All the missed free throws. It seems like everytime I looked up, they were clanging another one off the front of the rim. What’s the point of getting to the line if you don’t sink the freebies? I was impressed with the foul management, though. As long as we’re shorthanded, PFs are going to have a much larger effect than if we had a full roster. Kudos to Mike Washington for not having to miss significant portions of the game due to foul trouble.

I hope I don’t have to listen to Bobby Knight every time the Hogs play this year.

I agree with what MexiHog said in his FanPost: I like the way Nobles plays the point. Which is to say, I like the way the Hogs move the ball with him at the helm. With Fortson last year, there was lots of standing around as he dribbled all over the place.

I hope Fortson pulls his thing together and comes back soon, but if/when he does, I hope he plays more like a traditional point guard.

I too appreciated much of Knight’s commentary. As a neophyte to the strategy of the game that is informed only by games of half court in neighborhood driveways, I found his analysis to to refreshingly understated and insightful. He helped me understand the game and he didn’t annoy the crap out of me like most of the color analysts do. Not only were his observations about the lack of set-up for Rotnei informative, I also appreciated his counterpoint to Pelphrey’s ideas about discipline. Pleprhrey benches. Knight runs em. I agree more with the latter. Of course Knight forgot to mention that he then throws chairs at his players too!