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Title: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 11:36:35 AM
Fuck Boeheim. That is all.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Custard on November 29, 2022, 11:39:49 AM
Correct.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: IVMP on November 29, 2022, 01:07:03 PM
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 01:28:03 PM
Fuck Boeheim. That is all.
Spot on. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Custard on November 29, 2022, 03:24:20 PM
We’ve been the class of the B1G the last couple years why did we draw Cuse?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: frankiew on November 29, 2022, 04:05:15 PM
Illini 77 Syracuse 63
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 06:34:49 PM
We’ve been the class of the B1G the last couple years why did we draw Cuse?
First match up in 33 years?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 06:35:24 PM
Does not look like they practiced against a zone....
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 06:37:46 PM
Check that
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 06:38:52 PM
Clark just got posterized. That was nasty.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 06:40:46 PM
Hawkins off to a good start. They need that.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 06:41:50 PM
Hawkins off to a good start. They need that.

He needs it after that last game
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 06:47:54 PM
1/9 from three. Might want to get it inside.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 06:48:34 PM
Like that.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Judge Judy on November 29, 2022, 06:53:12 PM
This zone SHOULD BE the perfect defense for Dainja to thrive in if we can get him the ball.  His craftiness at the low post or even him at the FT line would work well. Gotta stop jacking up 3’s!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 06:54:48 PM
1/9 from three. Might want to get it inside.
Yes. Quick, short passes gets it done in that zone.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 06:55:19 PM
Harris limping.  :(
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 06:57:56 PM
Shannon's heating up!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Jrock74 on November 29, 2022, 07:01:09 PM
4/13 from.  That's a losing % if we keep chucking at that rate.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:06:40 PM
We're doing exactly what Cuse's zone wants us to do.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 07:07:24 PM
Moxie!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Jrock74 on November 29, 2022, 07:07:45 PM
Hawkins needs to start popping that 12 footer in paint soon as he catches it. 
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:10:06 PM
Skyy lost the ability to hit free shots  :(
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 07:11:41 PM
3 starters with 0 pts.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 07:12:43 PM
Skyy lost the ability to hit free shots  :(

Would saying it doesn't matter until January 6th break any truce?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:17:24 PM
Shoot the fucking ball, Hawkins.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Fanin on November 29, 2022, 07:21:37 PM
Jeff Frank said Kofi wouldn't be missed.  What an idiot.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Jrock74 on November 29, 2022, 07:21:59 PM
Shoot the fucking ball, Hawkins.

Lol he won't. He's too locked into passing it before he even gets it.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:23:21 PM
Nice play to end the half at least.

We're moving the ball against the zone. Problem is we're kicking it back out to launch threes rather than take the 12 foot jumper that's open.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:23:48 PM
Lol he won't. He's too locked into passing it before he even gets it.

He's pissing me off. No wonder Brad constantly gets on him. Grow some balls, kid.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Jrock74 on November 29, 2022, 07:23:53 PM
Let's take a moment to understand just how fucking bad Syracuse is.  We are 1 for 5 from the line and 5 for 24 from 3.  Yet up 7.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 07:24:11 PM
We’ve been the class of the B1G the last couple years why did we draw Cuse?

We lost almost our whole team?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:24:49 PM
5/24 from three...in one half.

Playing right into Cuse's zone.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 07:25:32 PM
Jeff Frank said Kofi wouldn't be missed.  What an idiot.

He has not been alone in that thought.  Plenty of people lumped him in the Glad He Is Gone Category.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 07:29:44 PM
Cuse doing what they do, making the game ugly. 8 buckets and 6 turnovers and only down 7.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 07:30:20 PM
He has not been alone in that thought.  Plenty of people lumped him in the Glad He Is Gone Category.

We are on pace for 60 points on 33% shooting, the offense flows so much better!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 07:31:54 PM
We are on pace for 60 points on 33% shooting, the offense flows so much better!

Plus 1 of 5 on Free Shots and Cuse has shot 11 Free Shots.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Fanin on November 29, 2022, 07:40:34 PM
He has not been alone in that thought.  Plenty of people lumped him in the Glad He Is Gone Category.

Yikes
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:41:08 PM
Come out of the half..launching more threes.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Judge Judy on November 29, 2022, 07:45:32 PM
We’re gonna see a lot of zones playing like this lol. Lots of ammunition for other teams to see on tape from this performance.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:45:52 PM
I don't know wtf that shot was from Shannon.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 07:53:37 PM
We’re gonna see a lot of zones playing like this lol. Lots of ammunition for other teams to see on tape from this performance.
It's like we had no idea that Cuse would play a zone.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Judge Judy on November 29, 2022, 07:54:17 PM
Hawkins needs to shoot that FT line jumper. He’s wide open every time. Sometimes even closer than that in the lane. He doesn’t even look to shoot that.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 29, 2022, 07:57:10 PM
Missing free throws.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 07:58:51 PM
Missing free throws.

Hmmmmm.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 07:58:54 PM
There has to be a lid on the rim. I don't know how Shannon's take didn't go in.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 08:01:33 PM
And yes, free shots are a problem. Not waiting until Jan 6th to confirm that.  ;D
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:02:52 PM
Missing free throws.

And FGs
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 08:05:23 PM
Shannon hit his free shots!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 08:05:23 PM
Hawkins needs to shoot that FT line jumper. He’s wide open every time. Sometimes even closer than that in the lane. He doesn’t even look to shoot that.
The one he shot in the lane on a nice move was terrible. It was like he wanted it out of his hand.
Made a wide open three then next trip hit the 13 footer.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:10:47 PM
And yes, free shots are a problem. Not waiting until Jan 6th to confirm that.  ;D

I have to bite my tongue and just wait for someone to admit they were wrong.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 08:10:57 PM
3-10 on free shots. Damned joke.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:11:36 PM
I have to bite my tongue and just wait for someone to admit they were wrong.

Lol
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Dominic on November 29, 2022, 08:12:37 PM
Skyy Clark should think about hitting the transfer portal.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:13:58 PM
Lol

Better now, before it bites them in the ass during the 1st weekend of the Tournament.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:15:16 PM
Who thought those Gap commercials were a good idea?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: frankiew on November 29, 2022, 08:17:29 PM
Thank you R.J. we need him
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 08:17:51 PM
Yes! Keep pouring it on that POS Boeheim
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: frankiew on November 29, 2022, 08:19:10 PM
I like our intensity
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:19:28 PM
I have to bite my tongue and just wait for someone to admit they were wrong.

You are so much more a meathead than I realized. FT shooting, may or may not be a problem. What I do know is that “OMG FT shooing!” On opening night in a 30 point win is a knee jerk reaction. Right now they are 66% FT shooting team not having a good night (from the field or the line). I’d argue 8-32 from 3 is more disturbing than a smaller sample size of 5-12 from the line. Meanwhile, we’re up 21. How bad is Syracuse?

FT shooting may or may not be a problem, I know that opening night in a 30 point win isn’t the time to go “OMG FT shooting is going to kill us!”
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:22:02 PM
You are so much more a meathead than I realized. FT shooting, may or may not be a problem. What I do know is that “OMG FT shooing!” On opening night in a 30 point win is a knee jerk reaction. Right now they are 66% FT shooting team not having a good night (from the field or the line). I’d argue 8-32 from 3 is more disturbing than a smaller sample size of 5-12 from the line. Meanwhile, we’re up 21. How bad is Syracuse?

FT shooting may or may not be a problem, I know that opening night in a 30 point win isn’t the time to go “OMG FT shooting is going to kill us!”

This is as close as it will ever get.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:23:47 PM
If B1G play rolls around, and we’re shooing 60% feom the line, it’s ok to start worrying.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illinifan57 on November 29, 2022, 08:25:04 PM
Yes! Keep pouring it on that POS Boeheim
I HEAR YA!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:26:13 PM
If B1G play rolls around, and we’re shooing 60% feom the line, it’s ok to start worrying.

Too bad it is already a problem.  The coach should do something about it now, before we get to B1G season. Maybe Robb can ask him what the hell he is going to do about it.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: frankiew on November 29, 2022, 08:30:39 PM
Baylor getting destroyed by Marquette
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:31:03 PM
Boeheim the pedestrian killer can fuck off and eat shit. Every time I hear his name now, I wonder if he was drunk that night.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 08:31:53 PM
Haha I didn't know a Hawkins triple double was in play. Might be the quietest triple double ever.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:32:17 PM
Too bad it is already a problem.  The coach should do something about it now, before we get to B1G season. Maybe Robb can ask him what the hell he is going to do about it.

It’s not been very good. It’s still early in the season, and a pretty small sample size. I will concede that it needs to be better.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:32:17 PM
Boeheim the pedestrian killer can fuck off and eat shit. Every time I hear his name now, I wonder if he was drunk that night.

How long ago was that?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:32:29 PM
How long ago was that?

2 years?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:33:34 PM
Killed a guy on the highway at 11:30 at night. You never heard about it? This is exactly what bothers me about this kind of shit (not blaming you, the way that coaches are protected).
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:34:32 PM
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/21/us/jim-boeheim-syracuse-kills-pedestrian/index.html
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:35:02 PM
Melendez raising the Free Shot percentage all by himself
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:35:49 PM
Melendez raising the Free Shot percentage all by himself

See, all is well!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 08:36:19 PM
We played like shit for majority of the game and we're still gonna win by 30.

That's how much of a scumbag loser you are, Boeheim.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:36:59 PM
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/21/us/jim-boeheim-syracuse-kills-pedestrian/index.html

Makes it sound like he was avoiding the car in the road and hit the guy. Did mention  no one was under the influence.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 08:41:06 PM
Hopefully Harris is ok
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 08:43:55 PM
Big10 play starts Fri.
We went on a tear at the end to finish with 64% free shot shooting.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 08:48:42 PM
Makes it sound like he was avoiding the car in the road and hit the guy. Did mention  no one was under the influence.

After Joe Paterno, I don’t trust law enforcement when it comes to powerful coaches.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 29, 2022, 08:50:18 PM
Well done, Hawkins.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Chickengeorge on November 29, 2022, 08:52:00 PM
And Skyy Clark 0 for 10. Oof.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 08:57:24 PM
21 assists on 24 buckets.
17 offensive boards and 4 second chance points. Oops.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 09:20:04 PM
Boeheim the pedestrian killer can fuck off and eat shit. Every time I hear his name now, I wonder if he was drunk that night.
"Boeheim's blood-alcohol registered a .00, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick confirmed. Friends and family told the Post-Standard that Boeheim does not drink alcohol."
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/su-coach-jim-boeheim-hits-kills-man-walking-on-i-690/article_bcdd2cae-b9c6-5c32-9af3-7e236af0a58b.html
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 29, 2022, 09:23:30 PM
Underwood gets his 100th Illini win beating the POS Boeheim. How sweet it is.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 09:37:55 PM
"Boeheim's blood-alcohol registered a .00, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick confirmed. Friends and family told the Post-Standard that Boeheim does not drink alcohol."
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/su-coach-jim-boeheim-hits-kills-man-walking-on-i-690/article_bcdd2cae-b9c6-5c32-9af3-7e236af0a58b.html

Maybe he smokes weed?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 09:41:39 PM
Maybe he smokes weed?
Maybe he was trying to avoid a vehicle parked in the middle of an interstate in the middle of the night. Most people don't get a whole lot of practice doing that.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 09:52:33 PM
Maybe he was trying to avoid a vehicle parked in the middle of an interstate in the middle of the night. Most people don't get a whole lot of practice doing that.

Like Tony Stewart?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: No one in Mn on November 29, 2022, 10:02:20 PM
Like Tony Stewart?
Now you're being a meathead.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ThePAMan on November 29, 2022, 10:27:49 PM
Now you're being a meathead.

He did miss the car and hit the guy!
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illiniray on November 29, 2022, 10:46:39 PM
https://youtu.be/AWVWLahTaUA
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Reacher on November 29, 2022, 11:19:41 PM
Like Tony Stewart?

He should have been prosecuted.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 30, 2022, 12:16:38 AM
Well that was a game of basketball that was played
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Lkdog on November 30, 2022, 12:38:28 AM
"Boeheim's blood-alcohol registered a .00, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick confirmed. Friends and family told the Post-Standard that Boeheim does not drink alcohol."
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/su-coach-jim-boeheim-hits-kills-man-walking-on-i-690/article_bcdd2cae-b9c6-5c32-9af3-7e236af0a58b.html

Yeah, but the guy is like 95 years old. He shouldn't be driving.
He did marry a woman like 40 years younger than him who wanted a sugar daddy, and wasn't there some big sex abuse scandal with his staff he denied?
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Lkdog on November 30, 2022, 12:45:15 AM
Well that was a game of basketball that was played

Yeah, that was ugly. Syracuse is bad.
I would suggest any opposing coach who sees that will use an occasional zone to cause our entire team to act stupid as shit. Just to fuck with us.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: IVMP on November 30, 2022, 08:49:15 AM
Haha I didn't know a Hawkins triple double was in play. Might be the quietest triple double ever.

The announcers were too busy trying to be clever. The discussion about Syracuse using the "portal" was mind-numbingly dumb.

I did enjoy when they pointed out Cuse is a whopping two games over .500 in conference play since joining the ACC. Not to defend their mediocrity, but I did start to think how much fun it would be to travel consistently from far upstate N.Y. to the heart of North Carolina, Georgia, and south Florida.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: IVMP on November 30, 2022, 08:52:37 AM
Yeah, that was ugly. Syracuse is bad.
I would suggest any opposing coach who sees that will use an occasional zone to cause our entire team to act stupid as shit. Just to fuck with us.

The three-point shooting was abysmal. Good thing the Cuse had its head in the clouds most of the game.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Lkdog on November 30, 2022, 09:49:16 AM
The three-point shooting was abysmal. Good thing the Cuse had its head in the clouds most of the game.

Syracuse has possibly the worst constructed roster I have seen all year.

Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: IVMP on November 30, 2022, 11:19:58 AM
Syracuse has possibly the worst constructed roster I have seen all year.

But the "portal" will save them!

Also, what's the deal with the Syracuse guy the announcers kept piling on and then defending? Just a slump? Food poisoning? Does he have pics of Boeheim and sheep? Does Boeheim have pics of him and sheep? Possibly offering a stat -- not one of the ESPN-created stats, such as "win probability," but an actual stat -- might tell us something.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 30, 2022, 12:14:52 PM
But the "portal" will save them!

Also, what's the deal with the Syracuse guy the announcers kept piling on and then defending? Just a slump? Food poisoning? Does he have pics of Boeheim and sheep? Does Boeheim have pics of him and sheep? Possibly offering a stat -- not one of the ESPN-created stats, such as "win probability," but an actual stat -- might tell us something.

Fran is one of the worst announcers, he flat out sucks

As far as the rest of the game, we played like dog doo for the most part and still won by nearly 30 so there's that... Syracuse is pretty terrible though, need to step it up against maryland that's for sure
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ridingthegrange on November 30, 2022, 01:06:50 PM
Fran is one of the worst announcers, he flat out sucks

As far as the rest of the game, we played like dog doo for the most part and still won by nearly 30 so there's that... Syracuse is pretty terrible though, need to step it up against maryland that's for sure

It's still a game in November with a mostly unfamiliar roster.  I'll take it.  We can shoot a bit better from 3 (and we will) and the rest of the box score was fine.   
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Miles Leonard on November 30, 2022, 02:30:03 PM
And Skyy Clark 0 for 10. Oof.

And Mintz put him on a poster. Rough night for the kid. He’ll bounce back.
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: illiniray on November 30, 2022, 06:21:03 PM
https://twitter.com/Sam_Vecenie/status/1597810304406077441?t=1i0ZlDt4ADlaOcQEB1TCXw&s=19
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: ILLove1997 on November 30, 2022, 08:15:00 PM
https://twitter.com/Sam_Vecenie/status/1597810304406077441?t=1i0ZlDt4ADlaOcQEB1TCXw&s=19

Good thing nobody saw his previous game on b1g+
Title: Re: Last Challenge game
Post by: Lkdog on November 30, 2022, 08:23:49 PM
Good thing nobody saw his previous game on b1g+

Lol. Yeah, he has been inconsistent for sure. There is a lot of talent and high ceiling if he gets his mental focus right.