Purdue 76, Illinois 71 Postgame
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ginabackes00
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I think his, along with a few others‘ energy and mental focus to start the game contributes heavily to the early deficits.
Are we locked into the 8/9 game?
chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
So proud of the effort in the second half. I'm not complaining, it could have been a different outcome if we had just gotten a foul call on that hand slap by Morton on Shannon near the end. Oh well. The refs weren't too bad once they stopped calling any attempt at defense to be a foul (i.e., Hawkins' first and second fouls).
I wish I knew how high Sencire jumped when he busted up that alley-oop attempt on defense... he looked like he had a jetpack on.
Dain... I hate to say it, but the common thread for Illini runs lately seems to be sitting Dain on the bench. On defense, he is just completely oblivious to anything going on in the game outside of keeping track of his man.
On to the BTT and hopefully another Q1 win or two. Would like another shot at Iowa or Maryland. Just no Jalen Pickett please.
I wish I knew how high Sencire jumped when he busted up that alley-oop attempt on defense... he looked like he had a jetpack on.
Dain... I hate to say it, but the common thread for Illini runs lately seems to be sitting Dain on the bench. On defense, he is just completely oblivious to anything going on in the game outside of keeping track of his man.
On to the BTT and hopefully another Q1 win or two. Would like another shot at Iowa or Maryland. Just no Jalen Pickett please.
Any chance we go back to Dain on the bench to start the game like we did in the beginning of the year?
This was our first meeting this season.
sacraig
- The desert
I'm more confident a rematch against Purdue is winnable than an 8/9 game if the season MO holds.
Was that Harris or TSJ? I thought it was Harris at first, but then the announcer said Shannon. Whoever it was definitely almost jumped out of the gym.
frozenrope9190
- Aurora, IL
Not locked yet, but a distinct possibility. Im guessing 7 or 8 depending on Indiana/Michigan.
I would love to know what the play we drew up down 69-67 was. Mayer came for a handoff and Hawkins wouldn’t give it to him. Seems like someone wasn’t running the play that got drawn up.
DReq
Always Illini
- Central Illinois
I have to take exception to that. He could have done what he could to minimize his foul. Mayer was already going down. Instead he chose to use both hands and shove Mayer to the floor. In my opinion that has to be called a flagrant. At the very least it should be reviewed.
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Indiana actually beat them twice. I think that mold was already cast. We sucked the 1st half or we could have won by double digits.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Can’t wait for Purdue to get knocked out second round against a 4 seed in the NCAAT.
Tacomallini
- Washington State
Does MM even know what play they were trying to run at the end of the game?
You’re gonna miss him next year. He can get a !!!! at anytime and has kept us in a ton of games on his own.
chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
TSJ had a great block too, but IIRC Harris broke up an alley loop and looked like he jumped five feet in the air on TV.
Can't fault this team's effort. We played really hard that 2nd half and made a phenomenal run at it. Really just lacking execution in a few key areas doing us in. First and foremost, we need to do something to change how we come out in games. Our first 4-8 minutes have been consistently abysmal for the past month. Not sure how Underwood gets the 2nd half effort to show up from the get go aside for maybe chewing the team out right before the game, lol, but something needs to change there. We also need to stop shooting the hero ball threes- even if you can make that shot, it doesn't mean you should take that shot, and especially not when you've been getting really high quality looks to get you back in the game.
Special shoutout to Sencire Harris- he was an absolute beast tonight. By far the best player on the court for us and singlehandedly kept us from being down 30 or maybe even 40 at halftime. He was great tonight. Ty was really good as well, and Luke and RJ added a lot today. I loved our 2nd half effort. Loved it. But really difficult to play 16 minutes of bad basketball in the first half and expect to come back. That said, we were there, and then those bad decisions and poor hero ball came back to finish us off. Just who we are at this point unfortunately.
Hoping we can put a few solid games together in the BTT, but gotta show up from the tip. It's nice to know you can come back from 20pt deficits, but you don't want to try doing it in one and done tourneys.
Special shoutout to Sencire Harris- he was an absolute beast tonight. By far the best player on the court for us and singlehandedly kept us from being down 30 or maybe even 40 at halftime. He was great tonight. Ty was really good as well, and Luke and RJ added a lot today. I loved our 2nd half effort. Loved it. But really difficult to play 16 minutes of bad basketball in the first half and expect to come back. That said, we were there, and then those bad decisions and poor hero ball came back to finish us off. Just who we are at this point unfortunately.
Hoping we can put a few solid games together in the BTT, but gotta show up from the tip. It's nice to know you can come back from 20pt deficits, but you don't want to try doing it in one and done tourneys.
The early mishaps were TSJ.
That math doesn't check out... Maybe you meant an 8 seed. Or by a 4 seed in the sweet 16?
Some of his bad shots throughout the course of the game I'm OK with but I agree, towards the end of the game he has to be more aware. I heard him say in an interview something along the lines of "My job is to chuck threes and play good defense" and just made me shake my head. The dude is so gifted handling the ball at his size, that if he would have the presence of mind to drive more, especially when his shot isn't falling, he'd be so much better. Not sure if its a lack of basketball IQ or selfishness. I'd tend to lean towards IQ as he's on a new role as a leader on a new team but idk.
I am not going to miss him, even if the good outweighs the bad. He was 1-10 from three today and still took it upon himself to (try) and take two horrid ISO threes in the last minute of the game.
I don’t get how this kid has a halo.
When you get down 24, you leave no margin for error. We played about a 98% perfect second half but needed 100% to win. Good news is we are done with road games. Bad news is teams in that tourney will come out with energy and we’ve got to figure out a way to find some energy early.
Hopefully they’ve learned a lesson but this has been their MO all year. They are what they are but they are still capable of beating anyone if they bring it. Will see if they do.
Hopefully they’ve learned a lesson but this has been their MO all year. They are what they are but they are still capable of beating anyone if they bring it. Will see if they do.
I saw that too. Nothing called. The guys on FOX said nothing either. He was already going down and EDEY shoved him hard. If Matt plays Thursday, it will be nothing short of a miracle. Hopefully we can get all of our guys back.
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