2024-2025 Ohio State Men's Basketball

[DZ83CK]

The Autopsy: Five areas where Ohio State men’s basketball fell short​

Diving into what actually held Ohio State back this season.

No. 1 - Poor evaluation of the transfer portal​

No. 2 – They were a very bad rebounding team​

No. 3 -Ohio State fouled at a near-historic rate​

No. 4 - They did not share the ball well enough​

No. 5 - Lack of urgency​

.
.
.
continued

The reality that this team was basically built to foul a lot is the most stupefying part of it. The reality of the situation is you will foul when you are undersized in the post & not just letting the other team have easy baskets, which all was amplified by recruiting not one but TWO HIGHLY foul-prone frontcourt players through the transfer portal. Your defense shouldn't have to be forced to foul a lot just to keep trying to have some pressure on the opposing offense. Having a team that was foul-prone has the butterfly effect of putting yourself in foul trouble late in the game, forcing some of your better players to the bench and putting the opponent on the foul line for easy points, which makes it incredibly hard to win games that are close at the end.

 

[calibuck]

kinda always thought that's why they are called 'free throws'. And yeah, there were three hatchet men (centers) on last year's Buckeye men's team. Best they could do was push and shove, and otherwise disrupt the other team's big. If one cannot out-talent them, gotta out muscle them. PS, have y'all noticed that when game gets tight, opponents have their best free throw shooter keep the ball? So when the foul ultimately occurs, it's almost a guaranteed two points, which forces tOSU to put up a desperate three in order to gain ground. Not a winning combination, methinks.

 

[Bestbuck36]

Wasn't one of our collectives supposed to concentrate on basketball??