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It should be getting warmer...but it isn't hot yet. I don't think you get rid of him, but you do begin to take a look at his play calling, his game prep, etc, basically everything other than his ability as a recruiter. Lanning needs to be just as introspective about himself since he's supposed to be some kind of defensive genius. It's not time to pull the plug yet, but it does need to get better if the team is going to actually achieve it's goal of a national championship.

Final Four team was a lot better I think. If you go position by position Prichard (freshman) vs. Shelstad: Edge: Shelstad+ Dorsey vs. Bamba: Edge: Dorsey Brooks vs. Tracey: Edge: Brooks++ Boucher vs. Angel: Edge: Boucher+ Bell vs. Bittle: Edge: Even, this is the one that is hardest, Bell was such a force defensively, but Bittle has a much better offensive game Ennis vs. Barthelemey: Edge: Even, Key is a microwave, but Ennis was the ultimate glue guy Benson vs. Cook: Edge: I'll give it to Cook barely, I think he does more as the 7 man, obviously different positions. After that is does go in favor of the current team in terms of depth. I'll take that final four team all day though, more killers in the team, Boucher and Bell together was such a force defensively.

That's what I thought!!!!! I was so confused when they started talking about it!!!! I was thinking I was crazy for thinking that it doesn't matter how many timeouts are called in a row.

I feel like the officials have been fine, I haven't seen any badly called games. There's been an appropriate level of physicality. Most games with Oregon have seen a pretty even amount of fouls on both sides. If I remember correctly the UCLA game was called pretty tight, but overall it's been better than the Pac-12.

One thing I have remind myself is that Shelstad is doing this about two years before Peyton Pritchard became Peyton Pritchard. Pritchard was not nearly this far along as a sophomore. EDIT: Actually taking a look at Pritchard's game log he had a better sophomore season than I remember, his junior year was worse than his sophomore year, I'm probably more thinking about that year. Averaged 14 a game, Shot 48% overall 41% from 3, averaged more assists than Shelstad as well. That team only went to the NIT, so I'm probably just being biased due to this team being much much better than that team.

He is really really good, he's averaging 14 and 8 assists. That's why this game was a bit disappointing to see them allow Penn St. to make it a game, you need to step on their necks and put them away for good, we let teams off the hook by missing wide open shots, and slowing down the intensity.

Honestly, I just thought it was the flow of the game. Underdog team, playing at home, big comeback, playing without their best player, just kind of set it up to be more excited about the prospect of an upset. I am now confused on that last inbounds, I thought you didn't lose the right to run the baseline after a timeout. I tried to look it up online but the best I got was that you can run the baseline after a timeout, but it doesn't say if you lose this ability after calling a second timeout. Just frustrating how we seem to not make anything easy on ourselves, we always seem to play to the level of our opponents, if we hit some of our open threes we win comfortably, but Bamba and Angel have been awful shooting the ball recently. Bamba just looks completely lost unless he's going to the hole.

Stopped playing hard, haven't been very physical, no urgency on offense, been really really poor this half. Free throw shooting has been awful.

Bamba with two WIIIIDDEEEEE open looks from 3, both clanks, and PSU ties it up. His shot is completely broken now.

Looking good so far, Bamba playing better, Shelstad staying red hot, good stuff. We got pretty lucky with PSU's best player not playing. Baldwin is a very very good player, everything goes through him.

It's just something the teams are going to need to get used to, nothing anyone can do about it, first couple seasons are going to hurt before programs get used to it. Could get better later in the season when they've gone cross country a couple times or it could get worse as they get more tired, we'll see how it goes. I suspect the teams that are doing well in the season are going to be relatively unaffected by it, but those teams that are struggling might go further in a hole as they begin to see the end of the season coming.

If the people that make the decisions on Matt Court operations were smart they would get rid of the DJ, have the band play during every timeout, no kiss cam, no any kind of the shanigans with the camera, cheerleaders on the court or maybe some sort of student led competition. Basically treat it like the focus is on the game, not getting on the jumbotron. It's stupid how they have lost fans yet the prices go up. Attendance is probably at an all time low and they probably don't give a you know what because they think we all want a NBA experience which NOBODY WANTS!!! Students are probably the worst they have been ever as well.

We did try to get the ball into Bittle last game early, they were doubling him up immediately and he did a good job dumping it off to other guys. The problem was that those players were missing wide open looks. We have to start shooting better as a team. We'll have a player or two have a hot hand, but we rarely see a majority of the team have a good shooting night. Angel and Bamba have to start playing better. Evans is getting close to taking over Angel's minutes, I'm personally surprised to see this happen, but Evans is rebounding, defending, and scoring enough to justify it. If he could just get a better handle he would really take a step forward as a prospect. He just has such a bad handle for someone you would expect to be more smooth.

I am 100 percent ready to hand the keys to Moore over bringing in any transfer that is out there. If Moore isn't the starter then it just means someone really really impressive overtook him which I would be fine with as well.

Yeah, they pretty much destroyed the allure of going to games when the made the horrible, horrible decision to present the game like it's an NBA game in the arena. They lost a ton of fans who would go to games over the last 15 years, plus the prices are way too high.

Yeah, not many have his skill set, it's the way that he can also dominate on the block that makes him really unique, you see plenty of stretch 4-5s but not many who can be equally effective inside and out. He's also a very good rebounder, developed into a good interior defender, just a great player who I think is more a fit for Europe than the NBA, he will have to become a 40%+ 3 point shooter to make it in the league, I think since he isn't versatile enough to defend NBA wings.

Maaannnn we just can't make it easy, we're always having to come back, luckily we play really well during crunch time. All win on the road are great wins, move on to Penn St. take the defensive performance as progress, and try to get some other guys going on offense.

Have to start hitting shots, it has to happen at some point, too many bunnies and open threes where we just hit iron.

Today's game is going to be a real indication of where this season might go, on the road, decent team but not a juggernaut, new environment. We've already played 3 home league game and lost 2 of them, we'll have to make it up on the road a bit. Unfortunately I just don't think any of them are really wired to primarily be a distributer. I think they are all attack minded, get to the hole and finish or shoot a dagger in your eye. I really believe in Bamba, he has the history to say he's a good shooter, his form is good, and I think he's a load to take inside.

The Illinois lose was deeply concerning, blowouts happen, but it should not happen like that at home. I will admit that made me reconsider the ceiling for this team. I think Illinois is really, really good with a first round talent in Jakubanis. The shooting woes are also still concerning, Shelstad might be coming out of it, but we need to get consistency from him and Bamba or we won't hit our potential. All these road trips are going to be tough, there simply aren't going to be any gimmies in this league, and we've already lost two at home, can't afford many more. Still think we have a lot of potential, still believe this is the most balanced deep team we've had in a long time, but some guys are going to need to start hitting shots.

Saw that coming with James the moment Hughes committed, I don't think he would have come if we had all our guys coming back next season. Honestly Harmon will hurt more than James, good back but not a game changer. Harmon will be very tough to replace, we do have a lot of high prospects in that position, but I'm not sure if we'll be able to get the same level of production.

He's also moving to Tight End, probably the right move considering how it was going as a QB.

I'll be honest I probably enjoy the ride with basketball, baseball, or other sports in general since I don't really have expectations with them, we don't get the constant hype, or the feeling like its championship or bust, do I get bummed out when they lose....of course, but it's not like I expected to win it all. I honestly think I enjoy these other sports more than football because of this.

Wow, coaching staff should be embarrassed by this game, we look completely confused on basically every play, our offense is so obvious, we have to throw the ball down the field, but we refused to even attempt other than one pass. We deserve to get blown out. Probably the worst display of football by supposedly the #1 team in a bowl game ever.

You can tell Altman thinks this team could be pretty special, we just beat a decent 9-2 Stanford team on the road while shooting only 6-22 from 3. Going to be a really telling stretch when at the start of the new year, Illinois, Maryland, and an Ohio St. team that just demolished Kentucky. Hopefully the football team wins and the fans come back fired up for the two games at home.