Comments on: Ohio State destroys Bulldogs 96-49

By: Lurking_Michael

Lurking_Michael — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:30:22 +0000

True. I think we’ve seen some glimpses of what the team’s weaknesses are (Cunningham was having his way inside at times), but there are so many areas that are strengths that the Buckeyes almost have to have an off night in multiple positions to get beat. We know that they are vulnerable in the paint against big teams. Lauderdale was kind of terrible last night (when he existed at all), but it didn’t matter. And, we know they can go through cold streaks with their outside shooting.

The great thing is that if Diebler is cold, Lighty and Buford are there. If Sully’s drawing attention, the three-point shots rain down. The teams that will give us trouble are teams with good perimeter defending that also have good size and depth inside (i.e. plenty of fouls to give), and who can attack Sully/Dallas inside and draw early fouls. We don’t have much behind Sully and Lauderdale inside. Tony White was dead on last night when he said if teams make Sullinger work and commit fouls on the defensive end, OSU is vulnerable.

This team will go as far as the defense takes them. If they continue getting extra possessions by creating turnovers and if the guards continue to help rebound rather than take off, assuming Sully will get it, this can be a very special season.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:13:31 +0000

Hanging with Georgetown impresses me a lot more than UNC these days, but it still says a lot about Asheville. And lets be honest, the Bulldogs put up here and there throughout the game – and even won some of the 4 minute periods. But they just couldn’t compete with OSU’s talent, nor their ability to adjust to what Asheville was trying to do.

This team as it stands now is disgustingly good. Something clicked a couple of games ago against IUPUI and they’ve been rolling over folks ever since. I doubt they can keep it up forever, but when it does end I’m sure it’ll be a valuable learning experience.

By: Lurking_Michael

Lurking_Michael — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:21:13 +0000

It was great to see the defensive tenacity displayed by the bench players last night. They fought hard defensively on every possession right to the end, and turned the final score into a pretty embarrassing one. And that was against a team that hung in there at North Carolina and Georgetown. The future looks very bright if we can keep some of these kids for more than a year or two.