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FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ

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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #30 on: February 28, 2024, 10:25:28 PM »
Quote from: Judge Judy on February 28, 2024, 10:13:52 PM
This offense is elite, but man, our defense is pure shit.
Definitely horrid defense.
Refs let 21 and 3 maul our guys, shoving and pushing when they have the ball down low and setting illegal picks with a leg sticking out.
Amazing that Illinois could win with that lousy Courtney Green reffing.
How the hell does Illinois allow that guard to dribble the length of the court for an uncontested hoop? Didn't even really get in his way.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2024, 10:26:54 PM »
Quote from: ThePAMan on February 28, 2024, 10:23:55 PM
Weber with Ths Kiss of Death saying that the Illini could go deep in The Tournament with that offense.

Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala I didn’t hear that.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2024, 10:40:01 PM »
Does Hawkins have a hot dog and fries in that brown bag?
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2024, 10:57:13 PM »
We scored on 77% of our offensive possessions. 12 offensive rebounds on 24 missed shots.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #34 on: February 28, 2024, 11:00:58 PM »
Minnesota shoots 74% from 3 on our home floor and loses 105-97 in regulation. I’ve never seen anything like this. Highest scoring big ten game for Illinois since the 90s. Highest scoring big ten game overall in 15 years. We’ve scored 80 or more in 8 straight games for first time since our final 4 team in 89.

Yet somehow started the season top 10 in KenPom defense after 10 games and now look like we are playing an NBA all star game. Trying to enjoy the ride but what in the actual fuck.

For a while I thought teams were playing out of their asses against us. Kinda still think they are. Teams don’t shoot 74% from three in practice. We clearly favor giving up layups over allowing open threes, but we kinda give up open threes too.

I know we have some defensive wrinkles, are we saving them for March?

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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2024, 11:50:41 PM »
I missed the first half due to sexual activities, why did the Italian Stallion only get 2 minutes?
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #36 on: February 29, 2024, 12:06:35 AM »
We improved to 3rd on Kempon for offense but our defense dropped from 60th to 95th.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #37 on: February 29, 2024, 12:11:56 AM »
I’m not a doctor so I don’t understand how you drop 30 spots in one game out of 30
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #38 on: February 29, 2024, 12:14:43 AM »
Quote from: Custard on February 28, 2024, 11:50:41 PM
I missed the first half due to sexual activities, why did the Italian Stallion only get 2 minutes?

1 Trick Pony?
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #39 on: February 29, 2024, 12:17:19 AM »
On the bright side of tonights game (other than the win), we should be getting ALL the elite players here from now.

Selling point is easy, you can score ALOT, "look" as if you are defending, but in reality shoot every 7 seconds. So you only have to stay on this ride almost as long as a bull rider.

Geesh, fun offense, head scratching rest of it.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #40 on: February 29, 2024, 12:46:56 AM »
Quote from: Custard on February 28, 2024, 11:50:41 PM
I missed the first half due to sexual activities, why did the Italian Stallion only get 2 minutes?

Hard to say. Underwood spends most of these games yapping to his kid and they both were shaking their head in exasperation a lot when the camera was on them as if Minny was just hitting tough shots.
Problem is every team is bending us over. This wasn't a one off. There are no wrinkles being kept under wraps.
We are a variant strain of the Garza/Murray Iowa teams.

As for Moretti I think it was maybe a defense decision and possibly they thought Harmon could match up better as their guards were shredding us.

Goode only got three minutes. I think they have realized he is our worst defender.

Glad to see Dainja getting some minutes. We will need him to help.

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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #41 on: February 29, 2024, 12:59:10 AM »
If I understand Torvik correctly- we are 237th in Defense Eff in last 10 games and #1 on Offense.

https://www.barttorvik.com/team.php?team=Illinois&year=2024 
Would have never predicted that back in December when we were lamenting that we had no consistent scorers except TSj but our Defense and Rebounding would keep us in games.

I stand by my prediction that we can make EE, or get knocked out in first round.


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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #42 on: February 29, 2024, 01:58:06 AM »
Quote from: Lkdog on February 29, 2024, 12:46:56 AM
Hard to say. Underwood spends most of these games yapping to his kid and they both were shaking their head in exasperation a lot when the camera was on them as if Minny was just hitting tough shots.
Problem is every team is bending us over. This wasn't a one off. There are no wrinkles being kept under wraps.
We are a variant strain of the Garza/Murray Iowa teams.

As for Moretti I think it was maybe a defense decision and possibly they thought Harmon could match up better as their guards were shredding us.

Goode only got three minutes. I think they have realized he is our worst defender.

Glad to see Dainja getting some minutes. We will need him to help.

Teams do not have off shooting nights against us and we're still winning so 🤷‍♂️

Sure makes up for the offensive ineptutude over the last 20 years and I don't care
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #43 on: February 29, 2024, 05:22:16 AM »
Having to shoot 60% and 48% from 3, and needing 100 points at home to get a win vs the 8-9 gofs just doesn't seem like a good recipe for consistent success.

To each his own tho.  ;D
But it was an entertaining game to watch.
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Re: FEB 28TH Gophers vs Illinois - ILLINI -11.5 at home BTN 8:00 CTZ
« Reply #44 on: February 29, 2024, 09:23:05 AM »
Imagine if we had just a mediocre defense.....we could actually be leading the Big 10. And be in the top 5.
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