Comments on: The Morning After: Georgia Tech

By: Indiana Jim

Indiana Jim — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:25:56 +0000

Who is EJ?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:16:15 +0000

It was a toss-up which was more frustrating: IU not rotating to prevent numerous easy jams or Jimmy Dykes gushing about GT. He began with Sampson’s infractions, and what other coaches thought. Kept talking about Crawford being suspended. As for the game, he either talked about Gordon or Georgia Tech. At the end, he saw time was running out, so he tried to get all his final insults in before they cut away. But he got on my nerves way before that. “I’m not convinced IU is better than Georgia Tech.” Why not just say “GT really came in here and gave it all they got.”? I think all ESPN announcers were told to be at least a little anti Big Ten now that ESPN is competing with the Big Ten Network…

By: ray

ray — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:02:35 +0000

MCD

you are exactly right about dj, but unfortunately it’s nearly the entire team that doesn’t sprint back! that, as i’ve stated in previous posts, is all about conditioning or a lack of desire…either way, there education is paid for because the university and its fans expect this type of effort. so MCD, i agree…SPRINT BACK!

By: ray

ray — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:54:33 +0000

as for the cheering of stemler leaving the line up…fans appreciated his effort last night…that’s what fans do when a player plays well and gets sent to the bench for a much-deserved rest.

By: ray

ray — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:52:15 +0000

yeah…dykes drove me insane. i couldn’t stand listening to him talk again and again about quality road wins!

as for the play of gordon, again he played completely out of control in the first half.

the best part of last night’s game, besides dj getting 18 and 14, was that they won…oh yeah, and that coach made a brilliant decision to play mike white (even though by now he lost 5 games of his senior season)…and i guess one more thing, ellis impressed once again.

By: slojoe

slojoe — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:39:26 +0000

Craig, although ESPN was reporting an indefinite suspension, Coach Sampson said 3 games. But I think White not redshirting was only partially due to the suspension. We did need another body with the suspension but AJ is coming back in 3 games and he is in the backcourt like Crawford. I think Coach Sampson has just had enough of our lack of interior defense and problems blocking out and rebounding. These are things that you know Mike White will give us. Yes, he will miss bunnies and have problems guarding taller and physical bigs but he can give us those two things which we don’t apparently have at this time with Eli and Thomas.

By: Kyle Trowbridge

Kyle Trowbridge — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:23:13 +0000

Dykes was awful last night. He just seems better because he isn’t Vitale. After the 1st half I had to switch it to Fisch and Leary.

ESPN commentators are by in lage awful, and Dykes is one of them.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:02:14 +0000

I was at the game. I don’t think there were ever any cheers because Lance came out of the lineup. May have been cheers for his effort. I can’t recall that point in the game though.

By: ALH '00

ALH '00 — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:24:39 +0000

“…but they do not have much experience with having enough talent around them to have made passing part of their regular offensive diets”

They are constantly passing off of their drives to the bucket…sometimes the bigs are ready for the pass, though. That chemistry should improve with time. Plus Gordon probably should slow some of his rocket passes on the breaks…not everyone has his hands and coordination.

I also agree with Steve O on Holman. I thought last night would have been the perfect opportunity for him to eat some minutes, with GT’s running style. They rarely scored back-to-the-basket, so there is less of a body match-up problem there.

Finally, I guess it was “good-Stemler” for everyone last night. The criticisms are much less harsh when you drop 15. Still, I though I heard the crowd really cheering when he came out of the lineup with about 15:00 to go in the 1st half? Poor kid.

By: MKH

MKH — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:59:26 +0000

Brian:
“#2 – The statistic that bothered me more was that GT had 17 more shot attempts than IU 66-49. That was due to poor defensive rebounding and too many turnovers for IU. It is tough to win when the other team gets that many more opportunities to score.”

Yeah, okay, but let’s not forget that we took 18 more free throws than they did too. That shot disparity is not *all* bad.