I went and checked to be sure, and you are correct. Only allowing 4 all year is pretty amazing. Our offense is so good that it is difficult to just skunk us over a 10 point segment.
Illinois 84, Northwestern 44 Postgame
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I went and checked to be sure, and you are correct. Only allowing 4 all year is pretty amazing. Our offense is so good that it is difficult to just skunk us over a 10 point segment.
Ketone Wagler?
The amazing part of that is that Keaton didn't even finch hearing that, much less miss the 3. I think the NBA scouts are noticing thing like this!
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IIRC he dunked several off the back of the rim and another off the backboard. If anything, he needs to quit trying to rip the rim off lol
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Yep, that’s clearly his M.O.
(Izzo gonna Izzo.)
Plus….
1.) His choices are limited against us to be sure. So the best chance they prolly have is to: to muck it all up, turn it into a rock fight and basically go full hockey goon. If they can get us to pee down our leg from their ball pressure they’ve got a chance.
2.) They’re coming off that loss to Minny…and where they couldn’t guard anybody. So he’ll be tinkering and get more experimental than normal. He even hinted that in the postgame presser.
PS. Big Beilein fan…but I like us in this matchup. For the sake of entertainment purposes…my prediction would be a barrage of: skip passes, passes fakes and corner three-balls. Then when we really get cooking we start breaking ‘em down off the dribble too…with Andre and Kylan taking it to the rack on ball reversals…
AND of course the kick outs and pull ups we’d get from Keaton. But basically I think we volleyball it around with our immense size at the slots and wings and short corners.
Good luck Johhnnyboy!
Retro62
- North Bethesda, Maryland
The clear difference between Collins and Izzo. I did appreciate that the two players made up in the handshake line.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
I predict the bolded part of this prediction won’t come to pass.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I think a well-run zone would probably induce us playing a lot of hot potato around the perimeter and launching sub-gold medal 3's.
But the problem? If you're in zone we're going to get even more offensive rebounds than we normally would.
I predict none of it will happen.lol It’s a silly hypothetical with a guy who no longer coaches.I predict the bolded part of this prediction won’t come to pass.
So, in fantasyland maybe Kylan didn’t get injured.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
I didn’t want to bring this up before the Northwestern game because it seemingly flew under the radar and I didn’t want to provide any bulletin board material, but did anyone else catch Mirk’s off handed remark that the team probably wouldn’t need him to beat the Wildcats. It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it comment in the middle of his “I would just kill myself” quote.
Kinda funny now because, it appears he was right.
Kinda funny now because, it appears he was right.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Ah… I assumed you were referring to this upcoming game against Sparty.
No worries.
The way he talks to Keaton is so beautiful.
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