Week of 3/9 Games Thread

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lstewart53x3
Fly Illini Fly! said:
What a disgustingly stupid play by the Washington player. You want to foul the big whose a worse foul shooter. As his teammate is going to do just that, he shoves him down??
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Wait, why did the Washington guy shove his teammate? That was super weird. I’ve never seen that.
 
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Chase321
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Just like I saw all day yesterday…poor traction on that stupid court. Imagine if Darryn Peterson or Dybantsa go down this week with an injury. The Big 12 commissioner should be run out of town.
 
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Fighter of the Nightman
EmeraldCityIllini said:
I can’t speak to the eye test of “leaving 3 point shooters open” because I think that’s rather subjective on who or what you consider a 3 point shooter.

But our opponents shoot 31.7% from 3. Thats 6th best (defense against) in the big ten. But 2-6 are all in the 31% - and we actually rank ahead of MSU. Basically identical to Iowa state and Houston who are top ten defenses, and better than Florida who is top 5…

Now, other things going into what that means ofcourse. But I do think if we truly left good 3 point shooters consistently that open, our percentages would be far worse there
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I would hypothesize that this is a situation where the overall stats don't jive with subjective experience, because we are likely "pretty good overall" but there seem to be some especially momentum-shifting times where we leave someone way too open who's been shooting well. I would have to rewatch the full game to point to specifics, but I definitely remember a time or two where Keaton collapsed on a guy driving when there was already someone else helping, and they kicked it out to Keaton's guy to hit a WIDE open three that got Maryland back within one possession rather late in the game.
 
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EmeraldCityIllini
Fighter of the Nightman said:
I would hypothesize that this is a situation where the overall stats don't jive with subjective experience, because we are likely "pretty good overall" but there seem to be some especially momentum-shifting times where we leave someone way too open who's been shooting well. I would have to rewatch the full game to point to specifics, but I definitely remember a time or two where Keaton collapsed on a guy driving when there was already someone else helping, and they kicked it out to Keaton's guy to hit a WIDE open three that got Maryland back within one possession rather late in the game.
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A definite maybe from me haha.

Like Crocker-Johnson is not a good 3-point shooter, but went 5-12 against us, mostly because we by design left him open. He made a few, so the eye test tells you it looks bad... and he finished 42% from 3, so it in hindsight, it probably was bad! But i think some fans would say that was example of leaving a shooter open from 3 because he was hitting that game, where others would say, hes 32% from 3, you can help off - not sure either one is right.

Probably a genuine difference of opinions and philosophies on it.
 
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NarrowJ
I'd forgotten our old friend Jase Butler is our other old friend Carey Booth's teammate at Colorado State. Butler has been playing well for CSU lately, had a 25 point game a couple of weeks ago and a 20 point game yesterday (CSU takes on SD St later tonight).
 
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WolfpackIllini
NarrowJ said:
This is what a lot of people were saying
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Apart from the fact that Miami (OH) did not play a single Q1 or Q2 game (!!),
they sqweeked by on a lot of their other games.
Whomever did the scheduling for them did them a disservice, imo.

If they don't make it, in the future they will be a great trivia question.
 
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