[buckeyebri]

There hasn't been much talk on this forum about the team. I'm not sure if that is due to lack of interest in basketball or just lack of interest in the current version of the team.

Where do you go from here with this team? 11-11, 3-6 over halfway through the season. They are certainly not an NCAA team at their current level of play and Saturdays game against MSU confirmed that for me. I think they can at least make the NIT with a few more wins and a good showing in the Big Ten Tourney. I'm not sure they would do much there, but the experience would probably be good.

I guess until that game, I never realized how slow and weak this team was. They don't know how to switch on defense and aren't quick enough to cover the ball rotation when they do, they don't fight through screens well, and they don't get back on defense. MSU shot so well partly because their shooters were wide open all day.

The offense is equally as anemic. They aren't good at working the ball into the middle, they weren't moving well with out the ball or setting any screens to get open.

OB has to be dissapointed in the overall effort of this squad. I just don't see the talent I had expected to see on the floor this year.