I will NEVER follow a game thread!Mission accomplished: was able to watch and enjoy but had no focus for the game thread
I will NEVER follow a game thread!Mission accomplished: was able to watch and enjoy but had no focus for the game thread
I missed the last 12 minutes due to family vacation. I also missed the last 10 minutes of the game yesterday. I don’t like this!!It was the worst of halves, it was the best of halves!
They were indeed. But it was because we wore them down. Mast expended a lot of energy that 1st half sprinting up and down the court and it showed in that 2nd half. Those second half possessions, every time we got a rebound it was a lightning fast dash the other way followedby bruising assaultafter bruising assault. TSJ was in Tominaga's grill. And then Ty and Luke on the offensive boards just broke them. They could no longer stop or stay in front of us and were chasing the play for a solid 15 minutes.Nb was a tired team.
Sure did. Just please stop passing up open shots. You have to believe in yourself a lot more.Did you guys like how I played?
Well, also the team should be ashamed of the first half performance... Hard to blame fans for being upset.I want to match all the post game comments with the in thread comments. A lot of “fans” on here should be ashamed.
I'm sure TJ is pretty happy with how things have worked out..TJ40!! Nuff said!! Oh, we should all take this moment to thank Juwan for giving us Terrance. That was so nice of him. I'm sure he is like this right now...
An even more incredible Ty stat: Ty is currently the leading rebounder in the BTT. Nobody has more boards than him, including Edey or any Wisconsin player and they've played an extra game. Plus, Ty isn't a Center. If he were to get another double-double in the final, I think you almost have to find a spot for him on the all tournament team.Ty appreciation post. Makes winning plays. Very glad he is staying in the game late now.
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Decided to play Challenge defense.I was at baseball practice watching with a bad Hulu in the second half. What were the adjustments or did our shot just go in and theirs cooled off
His 6 rebounds were huge.Nebraska was up 55-40 with 18:00 left in the game. From that point, it was all us. We finished the game on a 58-32 run.
TSJ was not going to accept defeat. Not on this day. We need this kind of mentality in the NCAAs.
Shout out to Luke Goode. He passed up an open one but man did he come up with some winning plays for us down the stretch. 12 pts, 6 rebounds.
Shannon should have put that sticker about a foot up and to the right. Coach Frazier doing part of the Chief dance at the end.
Definitely not All American material /s"Shannon had no turnovers, becoming the first major conference player with 40 points and no turnovers in a conference tournament game in the past 25 years, according to ESPN Stats & Information research."
I felt much more confident seeing him still out there in the closing minutes.An even more incredible Ty stat: Ty is currently the leading rebounder in the BTT. Nobody has more boards than him, including Edey or any Wisconsin player and they've played an extra game. Plus, Ty isn't a Center. If he were to get another double-double in the final, I think you almost have to find a spot for him on the all tournament team.
MeWhen we were down by 15, how many of you were thinking that we would win by 11?
LOL. Make that 15 minutes.I couldn't watch the game. I had to attend a play this afternoon. Downtown. 30-min drive both ways. It had three acts, lasted 3:30, had two intermissions, and was, to put it as mildly and politely as possible, soft-core Marxist porn masquerading as TRUTH. Sometimes a man's gotta do...
[An aside: for the Illini ladies who post here, please remind your husbands to kneel in heartfelt thanks for your affinity for college ball. And then give you a foot rub Jules Winfield stylz]
Anyway, I can't watch the replay yet and saw only the final score (and word of TSJ's 40-spot) without reading any of the post game thread. Awesome, decisive victory. Since we obviously must have clicked on all 12 cylinders for 40 mins I'm going to treat myself, sit back with two fingers of bourbon, and leisurely enjoy what I'm confident was a uniquely positive, uplifting game thread with nary a disparagement of any aspect of our hallowed program. I need it after the afternoon I've had.
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You know, I warned her and she conceded my powers of prophecy. The first two acts were OK, maybe shaky at times, but the third was, as I noted, an absolute dumpster fire that I suspect either an angry, sullen adolescent or Ivy League liberal arts graduate wrote (yeah, I don't know either how you differentiate there these days.)18 minutes. Was enough
(And God bless you my son...my best to Mrs. Marx)
So you're GOLD next timeYou know, I warned her and she conceded my powers of prophecy. The first two acts were OK, maybe shaky at times, but the third was, as I noted, an absolute dumpster fire that I suspect either an angry, sullen adolescent or Ivy League graduate wrote (yeah, I don't know either how you differentiate there these days.)
This has given rise to a new tagline: "It had an Act III problem."
Taking this back to the matter at hand: I don't think the Illini are going to have an Act III problem this year in the BTT. Get 'er done, boys.