The Breakdown: Iowa Embarrasses Illinois for 5th Win in a Row
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RobHowe
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Miss that. Somebody also asked me about a Saved by the Bell spoof. Missed that, too.
tksirius
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For those of you that watched IL beat MN in their last game you may have been half nervous as I was going into this game. They put up over 90 and looked quick and tough. But man shooting that good can just cover up everything up. Not that our D was bad but it wasn't exactly great either. Not to mention I think we had 14 turnovers. But shooting 68% or whatever it ended up being more than covers up for that. Unreal shooting game. Having a couple guys in the zone like that and everyone playing unselfishly was just fun to watch. I hope Carver is packed for when MSU comes to town. I'm not predicting anything other than it won't be like how it was up there.
WinOneThisCentury
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Yeah...I wouldn't say we embarrassed them. I mean, come on, we were 14 of 17 from three at one point. You don't expect that to happen to you and they still hung around for a long time. They defend. I watched them earlier this year against Gonzaga and they gave them fits. Give Iowa credit...they were patient and didn't get speeded up with Illinois' pressure and constant denying of everything.
I will also say that Illinois had a bunch of crazy shots go in. I mean the one kid threw two three pointers that were line drives that hit the front of the rim and somehow bounded over to go through. They made a lot of tough, tough shots late in the clock.
I would disagree with a few posters, our defense was as good as it's been all year yesterday IMO.
I will also say that Illinois had a bunch of crazy shots go in. I mean the one kid threw two three pointers that were line drives that hit the front of the rim and somehow bounded over to go through. They made a lot of tough, tough shots late in the clock.
I would disagree with a few posters, our defense was as good as it's been all year yesterday IMO.
At times it was pretty good sure. But there was a significant stretch there. (mostly at same time we got hot too) that our D gave up multiple easy looks in a row and Fran lit em up for it at the next dead ball. It's a bit nit picking for sure but the two prior games where we gave up less than 65 points each seemed like noticeably better overall efforts to me. Again if our O is playing like that and we put up over 90 pts it don't matter regardless
thedukeofearl
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The swarming Hawks played solid D against Illinois
The half-court trap worked well, once again taking valuable time off the clock
As far as D is concerned there are no shutouts in basketball, One would have to go to Guiness to find one which probably would be at least a century ago.....
We used our bigs to stop middle drives by their guards. Great game plan by the coaches on a direct hedge. D was tough except for a couple lapses when Hawks broke it open. Team heard about it during the TV timeout too.
We are averaging 83 points and with our pace, teams will naturally average a higher point total. I for one love watching Frans teams push the ball and find early offense.
RobHowe
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They defend?
Iowa scored 95 points this season and over 100 last season on them.
They trailed by at least 15-20 for most of the second half and were down by 27 at one point. Maybe we have different examples of embarrass. Watch the Brad Underwood video I posted. He said Iowa took them to the woodshed. He sure looked embarrassed by his team's performance and said as much.
Northside Hawk
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It was called "Saved By The Buzzer" and was on the main board suspended above the court.
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