Kick out passes to him do need to be better. A lot of the corner passes he was just fighting to corral, no way he could even go up off most of them.
Purdue 77, Illinois 71 Postgame
I’m personally looking forward to forgetting about him completely like with Garza
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
Just give me one more crack at Edey in the B1G championship game. At this point, I'm Ahab and Edey is my Moby Dick.
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Honestly, there were no 50/50 balls, only 90/10 balls tonight. It seemed like every friggin bounce went their way after it had glanced off at least 2 of our players
Ya… “tip your cap” and everything, but that’s been the season against these types of opponents. Marquette, Tennessee, Purdue x2, Michigan St., Northwestern. We’ll go into the Big Ten Tournament with our best win over a team that’s trending to a 7 seed. I still think we’re a very good basketball team, but we haven’t found a way to get any of these big time opportunities to go our way (hold for Saturday’s win at the Kohl Center), and I have an unfortunate feeling that could mean our ceiling ends up being capped.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
True, but I'm going to enjoy my petty moments first
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Also it’s more bad luck than anything, but … the missed Domask layup turned into a 3. It more or less ended it.
We got way more close fouls called in our favor than they did in the second half. The refs were more of a factor in our favor than in PU's IMO. We were just outplayed by a better team.
nah, tonight's not the night to call out the d. We finally played with energy and bite. They just hit shots that almost any other team shoots MAYBE 4-10 from 3 and they make 8
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Purdue figured out our offense in the 2nd half and shut us down. We had nothing but iso prayers for the most part late down the stretch.
I agree they are better than us, but not so much with the horses. They have a generational player in Eddy. If Kofi would have stayed another year or two we would have had a player to play against him. it will take a team that out schemes Purdue if they are hitting 3’s with Eddy on the floor?
Especially when Underwood talks all the time about not letting the others guys beat us and then goes and doubles and gives them open 3's.
I am pleased to see how much more tough and physical we were on defense. That's personally the only silver lining to the game for me. Sitting TSJ for almost the entire first half really sucked all of his energy away. That's why I hate that approach.
I am pleased to see how much more tough and physical we were on defense. That's personally the only silver lining to the game for me. Sitting TSJ for almost the entire first half really sucked all of his energy away. That's why I hate that approach.
There are a couple that I agree on the pass needs to be better ...
I need to rewatch the film tonight but I can think of a couple off of the top of my head when he just needs to pull the freaking trigger ... And it's not just tonight either ... He's been a little timid lately ...
And like Brad tells him all the time ... Just pull the trigger son ... Do what you do ... I am only gonna take you out if you don't pull it ...
God I hate seeing Shannon standing 16 feet from the basket while two of our guys knock a rebound out of each others hands. Jones took a TERRIBLE shot on that last possession and Shannon was doing a traveling call with his hands instead of going for the ball. He needs to be in rebound mode under 5 mins. Not leak out mode.
Cook
- Richmond, VA
Yes, this all day. The line-up choices are continuously absurd and not improving in this regard is unquestionably criminal.
I've never seen a team exemplify "Can beat anybody" but also "hasn't beaten anybody". A few weeks ago I remember someone posting the "luck" rating that someone does, we've gotta be at the bottom still.
We beat the meth out of them in the first half.
Proud of our defense. Let up in the second half. Felt like we abandoned what was working a little bit. But overall, the best we looked.
Three point shooting was the difference.
Crowd was amazing.
Biggest highlight was Meyers Leonard chugging about 68 ounces of beer in 30 seconds.
Proud of our defense. Let up in the second half. Felt like we abandoned what was working a little bit. But overall, the best we looked.
Three point shooting was the difference.
Crowd was amazing.
Biggest highlight was Meyers Leonard chugging about 68 ounces of beer in 30 seconds.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
It’s more about how it flipped momentum around. They hit a couple threes off of us doubling him and then never cooled off.
We would have to get blown out at Iowa and lose the first BTT game to get a 5.
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Domask had a couple wide open ones tonight ... Harmon had a WIDE open one with about 2 minutes to go ...
Goode passed on at least 2 that come to mind ...