Illinois 105, Penn 70 Postgame
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If we would’ve hired Nick Irvin our PPP would’ve been 4!
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
Never gets old
Oh trust me, I get that. Wanting it and expecting it are two different things. I was just responding to the literality of your post, something I wish more people would do instead of trying to dig 5 layers deep into a post.
"I wish Coach Underwood would use timeouts better"
"SO YOURE SAYING THE BEST COACH WE'VE HAD IN THE LAST TWO DECADES ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH AND SHOULD GET FIRED?!?!?"
So many people on this board have never played ball competitively to understand that it's almost impossible to keep up an offensive performance like that for 10 minutes, let alone an entire half, let alone an entire game. Like we were averaging almost 2 PPP in the second half which is astronomical. If you expect anything even close to that with regularity against tougher opponents you will always be miserable.
A lot of rebounding is wanting the ball more than your opponent.
We go as they go.
I must confess. I went to bed at 10:30 pm confident that this Illinois team would take care of business in the second half. I liked this match-up from day 1. Because Illinois can score and defense is not necessarily an emphasis on Fran McCafferty coached teams. I stated in the pre-game thread that Illinois would score a bunch of points. And they did,
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I find it humorous that the CBS talking heads have been promoting this Mizzou team. I am talking specifically about the Sirius CBS college radio network.
I think they naysayers are looking at from the perspective how far we can go in this tournament based on our consistent or inconsistent play...And you have to admit our performance against Penn during the first half (even though we played better in the 2nd half) won't cut it to get past the SW16. We have to play well for the whole game..The fact that we’re having a conversation of whether or not that performance satisfied folks
Really think the first half being poor is being overstated
Held a 10 point lead with a 28-14 rebounding edge and only 2 turnovers… the one bad thing was the 6-22 from three (defense was good also outside of that last play of the half)
By halftime you could see that Illinois held a clear advantage on the offensive end of the floor.
The people who say this are insufferable. Plain and simple. And they're miserable fans who don't watch much basketball outside of Illini games and frankly, don't understand basketball.
Michigan had a 4 point lead at halftime. Duke trailed at the half. I can go on and on and on.
There is zero value added in saying, if we play like that for 40 minutes, we won't beat Houston, in Houston. What's the freaking point in being negative after a game we led by almost 40 and where we scored more points than any other team that day?
Let the rest of us enjoy the win and enjoy the ride and stop crapping in our cheerios.
For the record, I would like to add that I never said Illinois played poorly. Not once. In fact, I was very specific in that we did NOT play poorly.
I don't know how much more clear I can be. My commentary was never that we played poorly or bad or whatever, but that in the literal sense we played better second half than first half, and thus, could have scored more points if we played both halves the same. Which was what my comment was in reference to originally.
blackdog
- Champaign
I love Kylan and he can be an amazing defender. But the difference between him and someone like Trent defensively is that Trent was that hyper focused EVERY GAME. I hope he stays at that level the rest of the way.
Ok, they said something similar on the broadcast that he didn’t know which way he wanted to go.
I think he was just setting up the trailing defender, especially with the peek behind he takes before going back right.
Not indecisive. Crafty.
Boy, was that a frustrating game!
WHAT?! Frustrating?
Yes! Why can’t the Illini play like that all the time?
(OK... the level of competition might have something to do with it?)
Still – it’s a beautiful thing when it happens.
Yes, we could have scored more points if we played the best offensive game of basketball ever played, anywhere.For the record, I would like to add that I never said Illinois played poorly. Not once. In fact, I was very specific in that we did NOT play poorly.
I don't know how much more clear I can be. My commentary was never that we played poorly or bad or whatever, but that in the literal sense we played better second half than first half, and thus, could have scored more points if we played both halves the same. Which was what my comment was in reference to originally.
Do you not see how freaking ridiculous that sounds when we scored 105 points in an NCAA tournament game and covered the spread by over 10 points?
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