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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 12, 2021 21:54:27 GMT -5
I will be courtside for tonight’s game so I’ll give detailed notes. Ha. But yeah I don’t expect Niagra to be as tough of a match up and expect to see more from the team, now that some of these new and young guys got that first game jitters out of them. Hopefully Young can get on the court a bit. Did Brunk or Russell even play? Were they in street clothes? I have seen a few of their practices and neither were impressive. Guard scoring may be a big problem this season. I see that Wheeler scored 9 which could be a career high for him. I hope he continues to score. Brunk played the last minute of the first half. Key and Young played the 5 spot all night. Russell is at a funeral for a family member I saw on Twitter. Wheeler made 2 nice 3’s back to back in the second half, his shot looked nice, not sure why he doesn’t shoot more? But he played well overall, definitely gets after it on defense. And knocked down some free throws late to help seal the win.
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Nov 12, 2021 22:04:16 GMT -5
Dont know what to think after tonight's game vs Niagara Thought they'd win by much more than 10 Not when they almost beat X
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Post by buckeyekid on Nov 13, 2021 4:26:02 GMT -5
Ron, courtside? huh you must know somebody.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 13, 2021 7:12:23 GMT -5
Ron, courtside? huh you must know somebody. A pretty cool person.
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Post by dude on Nov 13, 2021 8:09:35 GMT -5
Looks like Malachi gave a solid game with shared minutes but as a starter. Another interesting tidbit. I remember reading somewhere when Branham was either offered or committed to OSU, that Dru Joyce said he will be ready to play there his junior year. Maybe Joyce either doesn't know his players or the college game.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 13, 2021 8:21:07 GMT -5
Looks like Malachi gave a solid game with shared minutes but as a starter. Another interesting tidbit. I remember reading somewhere when Branham was either offered or committed to OSU, that Dru Joyce said he will be ready to play there his junior year. Maybe Joyce either doesn't know his players or the college game. i actually have been thinking of that quote as well. Seems like he was underestimating Branham a bit. I’m thinking he’ll be similar to Duane Washington somewhat in that he will show signs of being really good and just keep getting better each year and by his junior year be one of our main scoring threats.
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Nov 13, 2021 11:33:01 GMT -5
Looks like Malachi gave a solid game with shared minutes but as a starter. Another interesting tidbit. I remember reading somewhere when Branham was either offered or committed to OSU, that Dru Joyce said he will be ready to play there his junior year. Maybe Joyce either doesn't know his players or the college game. The exact quote by Dru Joyce was. "A major contributor". In our small sample, playing for a Top 20 program in a structured offense, with better coaching. Branham shows signs of being a factor this year and a major contributor next year, when Liddell and the 8 seniors and grad students leave. He probably will have to be the focus of the offense. I doubt Joyce considered what the roster would look when Branham was a Soph.
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 9:35:47 GMT -5
I can't help but wonder if some of the reasoning for using a scholarship to bringing these graduate transfers is for practices. Wheeler has filled in okay as the defensive guy we need, but the rest have been question marks. I know it's only 2 games into the season but as of right now Brunk, Russell, Sotos and Towns are at the bottom of the production roster.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 14, 2021 10:39:37 GMT -5
I can't help but wonder if some of the reasoning for using a scholarship to bringing these graduate transfers is for practices. Wheeler has filled in okay as the defensive guy we need, but the rest have been question marks. I know it's only 2 games into the season but as of right now Brunk, Russell, Sotos and Towns are at the bottom of the production roster. exactly, it’s only 2 games. It’s unfortunate for Towns that he’s had so many injuries, even going back to his days at Harvard. A healthy Towns could be a nice help. But you have to bring transfers in to have depth when players have to miss games. Sotos was actually playing pretty well last year when Walker was hurt but then he unfortunately had the shoulder injury while diving for a loose ball. I’d rather fill roster holes with transfers than walk ons.
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 11:14:49 GMT -5
I can't help but wonder if some of the reasoning for using a scholarship to bringing these graduate transfers is for practices. Wheeler has filled in okay as the defensive guy we need, but the rest have been question marks. I know it's only 2 games into the season but as of right now Brunk, Russell, Sotos and Towns are at the bottom of the production roster. exactly, it’s only 2 games. It’s unfortunate for Towns that he’s had so many injuries, even going back to his days at Harvard. A healthy Towns could be a nice help. But you have to bring transfers in to have depth when players have to miss games. Sotos was actually playing pretty well last year when Walker was hurt but then he unfortunately had the shoulder injury while diving for a loose ball. I’d rather fill roster holes with transfers than walk ons. It is 2 games into the OSU season but for the graduate transfers it has been much more. Towns was scoring 16 pts a game FOUR years ago in an inferior schedule compared to OSU. At least I cannot think of who compares to Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell or Brown. His scholarship could have been used for a recruit. Sotos in his prime last season played 9 minutes a game and his fouls per game equaled his output in every other stat category. His scholarship could have been used for a recruit. I'm not saying I disagree with the system, I wish we were getting more from it.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 14, 2021 11:23:47 GMT -5
exactly, it’s only 2 games. It’s unfortunate for Towns that he’s had so many injuries, even going back to his days at Harvard. A healthy Towns could be a nice help. But you have to bring transfers in to have depth when players have to miss games. Sotos was actually playing pretty well last year when Walker was hurt but then he unfortunately had the shoulder injury while diving for a loose ball. I’d rather fill roster holes with transfers than walk ons. It is 2 games into the OSU season but for the graduate transfers it has been much more. Towns was scoring 16 pts a game FOUR years ago in an inferior schedule compared to OSU. At least I cannot think of who compares to Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell or Brown. His scholarship could have been used for a recruit. Sotos in his prime last season played 9 minutes a game and his fouls per game equaled his output in every other stat category. His scholarship could have been used for a recruit. I'm not saying I disagree with the system, I wish we were getting more from it. These transfers join the program after a season has ended, usually in the spring or early summer. At that point, what recruit are they going to get? That makes no sense. By then, all recruits have already signed somewhere. A program typically adds transfers when an unexpected player leaves… like Washington, Holtmann didn’t know for sure if he was staying or leaving and once he decided, they had to scramble to get Russell.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 14, 2021 11:26:31 GMT -5
Luther Muhammad would be another example. I highly doubt the coaches were planning for him to transfer, a guy that looked like he’d be a starter the rest of his career at OSU. That opened up another scholarship that they weren’t planning on.
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 11:47:51 GMT -5
Some may say what makes not sense is to wait until spring or summer to fill your roster. There were talks of Muhammad being unhappy and looking at options long before the season ended. He was already a starter in 56 of the 64 games he played at OSU but he wanted to be offered more than 5-6 shots a game.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 14, 2021 12:14:11 GMT -5
Some may say what makes not sense is to wait until spring or summer to fill your roster. There were talks of Muhammad being unhappy and looking at options long before the season ended. He was already a starter in 56 of the 64 games he played at OSU but he wanted to be offered more than 5-6 shots a game. That is literally the first time I’ve ever heard that Muhammad was unhappy long before the season ended. I never read or heard that anywhere. Im not sure what you mean on filling the roster until the spring or summer. How can they fill it earlier than that if they sign their next class in November, have a full roster for the following season but then a few people decide to transfer at the end of the season. How would they have filled their roster before that then?
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 14:23:10 GMT -5
Some may say what makes not sense is to wait until spring or summer to fill your roster. There were talks of Muhammad being unhappy and looking at options long before the season ended. He was already a starter in 56 of the 64 games he played at OSU but he wanted to be offered more than 5-6 shots a game. That is literally the first time I’ve ever heard that Muhammad was unhappy long before the season ended. I never read or heard that anywhere. Im not sure what you mean on filling the roster until the spring or summer. How can they fill it earlier than that if they sign their next class in November, have a full roster for the following season but then a few people decide to transfer at the end of the season. How would they have filled their roster before that then? During the season a number of times Luther was reported to have commented he could be a bigger part of the offense or saw himself as a scoring options. One of them was after scoring 20 against Maryland. I'm not saying it needs to be done early. You implied the roster is only filled in spring and summer with grads. Not ever player with more than 3stars commits in Nov. Knowing Gaffney saw himself as a 1 and done would make you plan for a replacement. Carton left mid season and could have swung some recruiting if actively pursued. I admit I see the value of the grad transfer and having graduate players, but having 5 or 6 of them should mean production is very high. IMO
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2021 14:30:45 GMT -5
How about worrying about who is actually on the team the this year?
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 14, 2021 14:49:38 GMT -5
How about worrying about who is actually on the team the this year? I do talk about the current team but dude hates them all. 😉
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 18:09:55 GMT -5
How about worrying about who is actually on the team the this year? That is exactly what I was saying. I am worried about what we have on the team right now.
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Post by dude on Nov 14, 2021 18:11:57 GMT -5
How about worrying about who is actually on the team the this year? I do talk about the current team but dude hates them all. 😉 Stop spreading lies. I have only commented that I have yet to see the benefit and have concerns of some of the graduate transfers and what they will bring.
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Post by sbclives on Nov 15, 2021 18:52:43 GMT -5
Aaron Kraft sighting tonight at the game.
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Post by baldref on Nov 15, 2021 20:17:44 GMT -5
BG is certainly no Akron.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 15, 2021 20:37:39 GMT -5
Nice to see an easy win like that but I won’t get too excited, BG is obviously not very good. But maybe what this game can do is give some guys some confidence, like Meechie and Eugene Brown. I thought Wheeler had a really good game. Liddell really didn’t have to do much. Brunk got a pretty decent amount of minutes too.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 15, 2021 20:55:07 GMT -5
Also, Sueing didn’t play due to his injury. Holtmann just said after the game that he doesn’t think it’s season ending but it may be significant. That’s never good to hear. Injuries are something that have really hurt Ohio State over recent years, especially Kyle Young but also many others.
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Post by Willard Fillmore on Nov 15, 2021 22:11:54 GMT -5
He was sent to a specialist in Cleveland. Kind of unusual, with all the Sports Med expertise in Columbus.
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Post by dude on Nov 18, 2021 13:04:49 GMT -5
Big game for the early season Buckeyes tonight.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 18, 2021 13:22:32 GMT -5
They’ll be without Sueing for “an extended period of time” due to an abdominal injury. Man this team and injuries just seem to plague them every year.
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Post by dude on Nov 18, 2021 13:56:25 GMT -5
They’ll be without Sueing for “an extended period of time” due to an abdominal injury. Man this team and injuries just seem to plague them every year. Hearing a torn groin muscle. Painful
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2021 14:05:14 GMT -5
The Big Ten has really struggled in their non-conference slate.
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Post by ronburgandy on Nov 18, 2021 19:21:04 GMT -5
Rough first half. Turnovers are killing them. How many of our shots rolled about halfway in and popped out though? Hopefully some of those fall second half.
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Post by baldref on Nov 18, 2021 19:30:37 GMT -5
Too much dribbling and not enough ball movement in 1st half allowing Xavier to really pressure creating the turnovers
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