Right. The announcers were paying us a compliment. There’s no reason we should be unranked.
Arizona 83, Illinois 79 Postgame
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DMW technical…. You can’t have that. That’s what I’m stuck on.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
We were in position to win and then terrible shot selection and mental mistakes. *anguish* Feel badly for the guys. They really fought and were dominant in stretches.
On the up side, it's fabulous to see the Hall like that, packed and rocking. To have a team with the leadership we see from Trent. We're good and getting better. Am really glad to have played this AZ team. They're really tough. This will all serve the boys well in the trenches of February and March.
On the up side, it's fabulous to see the Hall like that, packed and rocking. To have a team with the leadership we see from Trent. We're good and getting better. Am really glad to have played this AZ team. They're really tough. This will all serve the boys well in the trenches of February and March.
Az easily a top 5 team, IMO
orange100
time to hop on the wife
LMAO, to what, 0? -1?
Two starters not scoring is a mathematical formula that just doesn’t work.
Man what really sucks is you get a sold out crowd and that happens in the final minutes. Good game, we should have lost by 15. Shooting was insane, but game plan needs to be Kofi. Just wasn’t his night.
For real. I’m pretty happy with this showing, we are missing our most important player. We easily could have been ran out of the building at several points. But our guys kept fighting. We need Andre back and right.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Absolute Godsend. Without him the season so far would be... *** shiver ***
I think you’re partially right but I also think we will have plenty of nights this year where we make a bunch of threes. It was our defensive/rebounding effort along with Kofi and Hawkins on offense that hurt us tonight. Trent and Plummer have been raining threes all season
GallopingGhost
- Denver, CO
So let’s hear it guys. Why did we lose this one? Poor adjustments by Brad? Hosed by the refs? Turnovers? /s
none of the above. We played a great game against a team that was just a little bit greater. Even though this goes as an L, I like a lot of the stuff from this game. Good takeaways to go forward with. Let’s all take a breather (hopefully) for the next few and get revved up for Mizzou!!
Go Illini
none of the above. We played a great game against a team that was just a little bit greater. Even though this goes as an L, I like a lot of the stuff from this game. Good takeaways to go forward with. Let’s all take a breather (hopefully) for the next few and get revved up for Mizzou!!
Go Illini
Not real upset. We had a chance against a really good team. College game is all about how you’re playing come March. To me it’s real simple. If we can clean up all these silly unforced turnovers ( like Plummer holding the ball at mid court for 5 seconds ) we could be really good come March. If we can’t clean them up we won’t get past the first game.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
To an imaginary number.
madillini4
Ozamataz Buckshank
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Really don’t understand this… would you rather Plummer give it up and have Monte shooting 3s…? We got good looks almost the entire game. Sure, Payne was a pretty big liability and non-factor on the offensive end, but just because only 4 guys scored doesn’t mean we didn’t execute. Honestly, the lack of a pure PG was the biggest missing factor for us, as turnovers really killed us in the worst possible moments.
I've posted a few times about wanting a stable of 6'6" to 6'8", long, athletic guys. AZ has what I was talking about.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
And I LMAO.... guaranteed Arizona will move up.
Calillini
Now appearing in Tampa
The if is the part that worries me
No, those guys could also play defense.
Tough game against a very, very good team. Arizona does everything we do but did it a bit better, great interior D, scored from inside the arc, rebounded. We’re just a bit too weak against bigger guys and a bit too easy to guard if you can stay at home against our shooters. But we really lost this one on the defensive end tonight.
Hurt us big time. We should have been up 10 at half.
Great game, beat by the best team we’ve seen to date without Belo and Hutch. Didn’t lose it as much as AZ won it.
I thought the defensive player wasn’t quite close enough to be counting.
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