might have Sam Decker on the All-Defense team but I am not sure who I would take off may be one of the Buckeyes.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top