I’ll take a dozen Domican’s playing ball with broomsticks and cardboard gloves… living in huts with dirt floors, no plumbing and drinking goat milk.
They’ll out run and out hustle all the 18 year olds paying attention to everything you just listed
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I’ll take a dozen Domican’s playing ball with broomsticks and cardboard gloves… living in huts with dirt floors, no plumbing and drinking goat milk.
They’ll out run and out hustle all the 18 year olds paying attention to everything you just listed
Are we the only fan base that makes excuses for losing before the game is even played?
Complaining about 3 days of rest lol. Whatever if we we at to be a top 5 seed we really need this game. Let’s get a win.
Illinois takes a lot more threes than Indiana, so it would make sense for them to be higher variance imo
On this we agree.
No tired legs, no hurt backs, no this is a bad match up for us.
Win the damn game
Go RU
TJD didn't look tired against us after playing major minutes in a high intensity Purdue matchup off the same amount of rest last game
I'm about to be 39 and I had about 10 drinks last night waking up at 8am to play pickup bballl for probably 2 or 3 hours right now
These elite level athletes in their teens or 20s can handle it. The players on our team playing major minutes have been in college for multiple years now training to be able to handle it too. Caleb Paul Cliff have been doing this for multiple seasons
I'm about to be 39 and I had about 10 drinks last night waking up at 8am to play pickup bballl for probably 2 or 3 hours right now
These elite level athletes in their teens or 20s can handle it. The players on our team playing major minutes have been in college for multiple years now training to be able to handle it too. Caleb Paul Cliff have been doing this for multiple seasons
You'd be wrong. Judging by social media, they came back and then flew out again.
There is an argument that it doesn’t affect good shooting teams as much as defensive teams. I was making a different point though.
Agree totally Scangg. If somehow, we reach the final of the Big Ten Tourney and then lose in the NCAA's, GRF will say we lost because of being drained by how intense the tourney was and the players playing too many minutes.
We had rest after losing our first game against Iowa in the BIG tourney last year and then lost to ND in the play-in game.
If the players are not in good enough physical and mental shape, then that is on our training staff. These kids play endlessly in AAU games while in high school.
Best of Luck,
Groz
We played March 6th, 11th, 16th last year to end the season. That's plenty of rest
It's more a self punishment at this pointYou da man!
**** doesn’t get real till you hit 40. Then things just start to hurt when you get out of bed. By 50, which I just reached, you now have colonoscopy’s. But I did play poker until 3am knocked a bunch of beers back with some buddies. It’s all good.
Don't know where Hawk gets his info, but I can tell you that the team staying out in the midwest for several days between games has happened before (I've been on several of those trips). The caveat is that it occurs during breaks in classes, and very rarely during active class sessions or semesters.
In this case though, it was well documented on social media that the team had returned from IU and was preparing to head back out. Either way, I see this one being a tough ask for RU today. Hope to hell Im wrong!
https://marathonhandbook.com/doms-guide-delayed-onset-muscle-soreness/
Most every long-distance runner has experienced DOMS, or delayed-onset muscle soreness:
they run a race such as a half marathon or marathon and they don’t have much muscle soreness the next day. They wonder, maybe they could have gone faster, pushed harder? Maybe they are invincible superheroes?
Then a day or so later, reality strikes: in the form of intense muscle soreness that renders them almost completely useless for several days.
This muscle soreness is called delayed-onset muscle soreness, or DOMS. And, running and DOMS almost go hand-in-hand.
Most every long-distance runner has experienced DOMS, or delayed-onset muscle soreness:
they run a race such as a half marathon or marathon and they don’t have much muscle soreness the next day. They wonder, maybe they could have gone faster, pushed harder? Maybe they are invincible superheroes?
Then a day or so later, reality strikes: in the form of intense muscle soreness that renders them almost completely useless for several days.
This muscle soreness is called delayed-onset muscle soreness, or DOMS. And, running and DOMS almost go hand-in-hand.
Here’s the phenomenon no one can pin point.
Why you wake up on race day, your legs feel like steel girders, your endurance and wind levels are incredible, you don’t have the urge to urinate and your recovery seems light.
You repeat the exact same routine for your next competition, and on race day you feel like a bag a ****
Same is true for everyone during daily workouts and every other sport you play.
Personally I think it’s body chemistry and no one has figured out how to control it anymore than you can control a good or bad hair day.
FYI, some of the greatest sports performances in history have occurred when the person is “ under the weather”
Ben Hogan once said he feared players who were fighting the flu or a cold….lol
I’ve often found that a slight discomfort, enough to notice but not enough to really physically impede performance, helps. I think because focusing on it stops overthinking
Unfortunately, probably right. This is the least confident I’ve felt before a game all season.
I felt less confident last game. But if forced to bet would prob lay 6.
Guess the tired legs caught up to them. Haha.Just having fun talking sports.
I think what we’re missing is a really strong defensive and rebounding 4 who turns the opponents momentum away from the basket.
3s will kill you but nothing come easy inside when you have that player along with Cliff