Between this game and Arizona, I think it's safe to say that Kofi now understands what life could look like in the NBA, if that is what he decides to do after this season. Things are a little different when you don't have 6 inches and 50 lbs on the guy guarding you.
Purdue 96, Illinois 88 2OT Postgame
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sacraig
- The desert
If you are MSU, you get home court officiating on all courts.
Yes Omar BBV know they can play
They are gonna mug Kofi even more
Like to see that baby hook of his against that seven footer
We be gelling
Go Illini
I'm assuming that's sarcasm?but we'll probably fall out of the top 25...
I don’t like admitting this at all but Kofi would get torched on defense in the NBA without a huge jump. Guys are just too athletic and creative getting to the rim.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
The refs ultimately make a very small impact on virtually every game.
Home game...geez.
Agree totally. It gets so tiresome of reading post by fans who think the refs cost us the game. Take off your orange colored glasses
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
Someone here doesn’t know their basketball. Just sayin’…
If you have this game on DVR, I dare you to go back and slo-mo all of the questionable calls, and then tell me how it was. Very, very few games are decided by the refs, but this one was. OT is irrelevant, because the refs are the only reason it went to OT. Worst performance by the refs I've seen this year, JMHO.
I thought the call on Trent v stephonovic 3 was a bad call that changed the game. We were down one at that point.
I truly chuckle every time I see a comment about top 25. The Illini, with their AA playing a very poor game, took the best team in the country to double overtime....and spotted them an 11 pt. deficit in the last 20 min. It makes little sense to remove them from the top 25, but it may happen. I could care less!!!!!! They proved to have the weapons, skills, and HEART to compete with the very best. And they will. There are more important games coming and their play is getting better. Enjoy this team and support them to the end....they are playing their guts out.but we'll probably fall out of the top 25...
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
He's got to learn to deal with the frustration of a larger or more agile big on him, and being doubled continually. And he's got to learn to move his feet and to finish strong when he can't dunk it.
I don't watch the NBA much but it seems to me that he needs a lot more development. In Champaign, of course, for a further season
Bigtex
- DFW
His decision making was great. Many oh wow moments only a few… no.no.no moments
Better with AC
Hyperbole
Bingo. With all of the complaints about the reffing(warranted), can't let up a 17-0 run. A sizeable run has occurred in just about every game this year.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Right, so no Kofi for 10+ minutes, and the foul disparity is a small impact. Gotcha.
GallopingGhost
- Denver, CO
Wow. That was a fantastic fantastic game. I had to watch on replay/delay due to work but just got through it.
- the fouls to Cockburn were unfortunate. Especially the tangled up one that could have gone either way. But BBV gave us some great minutes. A few big rebounds and a couple extra possessions. He wasn’t the scoring threat of Kofi, but dmn he did well
- Stefanovic is a sniper-sniper. So good, and he got hot. Hard to stop when he was raining in 3s at that rate. He killed every little run we made in the second half.
- Ultimately our depth did us in. Didn’t have the energy to go 2OT against their 10 deep bench. You could see it in their body language.
We fought like hell and I am so proud. This is a great team. Purdue is a great team. I don’t think we have many minuses looking at this game except maybe a couple defensive lapses.
Mostly: I am so so happy to see Andre back doing Andre things. It’s like he never left
- the fouls to Cockburn were unfortunate. Especially the tangled up one that could have gone either way. But BBV gave us some great minutes. A few big rebounds and a couple extra possessions. He wasn’t the scoring threat of Kofi, but dmn he did well
- Stefanovic is a sniper-sniper. So good, and he got hot. Hard to stop when he was raining in 3s at that rate. He killed every little run we made in the second half.
- Ultimately our depth did us in. Didn’t have the energy to go 2OT against their 10 deep bench. You could see it in their body language.
We fought like hell and I am so proud. This is a great team. Purdue is a great team. I don’t think we have many minuses looking at this game except maybe a couple defensive lapses.
Mostly: I am so so happy to see Andre back doing Andre things. It’s like he never left
We definitely had a few bad breaks on the officiating front. Kofi’s 5th was a foul and a bad one at that. He was sliding his right foot and not planted on contact. Not a smart play with 4 fouls.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I'm gobsmacked that he played as many minutes as he did without game conditioning during the past eight weeks and basically kept us in it at the end of regulation and in OT.
Eh whatever, Edey got away with a lot of things today.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
That’s a 40/60 call though y’know? It’s not a phantom, it’s just a soft call.
Verdonk was fouling on every scramble drill. A lot of stuff happens in a game.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
Great game! Extremely entertaining!!! Godzilla (Purdue) prevails over King Kong (Illini) in the first of 3-4 head-to-head contests this season.
No chance we were going to go undefeated in the conference this season.
No chance we were going to go undefeated in the conference this season.
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