UCLA 95, Illinois 94 OT Postgame
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Up 33-10. Got outscored 85-61 the rest. We have them confidence and they thrived on it.
Huh? I’m almost certain was Mirkovic.
It’s been a half hour and I’m still sick. I think I need a good stiff drink
13-42 from 3... I'm pretty sure we were 10-17 from 3 at half. We were 3/25 in the 2nd half- just no mental toughness to shoot that bad. 3 losses in OT- again, no mental toughness. Another Underwood team that blows it and gets bounced early in the tournament.
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All fine and fair. But it’s NOT unreasonable to expect to not blow a 23-point lead. It IS reasonable to be concerned and upset when we do blow a 23-point lead. And it’s certainly unreasonable for anyone here to gaslight posters who are upset we blew a 23-point lead into thinking they’re just hysterical and disloyal, lol.
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So why don’t you just let people vent after a loss? It’s already been made illegal to critique after a win, now it’s equally offensive to gripe after a loss.
Just can’t miss any chance to poke at people, maybe those accusing others of being miserable should look in the mirror.
We scored 86 points in regulation. That wins 97% of all games - that was the worst defense we have played since Nebraska at home. We don't need to rotate when we are getting beat off the dribble - we can try to block the drive at the rim but when we rotate - than all the match ups leave wide open 3s and baseline lobs that we get when other teams rotate against us.
We would have been much better off either going zone or straight up MTM.
And that’s after a beautiful first possession which had Tomi take advantage of their big guy fouling out.
Yeah Keaton's shoulder, Kylan's face, Tomi's hammy, can't remember the fourth.
Mirk took a nasty elbow to the back of the head but I think he kept playing. Maybe that's why he didn't have one of his better games. Might have started their big 1st half comeback in the first half along with Keaton going to the locker room for a while.
Keaton was literally grabbed by two players on every drive to the basket and hardly got any calls. Welcome to BT play
Other than Z at the rim everyine looked pretty useless. A tipped ball at least could end the game or at lesst throw the t8ming off. That crap was too easy.
As someone pointed out. Defended the same as Tenn. Last year with the same pathtic result. Cqnt do the same thing a third time if this happens.
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Here’s where I place blame for the final defensive possession.
Most: Kylan
Late to his gap to the point where he can’t even properly defend without fouling so he has to just kind of escort Dent through the gap. He gets to his spot and Dent has to go around and put up a tough midrange.
Some: Drej and Z
Drej needed to do a better job of being physical IMO. Z probably needed to put a better contest on it. Both are hindsight though and didn’t totally hate eithers defense.
None: Keaton and Ben
Keaton got screened out of the play and Ben’s role is to contest a kick so he can’t collapse.
Most: Kylan
Late to his gap to the point where he can’t even properly defend without fouling so he has to just kind of escort Dent through the gap. He gets to his spot and Dent has to go around and put up a tough midrange.
Some: Drej and Z
Drej needed to do a better job of being physical IMO. Z probably needed to put a better contest on it. Both are hindsight though and didn’t totally hate eithers defense.
None: Keaton and Ben
Keaton got screened out of the play and Ben’s role is to contest a kick so he can’t collapse.
Really inexcusable loss. Don't think there's one person to blame. Staff, players, everyone just not good enough.
That we’re a very good team that lost on a buzzer beater in a road game against a tournament team?
Florida last season won the national title and lost on the road to Georgia.
You should’ve put 2 guys on dent and try to deny him the ball. Instead we have 5 guys standing around doing nothing after calling a timeout. Totally outclassed. Cronin had to laughing at how bad the defense was
Dude, I literally answered a question that was asked. Sleep it off.
This is the big surprise to me. Dominating the boards is not a recipe for this team to not squeak out a win. I would have almost said it’s not possible unless we turned it over like crazy which we didn’t do here either.
Yep, everyone's doing that to Keaton now, but I was talking only about his 3 point shot where he got hacked less.
This is my gripe as well. Just because they are "good looks," some nights - and some points within a game - they are just not falling. Why can we not adjust and go to a different strategy at those points in a game? Tomi has looked really good posting up in some games, and they did not have any real physical down low presence to bother him. Run Z on the baseline a few more times down the floor; we did it twice for two dunks. Use our height for stretches when the threes are not falling.
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