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<blockquote data-quote="DRS" data-source="post: 1532785" data-attributes="member: 6410"><p>What a fitting finish to a tremendously competitive Big 10 regular season. This might not be the 'best' conference year of my watching, more truly national title contenders in previous seasons, but this is best conference play from top to bottom I can remember. Battle after Battle after Battle. </p><p></p><p>Think about this, Iowa, on the road, just out rebounded their opponent, shot 50% from the field, 9/19 from 3 and a perfect 15/15 from the line but still lost! That is winning basketball but not last night.</p><p></p><p>So many heroes last night where to start? I think we need to recognize that Iowa got off to a dream start where the hoop was the size of a garbage can and guys who have been massively struggling for like a month could not miss, yet Illinois never wavered and kept them within striking distance. Damonte, Kipper and Kofi all giving massive contributions. Kofi was rim wrecking for a bit there and it is so fun to watch. Damonte's recovery from that dismal January has been unreal, He is literally above 50% from 3 for the last month! That seems impossible. and what can you say about Kipper, so happy that he had this game at home on senior night, such a loyal trooper for us. He had an incredibly efficient 18 minutes, didn't miss a single shot last night and 3 offensive boards in the second half were HUGE. Dre was great, 2 massive 3s during the surge, and hell Giorgi even had a nice game. He seems to have found his footing again, despite missing that bunny late off the dime from Ayo, that was kinda a big miss when coupled with missing the front end of two 1 and 1s. When you are trying to salt away a game you can't be doing that. It led to exactly what a good team will do, start making 3s on you. Iowa got blazing hot at the beginning and ending of the game from deep, jeez that was painful.</p><p></p><p>I've got to continue to have a seperate paragraph for Ayo. Shot was not really there tonight and the free throws did hurt, but good lord what a battler he was tonight. That second half was monstrous and those two mid range jumpers in the last few minutes were so clutch. His passing tonight was the best I have seen it coupled with mansize rebounds on both ends and this is one of the best performances of his career. If he had made both free throws on the 1 and 1 late to seal the game this might have been his best all-around game. If he goes pro, which he should but the draft can be weird, he will leave a crater sized whole in this team. Just about my favorite Illinois player ever now. Still has a bit to go to pass some of the greats, but a tourney run just might do it. </p><p></p><p>Also, without getting into the Xs and Os of this, we shredded a zone tonight without shooting well from 3. Great offense and the best way to beat a zone is beat it done the court.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DRS, post: 1532785, member: 6410"] What a fitting finish to a tremendously competitive Big 10 regular season. This might not be the 'best' conference year of my watching, more truly national title contenders in previous seasons, but this is best conference play from top to bottom I can remember. Battle after Battle after Battle. Think about this, Iowa, on the road, just out rebounded their opponent, shot 50% from the field, 9/19 from 3 and a perfect 15/15 from the line but still lost! That is winning basketball but not last night. So many heroes last night where to start? I think we need to recognize that Iowa got off to a dream start where the hoop was the size of a garbage can and guys who have been massively struggling for like a month could not miss, yet Illinois never wavered and kept them within striking distance. Damonte, Kipper and Kofi all giving massive contributions. Kofi was rim wrecking for a bit there and it is so fun to watch. Damonte's recovery from that dismal January has been unreal, He is literally above 50% from 3 for the last month! That seems impossible. and what can you say about Kipper, so happy that he had this game at home on senior night, such a loyal trooper for us. He had an incredibly efficient 18 minutes, didn't miss a single shot last night and 3 offensive boards in the second half were HUGE. Dre was great, 2 massive 3s during the surge, and hell Giorgi even had a nice game. He seems to have found his footing again, despite missing that bunny late off the dime from Ayo, that was kinda a big miss when coupled with missing the front end of two 1 and 1s. When you are trying to salt away a game you can't be doing that. It led to exactly what a good team will do, start making 3s on you. Iowa got blazing hot at the beginning and ending of the game from deep, jeez that was painful. I've got to continue to have a seperate paragraph for Ayo. Shot was not really there tonight and the free throws did hurt, but good lord what a battler he was tonight. That second half was monstrous and those two mid range jumpers in the last few minutes were so clutch. His passing tonight was the best I have seen it coupled with mansize rebounds on both ends and this is one of the best performances of his career. If he had made both free throws on the 1 and 1 late to seal the game this might have been his best all-around game. If he goes pro, which he should but the draft can be weird, he will leave a crater sized whole in this team. Just about my favorite Illinois player ever now. Still has a bit to go to pass some of the greats, but a tourney run just might do it. Also, without getting into the Xs and Os of this, we shredded a zone tonight without shooting well from 3. Great offense and the best way to beat a zone is beat it done the court. [/QUOTE]
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