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He is doing great stuff for us.
Illinois 60, Penn State 55 Postgame
We're 2-0 in our last two games, 3-1 in last four, 8-3 in our last eleven, 14-5 in our last 19, 21-8 in our last 29. Hell we could do this penny pinching bs all day.
blackdog
- Champaign
It's also been by far the hardest stretch of the season. The games lost were at Rutgers where nobody wants to play, at Purde, and against a good OSU team when the refs were questionable to say the least. During that stretch there have been wins at MSU and Michigan and if we extend that stretch 2 more games to include the rest of Feb you get wins at Indiana, vs Wisconsin.
I admit this made me laugh
Not sure if serious........
THey were all over plummer and leaving damonte open to triple kofi, so why not shoot it if youre gonna hit 40% from there? Plummer was 25% from the three tonight. At that rate, if you trade plummer for damonote shots, we might lose this game.
and theres been posts in here asking why he shot so much LOL
Thankful for the win, but definitely an ugly game. If we are going to do anything in the next 4 weeks, we cannot have this anymore. This looked very similar to the Loyola game that ended last season.
The refs made some noticeably bad calls even though I cant blame them for the ugliness of the game. The over and back call was wrong. The ball never crossed the line. Then the out of bounds call on Kofi should have been overturned. Blatantly bad that cost us 2 possessions and potentially the game had they converted.
Penn St played like they had nothing to lose and gave us all they had. They had a great game plan and very good coaching. I sensed an overconfidence from our guys that seemed like we were on cruise control. Hopefully this was enough of a scare to wake them up for a peak performance on Sunday.
The refs made some noticeably bad calls even though I cant blame them for the ugliness of the game. The over and back call was wrong. The ball never crossed the line. Then the out of bounds call on Kofi should have been overturned. Blatantly bad that cost us 2 possessions and potentially the game had they converted.
Penn St played like they had nothing to lose and gave us all they had. They had a great game plan and very good coaching. I sensed an overconfidence from our guys that seemed like we were on cruise control. Hopefully this was enough of a scare to wake them up for a peak performance on Sunday.
have you not watched other teams? wisky did the same, purdue won by 1 against a worse team at home. arizona won by 3 at home against 80ish kenpom Oregon. and lost by 16 to 84 kenpom colorado. Duke beat 75 kenpom virginia by 4.
This **** is wide open as a lot of top teams are not consistent this year.
Agree with this....you called it in the pregame thread ... PSU has to muck it up...keep us in the 60s.
I think our coaches really need to think through solid plays/movement to counter PSU and Loyola like games.
We have some good sets....but we struggle against certain teams/strategies.
We need to be able to adjust to go deep in tourney
Coleman was 1-6, they clearly werent guarding him while he was out there (they werent Damonte either) but he grabs an offensive rebound off a ft and hit a couple FTs and people act like he played good lmao. Man the bar is low
Watching Penn St not guard Hawkins and Damonte all game was so frustrating, Tre Mitchell not even with his team anymore last i checked was needed so bad this season
I found some things from our fan base absolutely fascinating. “The other team gets cold”, not, “Our defense forced missed shots”.
Guess what? We were playing a Div 1 P 5 team.
Guess what? They have some players.
Guess what? We beat them.
Guess what? We found a way to win.
Guess what? We were playing a Div 1 P 5 team.
Guess what? They have some players.
Guess what? We beat them.
Guess what? We found a way to win.
I don' know about that. The against PSU during the rebound at the end of the game looked like a homer call if there ever was one. Saved our bacon.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I wanted to see us press more. If PSU wants to slow it down, speed them up. Don't always play into their hands. The one time I saw us apply a little pressure after we scored, we managed to fluster them enough to force a turnover. I want to see more of that.
NEIlliniFan
- No longer in New England
CoHawk made four consecutive free throws when the game was on the line. Both situations, IIRC, were 1-and-1's. An area of weakness (66% FT this season) showed growth.
He came through at crunch time. Heck yes, I'm going to praise him!
Another clutch 3 hit from GRANDison
towards the end was nice to see -again .
Probably because they weren’t guarding him..
It’s great we get to see many more scenarios-10 in a row will do it I understand.
Go Illini
Trent doing a job on Pickett had a lot to do with it.
I’m enjoying the hell out of this team, and what Illinois basketball has returned to being. If any one has high expectations (including the media who seems to set them for most folks), well the Illini fans from 2007-2019 would like to have a word with them on the way to the train station . . .
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Just watching the replay of the game on FS1 and they showed replay of Payne’s move. Damn that was sweet.
Little tough to decipher this, but if you’re referring to the foul call on Penn St rather than jump ball, I agree. Not saying it wasn’t a foul, but first thing I thought of was if it had been Illini trying to get jump ball and the call had gone the other way, would be all kinds of posts about how refs blew that call.
After coming home from the game last night I’ve been thinking about what I’ve seen the last 10 games or so. First of all we have had a very good season. Some of my observations are number one, Kofi looks tired, that is a concern because games from here on out are going to be fierce. We don’t adjust offensively when we have trouble scoring. We are who we are and I don’t see this group going on a big run in the NCAA tournament. We need CH and RJ down the stretch. It’s all about how they defend Kofi and what we do to adjust to that in game. It’s been a good but stressful year and we will see what lies ahead.