If you like watching Penn State hit every shot, this one is for you.
Penn State 93, Illinois 81 Postgame
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Only Terps and Gophers shoot it worse from 3 in the BIG Ten than us. Again, we had a poor shooting night from 3 ... 7 of 27 for 26%. We were much better in TO's with only 8. But we were dead last in the league coming into tonight averaging 13.6 per game.
Being inconsistent in these 2 areas will make for an early exit in the tournament. We have shown we can play great, but not over a several game period.
I love my team, but I have zero optimism against Indiana. Just praying we can win a few down the road and get in the dance.
It’s not the 41 points……it the 8 assists
Who should shoot ‘em? Epps does not turn it over! Who should shoot ‘em? We must take open looks! They would not get driving lanes with out the threat of shooting threes man! You can make anyone look bad when you manipulate stats. Epps is a good shooter and is learning and TSJ is taking less poor shots as is Hawkins
RJ can’t throw it in the ocean right now. Our best shooter is Mayer and hopefully Godde and those you don’t wanna shoot will step up. If they don’t you can forget it but lighten up on Epps. He has been huge for us and has hit key shots and FTsthat win games. He didn’t hit his threes but if he has zero turnovers like he has often I’ll take it.
Agree. I’m actually fairly positive after this one.
We played a tournament quality team in an absolute must win to save their season on their floor where they are now 12-2 and a 5th year all American had a transcendent game. Similar to IU except we were at home obviously. Not sure anyone was winning in there tonight. It happens. Especially in CBB this year.
Our defense definitely could have been better, I probably give us a C, but for the most part we fought until the end. Ty was sensational. Coleman remained assertive offensively. Dain I thought did a really good job guarding in space. After giving up 10 23’s in the first half we tightened up and only allowed 2 in the second half. And both Luke and RJ hit a 3. For RJ that was maybe the best looking shot he’s had in a month. Didn’t think and just let it fly.
If we compete like we did tonight we will have a chance to win every game, including in the tournament. Guys aren’t going to hit contested step back 2 pointers for a full 40 minutes maybe ever again this year.
Once the game was out of hand we resorted to chucking too many 3’s but overall still think we are trending in the right direction. Let’s go beat Indiana.
Good to see Goode get some more playing time and hit a 3. However, don't think we should expect much help from him this year. Not moving that well in this fast paced game and didn't seem to want to put the ball on the floor the couple times he had the opportunity. We will see though....
He’s a really good coach as far as building a program goes. But he isn’t a good tactician. You see that weakness exploited in the tournament.
No one in the nation beats Penn State when they shoot like that... All of their shots were contested.
Move on to the next there is no takeaway from this one.
Move on to the next there is no takeaway from this one.
NASchamp
- Atlanta
I realize we were flat. And we just couldn’t guard the 3 (again). I have no clue why we keep letting individual players have the game of their life. And, once again, we gave a team confidence early and they couldn’t miss the rest of the night….
But man. Why do B$G Ten refs feel the need to impact the game so much? Isn’t the point to not affect the outcome? The inconsistent foul calls are infuriating. The automatic goal tends on anything close. The travel calls because something looked different. Etc. I know this board hates on anyone that complains about the refs. But I can’t stand seeing runs (and games) affected by bad calls.
But man. Why do B$G Ten refs feel the need to impact the game so much? Isn’t the point to not affect the outcome? The inconsistent foul calls are infuriating. The automatic goal tends on anything close. The travel calls because something looked different. Etc. I know this board hates on anyone that complains about the refs. But I can’t stand seeing runs (and games) affected by bad calls.
I hope you're not grading exams at medical schools.
I think our guys played pretty well. I thought the effort was there on defense, and offensively was pretty predictable for playing a pretty bad defensive penn st team. The same could be said for the loss at Iowa and the loss at home to Indiana. What do all three of our current losses have in common? The inability of the coaching staff to adjust to an opposing player going off. Jackson Davis with a career high 35 points, Perkins with a career high 32 points and tonight's 41 points a by Pickett which was his career high while at Penn St.
No other way to put it. Pickett made us his !!!!!.
Please stop shooting the Three! You can't hit them. Seven for 27 basically equals 20 turnovers! And turn up the pressure. Why didn't we press all game?
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
Our defense didn't travel tonight. That was hard to watch.
Effort was horrible on defense to start the game. You can’t go under screens while guarding Pickett. We let him get hot and he stayed hot. Too often we got out of position and let wide open 3 point shooters get shots off. Once we tried to tighten up after getting 14 down it was too late. Give up 50 in a half you aren’t going to win many games. We have to get better at playing defense from the very start.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
A glaring knock on the staff at this point through multiple teams/personnel.
I would like to cosign this message.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Anyone saying that this game against PSU was "just like" the game in December didn't watch at least 1 of those games. The game at SFC we were flat, uninspired, and going through the motions. An all around putrid effort.
Tonight we put up 81 points, showed a lot of hustle and absolutely no quit, but got torched by a guy having a career night. Yes, it sucks to lose, but we didn't beat ourselves tonight like we did in December.
Tonight we put up 81 points, showed a lot of hustle and absolutely no quit, but got torched by a guy having a career night. Yes, it sucks to lose, but we didn't beat ourselves tonight like we did in December.
Bad. Yes, unless you are a PSU fan
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