Over the course of the last couple of weeks, Indiana has struggled on the offensive side of the ball. Despite a 3–1 record in the last four games, the Hoosiers have managed to crack 1.00 points per possession in just one game, which is well below their efficiency numbers for the season as a whole.

Saturday’s matchup against Maryland presented a huge test for Archie Miller’s group. Coming into the game, the Terrapins were statistically one of the best defenses in the country and were essentially doing a great job of limiting everything Indiana is good at offensively:

Source: KenPom.com

It was apparent right from the jump that Indiana was going to struggle to score. The Hoosiers turned in yet another offensive masterpiece, racking up a whopping 20 points on 32 possessions in the first half on 8–30 shooting from the field. For those of you without a calculator handy, that’s a scorching hot 0.63 points per possession.

The offense was clunky in the first half. There was no rhythm, almost no open looks, and yet another scoreless stretch that spanned almost five minutes in which Indiana didn’t even come close to resembling a competent offense. Here’s the Hoosiers’ unofficial possession chart in the first half:

IU Offensive Possession Chart: 1H Maryland

IU Offensive Possession Chart: 1H Maryland

That’s just a bunch of nothing. The first half had everything that has plagued Indiana offensively this year: ill-advised Devonte Green shots, sloppy turnovers, and too many possessions where it looks like nobody has any clue what the hell they’re supposed to be doing. Indiana managed to string together consecutive scoring possessions two times in the first half. TWO! The first half box score was as ugly as it sounds.

1H Box Score

Out of the locker room, Indiana was able to find some offense, albeit ugly offense. This stretch early in the second half featured the Hoosiers’ best run of possessions that didn’t include garbage time. The lineup of Devonte Green, Armaan Franklin, Justin Smith, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Joey Brunk managed to put up 11 points in four minute period to keep things close. That lineup would ultimately be one of Indiana’s most efficient over the course of the game, accounting for 1.57 points per possession from seven trips down the court in the aforementioned four minute run.

The first 10 minutes of the second half showed promise, and Indiana was actually managing to score in some capacity against the Maryland defense. The first 15 or so possessions of the half were as good as the Hoosiers looked all day as they avoided the long droughts that would plague them at other points in the game.

2H Possession Chart

Then, to put it frankly, everything went to shit. On both ends.

From the 10 minute mark to the under-4 media timeout, Indiana had 13 possessions and managed to score three points. The wheels completely came off, and it wasn’t even the offense that should bare the brunt of the blame in that stretch. Indiana’s defense got torched for 23 points in a five minute stretch late in the second half as the lead ballooned to nearly 25 points.

The game was out of reach by that point, but that didn’t stop Devonte Green from going on a mini-tear in garbage to make the efficiency numbers look better than they were for a majority of the game.

Monster collapses are becoming the norm for this team, especially in the second half. It happened here, and it happened in the Arkansas and Notre Dame games as well. You can hem and haw about roster construction, talent, level, etc., but ultimately it comes down to coaching. In the second half of today’s game, it look liked Indiana had quit on its coach, and the thought of a repeat of last year’s horrendous stretch of Big Ten play is starting to creep into the mind.

2H Possession Chart

Overall, I had Indiana at 39 points on 36 possessions (1.08 PPP) in the second half and 0.87 PPP for the game. Here’s the KenPom box score, which had it at 0.83 PPP on 69 possessions.

Source: KenPom.com

Here’s the full possession chart that includes lineup breakdowns.

Indiana’s starters struggled as a collective unit today. A measly 0.54 PPP is not going to cut it in Big Ten play.

IU Lineups by Possessions

It’s also not great that almost every single lineup struggled to generate offense. It didn’t matter who Archie put on the floor. Nothing was working. The top two lineups were the guys on the floor during garbage time in which Indiana scored 18 of its 39 second half points.

IU Lineups by PPP

Here, let’s watch some gifs!

Here was a nice two-man action from Armaan Franklin and Trayce Jackson-Davis in the first half that resulted in one of the only open shots Indiana would have all game.

This sequence sums up what makes TJD such a great athlete. He’s quick off the floor, especially on multiple jumps and is the best big Indiana has had at running the floor since Cody Zeller.

For as maddening as he can be at times, Devonte Green is still a great passer. He does a great job finding Brunk running the floor with a perfect pass over the top of the defense in transition.

Sequences like this are where things started to unravel for the Hoosiers. A sloppy drive to the middle leads to a Maryland fast break dunk and a timeout. Plays like this happened multiple times on weak drives into the middle of the floor.

When you definitely know what you’re trying to run on offense.

Whatever *gestures wildly* this is, jacking a three with 26 seconds left on the shot clock probably isn’t how you chip away at a 19-point deficit.

Let’s read some tweets!

Here are some fun tweets from what was a very not fun game.

Synchronized turnover is extremely good.

Sick.

Inept is another great way to describe it.