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I don't normally complain about the officiating but when I do I make sure to preface it with not complaining about officials.

These ******* refs, how do they call that?!

We were upset we didn't get gameday a few weeks ago. There is good reason for that. That was my point.

Crazy we're at that point where we need to see if our team will compete to be excited about a game with a rival. I can't imagine why this wasn't the gameday stop in Bloomington.

Compete, compete, compete Hopefully we don't finish the weekend back in the 7th or 8th spot in the Big 1.o seeding. Regardless we'll need to win both games next week.

Doesn't feel like we're as stoked about the matchup this time..

See the difference in the last offensive possession? Buie wasn’t attacking Ill like he was us. I wonder why? Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

If we could get Ill and Michigan tied with Maryland and us we can win that tiebreaker. Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners

“Rutger hasn’t committed a foul all half” with ~6 minutes left in the first half. No, Jim Jackson they’ve committed plenty of fouls but they haven’t been called. You’ve been around the Big 1.o long enough.

Creek in '11 - '13, Hulls in '13, OG '17, Priller '15 - '18, Davis '18

Would have gotten the ball back as it went off the foot of a Bama player out of bounds.

Not having the lane clogged when your point drives helps getting to the rim. JHS can get there, XJ would help but would also be driving into two post defenders. Again, modern basketball.

Random question - can you goal tend your own shot? (Not after it’s hot the rim) You jump for a layup and it’s on its way down but you guide it in. Is that a goal tend?

You win some you lose some. You win most (at home) and lost most (on road to teams with a pulse). This team goes as TJD goes. I love TJD as a player and can't imagine what this program would have been over the last 4 years without him. However, I believe he and we lack in a few extremely important areas. I've said it and stand by it - TJD isn't a leader. It's not natural for him. He elevated his game for a stretch that led us to wins. That's huge. XJ (good or bad) is more of a natural leader. JHS has some of it but not sure how much it gets through with age and the chemistry of the team. It's been discussed you don't have to agree with it. I would have liked to have seen some baseline set by now of what is expected. I feel even in some wins our intensity level was lacking. As USPS says you're the team in between your 5 best/worst performances. I've seen more than 5 that lack in the intensity level of what should be expected. If others are cool with that effort/intensity level, awesome, I don't think we're there and that's something we should coming up towards the end of the second year of a new head coach. We're not playing a modern brand of basketball. It's won us games but I don't think we're near the potential of this team. By percentage, we're a good shooting team from deep, probably close to top 10% in the nation/conference. It's fantastic but it matters little when you don't take enough for it to impact the game. (this is modern basketball) On the other end of the court, teams shoot too good of a percentage on more attempts which equalizes our advantage with TJD down low. Our wings are typically a step slow which has led to giving up too many straight line drives (Northwestern at home) but also forces us to over help which teams can exploit with a decent pass and a really good look. Basically, we're winning the 2 point battle with opponents winning the 3 point battle. Sometimes our 2 point battle wins the war and sometimes opponent's 3 point battle wins the war with less talent. Imagine an offense that has TJD operating down low with us taking more 3PAs. That would be more of a modern offense and a much high ceiling. If we can overpower teams in the tourney while they don't have good guards and wings that can exploit our weakness we'll win some games. Otherwise, TJD will have to come over to attempt to block shots or we'll get in rotations giving up too many open looks. We've seen a few teams or players get hot and bury us from deep. When you give up those clean looks early it seems they can't miss after. It's not a winning recipe in a one and done tourney.

It's how we play defense. We've done this all season and announcers have been calling it out recently

Giving up offensive rebounds, missing freethrows will lead to a run for the other team

Feels we've really slowed the pace in this game. Keep picking them apart in the half court and locking them down on the other end of the floor.

Good help defense Tamar!! Great defensive possession.

Beautiful move!! Let's keep the pedal to the metal and take this bad boy home!

We're in front of them when the ball doesn't go in then we catch it. I like this much better than giving the opponent 5 chances to score each trip down.

I like this start

******* refs can't even start the game on time!!

I gotchu fam (you'll need to delete this when you copy/paste) How the **** are they not calling a tech on Whizzo?! Watch, now MSU will get all of the calls!! We'd be up double digits if it wasn't for these officials!!

Wasn't the second Illinois win at home with an Adidas ball?

**** how can you make that call?! He clearly fouled him!! What are you looking at he wasn't within 10' of him!! How can we rebound or pass the ball when we're getting hacked like that, let alone try to score a bucket!!? WTF!! Shut your mouth Izzo!! You're in the bonus with 16+ minutes left in the half!!