Game Thread: Illinois at Michigan State

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Took their best shot and up 4

 

[Jimbo]

MSU is good at taking away the other team’s best player.

 

[PizzaHutParkingLot]

The "others" are carrying us right now, but Keaton needs to bring us home

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Up 4 despite the foulless thugfest and Wagler with only 2. Nice half by Ben and Mirk.

 

[Juju]

What is Izzo so mad about? They sided with him.

Probably because they didn't call a flagrant on Mirk for having the audacity to have his leg be in the presence of Fears' leg...

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

We've missed 3 layups and an Oop dunk...

 

[New Creation]

Lets see what offensive adjustments are made at half time to get our Lottery Pick some clean looks

 

[Oracle21]

I think Illinois blows them out in the second half. MSU doesn’t really do anything on offense other than slop ball.

 

[PepeSilvia]

If the refs aren't going to do anything one of the balkans just needs to put Fears over the scorers table and eat the tech.

 

[UDillini]

I’m Still hot about fears I can’t think about anything else .. guy is a total clown and Izzo is a joke for letting it continue - blatant trip and someone will get injured

 

[IllinistuckinGopherland]

Fantastic half of basketball. I like Benetti, so a little disappointed in him so far… I love that Steve Smith can’t help being a homer for MSU.

 

[champaignpak]

We mainly just need to rebound better and KW needs to get into the game

 

[ChiefGritty]

We really need to adjust to pinging the ball around more in the second half, they are throwing everything at mucking up the initial ball screen and we're letting that slow us down too much, keep it movin'

 

[Illini_Jack]

Sparty home cooking. Fears playing dirty. Illini still up 4 at half.

 

[RollChief]

What a pleasure it is to enjoy a game like this for the third weekend in a row. Cheers fellow Illini fans

 

[Illini in Indiana]

at least there was a couple intentional fouls to make it look better

 

[DeeIL89]

Up 4 against the refs. Nice! Hope to see Keaton get going in the second half and got to fix those butterfinger hands and rebound, rebound, rebound, rebound, and rebound. Our boys aren't rattled so that's huge.

 

[CrazedUIFan]

Keaton is fine as long as he plays within the flow and not forcing anything. We have other guys that can take on the scoring load.

 

[foby]

Time for a Wagler 20 point half.

 

[alaskaillini]

We are going to have to pick it up. Sparty is a second half team.

 

[illinifan1987]

The truth is MSU is out working us, Keaton is held in check and we're winning at half.

It's that rim. We'll catch up in the 2nd half

 

[Rusty]

19-17 them in rebounds, so we started to close that gap. 7-4 in FT's attempted in favor of us so for all the hand wringing about the foul situation I'd say it ended up fine.

 

[Epsilon]

I want this game more than ever. MSU deserves a 3-game skid. But we gotta bring it to ‘em and play more focused at the same time. I hope we make some adjustments at half to put more distance in the score.

 

[RockfordIllini]

Crazy that his foot was outside his shoulders as a natural motion on the nontrip. What a miraculous coincidence that Mirk was there.

What was amazing to me is the announcers were saying if it was any other player we wouldn’t be having the conversation as the player would get the benefit of the doubt, right as Fears gets the benefit of the doubt for some reason.

And of course Izzo throws a fit to protect his guy, but he doesn’t tolerate dirty play.

I really hope we win.

 

[Fighting I 95]

He should be tossed...its getting ridiculous

How can you... kick somone in the nuts, elbow somone, trip multiple people and have no suspension. Alan Griffin got a game for barely stepping on someone.