Penn State 74, Illinois 59 Postgame
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
This makes no sense. If we would have won this game, your pessimism would have been your own conjecture and not evidenced, as it was today.
I’m as annoyed as anyone else, but people here are talking like we’re a Bubble team because we’re still finding ourselves?
DB11Headband
- Chicago Burbs
He said, in the Illinois/PSU postgame thread
They did what they wanted when they wanted with very little resistance all game. Good team or not you can not let them boat race you like that at Home.
Tough day for my internet to not go out
Penn State shot lights out, our D was bad, our O was bad. We need a reliable go to scorer badly and we don’t have one right now. Can’t have someone like TSJ showing up only half the time. Someone needs to step up and just take over or we’re going to have some more losses like this.
Turpin & Tate in 2008!
- Addison, IL
I think you hit on the key here. Blame for this performance rests squarely on the shoulders of the equipment manager. There needs to be accountability.
Why do we shoot so bad at home? We are the youngest team they are the oldest in the NCAA.
Dainja can't play if he can't hit free throws.
Epsilon
M tipping over
- Pdx
Yeah we’re just a young talented team (with key transfers) going through growing pains. Unfortunately, inconsistency is a byproduct of that.
This game made yesterday’s discussion in Texas postgame thread about Skyy under performing and Epps being ahead of expectations a bit more humorous.
drsmitty74
- Rochester
Truly disappointing.
They had so much versatility and balanced scoring sorta how we want our guys to perform lol. They sniped us up and took our soul during that run when we cut it to 52-47 they made 4 straight TREYS and we were bomb shockeed and the game was over at that moment.
I normally would be okay with this stance, but they're now 10 games in and have no real offense and lay eggs for large portions of the game. We played well in spurts to pull out the Texas and UCLA game, but we can't keep doing this. Relax is for teams that have a veteran presence that can calm us down, we've yet to see that consistently from any of our "elite" players. We can still recover, but a loss to Penn State at home is a cause for some concern.
We’ve begin to establish a pattern with this team — get down big early then rally and either win or lose a close one. Today the script was followed until the rally was snuffed out early. We need to break the pattern of falling behind.
Steelyunk
- Tobacco Road
OK that’s what I thought. Underwood got outcoached. Made zero adjustments - just impotently screamed at his players and randomly subbed people in. PSU schemed the hell out of our D and we didn’t respond.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Bubble team is too strong. We will get wins because we're talented and aggressive and tough to contain.
But like, we were awful in that Texas game. We don't consistently play good basketball because we don't consistently know where scoring is coming from.
Illini in Indiana
- Indiana
Yep, can't just show up and win. The next game is the most important.View attachment 22060
A tale of two halves: offensedefense
PSU excelled at both.
Learn and move on to the next…
We basically got beat by an "old man" team. They knew their advantage, and we didn't answer. Yeah, them shooting the lights out didn't hurt either.
Learn and move on.