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Purdue 72, tOSU 80 (Final, OT)

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leroyjenkins;1398991; said:
JO4H, real question of this night....


did you watch Titus during the post game handshakes??
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I mentioned it in Titus's thread. Most guys just left there hand out there to be slapped, but one guy went all-out for the right-hand grab/left arm hug/chest bump.
 
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From Titus's blog : Club Trillion

I?ve noticed in my two and a half years of college basketball that nothing demonstrates the caste system on a basketball team quite like the post game handshakes with the opposition. In case you don?t quite follow, consider this. The only people that are allowed to do anything other than slap hands with the opposing players are the star players for each team. The star players always go through and do that handshake that looks like they are about to thumb-wrestle, followed by the leaning into each other to touch shoulders and then wrapping their arm that isn?t involved in the handshake around one another. If you still don?t know what I?m talking about, watch the post-game handshakes after any college basketball game and prepare to be blown away.

People like me who didn?t play or had very little to do with the game are nothing more than a stepping stone to that big embrace with Evan Turner at the end of the line. I plan on changing that. Starting tonight with our game against Purdue, I plan on going through the line and making it awkward times ten for everyone I shake hands with. I am going to do the regular handshake, but hold it for a moment too long while I do that one arm wrap around thing that the superstars always do. I will keep track of how many people give me the one arm embrace in return. If the player I am shaking hands with thinks ?Who does this guy think he is?? then I have successfully done my job. Hopefully I can average at least one a game, but I honestly have no idea what to expect. I?m just anxious for the inordinate amount of respect I will undoubtedly get.
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This team will win a lot of games when they only give up 2 offensive rebounds and shoot over 60%.

Going 32-53 against Purdue, who had been leading the natino in FG% defense, is a great effort.

If they can limit turnovers and shoot free throws consistently, they could make some noise in the postseason.
 
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BB73;1399015; said:
This team will win a lot of games when they only give up 2 offensive rebounds and shoot over 60%.

Going 32-53 against Purdue, who had been leading the natino in FG% defense, is a great effort.

If they can limit turnovers and shoot free throws consistently, they could make some noise in the postseason.
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Agree with everything you have said but our defense also needs to get better. It seems when our perimeter defense improves Ari interior defense suffers. One of the two big guys is going to have to step it up.
 
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Boilers Fan;1398621; said:
Yeah, but who knows. Him with a bad back, maybe he woulda got like 10-12 points and would have taken possessions away from JaJuan Johnson, who had a monster game. I know it's gotta be tough for him, (and the fans) because we're trying to win a Big 10 championship here and he's on the bench for a big game.

Lot of PU fans on our forums complaining about the no-call on Jackson's drive at the end of regulation. My thinking has always been, don't force the refs to make a call like that at the end, when you are on the road. Especially if it is Ed Hightower. Only way we are going to get a call is if Jackson dishes off to Johnson, and he goes up for a dunk and gets hammered or something. So you might as well try that, or like I said before get it in to him and let him try a turnaround jumper/turnaround jump hook, with his long arms.

Change of subject but was something wrong with Mullens? Seemed like he was out for a good portion of the 2nd half and for a good portion of OT. But he still had like 15 pts and a great shooting percentage. Glad we could do our part to hopefully help him jump to the NBA for next year. :)
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I don't think that Matta was very pleased with the way Mullens was playing defense against Johnson. He wasn't physical enough with Johnson and seem to get confused sometimes when playing the interior defense. He might be physically ready for the NBA but I'm not sure if he is tough enough for that style of play but I said the same thing last year about KK.

Tell your Boiler friends to quit complaining about the lack of a foul and the fact that Robbie did not play. I think you touched on something that if he had played that would have limited the number of touches that Johnson got.
 
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Dispatch

Tale of the tape: Purdue
Posted by Bob Baptist on February 4, 2009 4:41 PM

I?m back for now, and hopefully for the balance of the season, which took a turn for the better last night with the win over Purdue. But as coach Thad Matta reminded those who sensed a turning point at Michigan a few weeks ago, what the Buckeyes did last night won?t make much difference if they don?t do the same, at home again, Saturday night against Minnesota.

I didn?t cover the game but did watch it, formed some opinions, and rewatched it on tape today. Here?s what I saw:

- Purdue, for all its defensive prowess (No.1 nationally in field-goal percentage defense entering the game), had no one individually who could match up with Evan Turner, including last season?s Big Ten defensive player of the year, Chris Kramer. That was apparent from the outset of the game. Turner got to the basket at will and, with nine field goals and seven assists, had a hand in half of Ohio State?s 32 field goals.

- The one problem with Turner, and to a lesser extent William Buford, trying to create more for themselves as well as others is turnovers. In the past three games, each has more turnovers than assists, and the team?s turnovers are on an upswing because of it. The 19 turnovers against Purdue were one off the season high at Illinois.

At times, Turner and Buford get into trouble when they draw help and take the ball too far into the double-team instead of aborting the drive and passing to a teammate. Smarter decisions in those situations would help.

- Turner?s assist-to-turnover ratio could be an especially important stat down the stretch if, as he did Tuesday, Matta has him share more and more of the responsibility of bringing the ball upcourt against harassing man-to-man defense, which the Buckeyes figure to see out of Minnesota (at least most of the time) and Wisconsin in their next two games.
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Interesting read how will we have to improve on to be successful for the remainder of the season. Article talks about Hill, difference in Diebler last night, and the always infamous Ed Hightower:(
 
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LitlBuck;1399366; said:
and the always infamous Ed Hightower:(
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I typically do not like to jump I typically do not like to jump on officials, mainly because fans typically only remember calls not in their favor and quickly forget those that went in their favor.

For example, PU fans may be complaining about the no-call at the end of regulation (which, incidentally, I thought was a good no-call because the PU player seemed to be totally out of control on his drive to the hoop), but PU fans apparently forget that Hightower really blew the call on Turner's steal on the entry pass into Johnson late in the game last night. It was a great defensive play by Turner, and I'm not sure what Hightower thought he saw when he blew the whistle. Given that Johnson hit both free throws (to his credit, he's a 69% FT shooter who went 11-12 last night), that was at least a 2 point, and possibly a 4 or 5 point swing very late in a tight game.
 
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buckeyesin07;1399374; said:
I typically do not like to jump I typically do not like to jump on officials, mainly because fans typically only remember calls not in their favor and quickly forget those that went in their favor.

For example, PU fans may be complaining about the no-call at the end of regulation (which, incidentally, I thought was a good no-call because the PU player seemed to be totally out of control on his drive to the hoop), but PU fans apparently forget that Hightower really blew the call on Turner's steal on the entry pass into Johnson late in the game last night. It was a great defensive play by Turner, and I'm not sure what Hightower thought he saw when he blew the whistle. Given that Johnson hit both free throws (to his credit, he's a 69% FT shooter who went 11-12 last night), that was at least a 2 point, and possibly a 4 or 5 point swing very late in a tight game.
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These B10 refs are really starting to get to me. I mean, all I ask is be consistent. Home, road, neutral court, whatever. No consistency this year. Ticky tacks called on one end and then on the other end there will be a raping and no call. I am not specifically referring to one game...I have seen this all year, in games not involving my own team. It is really getting disturbing.

Hightower is the most attention whorish Ref in the league. Is these guys job performance even evaluated? Shouldn't it be like other jobs? Why are all the referees 50+ and fat?
 
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Boilers Fan;1399500; said:
These B10 refs are really starting to get to me. I mean, all I ask is be consistent. Home, road, neutral court, whatever. No consistency this year. Ticky tacks called on one end and then on the other end there will be a raping and no call. I am not specifically referring to one game...I have seen this all year, in games not involving my own team. It is really getting disturbing.

Hightower is the most attention whorish Ref in the league. Is these guys job performance even evaluated? Shouldn't it be like other jobs? Why are all the referees 50+ and fat?
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You can count on Hightower to at least twice a game to make a call that is completely wrong and the other 2 refs had a better look at it. He has no angle on the play and never consults on those plays, of course. I swear he does 75% of the Buckeyes games and screws the Bucks every time. I've always wondered if he is biased against the Bucks or he screws every one else just as bad and I don't see it due to my homer glasses. Worst ref in the league since Tom Rucker finally retired (about 10 years too late).
 
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Boilers Fan;1399500; said:
These B10 refs are really starting to get to me. I mean, all I ask is be consistent. Home, road, neutral court, whatever. No consistency this year. Ticky tacks called on one end and then on the other end there will be a raping and no call. I am not specifically referring to one game...I have seen this all year, in games not involving my own team. It is really getting disturbing.

Hightower is the most attention whorish Ref in the league. Is these guys job performance even evaluated? Shouldn't it be like other jobs? Why are all the referees 50+ and fat?
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One-sided refereeing pisses me (and every other fan) off.

2nd to that is inconsistency, even if it's not one-sided. I think it was last Wednesday's OSU-UM game when they let them play a very physical first half, then came out and started calling fouls on hand-checks to open the 2nd half.

If you want to let them play rough, let them play rough. If you want a clean game, call everything from the get-go. Just stick with it throughout so the players know what a foul is.
 
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Pretty sure Hightower is just a bad ref, no bias necessary. He's just bad.

I think Boilers Fan nailed it when he said he's very "attention whorish."

He's just one of those refs that will make a random call that everyone else (on both sides) is thinking "WTF?"
 
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jimotis4heisman;1399531; said:
officiating sucks.

college basketball is being ruined in front of me. i have minimal interest in non osu games anymore. why kids travel, hack and fundamentals are lacking. should i go on?
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The reffing in all of the sports has gotten worse, not better.

However, until the knucklehead in Indianapolis grows a pair and does something about his horrific officiating results, nothing is going to happen.
 
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