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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: fucking on February 22, 2021, 12:52:58 PM
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https://youtu.be/pbW9pnhFypo
https://youtu.be/K63aXxKUx_g
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfA04hfiIu8
https://youtu.be/TO5EfX9E6q0
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Hopefully you stomp them as badly as you stomped Minnesota.
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I think we will have a tough game.
They think they can still get a bid.
And Izzo is a whiney bitch.
I hope they play that Opie Taylor little kid a lot.
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I feel like whenever we sucked and MSU was good we usually played them tough and sometimes beat them when we had no business doing so. I don’t really remember being good when they weren’t so not sure how it works in reverse. All I know is we have a brutal stretch coming up.
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Rob it’s time to put away your stocking
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Rob having a white Russian for the interview?
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WTF is going on with the lady having multiple orgasms at the beginning of the Izzo interview? And then talking over Izzo again for like 10 seconds. 😂 Anyone notice that he looks more like Mel Brooks every year? Even kinda sounds like him. Although I bet Mel could pronounce Ayo correctly.
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Rob having a white Russian for the interview?
As you'd expect, I found that in a dumpster. The stocking was created by my maternal grandmother, and has been there for at least 10 years.
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Is that a sign of sentimentality !?!?
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That might have been our worst 8 minute stretch of the season.
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This should settle down the 1 and 2 seed talk of late.
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Easily our worst half of the season
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We played like garbage against NW and Nebby too. Minnesota had 2 starters out and 1 hurt. We just stand around. No one moves away from the ball on offense.
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That sucked. Time to start playing some defense.
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Good to know you can hit guys in the head if they are large.
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This is just not our night.
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Good to know you can hit guys in the head if they are large.
But don't you dare wave your arm near them while they're shooting.
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We could easily lose 4 of our last 5. We won our last three games because of who we played not how well we played.
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There's certainly no way this team is putting together a six-game win streak against increasingly better competition.
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Step 1: Throw a long guy on Ayo, flash help and make him go left
Step 2: throw three guys at Kofi when he catches it.
Step 3: beat Illinois
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Maybe just put in the scrubs and rest the guys for other games
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There's time. Need some stops. And a new set of refs.
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Not getting any calls.
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The officiating isn't why we are losing but good lord this is BS.
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glad immissing this
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Damonte continues to pass on open looks.
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Down 15, but up 8 shooting free throws. lol
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Damonte looking like scared frosh Damonte
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Refs helping keeping Illinois in this...
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Need a bucket here.
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Kofi's been trying to go 1 on 3 all night every touch. MSU knows he isn't passing the ball because he rarely does.
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No problem. Play on.
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Hey, a break.
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MAKE A FREEKING FREE THROW
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and miss both free throws
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Of course we blow the FTs >:(
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Actually getting impressive how many FT they can miss...
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Just an off night. Especially Ayo
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Guessing MI not scared to play IL after this one.
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Most points for Sparty, other than at Neb, in conference play.
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Where is ChicagoFan when you need him?
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Good college basketball teams generally have several off nights during the season. Heck, most great teams have a few of them during the season. How the Illini respond to this disappointing loss will be important going forward. Everything that really matters (Big Ten Conference Tournament championship, NCAA Tournament, Final Four) is still there for the taking, though it won't be easy for the Illini.
IMO, MSU has underachieved this season and really needed to win to keep alive their spot in the NCAA tournament. Sparty rose to the occasion on this night. Credit to Izzo and Michigan State players. Forget about this one and move on. Thankfully, the Huskers are up next for Illinois.
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After we got up 5-0, they pretty much took it to us from that point on. The few times we tried to make a run, we missed free throws or had a bad call go against us.
Super frustrating game.
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This was more than an off night. We were horrid. I am beginning to doubt we can make a deep tourney run. How do you correct this shit free throw shooting and reckless turnovers this late in the season?
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Ugly game. If we meet them again in BTT, I like our chances. Cheap shit not easily forgotten.
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Need to find a away to win at least 2 of our last 4.
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Bad night. They manhandled us. Old style MSU which is beat on you all night physically and hope to pull it out. Officials lost control of it early.
They got in our head and we played like shit.
Nice gameplan by Izzo. Only chance they had was drag us into the mud and it worked.
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Purdue style thug ball and the refs played along with it... everyones eyeballs suffered as a result
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The number of missed easy shots (not even including FTs) was mind boggling. We missed a couple bunnies out of the gate and they were playing physical/altering shots and just got in our heads.
Most of the missed bunnies we had were rushed or looked like our player was anticipating contact and just kind of pushed the ball. Most of the other missed inside shots were altered.
Despite every opportunity to get back in the game down the stretch, Giorgi getting stuffed by the rim felt like game over to me.
Kofi has to pass the ball
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Illini Sports Journalism in 2021
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Come on man you don’t need Kent Brown’s shrine behind you but there has to be a background that doesn’t proclaim “20 something single male apartment occupant”
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I spent a lot of 2020 screen capping people's Zoom rooms, as seen on TV.
I like John Heilemann's kitchen. James Carville has a great ceiling.
Stuart Stevens has a good home office, but his living room is ghastly.
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Best just put this one behind us. I agree I don't see this team being consistent enough to make a deep tourney run.
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Marble 7 min 5 pf
Kithier 6 min 5 pf
Bingham 11 min 4 pf
Sissoko 8 min 3 pf flagrant 2 ejected
GMAFB! Naismith turning in his grave.
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Purdue style thug ball and the refs played along with it... everyones eyeballs suffered as a result
Yeah, they were beating us up from the start, and daring the refs to call it. It worked. The refs didn’t do anything about it until MSU had a 15-point lead and it was evident there was going to be brawls or injuries or both. Those refs should be ashamed. If they had called the entire game tighter from the start, it wouldn’t have gotten out of hand.
We obviously had a horrible shooting night, but I think a lot of our troubles were a result of being tired. Part of that is on Underwood for not substituting better (Hawkins in particular should have played more). Part of it is on the refs too though, getting physically beaten is exhausting.
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I guess I wonder about being tired?
We just had a blowout. They likely had easy prep days ahead of this unless staff are idiots.
They mentally were not ready once again.
Anyone could have seen MSU was going to throw everything they had at us and had just played well.
Kofi played like an idiot. Pass the fcking ball. Hope he speaks Turkish as he is heading for low level Euroball.
Ayo looked clueless. Like pre Xmas second round Ayo.
Miller brings next to nothing.
Georgi was a joke.
Really lack toughness. Thought they were turning corner.
The team last year would have kicked our ass.
Time to show up.
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This is the worst MSU season in decades but they are fighting for their tournament lives now. Izzo might be an asshole, but he hasn't forgotten how to coach. He wasn't going to allow his guys to lay down and die all season long. They were bound to look like vintage Sparty at some point.
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This team is soft. There are a few guys who act tough but the team overall is soft. They get frustrated when teams play physical and fall apart. Brad needs to learn that Lute Olson PSA to the officials from 2001 to use ahead of games with teams that play defense.
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I don’t think they’re really that soft just lacking in length, bounce and quick twitch athleticism.
I have said it before but BU talked a lot about positionless basketball then went and built a very positioned basketball team. No surprise we routinely struggle with teams with more modern construction.
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This is the worst MSU season in decades but they are fighting for their tournament lives now. Izzo might be an asshole, but he hasn't forgotten how to coach. He wasn't going to allow his guys to lay down and die all season long. They were bound to look like vintage Sparty at some point.
One thing about every Izzo team - they improve during the season.
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The unanswered question from the beatdown - did they learn anything?
If so, it could be a turning point toward a run.
If not, tourney teams will follow the Izzo blueprint and this team will be back home the first weekend.
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It was a pretty simple strategy. Beat the fck out of Kofi and Ayo and do not allow uncontested shots in lane by either. Make them shoot free throws and wear them out.
Neither responded well.
Got out of their games and tried to do things they can't do.
Kofi's free throws look like total shit. He is slinging them on straight line with no arc. Who the fck teaches shooting on this staff is beyond me.
Izzo ran multiple faceless thugs in and used all their fouls.
Officials were pathetic and someone could have gotten hurt.
BIG TEN should review the game, but they want Izzo and MSU in tourney and nothing will be done.
We could go 1-4 down stretch instead of 4-1 or 3-2.
End up as 4 seed with bad BT tourney.
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Oh, and they shot 54%.
I really don't know how we get ranked so high in D efficiency.
It had improved, but we get lit up regularly.
Our short guards are getting eaten alive by longer wings.
Henry could have scored 50 on us.
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Fidgeting Illini seems right
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