Reftastrophy aside, if it all comes together with Belo in the fold, watch out. Those rolls BBV was catching? Now imagine Kofi getting 3-4 of those a game instead of exhausting himself getting deep post position every offensive possession. You can run the spread when Curbelo sits and hammer P&R when he’s in while keeping good shooting around him. The offense was already excellent, now it’s a problem.
Purdue 96, Illinois 88 2OT Postgame
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And also earn a good bit here with NIL. I hope he does well here financially and stays a couple more years. Unless something changes drastically. He certainly is passing much better now
GallopingGhost
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Stand with your hands up and you kind of prevent 45% of shots. He has taken strides. I think he’s the better of the 2 bigs, but both schooled us today.
Agreed. Another thing was he didn’t get to play much at all with belo. Those passes he fed BBV are dunks
sacraig
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Here's hoping they can collectively take it out on Maryland's rims.
Sure, but BBV ended up with 20 minutes, Payne just 7, even though Payne was the first option spelling Kofi off the bench. Did Payne even see the floor the 2nd half or overtime? I may be misremembering, but I don't think he did. I have to think the reason behind that has to do with the flagrant, rather than effectively using his body. Especially since he completely shut down Trevion Williams. I don't care if it was arms, body or just good luck, he did his job.
Need that one bad. Don’t let a loss snowball. I don’t think we will.
That you greenie? LOL
This x 1,000.
I actually did watch this at home and replayed multiple calls. The refs weren't perfect (shocker!), but it averaged out roughly in the end. They let some stupid !!!! go from our team too. If you've actually watched every game this year, there is no objective way you can say this was the worst ref'd game we had this year.
sacraig
- The desert
If the amount of fight we saw to finish out this game tells me anything, they'll come back swinging. We just need to steal one back at Purdue. Might was well practice that by pummeling everyone else along the way in anger.
DeonThomas
- South Carolina
I fixed it for you, Hilltopper......
Agreed No way either team can play that way in NCAA tournament.
That ball was tipped by a Purdue player that’s why it went out of bounds bad missed call by refs again
I never complain about the refs, but we were on the wrong end not some bad calls. Kofi's third foul especially.
Most importantly, another flagrant that kills our momentum and enables the long run. We are so much better with Belo, but we can't fall into the trap of watching him dribble around.
Most importantly, another flagrant that kills our momentum and enables the long run. We are so much better with Belo, but we can't fall into the trap of watching him dribble around.
sacraig
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There's a fine line between mad Kofi and frustrated Kofi. We've seen the latter against Purdue and Arizona.
Agreed Kofi was very frustrated by the calls and plays. He definitely needed to be taken out after the 3rd early in the 2nd half
That missed call translated to one of the stef go ahead 3s I believe...
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Agreed. Kofi absolutely has to improve his reaction to this type of game.
That said....again I really hate sounding like that ref complaining fan....but Kofi was punished for his physicality...while Edey was rewarded. Some of that is absolutely on him...but not all of it.
Kofi out with his 4th fouls with 17+ remaining in the second.
We were still the better team in the second half. Without Kofi. Silver lining.
Curbelo is not just back.....he's baaaaaack!
Well to be fair, they were distracted by Edey fouling Belo and missed who it went out on.
Kind of get a kick out of all the complaining on ref calls. I would bet my life that none of those posts come from anyone who has ever refereed a B1G game between two teams of this ilk. Of course, there never has been a game like this between two teams with this much size, speed, and quickness. It is extremely difficult.
I will say this, you will never see a game where every call is correct, and likely, 99% of us will never understand what the correct calls are. I sure don't, and I have played organized hoops for 35 years, been trained in correct officiating, and even called a few games. I had a friend who was an official and called games in the MVC and B1G for decades. First of all, they all take pride in making the correct call. Secondly, some calls have to be interpreted by what is seen and they can NEVER be seen from all angles by anyone. Finally, timing is critical. They know they miss things....and they know they are affected by crowd noise and momentum. Bottom line, they always make calls in real time by what they see. Replay has helped them get things right in some cases, but will not, at this time, and maybe never, allow that in real time. The only problem I ever have with officials are those who like the spotlight....and those are less and less prevalent as review and renew committees are weeding them out. It is a thankless job, but overall, is filled by a pretty admirable bunch of people.
I will say this, you will never see a game where every call is correct, and likely, 99% of us will never understand what the correct calls are. I sure don't, and I have played organized hoops for 35 years, been trained in correct officiating, and even called a few games. I had a friend who was an official and called games in the MVC and B1G for decades. First of all, they all take pride in making the correct call. Secondly, some calls have to be interpreted by what is seen and they can NEVER be seen from all angles by anyone. Finally, timing is critical. They know they miss things....and they know they are affected by crowd noise and momentum. Bottom line, they always make calls in real time by what they see. Replay has helped them get things right in some cases, but will not, at this time, and maybe never, allow that in real time. The only problem I ever have with officials are those who like the spotlight....and those are less and less prevalent as review and renew committees are weeding them out. It is a thankless job, but overall, is filled by a pretty admirable bunch of people.
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