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Yertle
Pounding out aggression, turns into obsession
I made this minor complaint last year as well... the schedule should be "stickied". I hate to ask for a link to the schedule thread (out of pure fear that I'll be torn apart for my poor search function skills), and it's difficult to stay focused enough to sift through the pages of threads (yes, ADD is something I'm very familiar with).
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
Head-scratching
Reading our Blue Jackets blog today got me wondering whether Thad Matta might like to make a trade about now. Or call someone up from his minor-league affiliate and send someone else down for more seasoning.
Alas, Matta has to play the hand he dealt himself. That?s the way it goes in college. Even mid-season transfers can?t help you until a year from now.
In the meantime, Matta and the rest of Buckeye Nation can only hope that his track record holds and this team plays better in February than it is in December,
because a week of practice didn?t yield much apparent improvement offensively in an underwhelming 47-39 win over Coppin State on Monday night.
In their eighth game of the season, the Buckeyes attacked Coppin State?s zone nowhere near as well as they did Syracuse?s in their third game three weeks ago. Gapping the zone with dribble penetration seemed a lost art to them until P.J. Hill gave his teammates a refresher course. There wasn?t any sign of passing into and out of the zone, either. Rather, the Buckeyes dished the ball around the arc until someone found enough space to launch a three. They launched 22, more than half their shots for the game. Against Syracuse, threes accounted for about a third of their shots.
The Buckeyes have scored fewer than 50 points three times in their past five games, and 55 in a fourth. That?s unprecedented for Ohio State in the era of the shot clock, which was introduced in 1985. You have to go back to February 1949 for the last time the Buckeyes scored 40-something at least three times in five games.
Ken Pomeroy, a stats whiz who crunches numbers on his Web site to come up with any number of rankings, has the Buckeyes ranked 213 of 341 Division I teams in offensive efficiency. Their lowest ranking in Matta?s previous three seasons was 67th in 2004-05. Last season they were fourth.
What this searching, not-too-confident team needs right now is easy baskets. There was talk before the season that the Buckeyes? athleticism would enable them to score more in transition. But that hasn?t happened. Forgotten in the discussion was that the defensive rebound must be secured before the fast break begins. Through seven games, opponents are averaging nearly 15 offensive rebounds per game. They routinely slip inside their Ohio State counterparts for second-chance opportunities.
That has to change. A lot has to change. But the cast won?t change. That?s the way it goes in college.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
Never Forget 31-0
Dispatch
December 14, 2007
Early wakeup calls ahead
The Buckeyes have their three earliest tipoffs of the season in their next six games.
Today?s noon start against Presbyterian in Value City Arena is the first time they?ve played before 7 p.m. They also play host to Maryland-Baltimore County at 11 a.m. Dec.29 and to Northwestern at noon Jan.6.
Will they be up, regardless of the early hour?
Othello Hunter thinks they will, if for no other reason, he said, than the fact they were not up for Coppin State on Monday night. That was their first game in nine days, and their first since finishing fall-quarter final exams. They won 47-39, the fewest points Ohio State has scored in a win in 26 years.
?The game felt kind of weird,? he said. ?This game . . . won?t be as weird.?
?When we played Coppin State, we played to their standards, we didn?t play our basketball at all. We didn?t run the floor hard, our offense seemed it was delayed. That?s not how we usually play. We usually play up and down, at a fast pace.?
A faster pace might be a welcome change. You can read more about that in The Dispatch on Saturday.
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jimotis4heisman
Banned
through the game friday night...
just some random thoughts/discussion points since i havent been around much lately.
a couple of tidbits for thought, i am not going to get all baseball on you guys but...
if you watch mattas team he likes to play about 65 possessions a game, 21% of these end in turnovers this year...
koufus ends the possession 28% of the time when on the floor(missed shot other team rebound, made basket, turnover, offensive foul etc), he takes 35.1% of all shots while he is on the floor.
this team is shooting about 53% adjusted from the field (1.5 factor for 3 balls) [this is dead on with his % since hes been here] (37% of shots are three balls) [1% of the matta norm]
26% of the time lighty has a change of possession playa are turnovers, turner is 36%
63% of all fgs have been assisted
eff fg %s
butler 60
kk 57
hunter 53
lighty 52
turner 50
diebler 29
2 players on this team are doing better than 66% from the ft line...
just some random thoughts/discussion points since i havent been around much lately.
a couple of tidbits for thought, i am not going to get all baseball on you guys but...
if you watch mattas team he likes to play about 65 possessions a game, 21% of these end in turnovers this year...
koufus ends the possession 28% of the time when on the floor(missed shot other team rebound, made basket, turnover, offensive foul etc), he takes 35.1% of all shots while he is on the floor.
this team is shooting about 53% adjusted from the field (1.5 factor for 3 balls) [this is dead on with his % since hes been here] (37% of shots are three balls) [1% of the matta norm]
26% of the time lighty has a change of possession playa are turnovers, turner is 36%
63% of all fgs have been assisted
eff fg %s
butler 60
kk 57
hunter 53
lighty 52
turner 50
diebler 29
2 players on this team are doing better than 66% from the ft line...
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jimotis4heisman;1033755; said:
Thats freaking pathetic. No excuse whatsoever for that type of percentage.
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crazybuckfan40
Head Coach
Bestbuck36;1033934; said:
The problem is they aren't attacking the hoop to get to the line...
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