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Nebraska 78, Illinois 67 POSTGAME
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<blockquote data-quote="LurkLongandProsper" data-source="post: 1180331" data-attributes="member: 153359"><p>Here's the difference between Purdue and Nebraska, and why we lost to Neb and beat PU. </p><p></p><p>Purdue is completely incapable of putting the ball on the floor. Their guard play is bad, we knew that, and took advantage of that by taking their bigs out of the game on the defensive end. It made us look good defensively for probably the first time all season. </p><p></p><p>We are downright BAD defending guys off the dribble. Shavon Shields continues to show us that every time we play against him - he is not fast and his handle really isn't that great. While we won the assists column tonight, I suspect that is largely because of how many free runs to the hoop they got, not because of any sort of good defense. We will continue to drop games to teams that can create off the dribble because they get into the paint too easily, we over-rotate, and they either get an easy bucket off the initial action, off a kickout, or on the boards (and this point really hurt us tonight). MSU killed us for the same reason. </p><p></p><p>I could understand if we were to lose games on ISOs on the block with our lack of depth at the 5 (because really, Malcolm or DJW plays every available minute at the 4 for the most part), but we are losing because our guards can't stop getting beat defensively on the perimeter. </p><p></p><p>Offensively against Purdue was the best we've played in ANY B10 game under Groce. Regression to the mean was inevitable. </p><p></p><p>Not a lot to be inspired by today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LurkLongandProsper, post: 1180331, member: 153359"] Here's the difference between Purdue and Nebraska, and why we lost to Neb and beat PU. Purdue is completely incapable of putting the ball on the floor. Their guard play is bad, we knew that, and took advantage of that by taking their bigs out of the game on the defensive end. It made us look good defensively for probably the first time all season. We are downright BAD defending guys off the dribble. Shavon Shields continues to show us that every time we play against him - he is not fast and his handle really isn't that great. While we won the assists column tonight, I suspect that is largely because of how many free runs to the hoop they got, not because of any sort of good defense. We will continue to drop games to teams that can create off the dribble because they get into the paint too easily, we over-rotate, and they either get an easy bucket off the initial action, off a kickout, or on the boards (and this point really hurt us tonight). MSU killed us for the same reason. I could understand if we were to lose games on ISOs on the block with our lack of depth at the 5 (because really, Malcolm or DJW plays every available minute at the 4 for the most part), but we are losing because our guards can't stop getting beat defensively on the perimeter. Offensively against Purdue was the best we've played in ANY B10 game under Groce. Regression to the mean was inevitable. Not a lot to be inspired by today. [/QUOTE]
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