Can we talk some more about just how stupid it was for that game-tieing three to go in for CMU in the first overtime?
It was less probable than Jamie Mercurio's shot in the triple overtime game against Miami in 1992.
Good to be back in the Convo after 6 weeks of rehabbing 2 new knees and nice to spend pregame with you Pete. Got to catch up with some of the guys before and after the game. Was a good day. Convo is indeed a tough place with limited mobility and aches and pains that come with a bit of impairment. Lots of little things that you don't think about till you have to navigate the world differently. Ball State is definitely better set up than we are for those folks.
Team looked way better in person than they have on the little screen. Good ball movement. Ball went side to side, reversed and stayed hot rather than how it has been sticky since I saw them in Charleston and early December.
DT attacking the rim, still has some defensive gaffes and tendencies but working hard and finishing well. Seems to find loose balls in the paint a lot as well. TK is getting much better as the year goes on, an off season effort and I think that frosh to soph jump will be huge. JGollon is working hard and still improving since I saw him in the practice gym working on individual skills in Charleston. Solid performance. Mike really looks hampered by the shoulder, moves that were second nature are labored and incomplete but his heart and head are still engaged. Finishing a shot across the lane is not natural, his long shots are hampered in their motion as his off hand just does not move with the fluidity he had developed earlier in the year. Gavin still doing a lot of little things that go unnoticed. Really enjoy his off the ball defense and the way he settles things down on the offensive end when frosh guards start to play unnerved. Too early to figure out AJ's attributes but that 3 he hit was timely. Flattest shot I can remember that actually went in but in it went. Good to see his ankles held up when called on. Butler is solid but IMO there is a difference between the 2 in skills that is more than just PT. Zach still has a lot of upside that he needs to work and tap into. He will be fine with coaching and self motivation. If he is a 2 guard he is a bit undersized and HAS to be more of a threat and a more consistent and efficient scorer in the mold of what Nick K gave to take that 2 spot. If he is a PG, handles, vision and ability to deliver the ball have got to get better. GOing to be interesting to see where he focuses his efforts in the spring/summer. None of those guys are mailing it in and there still is fight in their eyes and in their efforts. Great kids doing what they can to get a win.
Many are not happy here and fanboards from Buffalo to Balls are taking great delight in watching the BA board and the fanbase turn on itself as well as exacting a bit of satisfaction in seeing the Bobcats on the bottom but I liked the lack of quit I saw yesterday. Not happy not being the premier program in the MAC I have believed we can be since John Rhodes sat in our dining room and told us his vision of what he thought Ohio should be... but it is a year that should be an anomaly when we look back in years to come. Still work to do this year. Good to be back in Athens and in the Convo. As the year of GA work comes to an end and he walks with his Masters not sure what the future will bring. Except for the pain associated with driving round trip with healing still going on......Yesterday felt awful good to be in the Hills.