AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
Name does NOT check out...
Penn State 79, Illinois 76 Postgame
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pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Not that it matters much but I have been busy using the ignore button tonight......Might just be me and you Ran and select other friends by the time i get done......
This year has been the poorest excuse for so called Illini Nation fans with the amount of awful vitriol thrown at the Illini players............
So easy to be an internet tough guy......I always wonder what would happen if the negative nancy's said what they have posted face to face with the illini players they ripped on.........
All I know is I will be in front of the screen watching the Illini's next game and rooting my arse off for an Illini win.......All you debbie downers can pound sand........and please put me on your ignore list .............I don't care at all..........
On to the NCAA tourney and LETS GO ILLINI...................
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
I guess coating the floor with WD40 didn't help much after all.
I’m not upset…just resigned to the reality of who this team is. Seem like a bunch of good guys with a ton of potential and a lot of good parts but they’re just not a great team. They are who they are…a middle of the pack team that most likely wont make it out of the first weekend yet again. This staff is really going to have to figure that out.
Or if we are talking about basketball?Coach says this team is March ready...any idea which March he's talking about??
I can agree on 1 of the above. Goodbye.
Done moving on
yeah just had a chuckle from it, thats all my guy
You know damn well youre gonna watch the game though hahah
The beautiful thing about basketball is that you settle the issue on the floor. Yes, there is the occasional foreign influence of refs who may not be up to the task. But that factor needs to be eliminated from one’s thinking. Because that’s not where losing really comes from.
It is about talent. It is about will. It is about desire. It is about execution. All of this is settled on the floor. Out in the open. You get your chance against your opponent. You either meet that challenge or you don’t. No middle ground. No mysteries.
And if you don’t prevail... you tip your hat to the guys that beat you. And you try to get better. You don’t feel sorry for yourself because that’s for losers. You let the bitter taste of defeat foul the insides your mouth and you use that bad flavor as additional motivation to not have to taste that nastiness again.
The Illini have issues. We’ve seen that all season. They are a mixture of puzzle pieces that just don’t quite fit.
The best news is that the Season is not over. The Illini have yet another chance to find some redemption. The bad news is that maybe the Illini may have to face Penn State ANOTHER TIME YET AGAIN.
To amend an old saying... Beat me once, shame on you. Beat me twice, shame on ME. Beat me Three Times... and it’s not ‘shame’ any more. It’s that the issue has been settled on the court. Three times. The glaring, blaring, harsh light of Truth.
Unless you get ONE MORE TRY...
Zorak
- Naperville
What positive would you have us take from this? Honest question
MM did absolutely nothing in the last 35 minutes. We have to get more of a contribution from him.
User name doesn't check out.
Yup. You need legit guards, especially ones with PG skill, to play at a high level.
I love Illini basketball, but this team drives me crazy. I will continue to root for them, but can’t say I’ll be sad when this season ends. My wife won’t miss all the yelling at the TV either.
Come on committee, give us as 8-9 Illinois/Penn St. matchup. If we're gonna go down, make them beat us four times to do it!
AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
It was all that dog pee at halftime...
I have no inside knowledge, but sadly I won't be shocked if you can count them on one hand.
The highest rated freshman who was supposed to be our PG left.I think this has been BU's hardest team to coach. We learned a lot about portal roster construction.
You brought 2 hired guns trying to improve draft stock into a team full of freshmen and a total player leadership void.
The older players haven't been listening to BU and the freshmen played their a$$es off at times.
Just stretch after stretch of wretched play on offense with enough defensive lapses to seal our fate.
Onward and upward.
Post game Purdue,
“I think we're playing our best basketball,” Underwood said. “I really think we've shown that we can play with anybody in this tournament. It is win or go home, we're guaranteed nothing from here on out. We'll go fight, I know this, I wouldn't want to play us.”
“I think we're playing our best basketball,” Underwood said. “I really think we've shown that we can play with anybody in this tournament. It is win or go home, we're guaranteed nothing from here on out. We'll go fight, I know this, I wouldn't want to play us.”
Dr Copejam
- The Rock
There should never be an Illini team that loses to Penn St. 3 times in a season. This is my least favorite Illini team in quite a while.
Agreed and everyone just standing and watching. Never have I seen less motion, fewer screens and back cuts in an offense.
So it really is falling, huh?
We need shooters. Period. End of story.
We will never know, but I honestly think a healthy Goode all season and we win 2-3 more games and get a 1st round bye.
Not just bc of his production, but because of its mere threat and bc others around him probably aren't taking as many "bad" shots.
It would have been addition and addition by subtraction.
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