Not at all a bad shot to take when you just need a basket. Unfortunately, Belo needs to make them. He still tends to want to take over games and force things.
Maryland 81, Illinois 65 Postgame
If true.....wow
1.) Omar still leaves his feet way too much. Pick your battles, man. You’ve gotta just wall-up sometimes, dude.
2.) I saw the strangest thing on transition D I ever saw tonight. Frazier put up a 23-footer from the top of the key…
zero of our guys crashed the boards (not ideal but sometimes that happens) The bizarre thing is we immediately had four guys well past half-court line to defend the Terps coming at us…but we stayed WAY WIDE and just kinda hung out at the hash marks like we had all day…Then when they came dribbling up and we seemingly parted like the Red Sea…it was bizarre. It should have never been a numbers advantage… but dadgum if they didn’t nearly turn it into one. We had one guy in the paint. Our defense is supposed to be pack line principled…well that ain’t it.
3.) This lose isn’t the end of the world…(like others have said)
2.) I saw the strangest thing on transition D I ever saw tonight. Frazier put up a 23-footer from the top of the key…
zero of our guys crashed the boards (not ideal but sometimes that happens) The bizarre thing is we immediately had four guys well past half-court line to defend the Terps coming at us…but we stayed WAY WIDE and just kinda hung out at the hash marks like we had all day…Then when they came dribbling up and we seemingly parted like the Red Sea…it was bizarre. It should have never been a numbers advantage… but dadgum if they didn’t nearly turn it into one. We had one guy in the paint. Our defense is supposed to be pack line principled…well that ain’t it.
3.) This lose isn’t the end of the world…(like others have said)
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
I'll admit that I speedily reacted to a post elsewhere and apologize if incorrect.
#84 in Kenpom after this win. #91 in Torvik. They are bad bad bad.
positively agree . We could lose some promising freshman through the portal if we don't use them.
Worst defensive effort of year. Rip the pages out of the scorebook, burn em, and never talk about it again.
I feel bad for RJ. He came strictly because of OA and then OA up and leaves. He clearly has the highest upside of the 3 freshman.
I'd say we already have...at least 1
Calillini
Now appearing in Tampa
What is a “glue guy”? I never understood the term.
Then don’t play him, Brad. You decided to roll with a guy under the weather down the stretch. I’m getting a bit tired of these types of things coming out every press conference—it reeks of some post-hoc attempt to justify bad play.
If this team adopts some kind of snakebit mentality, the season could spiral fast.
After tonight’s defensive “performance” the “RJ doesn’t have it together on the defensive end” argument is crap. He’s a gifted offensive player and we needed something down the stretch that the rotation wasn’t/couldn’t give us.
Did not read all the posts a on the board but had to say this performance sucked. Certainly Kofi would have made a difference but BU has to show he can coach when things aren't perfect. What was the game plan? We seemed to play without any direction. Maybe it's just me but I was totally disgusted with this performance.
A guy that does all the dirty work without garnering "glamour" stats
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
If he leaves after this year, I'm going to be bummed. He has Kendrick Knunn vibes to me. Plays within himself and plays hard. So much potential.
Our team looked tired late in the game, especially Plummer. Why doesn't BU give the freshmen more minutes?
Not when we don't have a way to stop Scott. He killed us both games. We don't have a player on our roster over 6'4" that can face up and get their own shot like he can against us. We have some guys that handle the ball well that have some height but not like Scott can and with his frame. He is a tough guard for our guys. He killed us in both games. Gotta give him credit. He is a good player and they fed him in the second half
Yeah, Scott is a match up nightmare. I realize they don’t grow on trees but would love to recruit a player of his mold.
If he had the body like Nunn or even Goode I think he would play more. Maryland has some strong grown men that caused problems for us in both games. Especially tonight. I think he will get there are n time.
The flu is making its rounds.
With the crap luck we're having, this team is going to be so battle tested by March.
I'm not happy about the loss tonight but this is not freakout time.
The play that ended any comeback chance we had was when Plummer tried to draw the foul on his three point shot. Instead he got called for the travel.
We couldn’t stop them and when they missed we barely got any rebounds you won’t win many games like that
We also had some bad turnovers
We couldn’t stop them and when they missed we barely got any rebounds you won’t win many games like that
We also had some bad turnovers
Do they still look at that...gonna be another bad quad loss at best
the national
- the Front Range
The refs werent even a factor. I haven’t heard one person crowing about it, actually.