Texas Southern vs. Ohio State, Thursday, 7 PM, BTN

[OHSportsFan]

Also, GREAT adjustment by the team guarding the pick and roll with their 7’2 guy at the rim. Help side D has defended that about 4 times this half. Led to breakouts.

Awesome stuff

 

[OHSportsFan]

Also, this run coincided with Jallow back on the court after foul trouble.

This has been a good game mixed with spurts of bad. I’ll take it for game #3. I’m largely impressed still.

 

[OHSportsFan]

We lost to UT Arlington at this point last year.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Meh. Happens. View attachment 16901

 

[jwinslow]

Pretty sad display tonight. I'm not expecting great things this year, but I sure as sh!t am not expecting nail-biters against Tejas-Southern.

Were you expecting some pixie dust sprinkling?

 

[OHSportsFan]

ORD with an assist in the box score tonight. Got the team in gear to close it out. Cheers

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Were you expecting some pixie dust sprinkling?

Expecting? I was god damned demanding it. It was nice to see this team reach down, when they cut it to two, and step things up. Good team character and good coaching.

 

[buckeyemania11]

We lost to UT Arlington at this point last year.

UT Arlington was 2 years ago. Florida Atlantic was last year. Lol. 2 years in a row of embarassing losses though. If they get through OOC this year without that its a W

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

There is definitely a lot to like with this team. Even when TxSo made their run, it didn't feel like it was OSU giving it away as much as the opponent just making shots.

19:10 assist to turnover ratio works for me. Good FT shooting and solid rebounding.

Potter was very good, although I really would like to see him stronger around the basket. Jallow was excellent, Tate and KBD were solid. Jackson played well....apart from the miserable shooting. But he wasn't taking bad shots and won't go 1-9 on open 3's most nights.

I have no idea what is going on with Williams. He should be the team's best shooter.....

 

[Oh8ch]

Quality of play was not consistent, but level of effort was.

I missed that more than anything.

 

[Dryden]

Wonder if Holtmann stressed that the final 8 minutes or it’s just happened organically with missed shots/turnovers. I’ll give coach credit :)

Are coaches allowed to install adjustments during TV timeouts?

I thought that time was only for diagramming a baseline in-bounds play or in-bounds defense.

 

[ScriptOhio]

 

[mendensa]

Quality of play was not consistent, but level of effort was.

I missed that more than anything.

I was going to say the same thing. The overall talent on the roster might not be there yet, but after the lack of effort we saw the past 2 years from the recently departed, I think any true Buckeye basketball fan should at least be thrilled with the effort they are seeing on the court in the 1st 3 games.

They have a lot of inconsistent shooters on this team that I think will result in some good and some ugly looking games as we get into conference play. They can get hot but can just as easily go very cold, not having a go-to guy. KBD is the playmaker that should be and that the Bucks need to be a consistent threat of getting 20 every night. Jallow looked really good last night too. He is put together for just being 17 yrs old. Micah needs to be tougher around the rim and be able to finish down low, but his FT shooting looks good. Seems minor but the team was atrocious from the line last year and it cost them some games. It is nice to see that team % (.722) up although a small sample size.

 

[RB07OSU]

Agreed with the above. We should definitely temper expectations. But we actually looked decent imo. I am not expecting us to break any records in the B1G, but I think we have some building blocks.