Big Jack
- Decatur
Nah the call on Coleman was correct.. he reached to far hit both his arm and leg gonna get that called 9 out of 10 times. you call on TJ was bullcrap i agree.
Northwestern 96, Illinois 91 OT Postgame
To get there you need to win four matchups like this in a row. We haven't shown that we can do that. Let's go back to setting expectations at the Sweet Sixteen.
Northwestern is difficult to guard if the screener gets by with moving....they are really good at getting away with setting moving screens during the pick n roll. Why not double team the ball once in a while just to mix it up, you know, something different to see if we can get the ball handler thinking about something else other than knocking down a 3 or getting in front of his defender. Too predictable = bad defensive scheme.
Underwood is way over reliant on the top 6. Clearly 2 losses now where we couldn't compete at the end because the top 6 were dead.
I said in the pre-game thread just let Bouie have his 20+ and stop everyone else. D did not show up last night at all. Can't win games when you let the whole team go off. We let Nicholson score 12, so ya D was non existent.
Ryllini
- Lombard
Well, congrats to NW. They are a good team and I don't want to take anything away from then, but that is what it took to beat us...on their home court...in overtime. These games are a chess match and Collins is no slouch. I can appreciate BU and staff trying a wrinkle, but they do have to realize when it is time to scrap something.
We don't have a point guard. Or rather, the good point guard, Moretti, spends his time watching from the bench. The experiment with Rodgers was ludicrous from the start, and it looks like Underwood has finally figured that out. Domask often brings the ball up the court, then starts backing down and backing down and backing down in the paint, then tries to figure out what will open up. Teams never double him, so he gets his points. I wish Moretti was playing the point (it would make Domask even more effective,) but I suppose this is not the point in the season to be breaking in a new scheme. Is Bouie the best player in the conference?
I think NW got called on those in our first game early on and they had to adjust to life without moving screens.
"Hazed" is putting it mildly.
The issue last night was the defense and the switching in the 2nd half just like Brad said. I don’t get why they never realized that we couldn’t switch Domask or Goode onto Buie. Great to mention that postgame but it’s a little late.
7 guys played 15 minutes or more last night. Who would you have played more?
I've been wondering the same thing; that was bizarre.
So much wrong here….
Just looking at the video there....what slap down??? He poked that ball out without contact....The NW dude did step on Coleman's foot, which is probably the main reason they called a foul (because all together, it looks like he fouls him because of the step and stumble.)
They (somehow!) didn't call it on the floor, right? Only on review did they identify a flagrant. My guess it's a quirk of the rules.
And anybody could see that, which begs the question why put TJ out there for 40 minutes, including putting him on Boo when we needed one stop to win the game?
Still love Brad and I think he’s a great coach but last night wasn’t his best. It happens. We all have off days/nights. Despite the poor coaching, unconscious shooting by NW and us smoking a bunch of layups, it still went to OT.
I bet if you take the exact same shot charts and replay that game 100 times we probably win 75. Happens on the road.
Northwestern's minutes were more concentrated than ours, so I don't understand the issue with playing 7 guys. This is extremely common in tight college basketball games and a complete non-issue.
Officiating was really bad, but we got some breaks as well. Instead of a dead ball review to give NW 2 points on the goaltend, I come back from commercial to see they instead reviewed a NW 3 point shot and actually took a point away from them instead. Lot of other really egregiously bad officiating, but both teams suffered from it to some degree.
We now have a second game in a couple week span where we just absolutely cannot make shots at the rim. A couple of times we had 3 or 4 shots at the rim on a single possession and came away empty.
There was a sequence in the second half where NW gets a shooter's bounce on a 3 point shot and it goes in, then 10 seconds later on the ensuing Illinois possession we have a 3 point shot barely rim out. If that one teeny-tiny instance of luck goes the other way, we're up 6 points at the end and Domask is shooting FTs to ice it instead of a tie game.
Officiating was really bad, but we got some breaks as well. Instead of a dead ball review to give NW 2 points on the goaltend, I come back from commercial to see they instead reviewed a NW 3 point shot and actually took a point away from them instead. Lot of other really egregiously bad officiating, but both teams suffered from it to some degree.
We now have a second game in a couple week span where we just absolutely cannot make shots at the rim. A couple of times we had 3 or 4 shots at the rim on a single possession and came away empty.
There was a sequence in the second half where NW gets a shooter's bounce on a 3 point shot and it goes in, then 10 seconds later on the ensuing Illinois possession we have a 3 point shot barely rim out. If that one teeny-tiny instance of luck goes the other way, we're up 6 points at the end and Domask is shooting FTs to ice it instead of a tie game.
You could tell how uncomfortable Boo was when Hawkins switched to him, which would have been the better assignment.
I feel like this summarizes BU's tenure at Illinois. We are a much better program than we had been in recent history, but we generally fail to get it done when it matters most.
I dont know how anyone can trust this dude to win the big games. there's ALWAYS an excuse.