Ohio State

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 15, 2015 12:14:48 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 15, 2015 10:55:21 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

I'm looking forward to seeing the makeup of this years squad, game is on at noon___no beer for me today, just nachos and salsa with a diet pepsi

They are so so young this year. Loving is a junior and he's the only upper classman. I've heard good things about Lyle. I think Williams and bates-diop are poised to have break out years. How much production can we get from the bigs like Thompson?

Lyle and Tate had good first halves__Diop had a nice few buckets and Giddens had a thunder alley-oop dunk__but it is just st marys, so we'll find out how this group plays together in Conference play. UConn Women BB VS osu tomorrow night....watching that one

[mscott59]

Nov 15, 2015 13:42:50 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Nov 15, 2015 12:14:48 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

They are so so young this year. Loving is a junior and he's the only upper classman. I've heard good things about Lyle. I think Williams and bates-diop are poised to have break out years. How much production can we get from the bigs like Thompson?

Lyle and Tate had good first halves__Diop had a nice few buckets and Giddens had a thunder alley-oop dunk__but it is just st marys, so we'll find out how this group plays together in Conference play. UConn Women BB VS osu tomorrow night....watching that one

2nd half was not as good. Perimeter defense will need work. Nice set of raw talent this year though. And Thad gets win #300. Pretty cool accomplishment.

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 15, 2015 15:28:45 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 15, 2015 13:42:50 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Lyle and Tate had good first halves__Diop had a nice few buckets and Giddens had a thunder alley-oop dunk__but it is just st marys, so we'll find out how this group plays together in Conference play. UConn Women BB VS osu tomorrow night....watching that one

2nd half was not as good. Perimeter defense will need work. Nice set of raw talent this year though. And Thad gets win #300. Pretty cool accomplishment.

I didnt watch the 2nd half___switched over to Browns/Steelers game _____________________________and of course took my beating like a man <g>

[mscott59]

Nov 15, 2015 20:18:02 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

Nov 15, 2015 15:28:45 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

2nd half was not as good. Perimeter defense will need work. Nice set of raw talent this year though. And Thad gets win #300. Pretty cool accomplishment.

I didnt watch the 2nd half___switched over to Browns/Steelers game _____________________________and of course took my beating like a man <g>

I hope the Browns remember Big Ben throwing a bomb up 30-9 w 1:00 left. I know I will.

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 15, 2015 20:23:25 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 15, 2015 20:18:02 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

I didnt watch the 2nd half___switched over to Browns/Steelers game _____________________________and of course took my beating like a man <g>

I hope the Browns remember Big Ben throwing a bomb up 30-9 w 1:00 left. I know I will.

Fans will remember but athletes today couldn't care less

[mscott59]

1. did anybody catch any of the uconn-osu women's game last night? i watched a few minutes in the first half and the last 10:00 or so in the 2nd. probably no surprise that a team who's won the last 3 ncaa titles looks so good, but wow they were dominating on offense, suffocating on defense. impressive.

2. men's team takes on grambling state tonite. nice article in the dispatch on frosh big man daniel giddens, who came off the bench sunday and put up 11 pts/6 rebounds. his physical presence, at 6'10 235, reminds me of dallas lauderdale a few years back, but more athletic and more gifted w/offensive skills. looks like giddens will get the start tonite over trevor thompson, w/david bell also getting some time at the 5. that's 3 guys who are 6'10+... i'm trying to remember the last time osu had that much potential depth at center.

[Buckeye Dale]

Nov 15, 2015 20:23:25 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 15, 2015 20:18:02 GMT -5 Mickey34jb said:

I didnt watch the 2nd half___switched over to Browns/Steelers game _____________________________and of course took my beating like a man <g>

I hope the Browns remember Big Ben throwing a bomb up 30-9 w 1:00 left. I know I will.

Me too...

[mscott59]

Nov 17, 2015 10:05:18 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

1. did anybody catch any of the uconn-osu women's game last night? i watched a few minutes in the first half and the last 10:00 or so in the 2nd. probably no surprise that a team who's won the last 3 ncaa titles looks so good, but wow they were dominating on offense, suffocating on defense. impressive.

2. men's team takes on grambling state tonite. nice article in the dispatch on frosh big man daniel giddens, who came off the bench sunday and put up 11 pts/6 rebounds. his physical presence, at 6'10 235, reminds me of dallas lauderdale a few years back, but more athletic and more gifted w/offensive skills. looks like giddens will get the start tonite over trevor thompson, w/david bell also getting some time at the 5. that's 3 guys who are 6'10+... i'm trying to remember the last time osu had that much potential depth at center.

bucks did a lot of good things last night vs grambling. starting w/shooting 60%, 36% (9-25) on 3's. also had 8 steals and forced 21 turnovers. up 72-35 halfway thru the 2nd half before winning 82-55. 13 assists including some nice interior passing... lyle had a couple impressive passes.

but... ball handling and foul shooting were awful. 17 turnovers, 13-26 from the line. ugh. against a pretty poor team. sloppy. this team has talent but right now anyone who presses osu is going to cause problems.

kam williams had 22 off the bench, i thought keita bates-diop and marc loving both looked good. each scored 14. bates-diop i think looks the most improved of any player from last year's squad. this team has 6 different players who can be the leading scorer on a particular night. 2 more warm up type games before a couple real tests vs memphis (night after t'giving) and #6 virginia in the acc-big 10 challenge on 12/1/15. can't wait to see how we look vs that kind of competition.

[Mickey34jb]

Nov 18, 2015 17:10:14 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Nov 17, 2015 10:05:18 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

1. did anybody catch any of the uconn-osu women's game last night? i watched a few minutes in the first half and the last 10:00 or so in the 2nd. probably no surprise that a team who's won the last 3 ncaa titles looks so good, but wow they were dominating on offense, suffocating on defense. impressive.

2. men's team takes on grambling state tonite. nice article in the dispatch on frosh big man daniel giddens, who came off the bench sunday and put up 11 pts/6 rebounds. his physical presence, at 6'10 235, reminds me of dallas lauderdale a few years back, but more athletic and more gifted w/offensive skills. looks like giddens will get the start tonite over trevor thompson, w/david bell also getting some time at the 5. that's 3 guys who are 6'10+... i'm trying to remember the last time osu had that much potential depth at center.

bucks did a lot of good things last night vs grambling. starting w/shooting 60%, 36% (9-25) on 3's. also had 8 steals and forced 21 turnovers. up 72-35 halfway thru the 2nd half before winning 82-55. 13 assists including some nice interior passing... lyle had a couple impressive passes.

but... ball handling and foul shooting were awful. 17 turnovers, 13-26 from the line. ugh. against a pretty poor team. sloppy. this team has talent but right now anyone who presses osu is going to cause problems.

kam williams had 22 off the bench, i thought keita bates-diop and marc loving both looked good. each scored 14. bates-diop i think looks the most improved of any player from last year's squad. this team has 6 different players who can be the leading scorer on a particular night. 2 more warm up type games before a couple real tests vs memphis (night after t'giving) and #6 virginia in the acc-big 10 challenge on 12/1/15. can't wait to see how we look vs that kind of competition.

Been getting home late from work....the busy season has started. Missed the Buckeye game but wanted to watch Mich.St/Kansas and yep missed that too. Nice comeback win for them and no surprise Izzo will have the top team in the b10. The memphis game after thanxgiving will be a nice diversion before The Game vs TSUN__I wont miss that

[mscott59]

After two pretty embarrassing effort versus Texas Arlington and Louisiana Tech, OSU is playing well against Memphis tonight. 75-75 in the last minute of the game. We're still struggling with turnovers, but the energy they've played with tonight has been impressive Plus they're proving they can shoot the ball better than previous teams. Lyle has look especially good tonight. I think he is eight out of nine from the field and has five or six assists also

[beuycek]

Nov 27, 2015 21:41:22 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

After two pretty embarrassing effort versus Texas Arlington and Louisiana Tech, OSU is playing well against Memphis tonight. 75-75 in the last minute of the game. We're still struggling with turnovers, but the energy they've played with tonight has been impressive Plus they're proving they can shoot the ball better than previous teams. Lyle has look especially good tonight. I think he is eight out of nine from the field and has five or six assists also

December 19th will be a night to forget.

[mscott59]

Nov 28, 2015 8:03:31 GMT -5 beuycek said:

Nov 27, 2015 21:41:22 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

After two pretty embarrassing effort versus Texas Arlington and Louisiana Tech, OSU is playing well against Memphis tonight. 75-75 in the last minute of the game. We're still struggling with turnovers, but the energy they've played with tonight has been impressive Plus they're proving they can shoot the ball better than previous teams. Lyle has look especially good tonight. I think he is eight out of nine from the field and has five or six assists also

December 19th will be a night to forget.

well, before 12/19/15 can get here and osu takes on uk in nyc, we've got uva here tomorrow night, who's in/near the top 10 too. bucks have lost 3 straight ooc games for the first time since that awful 97-98 season when we went 8-22 and won just 1 big 10 game. o'brien added one player (scoonie penn) to basically the same roster, and made that amazing run to the final 4 the next season, going 27-9.

penn provided both offense from the point and better ball security. right now this year's team really really needs to figure out how to hold onto the ball. jaquan lyle isn't scoonie, but he does have that kind of potential imho and he looked it in the 1st half vs memphis friday night. this team also appears to be a better shooting team from the field than we've had the last couple years. but we had about 20 turnovers in the game too, and you can't win consistently doing that. that and ft shooting has been the most visible issues to date. the good thing about hoops is that you can work out those kinks in the non-conference season and still be successful in the end. but they need to work it out.

[mscott59]

Well, watching osu-uconn. Ugh it was 20-16 til the huskies ran out the half. 45-24. 7 turnovers cost about 12-14 pts. Can't guard the 3 pt line and uconn is making us pay for that. Plus, other than Tate, everyone else looks like they're in slow motion. Tough to see this group finishing in the top half of the league this year. Kyle needs to step up. So does bates-diop. Neither did much of anything in the first 20:00. At this point I'd be happy if we won the 2nd half by just 10.

[mscott59]

Dec 12, 2015 13:12:52 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Well, watching osu-uconn. Ugh it was 20-16 til the huskies ran out the half. 45-24. 7 turnovers cost about 12-14 pts. Can't guard the 3 pt line and uconn is making us pay for that. Plus, other than Tate, everyone else looks like they're in slow motion. Tough to see this group finishing in the top half of the league this year. Kyle needs to step up. So does bates-diop. Neither did much of anything in the first 20:00. At this point I'd be happy if we won the 2nd half by just 10.

Good news! OSU win the 2nd half! Bad news... Still lost the game 75-55. Lol. Uconn shot over 60%, bucks shot about 35%. Ugh. Uconn shot 43% on 3s. Bucks shot 23%. The shooting and defense woes looked really similar to long stretches of last year. And next Saturday the competition ratchets up 10 fold. This could get even uglier unless we find a way to shoot better and defend.

[Mickey34jb]

Dec 12, 2015 14:45:38 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Dec 12, 2015 13:12:52 GMT -5 mscott59 said:

Well, watching osu-uconn. Ugh it was 20-16 til the huskies ran out the half. 45-24. 7 turnovers cost about 12-14 pts. Can't guard the 3 pt line and uconn is making us pay for that. Plus, other than Tate, everyone else looks like they're in slow motion. Tough to see this group finishing in the top half of the league this year. Kyle needs to step up. So does bates-diop. Neither did much of anything in the first 20:00. At this point I'd be happy if we won the 2nd half by just 10.

Good news! OSU win the 2nd half! Bad news... Still lost the game 75-55. Lol. Uconn shot over 60%, bucks shot about 35%. Ugh. Uconn shot 43% on 3s. Bucks shot 23%. The shooting and defense woes looked really similar to long stretches of last year. And next Saturday the competition ratchets up 10 fold. This could get even uglier unless we find a way to shoot better and defend.

I was just reading how this is Mattas' worst start yet at OSU. No senior leadership but perhaps by when league play starts next month, they will start to gel___But first Be prepared for Kentucky to blow out the Buckeyes before a national audience on CBS next Sat.