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MINNESOTA 73, INDIANA 64: Reaction with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (2.101.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, a very frustrating I.U.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: report here tonight, a special edition as we react to Indiana's 73.64 loss on the road to Minnesota.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Grant Shouts with my Cutsal Greg Mengal Theatre produced in this and
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: Mike, I just got to say this was this is a very fresh trading loss for this program early on in the season, especially against the team that Indiana is no question of more talent to team then and Minnesota only had nine scholarship guys available at two starters that did not play in the game because of an injury.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is maybe one of the worst losses of the decade I think for this program here since and it comes in daring to raise this first loss of his Indiana career.
• 0:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, nothing like starting your December off with a Skoodle fashion quad four loss to a team that got ran by West Coast Conference teams during Feast Week.
• 1:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: to a team that probably will go one in 19 in the big dinner for being honest and it was not undeserved Indiana play by crap and
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: welcome to life on the road in the big tin.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I talked about the barn, I hate the barn, weird things happen at the barn, and even though Indiana had lost there in six years, well, guess what, they got another crappy loss of the barn.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So not a lot of highlights to talk about,
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: you're kind of driving the knife into into my side a little bit and just twisting it.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: I listen to the end with Don Fisher and Ericsson.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: You could tell an audibly frustrated Don.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's recalling the end of that game tonight where Indiana got it down to three and then uh just couldn't get over the hump.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: They were taking some bad threes when
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: But this one you're just trying to get back in the game, you can get back in the game with a two if you can get a nice look you said in our in our text or had my read Bailey is just soft and any soft and that's pathetic you can't be soft in this league.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Minnesota is running a six, seven starting center, a backup freshman, red shirt freshman who you could tell is just a tri-hard, both those guys get involved, where they put a six, 10, 373 pound should be a walk on, but somehow it has a scholarship and rebale a six points in the game.
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: with three just absolute just with the garbage they were trading out there.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you can't put up a 10 on that front record, then you don't need to be in the big 10 and everything that we've said about this team that would cause us, you know, we call bread flags that cause consternation.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: came to light.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: They, they, they, they're sharm and soft in the middle.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: They can't defend without fouling at the three point.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's aren't falling.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: What are they going to do?
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you can, if you can get devries and Wilkerson off their game, it's going to be a struggle to put points up and guess what Minnesota did, all of those things credit Nico Medvedon, he got his team back to write the ship.
• 3:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: coming off that disastrous week last week, but you can't lose that game when you break down the schedule at the start of every year, there's games that you just absolutely have to have on the road in the big ten at Minnesota.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a gimmie.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a gift.
• 4:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you get Minnesota for one of your roadgames, you have to take advantage.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Indiana just simply did not come prepared, it looked like even prepared to play tonight.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was just a bad all-around performance, horrible execution on offense, just an absolutely invisible performance by Tucker DeVries.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of questions now because the schedule doesn't
• 4:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Just an absolute joke of a game from this theme.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're right, playing Minnesota on the road at the barn is the game that you should win comfortably every time.
• 4:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: The good news is in the NFL will play this theme again later this year, at assembly hall, the last, I believe it's the last or second to last game of the regular season, and it's at home.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that's a good thing that are hopefully
• 5:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that's what's most concerning about coming out of this game is that you don't want this to be the start of the wheels to fall off the bus because there's a lot of big opportunities coming up.
• 5:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it doesn't help that Louisville lost tonight as well to Arkansas.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you get Louisville on Saturday on a neutral floor.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Indiana, we've said it time and time
• 5:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: They can't hit shots or not going to win any big thing game.
• 5:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: You can maybe get by by beat and CNN or Chicago state, or within.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you can get by beating those teams and not shooting very well, but you're not going to beat big, big, 10 teams like Minnesota, or you're not going to be not confident seems like Louisville and Kentucky.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kentucky lost on Tuesday night to North
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: hopefully Indiana will get things turned around.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: If they can bounce back and win Saturday, against Louisville, I think you kind of maybe, I think will maybe look a little differently at the Minnesota loss.
• 6:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: but this is one of the more embarrassing ones I think of the last few years, a quad four loss on the road is just a bizarre one.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like losing a by game, Mike.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just, it's embarrassing for your program.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's as close as you're gonna get to a conference game that feels like it should have been a by game.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't wanna be Mr.
• 6:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Negative about everything.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: I will say there were highlights.
• 6:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was a highlight.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like Tate and Conorway in the first half, at least, actually played well.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 6:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: The offense wasn't there for Wolkerson and DeVries in the first half, and Conorway took it up on himself.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was attacking the basket.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: He hit three, hit two, three, and the first half.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: After that, thisly came in, and since we can do some good things when he's on the core, but tonight he just put himself in a position where he couldn't play.
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: He had three fouls, and just the span of about a minute and a half.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: When he was on the court, it looked like he played better than certainly Reed Bailey.
• 7:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: They debuted the Serbian kid tonight and he was just completely lost.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: God couldn't guard a tree.
• 7:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Minnesota was just attacking him right off the dribble as soon as he went in.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he had a little bit of a lead and it went away.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm just mostly disappointed with the freeze man.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would tuck her.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, first half huge moment in the game.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like Indiana has run a lead up to 29, 22.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: He gets a steal.
• 7:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Looks like he's going to run down and just get an easy dunk, but he just kind of loafed.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I felt like he just kind of half asked it.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he thought anybody on Minnesota was going to hustle back and guess what?
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: This kid from Minnesota beats him down
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then after that, instead of being up 31, 22, you stay at 29, 22, and guess what, at half time, it was 33, 33.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Game up at least 11 points.
• 8:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can think of offence of rebounds in the first half.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even want to think about what the second half did.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sam Alexis has to start.
• 8:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the read Bailey experiment, maybe try them off the bench.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you can add an element off the bench that we don't see.
• 8:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sam Lexus is just his athleticism is just it's there.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's the only interior athlete that this team has and he's got to play he's got to play more They're going about 50-50 with the center minutes.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that needs to be at least 60-40 Sam Lexus at this point
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Alright, you might as well have just shot me when you said that.
• 9:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's horrible to get out rebounded in a big dinghy like that.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: especially when I think you probably hold the size advantage.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a good front court.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: They weren't even playing a good front court.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a bad minute so to team.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, do you're playing coal or Michigan State or Kaufman Rinn and Jacobs in it Purdue or in off the freaking club?
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Off the court.
• 9:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Oscar Shrewt and you got E-AXL and the big 7-3 kid from Michigan and the front court,
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was constant for white guys with a collective six vows in their name on the front court and they're going to just bully you inside it's and there's a way to construct it was up the things that we were most concerned about a sample size of exactly one big ten game for them to come out and say okay yeah this is going to be a problem.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's one thing to lose the game like this when you're playing Michigan on the road or Purdue or Michigan State, but Minnesota at Minnesota, this cannot happen.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think you can kind of live with a loss like this where they didn't play well against.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: One of those themes I just mentioned, but inexcusable losing to Minnesota at the barn just absolutely embarrassing.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I hope they can, I hope they get some things corrected.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: The problem is this is even in their bygames, and they're the non-conference games.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: They, they put too much on display for for other teams on film.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: They put too much of their weaknesses on film so far.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Kind of their struggle against the current word and kind of their struggle against London
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: they put way too much on film for these other teams that have good coaches that watch film to go in and pull from and say hey we can attack them on they don't rebound the basketball very well we can force them the shoot tough shots they don't want to go to the rim they want to shoot a bunch of threes so i think we got some fools gold there in the exhibition game
• 11:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: They just are going to have to hit shots in these games when we sound like a broken record guys, but that's just the fact of the matter, Tucker de Vries isn't hitting.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're not going to win.
• 11:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Lamar Wilkerson's not hitting.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: You're not winning.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: and you don't want to live and die by the three.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully Indiana can get this thing right with Darren de Vries and because this is a Mike Woodson Archie Miller level of laws and not so sure how much of this is really Darren de Vries is fault.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Indiana just couldn't execute tonight and they got outplayed by a bad Minnesota teams.
• 11:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Minnesota was the better team and deserve to win.
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: The big question is, how do they how do they bounce back?
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the first real sign of adversity that this team has faced all year.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, and and Don Fisher pointed out on the radio that they play 12 games together.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: This group even going back to when they played down in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 12:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they didn't even lose down there.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is the first time this group is lost since they all came to Indiana.
• 12:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: and it's not going to be easier on Saturday.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can assure you of that.
• 12:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're coming on, Louisville coming in out their first loss, but talent-wise, Louisville is leaps and bounds better than Indiana.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Other than Tucker to freeze and Lamar, I don't know who if any would start on Louisville's team from Indiana.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I agree.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lamar would be tough because they've got my cow brown junior, the point guard, the freshman, the phenom, Isaac McNeely, the dead eye shooter who came in from Virginia.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Ryan Conwell, the indie kid who played at ISU and played at Xavier.
• 13:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't even know if Lamar would start on that front line.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Lobel's gonna be better at every position probably.
• 13:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: The one thing I could say that's good, but I would have said this about Minnesota is Louis will does not abuse you in the front court.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe the rebounding disadvantage won't be there, but a Minnesota had about a D2 front line tonight and absolutely abused a knee-hand on the board.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't really expect to see much improvement in that standpoint either.
• 13:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, just all around.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'll say this, I get start to Big Ten Play.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: You wanted to get your leg up in the conference.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: Next week, you got Penn State.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Two years ago, they curb stomped in Indiana at assembly hall.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you just can't have that next week and against another Big Ten team, another Big Ten program that's like Minnesota.
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're not known for their basketball.
• 14:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a football school.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I can't even find a coach.
• 14:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: So Penn State, Penn State's coming with some Jews for conference play.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a Penn State program that beat Purdue last year at Penn State.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they know how to win these big games against, against solid teams.
• 14:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: I still think Indiana is a good team.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I still think they're capable of winning a bunch of games.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: But tonight was not one of them and tonight's not going to win you a bunch of games if you keep playing like that.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's all I've got to say.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Turn the page.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm done with that one.
• 14:52
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