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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: Miles Leonard on December 09, 2022, 03:20:57 PM
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The dreaded 11 AM start time.
Just hope there’s no MSG hang over.
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i'll be there
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The dreaded 11 AM start time.
Just hope there’s no MSG hang over.
9AM for us left coasters, ugh
hopefully we didn't use up all our good mojo in the last one and walk away with an ez win
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I expect it to be a grind. Hate 11 am games.
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Illini 74 penn st 66
I'll be there cheering
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Thought this regarded Squeaky.
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Thought this regarded Squeaky.
Lol
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Throwing the bench at PSU early. 9 guys in already.
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(https://i.ibb.co/PGDYf4F/DEE6-B91-D-31-DF-42-C4-8323-23-E3-A02-DD45-C.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hFYMtHL)
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We have way too many offensive weapons for our shot selection to be this poor.
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We might want to try and guard somebody today.
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We have way too many offensive weapons for our shot selection to be this poor.
Mayer never met a shot he didn’t like. Dude shoots it everytime he touches it.
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We're a stupid team at times on both ends of the floor.
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Our D is fucking atrocious.
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That certainly was underwhelming
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Allowing 47 points to Penn St in a half is...not good.
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Our D is fucking atrocious.
47 in a half at home to Penn fucking State should instadrop us from the rankings.
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Coach Hulka going to rip them a new asshole at half. We are being manhandled.
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"On the bright side at least it's not Bruceketball at home to PSU."
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Our D is fucking atrocious.
This
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PSU scored 58 their last game, at home vs Sparty.
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Pickett is big boying anyone we throw on him. And they're hitting threes.
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Pickett is big boying anyone we throw on him. And they're hitting threes.
He just takes them in, backs them down, and shoots a damn layup. He’s a grown-ass man.
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We better get our shit together and quick in this second half!
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Shooting 58% at home, and down 9 at the half. Lol.
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Underwood mad.
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Would be a good idea to get Shannon involved on offense today. We do not get him any touches.
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Great coaching there!
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Our resume is gonna be something with wins over #2 and #8 with a (possibly) 0-2 conference record
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Our defense is 🗑️
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Would be a good idea to get Shannon involved on offense today. We do not get him any touches.
It was that way 1st half vs Tx too, which seemed odd.
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Funkadelic....wow
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11 just like that.
If they're hitting shots like that, just pack it in for the day.
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Time to yell more
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We are getting lit up at home. Yikes.
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They can’t miss.
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Funk looks like fcking Bird.
Not our day
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Funk is throwing anything at the rim and it's going in. Fucking infuriating.
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This would have to be the worst loss of the Underwood era I think.
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Shannon having the fewest shots of our starters at half should be a crime, but he hasn't exactly impressed when he does have the ball.
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This is going to be one of those deals where he has them practicing tonight for three hours.
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Last 10 matchups we-re 4-6, with winning the last 4.
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Worst part is we have to stew on this for a week.
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This is going to be one of those deals where he has them practicing tonight for three hours.
Yes please.
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This is going to be one of those deals where he has them practicing tonight for three hours.
Underachiever may also want to spend 3 hours devising an offense
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Underachiever may also want to spend 3 hours devising an offense
And stop fouling 3 point shooters
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Disgusting performance from coaches all the way down to the damn waterboy and towel boy. Everyone involved should be fucking ashamed of the effort they put out there today.
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Embarrassing. TSJ won’t even shoot a wide open 3
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Embarrassing. TSJ won’t even shoot a wide open 3
That was weird
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Well, we won't have to deal with that "Yay! We are the Big 10 Regular Season Champs" bullshit this year.
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Just emfuckingbarrassing!
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We have a lot of talent. Every guy is inconsistent as hell.
Going away from Shannon for several games is on the staff. Terrible half court approach.
Hawkins is not a lead guard and is not a good one on one guy at end of clock.
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If this somehow leads to 2 wins the first weekend of the tournament that actually matters, I'll take it.
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PSU played poised the whole game. Answered our couple of runs easily.
Losing to a team that plays poised and shoots well is no shame, except if you don't put up a fight.
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We have a lot of talent. Every guy is inconsistent as hell.
Going away from Shannon for several games is on the staff. Terrible half court approach.
Hawkins is not a lead guard and is not a good one on one guy at end of clock.
Too much Weber-ish looking offense lately.
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Sure Penn St hit everything they threw at the rim but we sure helped them out by playing zero defense whatsoever.
Could swear I saw Steph Curry disguised as Andrew Funk today. That kid just knifed dagger after dagger into our hearts every time.
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PSU played poised the whole game. Answered our couple of runs easily.
Losing to a team that plays poised and shoots well is no shame, except if you don't put up a fight.
It's Pedo State. A team that scored 58 points at home to a MSU team that was shorthanded.
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The last 2 games have shown nobody handles the ball very well.
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It's Pedo State. A team that scored 58 points at home to a MSU team that was shorthanded.
You think MSU played a little tougher d than us ?
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You think MSU played a little tougher d than us ?
Did Illinois play D today? Seems like they still don't know what they are doing when switching.
Think MSU has far better in game coaching than Illinois.
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We turn it over one out of every five possessions all year.
Half court offense by staff is garbage.
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I figured we’d have a few games like this early in the season. Then we got to this point and thought well maybe we are past that point by now. Guess not. It’s been a really long week and I fell asleep on the couch about 5 minutes into the game and woke up with 7:30 to go. Wish I’d have just slept through the whole thing.
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I figured we’d have a few games like this early in the season. Then we got to this point and thought well maybe we are past that point by now. Guess not. It’s been a really long week and I fell asleep on the couch about 5 minutes into the game and woke up with 7:30 to go. Wish I’d have just slept through the whole thing.
Still looking forward to your Harv 10 Things List.
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We scored 21 points in second half.
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Did Illinois play D today? Seems like they still don't know what they are doing when switching.
Think MSU has far better in game coaching than Illinois.
Effort, and yes. Looks like we play junk yard ball with everybody getting a green light to shoot and turnovers are ok.
When Funk hit the 3 with 2 sec on the shot clock after we had made a run, Funk should have been denied the ball. He was wide open for the in bounds pass.
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I figured we’d have a few games like this early in the season. Then we got to this point and thought well maybe we are past that point by now. Guess not. It’s been a really long week and I fell asleep on the couch about 5 minutes into the game and woke up with 7:30 to go. Wish I’d have just slept through the whole thing.
The staff and the players covered for you.
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Effort, and yes. Looks like we play junk yard ball with everybody getting a green light to shoot and turnovers are ok.
When Funk hit the 3 with 2 sec on the shot clock after we had made a run, Funk should have been denied the ball. He was wide open for the in bounds pass.
Not sure TOs are ok. Underachiever did yell a lot in the 2d half.
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More from Underwood:
'Zero leadership'
'Mentally tuned out'
'Disgusting'
'We'll go to the rec center to find 5 guys to play the right way'
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Not sure TOs are ok. Underachiever did yell a lot in the 2d half.
We only had 12 today, but we got the ball back in a handful of bad ball handling situations.
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More from Underwood:
'Zero leadership'
'Mentally tuned out'
'Disgusting'
'We'll go to the rec center to find 5 guys to play the right way'
Maybe they can find a guy at ARC who can coach and get them to the second weekend of the tournament that actually matters.
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Maybe they can find a guy at ARC who can coach and get them to the second weekend of the tournament that actually matters.
On the plus side, our 50% free shot shooting didn't hurt us.
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This team is 2 miracles from 5-5. It’s not good.
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On the plus side, our 50% free shot shooting didn't hurt us.
LOL. Love that you found the silver lining in today's effort.
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More from Underwood:
'Zero leadership'
'Mentally tuned out'
'Disgusting'
'We'll go to the rec center to find 5 guys to play the right way'
Lol 😂 pathetic from Underwood.
“I’m doing my job. The players just aren’t doing theirs”
No, you just don’t have Kofi anymore. Kofi was the difference between 20 losses and a #1-#4 seed.
Skyy Clark hit the portal bro
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This game was so fucking awful that I can't even clown cuck boy Dominic for coming out of hiding.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvoLKOf95Y
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I mean give Pedo st credit, they played out of their minds all game
Illini definitely looked lackadaisical on offense and defense throughout the game though, that was surprising to say the least
I blame the 11AM start lol
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This team is 2 miracles from 5-5. It’s not good.
I see you emerged from your trailer.
Go fck yourself.
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What was the deal with Melendez not having his name on his jersey?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvoLKOf95Y
He saw the same thing everybody else did.
Good game to learn from. We have 18 more league games. Need to come ready to play.
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What was the deal with Melendez not having his name on his jersey?
He got blood on his.
Not sure how as he wasn't within ten feet of his man but whatever.
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He got blood on his.
Not sure how as he wasn't within ten feet of his man but whatever.
Dainja looked like he got hit on the lip. Maybe RJM got close to him. ;)
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Epps or Harris will be starting by start of February.
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Good game to learn from.
Yes. I learned that they suck. But I already knew that. The flukes didn’t fool me.
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Epps or Harris will be starting by start of February.
It's a work in progress. For as good as Epps looked vs Texas, he was terrible today. Both he and Clark are inconsistent.
Harris is unique player. When his ball skills develop more he will be very good. He is really raw on offense.
It's a long season. Between now and mid January we will know where it is going.
Either Top 15 team or Top 30 team.
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Yes. I learned that they suck. But I already knew that. The flukes didn’t fool me.
Run along little pedophile Florida Trailer Park man.
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During the Henson era, I knew a guy exactly like Plaza. He even thought the flying Illini sucked and only won because of overwhelming talent; which in his mind was mostly wasted.
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I recorded the game. Still have not watched it or MD.
Wondering how much of Shannon's vanishing act is due the head injury.
Sounds like Epps and Harris had a tough morning.
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The team was 6-12 at the free shot line,
Mayer was 4-5 and Dainja was 2-7. That's it. Nobody else.
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I knew this team would win some games they probably shouldn’t and vice versa. This game kind of reminded me of a game back in the Self era when a fairly mediocre Indiana team absolutely crushed us by shooting out of their minds from 3. Penn State isn’t a bad basketball team.
What bothers me is the apparent lack of effort/focus.
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I recorded the game. Still have not watched it or MD.
Wondering how much of Shannon's vanishing act is due the head injury.
Sounds like Epps and Harris had a tough morning.
I wondered about that also with Shannon, but my guess is there is some various typical ego butthurt shit going on within the team.
3 of these guys think they might play in NBA next year. Not sure about that.
Shannon was the star and leader early on, but we do not look for him when we need a play. He has disappeared on both sides of the ball at times.
Staff have their hands full keeping 9 guys happy and when Goode comes back who is a staff favorite, there will be more adjustment.
Staff need to get guys focused on winning.
Epps was simply bad today. Harris played hard. Clark was much better than last game.
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I knew this team would win some games they probably shouldn’t and vice versa. This game kind of reminded me of a game back in the Self era when a fairly mediocre Indiana team absolutely crushed us by shooting out of their minds from 3. Penn State isn’t a bad basketball team.
What bothers me is the apparent lack of effort/focus.
Agree.
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This game kind of reminded me of a game back in the Self era when a fairly mediocre Indiana team absolutely crushed us by shooting out of their minds from 3. Penn State isn’t a bad basketball team.
That “fairly mediocre” Indiana team got to the National Championship game that 2002 season. And the blowout you are thinking of was in Bloomington.
There’s not really a comparison for todays game.
Illinois has only lost one other time in the last 40 years on their home court by 15+ points to an unranked team. It was also an Underwood team, and also to Penn State:
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2018-02-11-19-illinois.html
Todays game was conceivably the worst home loss in Illinois history by margin of defeat. A ranked Illinois team had never lost by 15+ on their home court to an unranked team.
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That “fairly mediocre” Indiana team got to the National Championship game that 2002 season. And the blowout you are thinking of was in Bloomington.
There’s not really a comparison for todays game.
Illinois has only lost one other time in the last 40 years on their home court by 15+ points to an unranked team. It was also an Underwood team, and also to Penn State:
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/2018-02-11-19-illinois.html
Todays game was conceivably the worst home loss in Illinois history by margin of defeat. A ranked Illinois team had never lost by 15+ on their home court to an unranked team.
Welcome back, clown. What's for dinner at the dorm tonight?
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During the Henson era, I knew a guy exactly like Plaza. He even thought the flying Illini sucked and only won because of overwhelming talent; which in his mind was mostly wasted.
The 1989 Flying Illini had 2 1st round draft picks, were the #1 seed, and made it to the Final Four.
Don’t even compare that team, to this current team that sucks.
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WTF was that? If I’m Underwood the entire next practice is suicide drills.
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This is team isn't nearly as bad as the Squeakmeister thinks and will make the tournament. Making it to the second week of the tourney seems unlikely with Undy in charge though.
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Welcome back, clown. What's for dinner at the dorm tonight?
Hopefully pussy, something you haven’t gotten since the 1990s
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During the Henson era, I knew a guy exactly like Plaza. He even thought the flying Illini sucked and only won because of overwhelming talent; which in his mind was mostly wasted.
Henson >> Underwood.
Iirc the 1984 team had zero NBA guys and should have made the Final 4, but got robbed playing UK at Rupp Arena in the Elite 8 game.
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Hopefully pussy, something you haven’t gotten since the 1990s
Yeah haven't had teen pussy since then.
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The team was 6-12 at the free shot line,
Mayer was 4-5 and Dainja was 2-7. That's it. Nobody else.
Mayer hitting 5 threes vs Texas was the worst thing that could have happened to this team long term. I think he was close to being benched. But make no mistake, any shot he makes is fools gold bc it’s all in a 1 on 1 context. He’s the anti-team ball player. He plays by himself out there. Waits to get the ball on offense, iso 1 on 1 looking for the step back 3, the ball dies when he gets it. There will be chemistry problems the more he plays.
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Henson >> Underwood.
Iirc the 1984 team had zero NBA guys and should have made the Final 4, but got robbed playing UK at Rupp Arena in the Elite 8 game.
That team had some marginal NBA talent. Scott Meets played 39 NBA games over two seasons. Bruce Douglas had a cup of NBA coffee. He and Efrem Winters were McDonald's AA's. Doug Altenberger was an NBA prospect, but suffered a severe knee injury and missed the 1986 season. They also went against Ken Norman everyday in practice. George Montgomery did not play in the NBA, but was a 2nd round draft pick.
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Hopefully pussy, something you haven’t gotten since the 1990s
That is some genuine weakass Florida Trailer Park fat bald white man trash talk.
Good one.
I am guessing you actually have posters of both 10 year little girl tennis players from eastern Europe and Kofi Cockburn in your trailer.
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That is some genuine weakass Florida Trailer Park fat bald white man trash talk.
Good one.
I am guessing you actually have posters of both 10 year little girl tennis players from eastern Europe and Kofi Cockburn in your trailer.
Seems Squeakmeister has a full head of hair. Not sure about a full set of teeth though.
I'm wondering if the bathroom Squeakmeister shot his video from is a shared bathroom in the dorm? Dom's forehead sweat is starting to make sense now. He probably took a teen bbc or two in the shared shower prior to shooting his video. Could also explain the overly squeaky voice.
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Song for Dom before his big night at the dorm.
https://youtu.be/5aAbOgdbTbM
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Mayer hitting 5 threes vs Texas was the worst thing that could have happened to this team long term. I think he was close to being benched. But make no mistake, any shot he makes is fools gold bc it’s all in a 1 on 1 context. He’s the anti-team ball player. He plays by himself out there. Waits to get the ball on offense, iso 1 on 1 looking for the step back 3, the ball dies when he gets it. There will be chemistry problems the more he plays.
He might shoot too many threes, and he looked really bad on a missed boxout against Texas. But the rest of this makes no sense.
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I knew this team would win some games they probably shouldn’t and vice versa. This game kind of reminded me of a game back in the Self era when a fairly mediocre Indiana team absolutely crushed us by shooting out of their minds from 3. Penn State isn’t a bad basketball team.
What bothers me is the apparent lack of effort/focus.
From what Brad said about their practices and attitude this week, I'm thinking the humble pie today was well deserved. Might even be the best thing that happened to them in the long term. Guys walking around acting like they're hot shit because they just beat the #2 team at MSG. We can only hope they learn from today's reality check and make sure this never happens again.
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He might shoot too many threes, and he looked really bad on a missed boxout against Texas. But the rest of this makes no sense.
Then you aren’t watching him play. He’s the biggest me first player on the team.
MN was right in describing the offense as junk ball where everyone has the green light to go 1 on 5. I think only Melendez plays team offense.
And the defense will get shredded against any team that doesn’t turn it over. Non stop switching is for pussies. All it does is create a mismatch in the half court that teams will exploit.
It’s a collection of parts that are redundant and don’t fit together. Guarantee the coaches are wishing they could trade Rodgers for Podz
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the question is what are the players doing right now?
are they thinking of what happened today or are they not focusing on that
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the question is what are the players doing right now?
are they thinking of what happened today or are they not focusing on that
I think Mayer, Shannon, and Hawkins only care about looking good for the NBA. I don’t think they care about team success. Which, I don’t blame them. It’s their careers on the line. But that’s the problem with bringing in 1 year free agents looking for bigger roles. Impossible to build sound chemistry that way
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This team needs to practice the defensive shell drill for 2 straight hours next practice.
The next two hours can be used for half-court offensive sets.
🙁
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Then you aren’t watching him play. He’s the biggest me first player on the team.
MN was right in describing the offense as junk ball where everyone has the green light to go 1 on 5. I think only Melendez plays team offense.
And the defense will get shredded against any team that doesn’t turn it over. Non stop switching is for pussies. All it does is create a mismatch in the half court that teams will exploit.
It’s a collection of parts that are redundant and don’t fit together. Guarantee the coaches are wishing they could trade Rodgers for Podz
Is that what they say at the dorm?
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You are a fcking idiot as usual. After we ran the #2 in country out of the gym, you hid in your trailer park like a little bitch.
They have a letdown shit game and you show up like a punkass little bitch claiming they suck.
Like any team, you are never as good as your best day or your worst.
Except you of course are a pedophile asshole every day.
We could easily have been 9-0 coming into today. Or 5-4. That is basketball and that is the same for most every team in top 25.
Purdue almost got beat today by lowly Nebraska. We will lose another 6 or 7 or maybe even 8 games in the league.
We could win 3 games in NCAA or win one.
Nobody here ever claimed otherwise except your stupid ass who says we will win only 14 and not make the NIT.
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I used to call guys like Plaza anti-fans. They love to hate their team and envied other teams. I knew a few Henson haters, but one in particular was obsessive. He adored Bob Knight for 'winning with less talent." The guy also despised Stoner and White and admired Bo Schembechler for 'winning the right way."
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You are a fcking idiot as usual. After we ran the #2 in country out of the gym, you hid in your trailer park like a little bitch.
They have a letdown shit game and you show up like a punkass little bitch claiming they suck.
Like any team, you are never as good as your best day or your worst.
Except you of course are a pedophile asshole every day.
We could easily have been 9-0 coming into today. Or 5-4. That is basketball and that is the same for most every team in top 25.
Purdue almost got beat today by lowly Nebraska. We will lose another 6 or 7 or maybe even 8 games in the league.
We could win 3 games in NCAA or win one.
Nobody here ever claimed otherwise except your stupid ass who says we will win only 14 and not make the NIT.
I think you have just earned a shoutout in his next video.
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the question is what are the players doing right now?
are they thinking of what happened today or are they not focusing on that
I for one, am hoping they are focused on their free-shots.
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After we ran the #2 in country out of the gym
Stop. Texas blew a 56-46 lead late in the 2nd half. Illinois didn’t run anyone out of the gym.
Facts are Illinois has trailed by at least 10+ points in the 2nd half of 5 games this year:
Maryland (11)
UCLA (15)
Texas (10)
Virginia (11)
Penn State (19)
If you trail by that many, in the 2nd half, you’re lucky to not have lost all of them.
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Stop. Texas blew a 56-46 lead late in the 2nd half. Illinois didn’t run anyone out of the gym.
Facts are Illinois has trailed by at least 10+ points in the 2nd half of 5 games this year:
Maryland (11)
UCLA (15)
Texas (10)
Virginia (11)
Penn State (19)
If you trail by that many, in the 2nd half, you’re lucky to not have lost all of them.
You must have been crying like a little bitch in your trailer when we blew Texas up the last 8 minutes and in OT. Yes, we ran them out of the gym you fucking moron. Their entire team was cramping and we outscored them by 17. We did same thing to UCLA.
We split four games against ranked teams.
Not bad for a team that you claim will not make the NIT. Honestly that is the single stupidest thing I have ever seen posted here.
You might be the most ignorant poster we have ever had here and that is quite an accomplishment. Stick to peeping through the bushes at junior tennis academies. Just hope your parole officer doesn't catch you and you don't get reported violating sex offender laws to stay away from elementary schools.
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Have to agree with Dom, here. Referring to a double digit comeback win in OT as a “running out of the gym” seems like laying it on thick.
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You might be the most ignorant poster we have ever had here and that is quite an accomplishment.
He may want to add that to his sig, as it is quite an accomplishment.
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Have to agree with Dom, here. Referring to a double digit comeback win in OT as a “running out of the gym” seems like laying it on thick.
We basically doubled up the #2 team and maybe best defense in the country as we scored 39 points in 13 minutes. Not our norm, and might end up being the highlight of the year, but it wasn't luck.
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We basically doubled up the #2 team and maybe best defense in the country as we scored 39 points in 13 minutes. Not our norm, and might end up being the highlight of the year, but it wasn't luck.
Maybe some paraquat was in Tempo's weed when he was on his mini vacation.
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Maybe some paraquat was in Tempo's weed when he was on his mini vacation.
Strictly gummies. And I only do them when I’m with my best friend, who somewhat thankfully lives in Texas. Otherwise I never do weed/gummies. Unless I’m in Amsterdam.