Personally, I think Crean does as much as he can with the tools available in his toolbox. That his No. 1 hammer (Blackmon) and No. 1 drill (Anunoby) broke within the last 10 days is not his fault. Indy b-ball fans are just jaded and simply looking for a scapegoat for their current mediocre record; and to me, Crean is in a no-win situation. The Who-Zit fan base expects their b-ball team to contend for the B1G championship every year and that just isn't realistic, especially since your most effective, reliable weapons are MIA. Crean can only game plan (read: teach) his troops before each game; but those athletes who get tasked to take the floor against their competition must execute that plan and plainly aren't doing the needful (read: shooting under 30%). Simply stated, these lesser players look lost without the go-to leadership of the Indy hammer and drill pair. What really hurt Crean was that 30-point drubbing handed to the Who-Zits by a mediocre Michigan team. And now, the Big, Bad Who-Zits go one further in its prime-time loss to Just Northwestern. To all those jaded Indy fans, this situation is unacceptable. For an example of a supportive fan base, look to Moo U. Noone wearing green & white is calling for Izzo's head despite his team's under-performance. Yet disgruntled Who-Zit fans troll this message board to vent their venom regarding how bad a job Crean is doing with what healthy, viable horse flesh remain in his stable. When he was winning regularly over the last several seasons, these same trolls were just ka-vitvching just because they need-to (somewhat similar to the moronic year-in & year-out unsubstantiated expectations of Noted Dames football fans). Hey, what goes around comes around; and the 2017 b-ball campaign just isn't Indy's season to shine. In the end, all I can say is: Eff-'em.
