Maryland 76, Illinois 67 Postgame
At home, though?
I was too confident having Illinois covering the points today. Elite teams don't lose this game. Let's see how they regroup, but they are not a Top Ten team without TS. This is the damn proof. One game at a time.
Our switching defense got the best of us today. Young really good with penetration and then Reese working to gain position when needed.
Shot terrible in the second half
What's with all the jump passes (recipe for diaster/turnovers)
We were leaving our man too early in the first half in the paint which led to easy paint buckets
28 points by Young tells you what the game plan was and WE did not make adjustments.
Hard to play with 7 and the Thursday game took something out of our legs.
2 nd best defense on 2 pointers in the nation got schooled
They start out 0 for 8 and we built a lead thanks to Goode and then Luke goes 15 min with out shooting.
I like that we tried Dainja and Hawkins on the floor at the same time, but when both are on the floor, why isn’t one of them parked near or under the basket. There were a couple times with both of them playing when MD got an easy dunk or layup.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
One could say that and you did.........IMO , it was more poor angles , tired legs and some of it was good blocks by the twerps.......The twerps probably just played their best game of the year today , and we played one of our worst games of the year.....Because too many 'shots' were more like throws, Pru. Anything in transition was running and launching and clanging off the rim.
Add to that the terrible threes (after the opening 5 minutes) and 6 for 16 on layups (pre-garbage time) and the shooting was off the charts bad.
Hansberry was a medical DNP
So you’d rather have a freshmen on the floor instead of our best player?
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And Purdue was at home too....oh wait
Worse game they have played all year. Plain and simple. Never seen this team shoot so bad.
No, never will replace Iowa for me.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
BU just said we were 8-25 on layups........layups.......................
said it was the first time in a long time that we didn't guard on defense..............
brought up we maybe should have played DGL & Moretti some.......
give fairyland a lot of credit......................
Dain got 7 points , but blew 3 screen and rolls on D.....................
I told the team in the locker room we just joined a list of top ten ranked teams that lost to an unranked team.....that's being honest and about the only way to look at it.......
On to nu and get our mojo back............
it's the way I roll...........it really really is..............................
InDaAZ beat me by a minute .....................AGAIN...................he really really did...................
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52-24 advantage in the paint. 52-24.
And what were we 6/25 on layups or whatever? Couldn’t get much of anything to fall in the 2nd half. They killed us all day inside and our rotations and ball stopping were really poor.
It’s a bad loss. No other way to sugarcoat it.
And what were we 6/25 on layups or whatever? Couldn’t get much of anything to fall in the 2nd half. They killed us all day inside and our rotations and ball stopping were really poor.
It’s a bad loss. No other way to sugarcoat it.
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
Have you seen college basketball this year? They certainly are.
My SIL is a Terp. I have to live with this. Must win at college park.
That is probably not going to happen. This team is good just had an absolute crap game With practically every aspect of basketball.
With Shannon: AdjDe = 20th
Without Shannon: AdjDe= 81st.
With Shannon: defensive rebounding % = 39th
Without Shannon: defensive rebounding % = 293rd.
And that doesn't even include today's game.
Without Shannon: AdjDe= 81st.
With Shannon: defensive rebounding % = 39th
Without Shannon: defensive rebounding % = 293rd.
And that doesn't even include today's game.
Easy to career when you are given everything you want offensively and not even forced to work on the defensive end. Just bad from us.
A few takeaways:
The hypobaric chambers are going to be in high demand for recovery. Guys were just gassed. I despise a 6-man rotation.
Jahmir Young and Julian Reese 2-man ball was too much for us. Tiny quick guards are our kryptonite if we don't bullyball them on the other end. Young just has our number.
Harmon and QG were just OFF their game.
Luke had a few wild, overly physical plays. Grabbed a guy (first foul) and pushed a guy on a breakaway. Tired legs = silly plays. Both almost looked dirty.
Dain gave a spark, but he's not the answer.
Sad to let this one get away, especially at home, but when you lose your best offensive and one of your best defensive players, these games will happen. ON TO THE NEXT!
The hypobaric chambers are going to be in high demand for recovery. Guys were just gassed. I despise a 6-man rotation.
Jahmir Young and Julian Reese 2-man ball was too much for us. Tiny quick guards are our kryptonite if we don't bullyball them on the other end. Young just has our number.
Harmon and QG were just OFF their game.
Luke had a few wild, overly physical plays. Grabbed a guy (first foul) and pushed a guy on a breakaway. Tired legs = silly plays. Both almost looked dirty.
Dain gave a spark, but he's not the answer.
Sad to let this one get away, especially at home, but when you lose your best offensive and one of your best defensive players, these games will happen. ON TO THE NEXT!
Not sure how bad the Terps are or just underachieving so far. Near the end of the telecast, the announcers mentioned that in the preseason media polling, Maryland was picked to finish 3rd (and that was higher than the Illini). So how bad are they really. Maybe we took them too lightly too.