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C Kaleb "Bully" Wesson ('18 All B1G Freshman, '19 Honorable Mention All B1G, '20 2nd Team All B1G)

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I guess his teammates had to get on him at halftime last night
In the locker room, the upperclassmen like senior C.J. Jackson voiced frustrations with the way the team was playing, especially Wesson.

“I had to get chewed out a couple of times,” Wesson said. “It’s not something I like, I expect it to happen, but sometimes when you get chewed out it just lights something in you. I feel like once that happened to me I just had to step up.”

The team and the coaches — according to Wesson — challenged him to take over the game in the second half and that is exactly what he did. He put together a 26-point second half — the first 25-plus half since D’Angelo Russell in 2015 — making all eight of his shot attempts and made 10 of 11 free throws.
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Kaleb Wesson’s career night provides bright spot for No. 15 Ohio State basketball
 
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Please quit fouling! You usually are the biggest person on the court and officials can see you even if they are looking the other way. You are no good to your teammates sitting on the bench. I know some of the calls are cheap fouls but you are getting a reputation and officials are not going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Also, please tell your brother that he is not a ballhandler.
 
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We're at the point that other teams are literally running stuff to create contact with Kaleb just to see if they will get the calls to go their way.

It's difficult because this team needs to hang their hat on defense so we can't really tell Kaleb to be a matador out there, but he definitely can't be the bull or even the wall. Maybe Holtmann needs to look at some zone packages.
 
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*Sophomore center Kaleb Wesson has been in foul trouble in each of the last three games, and Holtmann said he’s addressed it with “the powers that be” in the Big Ten.

“I don’t want to get into the specifics, but I’ve made my feelings known in a variety of ways,” he said. ”(I’ve) tried to communicate my concerns at how I think he is being officiated and how I don’t think there is always, there’s no question that he has fouled at times I don’t think every one of them has been a foul. I also think he’s being held and grabbed way too much at the other end. People talk about freedom of movement for drivers, there’s times he can’t move. He should be given the same amount of freedom at the other end.

“Having said that, we bear responsibility making sure Kaleb’s fundamentals are absolutely on point. The other day, he still played with two fouls in the first half and I don’t know how much it limited us as a team. I think in other games, it has. That’s not the reason we lost the game the other day. But I’m disappointed with a few things on that, but we’ve got to take accountability for it, we’ve got to coach him better and he’s got to respond.”

Holtmann later added that both coach and player are frustrated with how games have been called against Wesson.

*Ideally, Holtmann said 26-28 minutes on a given night would be ideal for Wesson given how much the Buckeyes ask him to do at both ends of the court.

https://www.buckeyextra.com/sports/...s-frustration-with-foul-calls-on-kaleb-wesson
 
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Unfortunately, I think he's still just not quite strong enough, especially on the defensive end. He can sometimes get his And-1 opportunity on the Offensive end but I haven't seen him really push someone around or make a player shy away on the other end. He has got to improve his vertical and foot quickness so he can stay out of foul trouble.

I think he's on the right track, but considering his body coming in, he had a long way to go. Just got to keep working and by next year should be First Team All Conference with the crew coming in and that should be a very solid group
 
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teams can't do what they are currently doing to Wesson if perimeter guys knock down shots. When that changes, the way teams guard Kaleb will change.
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Agree but the perimeter guys also have to put themselves in a spot where it is easier for Wesson to get the ball to them and he has to do a better job of passing the ball and not holding it so much.
I think Holtmann is really going to bat for Wesson but Kaleb still keeps committing what I think are just stupid fouls. He is a big person and I think he has to realize that. Officials are always going to see him first because of his body size. I know that it is not fair but he has come to that realization and try to play with a little more finesse.
Also, he should only be allotted one 3 point attempt a game(I do not care if he makes it or not) and the remainder of the time he should be down around where most big guys are playing.
 
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*Sophomore center Kaleb Wesson has been in foul trouble in each of the last three games, and Holtmann said he’s addressed it with “the powers that be” in the Big Ten.

“I don’t want to get into the specifics, but I’ve made my feelings known in a variety of ways,” he said. ”(I’ve) tried to communicate my concerns at how I think he is being officiated and how I don’t think there is always, there’s no question that he has fouled at times I don’t think every one of them has been a foul. I also think he’s being held and grabbed way too much at the other end. People talk about freedom of movement for drivers, there’s times he can’t move. He should be given the same amount of freedom at the other end.

“Having said that, we bear responsibility making sure Kaleb’s fundamentals are absolutely on point. The other day, he still played with two fouls in the first half and I don’t know how much it limited us as a team. I think in other games, it has. That’s not the reason we lost the game the other day. But I’m disappointed with a few things on that, but we’ve got to take accountability for it, we’ve got to coach him better and he’s got to respond.”

Holtmann later added that both coach and player are frustrated with how games have been called against Wesson.

*Ideally, Holtmann said 26-28 minutes on a given night would be ideal for Wesson given how much the Buckeyes ask him to do at both ends of the court.

https://www.buckeyextra.com/sports/...s-frustration-with-foul-calls-on-kaleb-wesson
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Holtmann has really gone to the mat for Kaleb and I think it is about time for Wesson to start playing smarter and to quit thinking that he is always getting the bad side of calls. I think most of the calls have gone against Wesson but he has just got to play smarter if he knows he has not going to get the benefit of the doubt.
 
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CHRIS HOLTMANN HAS DISCUSSED OFFICIATING OF KALEB WESSON WITH “THE POWERS THAT BE”
Colin Hass-Hill on January 27, 2019 at 3:48 pm @chasshill
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Kaleb Wesson has always struggled to avoid foul trouble. As a freshman, he averaged 2.8 personal fouls per game and fouled out five times.

Early this season, Wesson seemed to show improvements by picking up either two or three fouls in the first six games of the season, never reaching four or five fouls. Since then, though, he has progressively fouled more frequently. Wesson has had just one game with two fouls in the past 13 games. He has picked up four fouls in eight of those 13 games and fouled out in losses to Michigan State and Purdue.

Wesson averages 3.4 fouls per game and picked up an average of 4.2 fouls during Ohio State's five-game losing streak that spanned nearly a month before the team's 70-60 win against Nebraska on Saturday.

Following the Buckeyes' loss to Iowa, Chris Holtmann said he talked to “the powers that be” in the Big Ten about the way Wesson had been officiated in the past three games, during which he played 78 minutes and had 13 combined fouls.

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About a week-and-a half later, Wesson found himself in foul trouble against Purdue. Even Boilermakers head coach Matt Painter said it was obvious that Wesson "didn't get a good whistle," noting "you could say we were fortunate for that."

"Kaleb Wesson's a really good player," Painter said after Purdue's win against the Buckeyes. "We were just trying to double him whenever he got the basketball, and we knew if we didn't get a good, quick double, he was a good passer also, and he could find people. We just wanted to get him out of rhythm, not let him get going. We were fortunate he got a couple tough calls."

Purdue executed a similar strategy that other teams have used successfully against Ohio State. It double-teamed Wesson, forcing him to either beat two defenders, commit an offensive foul or throw the ball back outside. The Buckeyes don't have an abundance of knockdown 3-point shooters, though, making the kick-out pass from Wesson less effective. Opponents haven't wanted to leave Wesson alone against a single defender, instead opting to force other players to beat them.

Wesson picked up his second foul late in the first half against Purdue, which neither he nor Holtmann agreed with.

"I just adamantly disagreed with the call," Holtmann said after the loss to Purdue. "We work on verticality every day. I've had conversations with the powers that be about the way we've been specifically, or Kaleb in particular. You've got to move on from those situations. I wish I wouldn't have got the technical. But I just didn't think it was the right call."

Frustration from both Wesson and Holtmann has been readily apparent as the 6-foot-9, 270-pound forward has dealt with officiating neither has agreed with.

Even though Holtmann said he had "some additional conversations" with higher-ups about the calls, he said Wesson needed to learn to play with more discipline.

"He wants to play and wants to have an impact," Holtmann said on Friday. "I think he's a big guy that is an easy target. If you talk to Kaleb, he'll say, 'Yeah, I've got to do better at fouling less.' He'll tell you that. But I think that he was frustrated with a couple of those calls. We all were. We all, as I told him, have to handle our emotions better, including the coach. That's our response. We have to respond better to those situations across the board, coach and players."

Holtmann added: "I think that we're going to continue to express our feelings and fight for those things that we feel like need to be addressed, but we've got to control what we can control, and that is how disciplined we are in our play in those situations. So, that's our challenge. We'll continue to express our feelings, and I've done that post-Purdue. But bottom line, we have to control what we control right now."

https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio...ating-of-kaleb-wesson-with-the-powers-that-be
 
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