Northern Illinois at Ohio State, BTN, 12/16/15

[Bestbuck36]

Way too much standing around and watching. Either that or everyone ends up in the same 5 ft square and the other team is free to do whatever they want.

One thing that was totally pissing me off was the fact that several players were only half assing their picks for their teammates. Giddens sets his picks well, the others look like they don't really want to at all. Disliked that effort very much.

KBD's game is evolving and right now he's the best player on the floor for the Buckeyes. If Loving isnt hitting shots, he's not worth much on the floor unfortunately and he should be the leader. AJ is pretty short but the announcer hit the nail on the head yesterday about his game. He speeds the other team up so much that they make more mistakes. If we could only capitalize on that it might be worth it. Lyle, I can't see any of the hype that he's come in with. Not a PG in my opinion. Good to see Bell get some quality playing time as well. Would like to see Grandstaff on the floor more often with certain groups so he can get open looks.

I echo what I said earlier, and others said about Saturday, good day to do Christmas shopping.

 

[LitlBuck]

As others have stated, I really do not understand what is going on with Loving. If he is not hitting from the outside, he has semi-worthless. He tries the most crazy ass shots I have seen in a while. If you have the heart of Tate, maybe things would be different but he does not seem to even know what it rebound is and his defense certainly is not stellar. I would not mind Kam Williams getting more playing time because at least he shows some effort when he is out there.

Lyle also is a big concern of mine. He comes so highly touted but as yet to live up to his billing. Lyle makes lazy ass passes sometimes and seems unwilling to shoot the ball. I thought with all the accolades he was receiving that he would be a go to guy this season.Sometimes, I would almost rather see AJ Harris out there because at least he gets the ball up the court in a hurry and play some solid defense.

I do not know sometimes the whole team seems reluctant to take a wide-open shot and then have to settle for an acrobatic one. Also, if this team would play a little harder on defense they might be a little bit better. Hopefully as the season progresses, they will learn.

 

[DZ83CK]

Lyle's careless play with the ball at times is extremely frustrating, I will say that. This team clearly needs to move him off the ball.

 

[dragurd]

Lyle's careless play with the ball at times is extremely frustrating, I will say that. This team clearly needs to move him off the ball.

Here's the problem with that. In most of the games AJ Harris hasn't been much more than a PJ Hill style energy so if you move him off ball who plays PG? And even if that's Harris you can't go with Harris 40 mins a game every game.