Welcome back to another addition of the +/- Player Analysis for your 2011-2012 Indiana Hoosiers! This was a tough loss for the Hoosiers. IU had stretches of dominant play mixed in with stretches of horrendous play. How IU bounces back will be a very interesting question that will be answered on Saturday in Bloomington.
Key Players:
- Christian Watford - Watford came up huge for the Hoosiers again tonight. Watford scored 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as he passed the 1000 point scoring mark for Indiana.
- Will Sheehey - This game was built for Sheehey. I can see Sheehey playing a major role in the IU vs MSU game at Assembly Hall later in the year.
- Jordan Hulls - Hulls had one of his worst games as a Hoosier. His shots weren't falling (2-10 FG), he turned the ball over (4 TO) and he couldn't seem to get the offense moving.
+/- Player Analysis vs Stetson
*Just in case you forgot, here is a quick breakdown as to what the +/- Player Analysis is looking at. Example: Here is a quick example of how the +/- stat is determined. Zeller, Watford, VJIII, Hulls and Sheehey start the game for IU. Therefore the score is 0-0. Coach Crean makes his first substitution at 15:00 with the score IU up 15-10. Oladipo comes into the game for Sheehey. For this stint in time, Sheehey would earn a +5 (while Sheehey was in, IU increased their lead by 5 points). The Lineup of Zeller, Watford, VJIII, Hulls and Sheehey also earned a +5. This will continue throughout the game.
Game Overall
Key Takeaways:
- Being the first loss of the year, it is expected for Indiana's players to be in the red.
- Pritchard and Roth were the only Hoosier players in the green. Their positive numbers were helped during their stint in the first half with 6:29 remaining with the Hoosiers trailing 14-28. Led behind two Roth 3's, IU was able to cut the deficit to 7 points at the half. The lineup of Hulls, Watford, Oladipo, Roth and Pritchard went +7 for this 6 minute stretch.
- Jordan Hulls is an interesting story tonight. Hulls played all but 5 minutes of the game. While Hulls struggled and couldn't find his game all night, he didn't hurt the Hoosiers as bad as you might think. In fact, during the 5 minutes of the game when Hulls was out, IU was outscored by 14 points.
- Remy Abell recorded the worst Pts/Min of the season going -10 in 2 minutes of game time. Remy was a part of a two minute stretch in the first half where Michigan State increased their lead from 21-14 to 28-14.
- I cannot stress this enough, anything in the GREEN, means the player had a positive impact on the game and helped IU's chances of victory.
Key Takeaways:
- Here you can see the game flow throughout the night. The chart reads from the beginning of the game to the end from top to bottom.
- Overall, Coach Crean used 14 different combinations of players in the game. Of his 14 combinations, 4 were positive, 2 were neutral (0) and the remaining 8 were negative.
- Of all the stints in this game (19), there were 6 positive, 3 neutral and 10 negative.
- 3 units played multiple times tonight.
The best lineup of the night (+7) belongs to Hulls, Roth, Oladipo, Watford and Pritchard. This group played together once tonight in the first half. With 6:29 remaining and IU trailing 14-28, Coach Crean subbed in Hulls, Oladipo, Pritchard and Roth for VJIII, Abell, Elston and Zeller (who just went -7). This group went on a tremendous 11-0 run before losing some steam at the end of the half.
Worst Lineup of the Night:
The worst lineup of the night (-7) belongs to Abell, VJIII, Watford, Elston and Zeller. This unit played immediately before the best lineup of the night. The group entered the game at 8:41 remaining in the 1st half with IU trailing 14-21. This group was replaced with the exception of Watford at the 6:29 mark after giving up 7 unanswered points.
Season to Date:
As many people like to point out, looking at the +/- for one specific game is not entirely telling. Tracking this over the course of the year, will give a much clearer picture as to what each player brings to the team. Below is the updated season to date +/- for each player.
- All players decreased their season averages including Roth and Pritchard (who went positive)
- Cody is still the top guy in the season to date.
- Austin Etherington improved his numbers considerably during the UMBC
- Coach has used 178 different lineups this year.
- Of those 178, only 53 are negative year to date. (Increased 11)
- Best lineup is +71 (went -4 vs Mich St; Crean's favorite unit (31 times) of Hulls, Oladipo, VJ3, Watford, Zeller)
- 2nd Best Lineup is +25 (went Even vs Mich St; New Lineup of Hulls, VJIII, Oladipo, Elston and Zeller who went +7 vs Howard)
- New worst lineup is -7. (Consists of Abell, VJIII, Watford, Elston and Zeller.)
- 49 (Increase of 7 this game) lineups have been used multiple times this year.
Overall
This was one of the craziest seesaw basketball games you will ever witness. I'm not sure if there was ever a point in the game where IU and MSU exchanged buckets on continuous possessions. It seemed one team was always on a 10-0, 13-0 or even 20-0 run. IU showed great poise in the first half to come back from an 18 point deficit. To start the second half they took an 8 point lead, which most Hoosiers fans figured would spark the Hoosiers to their 13th win of the season. Michigan State had different plans as they came back on a 20-0 run to put IU out of the game. The Hoosiers have a lot of questions to answer, and there isn't much time for them to find these answers as #2 Ohio State comes to Bloomington on Saturday.
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