Game Thread: Illinois at Purdue

[Ryllini]

Or he'll be worse because other teams will emulate what Purdue is doing.

We've gotten plenty of good looks and especially around the rim. Played scared of the big guy. Ty will be fine.

 

[theNewGuy]

I want to pull my hair out

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Call a foul ffs

Maybe we should stop doing the "jump into the defender and fling the ball up at the rim" move

 

[hooraybeer]

we’ve lost the ball at the rim at least five times tonight

 

[JSpence]

I am only half kidding when I say "oh, no. They took Edey out."

He's been a liability and they are up 20. WTaF

 

[Rusty]

Maybe it is the beer but I still feel there is a run left in this team. NBA like.

Starting to think it was the beer...lol

 

[blife]

We picked a bad time to have a complete clunker, hopefully we can avoid an embarrassing loss. But we are getting awfully close to one.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

I am only half kidding when I say "oh, no. They took Edey out."

He's been a liability and they are up 20. WTaF

Just standing there he has disrupted our whole offense. He didn't need to actually do anything.

 

[TheGMan]

I want to pull my hair out

Be thankful you have hair to pull out

 

[WyattEarp]

We came out tight…then picked it up on the boards and ran some offense-made a nice run…now we act like we’re flat out scared/intimidated. Every shot we take we act like there’s about 3 Bill Russell’s out there.

Tribute:

 

[Navy_illini]

Starting to think it was the beer...lol

Beer makes things better

 

[New Creation]

Eddys impact his his size in the post. That is the kryptnite of Underwood’s offense. So Purdue doesn’t have to worry about the lane they can guard the 3. No other team in the country can do this to us.

 

[Illinifan55]

I can see that ball was off of Purdue from literally 800 (EIGHT HUNDRED) miles away. How can the ref that's 2 yards away not get it right?!?!?!

 

[Champaign88]

I criticize the refs plenty, but guys, this is not the refs. Yes Edey camps in the lane. Ultimately we lost this game by getting out hustled during the last 8 minutes of the first half while Edey was camping on the bench.

 

[abchew2]

I came in convinced of the road warrior mentality and get this is a different animal but man is everyone just so darn flustered from the get go. It’s very surprising and now I’ll have to fight the Illini fan in me wanting to put my guard up. Really thought this year was the year to get past that.

 

[grantlab]

I’d be happy if we can lose by 15 or less

 

[FloridaMan]

I criticize the refs plenty, but guys, this is not the refs. Yes Edey camps in the lane. Ultimately we lost this game by getting out hustled during the last 8 minutes of the first half while Edey was camping on the bench.

Straw man. Nobody is blaming the refs

 

[Ryllini]

Anyone who didn't think we were walking into a powder keg tonight was in lala land. I'm still not giving up hope yet though.

 

[blife]

Have we blocked out anyone tonight?

 

[LoveLovie]

Make the tournament.

 

[Kendall Gill’s Uncle]

Hawkins has to stop switching DGL onto the big. I also think DGL should stay in the game over Rodgers. They at least have to guard him.

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Holy Shhhh, I just saw the pacers scored 150 tonight, can we have their leftovers

 

[LJ22]

I've said "wow, that was embarrassing" far too many times tonight.

 

[Rusty]

 

[Jimbo]

The game against MSU is big. We win that and this one’s a distant memory. Going to be tough thiugh.