buddha

I'm as doom and gloom about this team as anyone, but they could still win this series.

orlando isnt that good.  the pistons could get better shooting and/or a supercade game and win 3 straight against this team.

not likely, but not impossible.  ask tracy mcgrady.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

TBF, schools do make a huge effort in recent years to help athletes go to school if they want to, I'm sure that is as true at OSU as at UM. But while you can lead a horse to water....

you can lead a horse to taking advanced CPR and 5 independent study courses, but you cant make him drink!

37 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

you're right, but OTOH, the NCAA and B1G are at least as full of academic cheating stories as academic success stories so a casual reader is just going to see it fitting into the assumed narrative. And just to beat an old point into the ground, it's the problem of social media factoids being out there with no context. Was he talking about graduating from an accredited program or about just skating by? You can't tell that from the one line post.

its funny because its osu, but it goes on everywhere.  the idea that most bball or football players go to michigan for the academics is silly.

osu has so many university wide scandals right now theyre beginning to rival michigan!  

59 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

It is so funny how this is being spun. Also, OSU aside, why is everyone attacking Arvell Reese, suddenly? Like every post on r/NFL and r/CFB is dragging this guy. I have never seen him get in trouble, talk trash, being a diva, a-hole, etc - Dude barely talked during his time at OSU. 

I had a 2.5 GPA in high school but turned it around in college and graduated with honors on the dean's list. Does that mean my college sucked or does it mean I actually applied myself in college? Weird thing to rip on a person for. Dude bettered himself and people are using it tear him and OSU down. Weird. 

1) i'm sure this is all exaggerated.

2) osu football players do not go to class.  this is a joke.  big time college athletics is professional football and making them go through this charade is stupid.  this is just another example of that.

3) as someone whose kid is applying to universities and seeing how hard it is to get in, this is obnoxiously annoying.  no one with a high school gpa of less than 1 belongs in any college.  whether you can play football or not.

4) reese is not horatio alger.  give me a break.

if they lose in 5, the cya stories will start.  about how trajan knew they werent ready yet and that's why he didnt go all in.  youre already starting to see it.  he "wanted to see how they would react to the pressure" or some bs like that.

the team needes shooting and you traded for robinson and heurter.  both of whom stink.  i get that beasley screwed you over, but you had all year to watch the team without him and yoy chose to do nothing about it.

the team needed other ball handlers besides cade and you stuck with danniss jenkins.  with predictable results.

there were decent role players available and they chose to do nothing.  you could have made a play for cj mccollum and overpaid, perhaps it was wise not to do so?

the easiest thing to do was to do nothing.  and that's what he did.

2 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

BTW 8 blocks in 17 minutes for Stewart.  

duren has 7 blocks in four games.

cade was garbage.  i know he's super cool dude now with his GQ cover story, but can he actually play hard and locked in for 40 minutes?  he didnt have it tonight and they needed him to be super cade.

why?  because the rest of the team blows.  ausar cant score.  duren has been exposed.  duncan is cooked.  

and where is ron holland?  is he THAT bad that he cant even get on the floor?

duncan robinson and tobias' contracts were made to be traded.  shoot, a lot of us thought that was why they got robinson in the first place.  tobias and him would come off the books for abput 45-50 mil.

duren was young enough to get some real bids.  and you have 5 first rounders and multiple seconds to trade.

what did we do?  nothing.  improved our draft slot by 8.

trajan is either smart enough to know this team was overrated, or dumb enough to think they didnt need help to compete.  i'm not sure which yet.

10 minutes ago, NYLion said:

I know he has no help but Cade is overrated guys. He's not a true star, very good player but not a star that takes over games. For this reason, you have to let go of Duren and Ausar because he needs a lot of help and neither of these two is it. Good thing that the playoffs exposed this before they did something foolish like max Duren which they might still do but it would be a big mistake.

keep ausar and trade duren.

its too late though.  trajan sat on his ass and did nothing to help the team.  now he's stuck with this core, which is about to get prohibitively expensive.

2 minutes left in the game and who is taking a wide open 3 to pull within 1?

daniss jenkins.

fyi: he missed.

and he banks in a 3.  are you kidding me?

Just now, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Why is JB putting Olden Polynice back in the game?

can we trade his rights for scottie pippen?

cade misses and duren gets outrebounded AGAIN by wendall freaking carter.

why why why take out stew?  

stewart should be playing 40 minutes.  so much bettee defense when he's on the floor.

tobias with a brick.  they needed that.  wide open 3.

pistons need a stop and jb brings in stew for duren.

baby steps to coaching.

ausar doesnt box out = cain dunk

lazy cade defense and weak duren defense = poster dunk.

scott foster knows the assignment.

stew with 12 minutes and duren with 24 is coaching malpractice.

daniss jenkins and caris lavert as your backup point guards is gm malpractice.

i see weve resorted to the cade on five offense.

please get robinson off the floor

god bless isaiah stewart.

cade is back to playing like **** again.

hey, tom gores is in the house.

hide your sister-in-laws.

what we really need is for tracey mcgrady to come out and say the series is over...