Ulice was in one of my classes when he was a freshman. Unfortunate that he transferred to play for Al McGuire at Marquette but his accomplishments in life are quite awesome. I think Slappy left to play at Richmond. The Bandy years!!

If you want to call someone out, use their name. Works better and makes you seem like way less of a weenie.

Also, please don't turn this into another version of your "athletes are for track teams" thing where 8 years later you're still passive aggressively having a conversation that everybody else has long since forgotten.

This repeated dominance of us by Toledo is getting old. We certainly did not have a good defensive day but jeez Toledo. I am not sure anyone in the MAC loses to them last night. Just need to survive the scary road game Friday and NIU Tuesday and head into the Akron game 6-2.

You have every right to have weird passive aggressive conversations with yourself.

Just seemed like you were pretty desperate to have a conversation about Austin Parks. Thought another person might help. My bad.

Holy Santa Claus Shit.

I had to turn it off at half... and it looks like it's a good thing I did.

Anyone have the 1st v 2nd half shooting percentages?

They couldn't miss in the 1st half... then couldn't close it out letting Toledo back into it, but they were still dropping em in from everywhere for the most part.


We gotta get the ball out of greenlight Sheldon's hands. Ooof. His defense is nowhere near good enough to overcome his lack of offensive ability. Guy has all the confidence of Kobe and the shooting ability of his mother.

I can't watch Sheldon be one of the leaders in shots every single night. Burris averaging 5 points in 11 minutes. Sheldon is averaging 7 in THIRTY. JJ has 20 more made shots in 100 less minutes. Read that again. JJ Kelly has made TWENTY more shots than greenlight Sheldon... in ONE HUNDRED less minutes.

I know it's too much to ask at this point, but the lack of bench production is frightening. The lack of any defensive ability is frightening. The lack of desire to rebound is frightening.

I know I sound like an Evans relative, but good lord - can we not just say - stand there with your hands up in the air. Get some boards. Parks was reaching over Hadaway like he wasn't even there. Quite literally we need nothing else from you. Just put your 6'10" arms into the air. You might accidentally disrupt some shots and grab a rebound or two.

I'm not a coach, what do I know, but a few mins here and there to make something happen just isn't enough for the bench guys to get comfortable. Also - we need Fisher. STAT. JJ needs to realize he's a good player and get involved. If he had 1/8th the confidence of Sheldon he'd be Freshman of the Year.

We're just in no mans land right now. We're 4-2 in the conference, but I don't think anyone would say this is a team that looks sound. Boals doesn't want to shake it up, cause they're still looking at a good seed, but this team just lacks in so many areas I don't know how we continue with the same and hope to break through.

*edit* Just saw SBH's post above mine, and yes - the curse of pretty good. No mans land. 4-2 in the conference. Not bad enough to actually make changes. Not good enough to win against top teams. So we sit in purgatory hoping things correct themselves.

If MAC guys are any good, they leave for a bigger payday. Whether it be UT, UA or OU. "High-caliber" recruits don't venture into the MAC unless there's lots of baggage.

I just don't get how we decide whether a kid is good or bad. It's simple enough if they've already done something to get themselves into trouble. But otherwise, what are we doing, making kids accept promise rings?

Defense and bench = bad, that's all I have. We played our best half of basketball last night and still were down. There was a 0% chance we were going to replicate that performance in the second half.

These Reynoldsburg Boys better come in ready to defend next year, I won't hold my breath.

It's really concerning that Sheldon has one of the lowest usage rates on the team, but he also has the highest turnover percentage of anyone on the team. How is that even possible? For a guy who touches the ball as much as he does and for as many minutes as he plays, that's a horrible trend.

His three point shooting is actually up compared to last year, which is great. Instead of making 1.5 per game and shooting 28%, he's now making about 2.5 per game and shooting 36%. Not really sure if this is more indicative of him shooting better or him just taking more shots, which is up about 50% more than last season. His 2pt shooting is a dreadful 38% though, by far the worst of his career.

Now that Lil Boals is retired, I could see Big Boals moving on when he graduates. Who knows if that will work out or not.

He's, unfortunately, following in the footsteps of his coach. Boals hasn't had the 5-21 season that Larry did, but there's a lot of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place finishes in the conferences among the two. Also, new ADs like to make splash hires and find their own guys. I have no idea if Slade Larscheid is thinking these things, but it happens all too often in college athletics.

The inconsistency in style of play is a really big issue both functionally as a team and aesthetically pleasing as a fan. It was one thing to have Jason Preston, Mark Sears, Ben Vander Plas and others running a pick and roll or pick and pop game, but if you look at the numbers from the past several years what can you point to and say what Ohio does well? It's painfully obvious there is a shortcoming in athleticism. They can't stop the ball from getting into the paint. They don't rebound well.

People liked to bang on Saul Phillips for his lack of recruiting prowess, but at least his teams had some sort of a plan on offense. There was ball movement and passing. These Boals teams are so hard to watch. Last night they ran a double screen to get Sheldon a wide open three, which he made easily. That's honestly the first time I've seen a play like that all season. It's like they all stand around and wait for someone else to take control of the game, which for the most part has been Pav (great), Hadaway (meh) or Simmons (good). At the mid-major level it's hard to win games like that.

Yea, it sounds bad but Boals not being Larscheid's guy might be a saving grace for the program.