IlliniKrush

Yeah Bogut had like 21 early in the 2nd half, then much later he only had 23. UTEP just stacked the middle on him. Utah also had some brutal possessions down the stretch to make that game close.

Alright i had to do a bunch of work yesterday after the game (nope, not on spring break quite yet though it seems like everyone else on campus is), so i couldn't get on here to post. A bit late, but here's my take on yesterday's game: First half was obviously ugly. I think it was pretty apparent we were just dicking around in the first half. We played down to the level of competition. To be honest, it wasn't completely unexpected. Most high seeds came out and struggled in the first half. If shots aren't falling early and stuff because you are adjusting to sight lines and all that s***, fine. But what pissed me off is that we weren't doing anything on the defensive end, especially rebound. There were way too many uncontest layups/putbacks. I wasn't worried up 1 at half, not against a 16 seed. I told my roommate Weber would probly throw a chair at half and we'd come out and win by 20. Close enough, as we dominated them the first half of the second half. Why? Started to actually do something on defense. Still didn't rebound all that great, which is not good as we get into games that will all be close from here on in. Yesterday was a game where we missed Randle. Klaiber is very impressive. He was scoring many different ways. Would have been nice to have that wing forward who plays good defense against him, Randle. I hope this doesn't come back to bite us in the ass later on in the tournament. It's not good when one guy on a s***ty team can just dominate you. He was their whole team and still basically did what he wanted. If this happens in later rounds, watch out. We need to learn how to contain the other team's best scorer a little better than that. The positive out of yesterday, besides the win, is that Dee kinda got back into a rhythm. Without looking it up, i believe he was something like 7-10, and he was making plays on defense as well. He had a few too many turnovers (5-6 maybe?). But at least Dee's head seems back into the game, which is good. We will not go anywhere without a solid Dee, period. Deron and Luther sucked on the offensive end last night, they were maybe 7-25 or so. That can't happen again. So we have Nevada saturday at 4:40, i'm gonna probably be there. I would rather play Nevada than Texas, but neither team looked overly impressive last night. That was an ugly game as well. This isn't to say it won't be a tough game, because i know it will be. Every game from here on out has to be a solid effort or we're going home. I think we'll show up for a full game saturday after getting this s***fest out of our system last night and get by Nevada, then move on to Chicago. We need to look a lot better saturday...if we don't i'm gonna be worried. Then again, all you have to do is win, but we all know that you want to look good doing it, because literally "surviving" every game won't get you very far. We need to go "win" this game. Enjoy the games today folks.

Nice half Iowa...Pathetic.

QUOTE(Spiff @ Mar 17, 2005 -> 02:00 PM) So wait, are you somehow in contact with THE jim caple? Yes If you've been reading his articles...there's been 3....from U of I, you'll notice mention of "the four chicks"...those are my friends. He's at their apartment now. I'm gonna head over there later for the Illini game. Honda Civic, i like drinking game idea. I'll try to implement it. If you guys haven't read the articles, read em, they are absolutely hilarious.

LOL check this out....Jim Caple of ESPN is in my march madness pool...how sweet is that

So tonight i'll be hanging with Jim Caple while throwing back a few and watching the Illini game. Awesome If you haven't been reading his updates...there's been 3 now...they are freaking hilarious.

I'll be drinking with Jim Caple of ESPN tonight to celebrate while watching the Illini roll

Yeah they got dominated inside.

Pacific up 10 with 6 left

UW opening it back up...up 9 2 mins left

Kentucky pulls away, wins by 8

UW hasn't missed a shot all game

How do you get multiple screens up to watch more than one game at once?

I just feel that that team was stacked with veteran leadership that knew how to win. Davis was probly part of it, just not as much as i'd like to think he was. He's not always responsible for them losing either (I think bracey is a huge factor in that). I just think that if IU fans (and i'm not blaming anyone of this, but i've heard it plenty) defend Davis through everything with "he took us to a final four," i don't know if that's a real good basis for keeping him

I bought it, look forward to seeing all games at once. Right now i'm watching press conferences for the hell of it.

I've never blamed every loss on Davis, but IMO, overall he isn't a good coach, and he did not "lead" that team to the final four. That's all i'm saying.

The title now reads: Girl Reported Missing Found Safe Mother's Girlfriend Picked Up Child

Hopefully he commits to Illinois... BTW Pale hose didn't GBN win last night? Not lose...

Greasy are you trying to tell me Mike Davis was responsible for that team getting to the final four?

Random quiz question...who has the lowest FG percentage, JJ, Luther, Deron, or Dee? Dee 53.8 Lu 49.4 DW 43 JJ 41.6 Yes JJ takes a ton of threes, but no one forces him to take the nba threes with a hand in his face. Just found this to be an interesting stat.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Mar 15, 2005 -> 07:41 PM) Someone took them to the NCAA title game in 2002 and it wasn't Bobby Knight my friend. Oh please, it wasn't Mike Davis either....

Wow, it's on the front page of espn.com, main story. Wow.

First installment is in. This guy is awesome. I'll be hanging with him on Thursday, as i'll be spending the day with "The four chicks," who are my friends. For the record, they aren't ugly....they are anything but. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/050315

It's the same argument that says all Cubs fans are morons. No, not all are morons, it's just that there are so many of them that there will inevitably be morons. We all know there are good and bad fans of every team. Hell, even Illini fans on this board, some are good and some are bad. You didn't prove anything by pulling random quotes off a message board.

Definitely the pot calling the kettle black. LMAO