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<blockquote data-quote="altgeld88" data-source="post: 2013746" data-attributes="member: 2886"><p>Yep. My thoughts exactly. He instills tough, physical play in them year after year. They play soft in stretches, he gets after them, and they rise to the occasion.</p><p></p><p>We're hard on the Illini because they're our team and we see their flaws clearly. MSU has plenty but yesterday they took care business in their house. Rebounding was about equal, but we've handily outrebounded opponents consistently this year. I kept thinking to myself the entire second half how clearly superior to them we are. Then we crumbled down the stretch. Our eFG was 52.5%, which is pretty solid for a road team playing in Breslin. But then we let them shoot north of 57%. Still trying to figure out how, with all that, we were firmly in control until around the 5:00 mark.</p><p></p><p>I absolutely hate losing to them. On the up side, Maryland soiled the bed in Columbus for the second consecutive game and Wisconsin apparently is in the midst of what early '70s rock stars would call an extended lost weekend, but with dramatically less hedonism involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="altgeld88, post: 2013746, member: 2886"] Yep. My thoughts exactly. He instills tough, physical play in them year after year. They play soft in stretches, he gets after them, and they rise to the occasion. We're hard on the Illini because they're our team and we see their flaws clearly. MSU has plenty but yesterday they took care business in their house. Rebounding was about equal, but we've handily outrebounded opponents consistently this year. I kept thinking to myself the entire second half how clearly superior to them we are. Then we crumbled down the stretch. Our eFG was 52.5%, which is pretty solid for a road team playing in Breslin. But then we let them shoot north of 57%. Still trying to figure out how, with all that, we were firmly in control until around the 5:00 mark. I absolutely hate losing to them. On the up side, Maryland soiled the bed in Columbus for the second consecutive game and Wisconsin apparently is in the midst of what early '70s rock stars would call an extended lost weekend, but with dramatically less hedonism involved. [/QUOTE]
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