Hi, you doing, everybody, I'm keed bike Offfin.

Welcome to The Peak's postgame Live Nebraska edition.

Indiana.

I thought I was going to be doing a much different show earlier today than what we have to do today.

Indiana was rolling, had a nine point lead at halftime, had built a sixteen point lead by the I can't remember now in the mark a sixteen point second half lead at the very least, and then everything just fell apart.

We're talking turnovers, we're talking poor offensive execution, We're talking, you know, just silky soft defense.

And Nebraska very good team comes back, shoots fifty six point seven percent in the second half, eight of sixteen from three point in the second half.

Loan scores fifty three points and walks away eighty three seventy seven winners here at Simon Scott Assembly Hall.

Had disappointed Simon Scott Assembly Hall.

It was not at all what I think people expected.

It would be eight one, two, three, nine three.

Twenty six hundred is the number we're taking calls here if you'd like to talk about this.

This basketball game kind of an.

Odd game in that early in the first half.

This is the kind of thing that really pisses people off about Big Ten basketball.

In the first half, files were hard to come by.

Indiana and Nebraska played nearly six minutes of almost whistle free basketball to open this game.

Nebraska was called for three files in the first half.

Indiana was called for four files in the second half.

It didn't go crazy after halftime.

Nebraska was called for nine files, Indiana for eleven.

But they were playing the exact same way.

And part of what led to Indiana kind of allowing that sixteen point lead to escape itself had to do with their reaction to what was being called and not being called by officials.

That has to do with mental toughness.

That has to do with overcoming some adversity and keeping your focus.

But there's no question that impacted this game.

The officiating impacted this game, and the way the team reacted impacted this game, and you could see Indiana's body language change.

Energy was pretty decent through most of the first half.

Ball movement for both teams was excellent.

In the second half, Nebraska continued to move the ball well to find ways to get to the basket in Indiana was not as sharp.

The energy wasn't as as good, and once Indiana's shots stopped going down.

They were starting.

To be able to Nebraska was starting to get to a role knock down some threes, build some confidence, and the Hoosiers got overwhelmed by the Wave essentially.

So, I mean, it is frustrating because this was a game that you just feel that this was an opportunity that got away from the Hoosiers and it's a shame.

It's a real shame.

Also a shame.

You know.

Lamar Wilkerson had a great game in this one.

He puts together thirty two points a nine of twenty, shooting five of eleven from three point range, made all nine of his free throw attempts, added four rebounds in four versus just two turnovers, played thirty nine minutes, was just minus two on the day, and it's wasted at fifteen points in the first half, seventeen points in the second half, and he didn't get a lot of help.

Tucker Tobris finished six to thirteen from the floor of its seventeen points, three of eight from a three point range, made both of his free throw attempts, six rebounds, three assists, three turnovers, and two steals.

I still don't feel Tucker played all that well.

He got beat defensively a few times.

The turnovers were very costly.

I felt that his body language was a bit of a problem in this one.

And the Hoosiers lost.

Not because of Tucker debris.

I mean, the seventeen points was solid, but you just needed just more poise.

I guess from your senior two thousand points score, he needs to show up in a big way.

And he got his points, but I don't know that it was really a situation where Indiana just really built on it.

He was the only other starter to score in double figures the other three starters.

Talking about Sam Alexis two points on one of one shooting, played just ten minutes because he was being outplayed completely by Reed Bailey connor Enright, he plays thirty four points minus sixteen on the day, four points, two of five shooting, two rebounds, two assists, He had a turnover, three files called on him.

Tayton Connorway three points, one of four shooting, five rebounds, five assists, three turnovers, twenty seven minutes.

When you have three of your five starters be.

So unproductive and not then replace that with production in other places, it gets real, real hard to win.

And that's kind of where Indiana was eight one, two, three nine three twenty six hundred is the number Chat says lost a sixteen point lead at home embarrassing.

Yeah.

I don't disagree with that.

I really don't disagree with that, because this was an opportunity for Indiana and Nebraska is a good basketball team.

I'm not saying they aren't.

But the reason Indiana lost this game is they got away from what they are and what they do well, and that is why they lost this game.

They got rattled, I think from an emotional standpoint because of some of the officiating, and officiating didn't cost Indiana the game.

Get don't get me wrong, That's not what I'm saying, but it is a outing that, Hey, you know what, this is the kind of thing that doesn't help build with the fan base.

I'll say that because you had a pretty solid crowd here at Simon Scott Assembly Hall.

You had plenty of people who were excited to come and cheer on the Hoosiers.

Big big ups to Don Fisher who made it back on the team flight last night, was able to get here and do a fantastic game.

I was sitting right next to him, and so Fish, you know, was a little grumpy, but that's all right, that's how fish is he.

There's some other media members that made that trip back and came right here.

There's plenty of dedication to be found, and the dedication of these Hoosier fans.

We're here the last game without the students being back, being able to bring some energy to the building.

They did that.

But when you see a team.

Lose a sixteen point lead at home the way Indiana did in the second half, it is just incredibly disappointing.

And this is a team that has not exactly connected with the fans, and games like this won't help that connection at all.

It won't help that connection at all.

And it is a problem.

You know, it is a problem because the Hoosiers just with football sucking so much of the oxygen out of the room, and understandably so, people have been dying for I use football to be great or good, hell not great, but good for a very long time.

Being able to come out and cheer on this basketball team and put their belief behind this basketball team, it's something these people really really want.

They live through the frustration of the Mike Woodson years.

They've lived through the frustration of the Archie Miller years.

What we see from Darren Debreeze's team is night and day better than what was the case with Mike Woodson's style of play.

I still think that this will be a successful way for Indiana to play, but short term inconsistency is going to be the name of the game.

That's that's really the key here.

But you know, when you're up sixteen points with seventeen forty two to play, you still have a sixteen point lead, with sixteen fifty four to play, it's fifty one to thirty five, you are rolling, You're in good shape, and by the eleven thirty five markets all over it's a tie ball game at fifty five six men, and they just erased it.

And it was.

Loss of composure, turnovers, poor defense, the ball not moving like it previously had really really frustrating outing for the Hoosiers.

I went through some of the individual stats here with the starters.

I wanted to take a look at the bench.

Reed Bailey, who has been up and down, to say the least, had a nice game.

I felt he came to play ten points on four or five shooting, He added nine rebounds, had just one turnover, had a steal in thirty minutes, and he was battling inside.

Because Nebraska is a versatile, quality team.

It's a good team, and that's why when you get a team down by sixteen by just being you, you have to continue to be you.

And once you get out of that, it all fell apart real, real quick.

But Reed Bailey had a very nice game.

He was played tough around the basket.

I give him a lot of credit because there's some beef down there with Nebraska and Bailey was giving up some pounds, but he was able to come back and turned in a good game.

Nick Dorn six points on two of five, shooting, both of those shots from three point range, but no rebounds, had the one assists, had a turnover played nineteen minutes.

Only player no.

Tucker Devreeze was plus five, was plus one.

Trent Sisley three points on one of three shooting, All of those came from three point range.

He had just one rebound in fourteen minutes.

Would like to see a little more production out of him, and you know he's a freshman, so there's that.

But what you just had was too many guys on the floor who didn't have the kind of production you need.

To win games like this, and it isn't just all about stats.

It's about sticking with your guy, it's about not chasing your guy, about being tough enough to anticipate the screens, get around the screens.

Things like of that nature help communicate.

And so you know, it's an interesting thing with Indiana football and basketball because football, obviously, people are very connected to that team, and part of it is because of the success that they've had.

You know, if something brings you joy, you're gonna feel more connected to it than one that brings you a little bit of frustration.

But by that same token, it really is a matter of you have to be what you are and being consistent with it.

And by what you are I mean is when you're playing best, the ball is moving the uh, you are getting production, tough minutes from multiple guys on a consistent basis.

And there's just too much up and down on this roster, including in the especially in the starting lineup to where you know you might have Tatan Connorway have a great game one and not as good as today.

He wasn't awful today, but he didn't didn't give Indiana the boost that they've they've needed, and defensively.

Again, Indiana did not do a good job defensively at all.

Nebraska shoots forty eight point three percent from the floor overall, but fifty six point seven percent after a halftime.

They go fourteen to thirty four from three point range, which is forty one point two percent, sixteen from three after halftime, eleven or fourteen from the free throw line after halftime, just three turnovers after halftime.

Now contrast that, or compare that with Indiana, and after shooting the ball well in the first half, Indiana shoots thirty six point seven percent after the break, five of sixteen from three point range and turns the ball over seven times.

And that's how you have a team with a sixteen point lead, watch it evaporate and get beat comfortably.

That is a nine point game a little bit later.

That swing a twenty six point swing in the span of a sixteen minute time at home with the crowd behind you.

That's really frustrating to deal with.

Eight one two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number I want to hear from you.

It is a again, it's it's just the frustration is building because you have teams that are can make things happen.

Pecan Pie's a fantastic name.

He says, great show.

I don't know about great show.

It's just look, it is a team that just needs to be a lot damn better than it is.

And it isn't a talent issue.

We see it.

It's a consistency issue.

It is a team that needs to show better poise when things aren't going right.

It needs to be able to and it's it's a veteran team that needs to be able to calm down and just run its game.

And you're not seeing that again.

Officials didn't cost Indiana the game.

Indiana's reaction to officials absolutely did.

That absolutely happened.

Now, hoping to find find some phone calls.

But I understand it.

If if you know after that that high a football and the low of what we saw today, nobody wants to to really rehash this one.

I understand that completely.

But in the meantime, let's go ahead and hear from Darren Devrees during his postgame press conference.

By the way, players were not made available after the game today, which is unusual.

Don't read anything into it, but players were not made available.

My thing has always been if players are available after wins, they should be available after losses as well, but we will see.

You know, again, it's not a trend.

It's not Indiana trying to hide anything or anything, so so don't don't go down rabbit holes.

On this thing.

It's unusual.

But this was a pretty bad loss.

And again, if you're going to be there when you win, you should be out there when you lose.

But that's not how it played out for the time being.

Let's hear from Darren Devrees during his postgame press conference.

Coach, they scored fifty three in the second half, You guys felt like you did a really good job, especially later in the first half with the defense.

What maybe, in your eyes went wrong there in the second half defensively for them to It's hard to win when you give up fifty three on a home court.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I think the number one thing was just the paint touches they got.

There were some high ball screens and things that we messed up, some switches which we did a good job of, you know, for the good part of the game, and then second half, we didn't communicate that well enough and they were able to get to the rim and got a few free throws.

Early there to start, and got some of those paint touches and then a few of the live ball turnovers.

You know, the fourteen turnovers is just, you know, it's a pretty simple deal.

You take care of the basketball, you win the game.

And you know, we got that lead and then we had I don't know, four out of five possessions.

I think we turned the ball over during a ten ozer run when we had to lead up to sixteen.

And it's just, you know, something that you just can't do if you're going to beat a good team.

In the speech you had with the team after the last one, you said, this is a really good team.

You kind of had a chance to prove it out there.

You had them down how much how hard is it when you have them beat and it just kind of crumbles like that.

You know, it was a quad one opportunity and it just you know.

Yeah, it's disappointing for sure.

Like it's you know, we played well for a good you know, twenty five, twenty seven, twenty eight minutes whatever, and then just had a bad stretch in there and the game game flipped.

And that's why, you know, the turnovers are a big piece of that.

You know, I thought, you know, we had I can't remember.

It was fifteen or sixteen, and and Tucker picked up his third and fourth foul on back to back possessions, and then they went on a ten all run right after that.

So that was a big turning point in the game.

I thought, uh, you know where he picked those two up?

Yeah, coach, the the ability to sustain what you did so well for like the first twenty five minutes, you know, the key to that, and how do you grow from this?

Learn from this?

Yeah, something I talked to the team about and we've been talking to the team about.

You know, when when they're executing it, you know, the way that they did the first twenty five minutes, it it looks really good and they're they're doing a great job, and they're defending and you know, getting movement and things.

But as soon as you get away from that a little bit, and now the turnovers or or maybe the lack of communication on a few of those possessions, now of a sudden that everything you built up for twenty five minutes.

Goes away in a hurry.

And and that's something that you know, we've had a few moments this year where that's happened, and you know, we've talked to them a lot about it's that next play mentality, when that next play and not compound mistakes.

And I thought, I thought tonight again, first stretch, there's there's a period where we let one mistake turn into two and then instead of digging in and really, you know, making sure now we get a quality possession, the next time, we compounded it with another turnover and it led it back to back to back and all of a sudden, your.

Lead is gone and momentum is real.

And it shifted pretty quickly there.

And yeah, Darren, after Tucker picks up those two questionable calls, gets us forth, what did you need to see from the other guys in that situation when you don't have Tucker on the floor.

I think the same thing they've done all year.

I mean, it's not like he hasn't been on the floor you know before, you know, they've always done a great job.

I just think we didn't have the type of possessions we needed after he went out again, and most of them it was just turnover, so we didn't even get shots at the goal.

I thought might have one or.

Two in there where I think Melamar drove it hard and you know, tried going through contact whatever done and we didn't you know, get one there.

But outside of that, we just didn't get very good possessions.

You know, our movement wasn't as good.

That's when we were really get them was getting them side to side, getting them in angles and getting a paint touch and then a kickout three.

I thought we looked just a little stagnant and stood around a little bit, and that allowed them just to kind of sit in their gaps and you know, could load up on us.

They're and on your left.

Obviously they were able to set their defense when they got those turnovers and we're able to get run outs.

Did you see them change anything in the second half differently than what they were doing and what you were able to break down in the first half.

Not really, you know, they they were a little little more hugged up, which is.

Even for them.

Throughout the game.

They weren't pulled over quite as far as they normally are on some of the stuff because they'd really kind of zone up a man to man, so typically you don't get to the rim very often.

They don't give up very many two's, you know, My guess is they were a little more concerned with their shooting, so we are to get more opportunities at the rim tonight when we got them moving as long as we got them in actions, you know.

So I thought for the most part, we scored plenty of points minus the turnovers.

It's it wasn't I mean, our offense was the turnovers, but it wasn't necessarily our offense that got us beat.

It was the turnovers and then the defensive breakdowns in the second half.

That was the biggest difference.

You can't give can't give up fifty plus points at all.

It just can't happen.

Do you as a coach, do you ever have a love hate relationship with the three pointer?

Not really, I mean it's you know, a big part of what we do obviously, when you when you are a three point shooting team, it's it's you want to make sure you're getting the type of threes, the quality threes that you want to get.

That that's important.

Uh, but you know, we.

We recruit to it, we play to it.

It's all about just making sure though that that you get some and there was a there's probably you know, a few in the second half that were I thought we got a little anxious trying trying to get it back on a couple of possess since instead of relying on some movement to then get a better one, you know, And that's more just you know, being better on offense than it is about, you know, whether you shoot two many threes or not shoot two may threes.

Oh yeah, they shoot a lot too.

They shoot I think when they get thirty four of them up tonight.

So yeah, they spread you out as well, and that that's you know, similar to us.

That that's where you've got decisions to make on how much can you help in those gaps and take away the threes, And now all of a sudden you get some driving opportunities, which I thought they did a good job of taking advantage over in the second half.

I know you've talked so much about just the emphasis of not turning the ball over and how big that is to kind of win games consistently, But it seems like there's been ebbs and flows about the season.

You guys really started the season taking care of the ball pretty well.

Then you kind of had a rut where you were turning it over more, and then it kind of keeps it back up today as a coach, like in game, how do you kind of try to stem the tide with the turnovers?

And it seems like a lot of them today were kind of self inflicted mistakes, not them doing anything else.

How Like how do you communicate with the players and try to change the momentum and that's happening so often.

Yeah, And we told the guys at halftime, I think we had six turnovers and I felt like a lot of those were just self inflicted.

It wasn't even them you know, being aggressive and coming you know, raking the ball out or something.

They were just you know, those type of turnovers that you just you just hate as a coach.

And if we would turn it over, told them, if we turn it over, you know five or less times in the second half, we're gonna we're gonna win the game.

Uh.

And we did.

We just didn't do it.

And I thought that again, that that just won the game.

Thanks good, Thank you all.

So there's Darren Devrees from his postgame press conference.

As I switched the camera back on a one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number and the key to there.

What he just said to me has to do with the fact that he talked about how the defense went away and the energy went away, and the consistency went away with when they were a couple of files that were called, and that to me, you need to be tougher than that, especially at home, especially at home.

Now on the chat Pecan Pie's p I Z E.

Which I like that little name there, he said, I could see this season really getting way, getting away from debrees and with everyone done, getting people excited for next year as a problem.

Hold on, this is the portal you're a U of L was a much bigger rebuild.

Yeah, and you.

Know that's I've talked a little bit before about how I view this team that he came on, and let's get there, let's get comfortable, and then we will bring in this roster and try to win, you know, trying to win.

He wants his his son, certainly, to go out on a high note.

A lot of these guys, our seniors, they want to go out on a high note.

And a lot of these.

Guys have bounced around to a lot of places though, and so there's a certain ch sinary feel to it.

And so is next year the year that you judge him on a little bit more under normal circumstances.

Yeah, that would be the case.

And I know Indiana fans are going to look at at Kurt Signetti and be well, what the hell?

This is his second year, he's playing for a national championship, And it's it's a fair, fair argument because that it's a different sport.

But turnarounds can happen pretty quickly.

And what we've seen so far from this IU team this year, again, the style of play is more fun, more pealing than what Mike Woodson was bringing to the floor.

But the inconsistency is a problem.

And when you talk about the season kind of starting to maybe get away, Indiana right now sits at twelve and four overall, three and two in the Big Ten, ten and one at home, and now you lose on this sixteen point lead to Nebraska and you end up losing by six.

You got Michigan State in East Lansing on Tuesday, and in the best of times, that's a tough game.

You have Iowa back here at home, but then you got to go to Michigan next a week from Tuesday, the day after the title game, you got to go on the road to Rutgers and you got perdue.

It doesn't get easier.

This was a game that.

You had every opportunity to build some momentum in Indiana allowed it to escape their grasp, and to me, that is the biggest shame of this this game is the opportunity was there, and the group of veteran college players, even if they weren't wearing cream and Crimson the whole time, allowed it to get away from them.

Obviously, Nebraska is good.

They had something to do with it.

But the energy in the last three quarters of the second half was not great and it's a concern to say the least eight d is the number we got, can't we got?

You know, the lines are open, but the chat is busy.

That's good, Dabney offer means as very disappointing second half.

Although it was predictable, it's gut wrenching.

The turnovers are bad and the bad off balance shots when the game was still close.

I thought the shot selection was a little shaky as well.

I agree with you completely there, Dabney.

Absolutely, sixteen point lead is usually lost with bad coaching.

Yes, and the fact that the again the shot selection we've seen this all year.

You like to get shots up.

You like to shoot in volume, and that's fine, but when a lead is shrinking, that's when you have to value the ball.

You have to lock it up and understand the difference between getting a shot up and getting in getting off balance shots.

And some of those off balance shots were coming because the shot clock was winding down.

By the flip side of that, Just defend or just keep the ball moving the way that you did in the first half, and you found your look, and that's what's frustrating.

Pecan Pie says he can't shoot for the players, but he is accountable for him, no question, no question.

This was an opportunity quad one win was on the table and Indiana had it.

Like I said, I thought I was going to be doing a much different show than what we have at this point.

And now you're staring down this gauntlet where Michigan State is your next battle, and you could you know it's the Big ten.

Baby.

It does not get easy right down the way Michigan State, Iowa, Michigan, Rutgers, Purdue, UCLA, USC gonna hate those games so much.

Five o'clock tip off at on January thirty.

First, Fine, it's the ten o'clock tip off at USC at least that one is on the road.

I mean, look, it's a gauntlet, and had they won this game, I think everybody would feel a little bit different about this season and how it has been going.

And you know at this point that you can stick with any you know, some of the better teams and build a good lead and give yourself an opportunity.

And when you allow it to go away, it's obviously a problem.

It's obviously a problem.

Yeah, eight, one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number.

I'm not going to beat this horse into a pulp because it is what it is.

Lamar Wilkerson did not get a lot of help from his teammates today, playing and simple thirty two points.

He was consistent and fantastic, and I liked what I saw from him.

The rest of the Hoosiers might have had moments, but didn't give me nearly the consistency that Indiana will need.

And you play a full game and you only force eight turnovers, that's frustrating.

They means your defense is not as active as it needs to be.

Indiana, I thought, rebounded relatively well considering their lack of size boards, were thirty one thirty one.

Indiana had sixteen assists on twenty six made baskets, but it wasn't enough.

Eleven to thirty from three point range overall and just an overall frustrating day.

Nebraska won this thing from beyond the arc fourteen of thirty four and for Nebraska eleven of thirty.

Indiana loses by six the nine point difference.

They're in the three point battle, but Indiana made three more free throws, hence your six point loss.

But you had Nebraska on the ropes not to go Dennis Green, but they had him and they let him off the hook.

And now you have to try to battle back by going on the road and playing in Michigan State.

It's going to be a challenge.

You also allowed Nebraska when you're trying to close out a game.

Nebraska made five of its last seven shots because Indiana looked tired, was scrambling on the floor and just couldn't defend the way they needed to.

And that's how you lose at home eighty three seventy seven.

When you had an opportunity and a big lead in the second half, it gets away from them.

It's a shame, but.

It is what it is, and on a Saturday here at Simon Scott Assembly Hall, I'm not going to again just beat this thing anymore than I already have.

It's a loss.

You move on, You let an opportunity slip away, and now you do the best that you can to bounce back against Michigan State before you come back here next weekend and take on Iowa.

We'll see how it goes.

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