IU Basketball Makes Me Sick- And Mike Woodson cannot Coach his way Out of a Box

    Oh, man. A relatively close loss. Sort of.

    No, the Hoosiers lost their bearings and let the Northwestern Wildcats punch them out. With smarts and tons of three point shots (made) off screens, all started with a couple awfully called decisions by the referees. I hate those guys, especially the ones who looked at the calls after the plays, on video.

    They played like they do when they lose. Poor choices, too many turnovers, bad passes, quite a bit of bad defense.

    And the coach. Mike Woodson. I wish the best for him, but I do not think he knows how to help these guys run an offense. They should be so much better. Lots of talent. Guys who can run, and sometimes shoot. They are relatively deep. But they play themselves into the ground.

    A coach, a good coach, would do so much better. We have suffered from poor coaches for decades now.

    Indiana cannot be Indiana without a better coach. I think it is not Woody.

    Sorry. We do need to let him go, unless they turn it around in the next few weeks, become a winning dynamo, and finish March super strong.

    We have had only two pretty good teams since 2000, when Knight was fired.

    2002 and 2013. And the latter choked, so bad. Crean and his nine years.

    Will it ever get better?

    Whoa is my Hoosiers!!

    We are destined to stink, it would seem.

    Northwestern is better. Iowa is better. Nebraska is better. Purdue is better.

    Michigan, Michigan State?

    This is just the Big Ten.

    Maryland is likely better. More athletic, smarter, better coached.

    Ugh.

    Because we have known such heights, it seems that these continuous woes of doldrums and painful players and teams hurt us more.

    Anthony Leal got called for BASKET INTERFERENCE as HE WAS FOULED AND PUSHED BELOW.

    I HATE YOU "SO CALLED" OFFICIAL REVIEWERS. YOU REALLY DO SUCK THE LIFE OUT OF WHAT SHOULD BE A BETTER GAME.

    YOU SUCK. I am glad I do not know your names. 

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    Okay, these things have made me mad, have gotten my goat. There are bigger problems in the world: fires in California, Russians and North Koreans in Ukraine, Gaza and now West Bank being pummeled. The kidnapped being returned, some with missing fingers. 

    Things can be bad. A CBP agent gets killed by a German national with a gun in a traffic stop in Vermont.

    Things could be worse than getting some missed calls and my hometown team and alma mater being whooped. And losing to Northwestern five consecutive times since 1915.

    Good grief, Charlie Brown. Things could be worse.

    But I want the Hoosiers to be what they can be. Winners. 

    At least the Huskies of UConn look like they are trending down...

    

    Schadenfreude.

    Yeah, I need some more of that.

Things will be okay. Even when we lose. It's a game.

    Nobody died. Just my hopes in a sport and team that gave me so much.