Turning the focus to the Illwhini

FreddyBrown

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Random thoughts/questions:

--Who guards McCamey? He seems too big and strong for Cully. Since he's such a key cog in their offense, do we let May have at him?

--Who guards Tisdale? That guy could kill us. Call me crazy, but I think he might be a good matchup for Brommer or Cougill before anyone else. The height advantage relative to anyone else is just too much. Let Cole and Fuller focus on keeping Mike Davis off the boards

--Is Richardson hurt/out for them?

--I want this freaking game more than any other game on our schedule. I want to have the OC contingent STFU at he end of the game. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?

--I would gladly volunteer to give the pregame pep talk to the team.

--I'm hoarse right now so I'm thinking of hiring a surrogate screamer for the game. But I can still jump around and gesticulate with the best of them. (Those of you who may be vocabulary-challenged, what I just said is not dirty.)

--Nothing short of a tsunami could keep me from this game. I expect no less from the rest of yuse mutts.

--I wish like heck they would let the students in free for this game, and put a secret bounty on the pelt of any visiting OC member they can turn in before, during or after the game.

--I think we have the psychological edge in this game. Illwhini coming off a squeaked-out home W over a team we beat by 15 on the road. Our guys should feel confident they can win. Team should be seriously hacked off off about their last two performances. I know the coach is, at least if his meds are working. Seems like a good setup for the best performance of the season thus far by Iowa.

--While I'm not in favor of having Tucker play at this time and doubt seriously that he will, I would be willing to throw principle out the window for this game, which after all is a cause bigger than any of us. This is like the Civil War. Didn't they recruit all kinds of scallywags to fight that one?

--I don't care if you live in Alaska. I don't care if you have to go AWOL from a military posting overseas. I don't care if you are CIA and are very, very close to nailing Bin Laden. I don't care if you are the parent of a newborn. There are no excuses. GET TO THIS GAME!

--GO HAWKS!!!

--That is all. For now.

--No, wait--one other thing: I don't use naughty words or acronyms here often, but I hate the feature of this site that turns certain such expressions into a series of asterisks. Come on now--who among us is skilled enough at writing to achieve the same end with mere non-scatological terms?! Give us a break! How about a one-curse-a-week exemption?
 
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Yeah, I'd put May on McCamey. As for Tisdale... yeesh. I don't know. He's not the strongest kid in the B10, but he's got mile-long arms and a sweeeeeeet short-range jumper. He could drop in 20+ easily. Not sure if DJ is hurt, but the other guy I'd pay attention to is Mike Davis. Inconsistent, but very capable of lighting it up on occasion.

All that said, I think the Hawks win by 6 or so.

I'm not going to the game. Sorry.*






*Not really sorry. At all.
 
I hear ya,Freddy. Living in Chicago, the illini series is THE ONE for me in bb. We can really damage their hopes for the NCAA with a win. We can be real spoilers. We can even the season series at 1-1. We can stick in their craw on Selection Sunday.
This is the most important game of the year,and maybe of the Lick era for many reasons. Like with Chizik at ISU in football, he stunk but he beat Iowa his first year,which kept him in the good graces for that year. Lick can help his cause with Iowa fans a great deal with a win here.

Matchups:
Key guys for the illini are McCamey,Richardson and Tisdale right now. Davis has been spotty and did not even start of late. Frosh griffey is in there, and Cole has been starting for awhile. Paul,Jordan and Keller have all started at times also.
Have not heard of the Richardson injury,but that would be huge as he is a very solid perimeter defender and can score also.

Matchups:
I like your idea of May on McCamey.
Payne on Richardson.
Gatens on Paul/Jordan/ Cole
Fuller on Davis/Griffey/Keller
Cole/Cougill/Brommer on Tisdale

Impossible to predict who exactly weber will have open up for them or who will get the minutes. Tisdale has hurt us in the past,just rising above Cole for jumpers. I think Weber might try to bully us in the paint and start Davis,Cole and Tisdale on their back line,which is big, and try to own the boards. I hope we counter with some big folks like Cougs and Brommer...Tisdale must be shoved around,he can be rendered impotent of late with physical play.
But,clearly in late game situations, McCamey is THE MAN and must be made to give up the ball. IU screwed up bigtime in that last second play when the 2nd man did not come off of Davis when McCamey drove to the hole ...so please hawks, remember, if it is down to the last shot, double McCamey,make him give it up,make someone else beat us...the guy is rock solid late in games.
 

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