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damn that was terrible performance. to answer an earlier question, Rich McBride is the worst player on the team. Nice game from one of our shooters. Seems like we always play poorly against Iowa, I don't understand how they can play us so well, yet struggle with much lesser teams.

 

You guys shot very poorly from the outside but then seemed to get really tentative in the second half. We were playing very good defense (as we have all year) but just got lucky with you guys missing some open looks in the first half. In the second half I thought our defense was better, but when Dee and others got looks they passed them up and had to scramble late in the shot clock to throw something up. Jamar Smith was the one guy who took the shot every time he got an open look and I was surprised at the ones he missed in the first half. I don't know if I've seen that guy miss this year when I've seen an Illinois game.

Taking Augustine out of the game was huge, he never really got involved. After he had that big dunk mid-way through the 2nd half I thought he was going to go on a tear but never did. Same thing with Dee when he knocked down that 3 early in the second half. I think everyone in the building thought he was going to get hot and take over after that shot but it never happened.

 

You guys looked a lot more one-dimensional offensively than last year but I also think you play much better defense than last year's team. Guys are just a lot quicker on switch outs, get up on you much closer and really gave us no open looks in the first half. It looks to me like Bruce has put a much bigger emphasis on defense this year.

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damn that was terrible performance. to answer an earlier question, Rich McBride is the worst player on the team. Nice game from one of our shooters. Seems like we always play poorly against Iowa, I don't understand how they can play us so well, yet struggle with much lesser teams.

 

You guys shot very poorly from the outside but then seemed to get really tentative in the second half. We were playing very good defense (as we have all year) but just got lucky with you guys missing some open looks in the first half. In the second half I thought our defense was better, but when Dee and others got looks they passed them up and had to scramble late in the shot clock to throw something up. Jamar Smith was the one guy who took the shot every time he got an open look and I was surprised at the ones he missed in the first half. I don't know if I've seen that guy miss this year when I've seen an Illinois game.

Taking Augustine out of the game was huge, he never really got involved. After he had that big dunk mid-way through the 2nd half I thought he was going to go on a tear but never did. Same thing with Dee when he knocked down that 3 early in the second half. I think everyone in the building thought he was going to get hot and take over after that shot but it never happened.

 

You guys looked a lot more one-dimensional offensively than last year but I also think you play much better defense than last year's team. Guys are just a lot quicker on switch outs, get up on you much closer and really gave us no open looks in the first half. It looks to me like Bruce has put a much bigger emphasis on defense this year.

Yeah Bruce has to concentrate more on defense this year because we don't have the same talent on offense.

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Billy Packer is doing the MSU-Wisconsin game, yuck. Need a bounceback game from Ager today, Davis needs to continue to dominate.

get ready to be 0-2 Bucky never seems to lose at home.

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Billy Packer is doing the MSU-Wisconsin game, yuck. Need a bounceback game from Ager today, Davis needs to continue to dominate.

get ready to be 0-2 Bucky never seems to lose at home.

 

Need to have better offensive flow, not going to Davis down low enough, not great shooting, and some crummy foul calls have half the team with 2 in the first half. Still only down 5 with the ball though.

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I hate playing on the road in the Big 10. Not playing well, have the crowd and the officials working against you, terribly frustrating. MSU down 10 at the half. Hopefully Davis and Ager stay out of further foul trouble and MSU can go on a run.
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I hate playing on the road in the Big 10. Not playing well, have the crowd and the officials working against you, terribly frustrating. MSU down 10 at the half. Hopefully Davis and Ager stay out of further foul trouble and MSU can go on a run.

Big Ten referees might be the worst thing ever, but it makes us better for the tournament. Think about it, if you can overcome 8 on 5 winning at a nuetral site is cake.

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I never understood why they didn't go to Davis more inside against Illinois.

 

 

On a side note, my sleeper for last year going into my favorite team to watch this year, the Villanova Wildcats, dropped their first game today.

Should have been Villanova vs Illinois for the championship last year, they got robbed.

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Did the Badgers really need those last four points? Does Bo Ryan have some sort of an inferiority complex? Reminds me of two years ago when he had them firing 3's in last moments when they were up by 20 or so on the Spartans. I believe Izzo didn't offer a post game handshake after that incident.
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It's gonna be interesting when the rankings come out.

 

#s 2,3,4,6,7(twice), 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 23 all went down this week.

 

I can't ever remember a week where 7 of the top 10 teams went down. The tourney's gonna be real crapshoot.

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It's gonna be interesting when the rankings come out.

 

#s 2,3,4,6,7(twice), 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 23 all went down this week.

 

I can't ever remember a week where 7 of the top 10 teams went down. The tourney's gonna be real crapshoot.

 

A lot of those teams went on the road for the first time in conference. With 10 and 12-14 losing, maybe IU goes to top 11-12.

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It's gonna be interesting when the rankings come out.

 

#s 2,3,4,6,7(twice), 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 21, 23 all went down this week.

 

I can't ever remember a week where 7 of the top 10 teams went down. The tourney's gonna be real crapshoot.

 

#1 is in for a tough game tonight against Wake Forest. If Justin Gray is on tonight, Duke could be in trouble.

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And down goes #11 BC.

 

BC is learning quickly how difficult the ACC is. They are a better team than they were the last two years and lost just 5 Big East road games. They've already dropped their first 2 ACC road games. Georgia Tech is young, very athletic, but despite moving to 2-0 in the ACC there is much to be done if they want to contend for an NCAA berth.

 

Great win for a young team early in the season.

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ND and BSU both lost in the last couple days. Close games at DePaul and at Ohio respectively. Long basketball season this year I fear. :(
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ND and BSU both lost in the last couple days. Close games at DePaul and at Ohio respectively. Long basketball season this year I fear. :(

 

Come root for Mizzou, make your season even longer. :wink:

 

Pfft, we Mizzou basketball fans have it best. Win, great, yay Mizzou. Lose, Quin comes closer to getting fired. Can't lose.

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ND and BSU both lost in the last couple days. Close games at DePaul and at Ohio respectively. Long basketball season this year I fear. :(

 

Come root for Mizzou, make your season even longer. :wink:

 

Pfft, we Mizzou basketball fans have it best. Win, great, yay Mizzou. Lose, Quin comes closer to getting fired. Can't lose.

 

Haha good point. However, when a loss is to SAM HOUSTON STATE, you can't help but want to hurt small animals (or something similar).

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