This Win is on Pike Too!
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Big time!! Stick with lineups that were working...made individual subs to not completely kill momentum with changes and dialed it up on defense
That is the truth. i am so happy for the entire staff and players.
Remember he took the Maryland loss on his shoulders and kept the kids focused on this game. He deserves all the credit 
Good adjustment. Ballsy giving Duke 6 minutes early shouldn’t have done it imo
Imagine you are an Indiana fan and Tom cream brings you to 4 NCAA tournaments in 9 years. The first couple they had some issues to deal with due to kelvin samspon(i think). You fire crean because 4 in 9 years and multiple 20 win seasons was not enough so you hire Archie and in 4 years haven’t gone to a tournament since and won less than 20 games 3/4 years...
Please stop talking **** about pikiell. We don’t want to be Indiana
Please stop talking **** about pikiell. We don’t want to be Indiana
Great post! Pike made adjustments with the starting team and kept the core in for most of the game and turned this around. I am so proud of this team tonight. The players and the coaches.Great job by coach tonight
I actually think Duke looked good out there..not going to lie
Pike pushed all the right buttons in the latter stages of the first half but his most impressive coaching of the night was with his lineups in the 2nd half which worked to a T
Great coaching making 10 3 pointers in a row.
We came out soft and not ready to play. Going unconscious from 3 isn’t good coaching.
look at the minute distribution and in the 2nd half how everyone knew their roles.
Listen, I’ve given the coaching staff a lot of **** this year, but that was a phenomenally coached game from the eight minute mark or so of the first half through the final whistle. Stop it.
I love Pike.... but yeaaaa coaches look like geniuses when the 3's start falling
Great job by coach tonight
Maybe the meeting the other helped as well...but agree: it's on Pike!!!!
MO
What exactly did Pikiell do differently the last 32 minutes that he didn’t do in the previous 48?
we finally caught fire and Indiana never recovered when they lost the lead. Throwing alley oops in transition against a team that didn’t get back on D or didn’t defend cuts off the ball isn’t coaching.
let’s also not forget Indiana had a key injury and their 2nd best player in the 1st 8 minutes appeared to get “Bo’d” and got saddled with foul trouble.
I think we have phenomenal coaches. The only time this year I had any issues were in our 1st slump and they got it fixed. Coaches can’t shoot the ball. While people were saying pike did a bad job in the MD game maybe the way he has navigated Harper from start of MD game to 8 minutes thru IU could be the coaching that won this game.
Quite the opposite. Just extinguishing the crowd that blamed pike the previous game.Giving credit and saying something positive is just not part of your DNA.
He taught Mathis how to catch a ball on a full sprint and throw it down 11 feet in the air.
He retaught Ron had to shoot from 3
He worked with Jacob’s lateral quickness and has continued giving him adhesive stars for his effort hounding opposing 1s
I somewhat agree, but down 23-8 I said to my wife man Pine is still so positive on the sidelines. He is not yelling. His enthusiasm can keep a player going. That said the bottom line is we are a good team when Harper makes threes. It gives the rest of the team so much confidence. We are a top 10 team when Harper plays like he did last night.
All agreed that he waited too long to call a time out in the first half, but since we won it doesn’t matter now
Pike waits too long to call time outs. That’s a macro issue . And many agreed wirh me. In retrospect it doesn’t matter
Personally I think the button was pushed cause the players could hear their families in the stands finally to pick them up when they were down
I don’t agree at all. In fact it drives me crazy when he calls one after say the other team scores 6 points in a row (which is just statistical noise). Time outs are not cure all’s and if you use them up you have none for half-end and game end situations. It might be an interesting masters thesis to study whether time outs to reverse momentum are at all effective. I would bet they are not.
Just imagine we couldn't safely fit about 20 to 30 family members safely into a 8,000 seat venue prior lol. That's a shame but oh well, moving forward.
Perhaps he finally laid into the guys or did/said something during that TO that really got them going? I wasn't in the huddle nor did TV cover it so I wouldn't know. A switch was flipped, clearly. How, what, who I don't know. And yeah, I know seeing the ball go thru the rim makes a difference. But something or somebody started it all. The defense turned it up too. Big time so it wasn't just the 3's. And he let them run and held the ball for 25 seconds far and few.
Maybe it was the matchup with Indiana more than the lineup....
Maybe RU is more athletic and quicker.....
Maybe Indiana has guards that can play a pack-line defense but they don't have the size at guard to bother a Geo Baker.
Maybe if Indiana didn't shoot lights out from 3 in the 1st matchup, the 1st matchup would have looked like last night.
The silly stuff of one lineup being the solution tonight makes no sense.....RU controlled the game in Bloomington wire to wire and outside of a very erratic 1st 8 to 10 minutes tonight, controlled the tempo and dictated play.
And despite what matchup you want to equate this to, when Myles Johnson gets dunk after dunk and erases 5 shots in the 1st game and 7 tonight, it is the matchup with the opponent.
RU could have run any combination of lineups with Myles and Geo and Indiana does not offer an answer for either player.
Onto Nebraska and for those who ignored the results of around the rest of college basketball, the teams that needed to win, fell further off the proverbial bubble.
And for those that may have missed it.....RU is at Minnesota next Saturday at Noon, on a national broadcast on FOX.....it is the 1st national broadcast of RU basketball that has ever happened in recent memory.....that doesn't include ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, BTN, etc.
It is a big change of scenery to have RU in their final regular season B1G game, land on a national broadcast on FOX.....does that impact perception in the region.....YEP......does that mean it impacts recruiting (even in a small way.....)...?? YEP......does that mean the rebuild and job done over these last 3 years has been pretty much cemented a status that RU has arrived??? YEP......
Maybe RU is more athletic and quicker.....
Maybe Indiana has guards that can play a pack-line defense but they don't have the size at guard to bother a Geo Baker.
Maybe if Indiana didn't shoot lights out from 3 in the 1st matchup, the 1st matchup would have looked like last night.
The silly stuff of one lineup being the solution tonight makes no sense.....RU controlled the game in Bloomington wire to wire and outside of a very erratic 1st 8 to 10 minutes tonight, controlled the tempo and dictated play.
And despite what matchup you want to equate this to, when Myles Johnson gets dunk after dunk and erases 5 shots in the 1st game and 7 tonight, it is the matchup with the opponent.
RU could have run any combination of lineups with Myles and Geo and Indiana does not offer an answer for either player.
Onto Nebraska and for those who ignored the results of around the rest of college basketball, the teams that needed to win, fell further off the proverbial bubble.
And for those that may have missed it.....RU is at Minnesota next Saturday at Noon, on a national broadcast on FOX.....it is the 1st national broadcast of RU basketball that has ever happened in recent memory.....that doesn't include ESPN, ESPN2, FS1, BTN, etc.
It is a big change of scenery to have RU in their final regular season B1G game, land on a national broadcast on FOX.....does that impact perception in the region.....YEP......does that mean it impacts recruiting (even in a small way.....)...?? YEP......does that mean the rebuild and job done over these last 3 years has been pretty much cemented a status that RU has arrived??? YEP......
njh....agree with everything except this is 2021. young people stream on fox sports app. fox, fs1, btn it is all there. when it isnt (which is rare) go to espn app
Very good post. I think that the issues that Indy had were a factor, so it's perceptive that you mentioned it. Thompson was wearing a mask for the first time and Franklin only played 17 minutes due to injury. RU played good D in the second half and obviously hitting their shots were the main factors in the win, but Thompson and Franklin are good players and they weren't at full capacity last night.
That’s part of the grind in the BIG. We went through it as well. I have no sympathy for Indiana as a team but hope this kids come back from their injuries.