Not the first time Stripes and Murray have led someone to Tito Puente! Oye!
Pregame: Illinois vs Northwestern, Saturday, January 18th, 4:00pm CT, BTN
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Not the first time Stripes and Murray have led someone to Tito Puente! Oye!
Garza against Kofi is the one that I am looking forward too the most actually. Garza always strikes me as the whiner, the kid that takes his ball and goes home, the whoa is me, the cry wolf center of the league...then again, maybe thats just me? Either way Kofi drag that Arse up and down the floor!
This match up and the OSU match up with Caleb Weston will be big time for Kofi.....if Kofi is freshman of the week after those games then our post season chances will be looking good:rock:
Otura of Minny has the best stats and Indiana has a good frosh. Seems like a lot of good centers in the BIG. We would be getting killed without Kofi. Makes you appreciate what Giorgi did last year.
left off at ohio state
I would like to be as optimistic about Kofi offensively, but not sure he quite a developed offensively as Garza. But I really like that The Northside HouseCats starting rim protector and his freshman back up both fouled out against Iowa. And Garza scored 27 while only playing 23 minutes because of foul trouble of his own.
And Giorgi did it slightly undersized and without any real back up!
So we’re losing 2 more conference games, the big ten championship game, but winning the Natty?
And while you're at it, please open the pod bay doors, Hal...I can't do that, Dave.
Not with the fact that I live in Chicago. I need to see them die in person. Also, I'm not one to actually believe I can influence the outcome of a game; I'm not suiting up.
I'll leave you with this: the last Illini home basketball game I attended was last March against Northwestern. We won that one.
but miss two great opportunities for winnable road games
Kofi isn't, but he is far more physical as far as getting to his spots. That alone will cause fouls and Garza floats around alot, this could be where we see alot of switching between Kofi/Giorgi
Could not agree more
It will definitely be a good battle; Garza is the only big that scares me when it comes to Kofi's defense...
Oturu is the one I would worry about.
But we didn't and that what makes this team different than some in the recent past.
If we didn't already have two "bad" losses, I'd agree with you. However, we can't take on even one more. I'd rather have more chances at quality wins vs another bad loss.
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I mean, yeah. That's kind of how the B1G always is. We want to get back to being the team that wins the toss-up games and finishes in the top half of the conference.
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Didn't say I THINK it will be easy....said I HOPE it is easy
. Virtually every game will be a rock fight (see: RU game) so having one that doesn't push you to the brink is a nice and much needed break...although with a week off I'm a little worried about how we'll start out.We could just as easily have won the Maryland game and the Miami game too. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, we're dealing with what actually happened, not some alternate reality.
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What scares me about the Garza matchup is that he can pull Kofi out of the paint as he's a deep-2 and 3 threat.
I can't agree more. NW and NEB are absolute must win. Losing a single game to either will likely have huge impact on selection sunday.
OK, that leaves Garza and Kofi out of the paint and Giorgi in the paint with Kriener. Works for me.
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