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Illinois 86, Mississippi Valley State 67 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="dbeverly26" data-source="post: 1431892" data-attributes="member: 515868"><p>Because you can't take every game seriously. Even the best and most experienced teams can't maintain that type of focus over a full season, and this team is very young. Simply adapting to the college game is going to be difficult enough for this group, so a minute to breathe won't hurt them.</p><p></p><p>Based on his post-game comments, I'm assuming that Underwood knows this and correctly identified this game as both the only break his team would get for a while and one they could win by simply farting their way through a lazy Sunday afternoon of basketball, so that's what we got. FWLIW, they didn't completely coast for the last 12 or so minutes of the first half and pretty effectively shut MVSU down. The balance of the game wasn't a D-I effort, and I'm ok with that given the context.</p><p></p><p>If they come out with the same slack effort in South Bend, I'll feel very differently about things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dbeverly26, post: 1431892, member: 515868"] Because you can't take every game seriously. Even the best and most experienced teams can't maintain that type of focus over a full season, and this team is very young. Simply adapting to the college game is going to be difficult enough for this group, so a minute to breathe won't hurt them. Based on his post-game comments, I'm assuming that Underwood knows this and correctly identified this game as both the only break his team would get for a while and one they could win by simply farting their way through a lazy Sunday afternoon of basketball, so that's what we got. FWLIW, they didn't completely coast for the last 12 or so minutes of the first half and pretty effectively shut MVSU down. The balance of the game wasn't a D-I effort, and I'm ok with that given the context. If they come out with the same slack effort in South Bend, I'll feel very differently about things. [/QUOTE]
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