Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
I’m just glad he set us all straight. Here I sat thinking Trent and DW had never lost a game in their Illinois careers.
Nebraska 83, Illinois 80 Postgame
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Stared down the defender and called him a F$cking b!tch right in front if the ref. Not smart
Tell you want, let's do this: Underwood is now in his 9th year at Illinois. Please list all the games where we upset, and I mean truly upset, a better team (especially on the road), let alone a much better team. I honestly cannot think of a single one.
In all of his years here, we have basically won most of the games we should win, lost most if not all of the games that we were expected to loss, but had many (too many) upset losses, and got embarrassed few times (too many).
Go ahead and list all of Underwood's "signature" wins (and compare with all of his "signature" losses). The closest thing we have to a signature win is beating Iowa State in the S16, and that was a 2-3 match up.
Again, I'm not saying Underwood is a terrible coach, but that is the problem. he's good enough (especially in recruiting, and winning just enough games) that you may never be able to fire him.
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Do you really expect that he'd have been benched all game for two bad practices? Against a ranked conference opponent? After having 20 points in his last game?
The point of bringing up bad practices is to teach the idea that bad practices lead to bad games, so you better bring it in practice.
HoopCity
- Huntsville, AL
Was Z t'd-up for hanging on the rim or for his vocal actions?
So, here's where I'm going to balk at your comments(which are well thought out unlike others). If we're going to cut the wins vs OSU and Tennessee off at the knees because of how they looked, how can we not elevate Nebraska based on how they looked by absolutely beating TF out of Wisconsin(30 point win, shooting 54%), then coming into our house and beating us shooting 46% from three?
It can't go both ways. We can't degrade two teams that we beat, but not elevate a team that's 10-0, looking great? Many of our fans find a negative narrative, then stick to it without stepping back and taking a rational point of view.
You know, last year everyone across the country crapped on Indiana football because it's Indiana...they suck. Our fans wanted Bielema's head after getting smacked by them this year. It's 10000% because of the name on the front of the jersey and as of right now....it's the situation with Nebraska basketball. It's a sh*t loss because we simply can't lose to a Nebraska basketball team because again....it's Nebraska. Well, maybe we should pump the brakes and see how it all plays out.
Honestly, other fan bases dumped on our football team's success last year AND this year. Why? Because we're Illinois football and we're supposed to be awful.
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9 layups in the second half for the Huskers - no need to over analyze this loss.I already posted it, but after sleeping on it, I feel like this needs to be posted again.
Ok, let's attack this in a different way because the discussion is coming across as an attack on Mirk, which is my fault. My use of adjectives has been poor, so let's back up.
In your mind, what does Mirkovic do well and what does he not do well? What's the strongest part of his game?
Because that's not what the technical was for
It seemed many people needed that reminder. Or did “this is the type of game Trent would have never allowed us to lose” mean something else? People used to get mad at Trent too after losses.
No, no it’s on the young kids that are on campus for the first year ever. Possibly America for all I know. Coach has to throw them under the bus. Has to. Its not him. He certainly doesn’t need to change. /s
Coach looks pathetic when he say this all the time.
Illinois made 8 layups in 2H... so grand total of 1 more than us
blackdog
- Champaign
I really don't know why people are complaining about the T. He pretty clearly goes towards the Nebraska player and screams in his face. You cant do that in college ball.
PizzaHutParkingLot
- Vodice, Croatia
I said this during the OSU game that we don’t take advantage of mismatches in the paint and make post entries.You have to definitely use your size advantage as much as possible.
If he’s not his sure playing himself into one.
Then BU should have taken his own advice, from his quote of Bob Knight, and sat his !!! on the bench to start the game and started Ben or Jake. That also makes a point, probably more so than talking about it after the game in which you just started him.
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His back is to the camera so how can you see him screaming and I don’t see him coming at anybody. So our perspectives are different and we’ll just leave it at that. Go check highlights of what the Fab 4 did on a regular basis back in the day, this pales in comparison. Could have been handled better. Pull him aside and if he does it again then T him up. For the benefit of doubt, maybe that had already occurred and all the refs know it has. then yes the T is justified. Kinda like a warning ticket you get for speeding. But if you speed again soon afterwards you get a ticket.
You should perhaps watch other teams play basketball. I assure you it is something nearly every team struggles with.
Case in point, Michigan State struggled with a sub-100 KP Penn State team yesterday and let them go on a 23-5 run in the first half. They needed a Herculean effort from three from a guy who doesn't produce offense to win. Had they lost that game, I bet the fans are singing much the same tune as you are here.
Not directed at you or anyone else, just pointing out that he asked to come out which a few people on here didn't know at the time and assumed that Brad pulled him for no apparent reason
You’re damn right he’s sitting. Like Knight use to say “ !!! meet bench “. If he doesn’t get the message of what’s expected what it takes to play at a high level for the University of Illinois then he needs to find another place to play. If you want to compete for the B10 Championship and 2nd weekend then these guys better understand what it’s going to take. My bad Coach don’t cut it.
blackdog
- Champaign
I was at the game and had a pretty perfect angle to see him yelling at the Nebraska player. Every player knows the expectation so that's not something a ref is going to give a warning for.
You can’t even give a fair prompt.
I can give you plenty of “upsets”, but you’ve rigged the template so much so you can do your little but it’s not a “true upset” nonsense.
They’ve “upset” Michigan alone like 3 times since he’s been here - but let me a take a wild guess, those don’t count in your eyes as “true upsets.”
My son loves to bring up the “pizza hut parking lot”.
He made some comment after the game and my wife said “it looks like we are taking teams to Panera for a nice Fuji apple salad”.
And then I get on here and read posts about chik fil a or whatever. Lol
“Here you go young Sam Hoiberg. Drive on in to the lane, we have a soup in a bread bowl waiting for you…”
He made some comment after the game and my wife said “it looks like we are taking teams to Panera for a nice Fuji apple salad”.
And then I get on here and read posts about chik fil a or whatever. Lol
“Here you go young Sam Hoiberg. Drive on in to the lane, we have a soup in a bread bowl waiting for you…”
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