Game Over
Is ruining the game...if they got half those calls right Michigan wins this going away. Instead we had no rim protection because Morgan and Horford weren't allowed to play defense.
unless the offense player uses a flagrant elbow it will not be called. They might as well just make it a block or non foul call. I really dont see how it is the defenders fault that they are standing still and get plowed into. What are they supposed to do?
I was just discussing this with a colleague the other day. Two years ago they would call a charge so long as you were straight up, last year there appeared to be almost more charges than blocking fouls called (see Cuse game), and this year the charge is just gone (see Payne in the OSU game / 75% of Spike blocking fouls). I would actually be okay with the non-call scenario. That would keep defenders from constantly doing dangerour things to draw charges (12-13 season), but would also not completely penalize the defense for playing, well, defense.
wouldnt be March without my heart beating way too fast.
Grind out win but they made the plays to get it done.
Hail!
Yep. I had forgotten that feeling of having the air sucked out of your lungs, and all I'm doing is sitting on a couch.
Regardless, no matter the D I don't think we'll see a 20% 3 shooting game from Stauskas again.
Is the corner three. There were numerous occasions were Stauskas would be open in the corner when the wing came up to trap the ball. However, it's a split second pass that needs to be there. Michigan was either late or simply did not make that pass and we were unable to exploit that hole.
I think Beilein will drill them on that. I think that partially contributed to some forced shots from Stauskas, as he was probably frustrated about not getting the ball when he was open.
on one possession I noticed; Stauskas was wide open.
Spike, despite a couple timely threes, had a rough game. A couple bad turnovers and he overdribbled against the zone.
I think it's pretty straightforward - have to drive the gaps near the elbow (and score or kick), or have someone do work catching the ball at the elbow and distributing.
We didn't have a very good plan or have anyone take charge of attacking the zone. Although they played their zone really really well.
So one still a one seed maybe?
And hope Michigan keeps winning. As of now a few "experts" have Michigan as a #1, but they need to probably win tomorrow at the very least.
So does that mean we are a #2 even if we lose tomorrow?
That win solidified us as a 2. Lunardi (who has a big pulse on the selection committee process) had us at #5 overall, the first #2 seed yesterday. Committee is high on Michigan as of now.
We didn't win any style points. But no matter what, beating Wisco en route to B1G championship should do the trick, barring crazy stuff.
Syracuse could win ACC and put themselves in the discussion I suppose and Kansas could win Big 12, but a regular season and tournament sweep of the toughest conference with two wins over Wisconsin would probably do the trick
pissed off people in Indy right now. They showed the crowd earlier and ohio fans and MSU fans cheering with the Illini fans. That must really suck for all of them.
I'm sure we'll return the favor.
Thank goodness. My heart was in my mouth when that ball left Jordan's hands (onions!) and then I was certain they were going to get a layup to beat us.
I have mixed feelings about the BTT, but man, I wanted to keep on playing.
A lot of lessons to learn from today (although the defense, I'm afraid is what we know it is) - better to learn in a win than a painful loss.
Ton of credit to Illinois' zone - yeah, we missed shots, but their zone was phenomenal. Very extended and active.
Better to learn these things about the team now than later... We struggled with the 2-3 but is fixable, and we know now that our bigs cannot get into deep foul trouble. These things are definitely fixable and I'm just glad we will have the opportunity to fix them come tourney time with at least another B1G tourney game and a half week of practice.
Michigan eFG% - 55.32% / Illinois eFG% - 50.00%
Michigan OREB% - 20.69% / Illinois OREB% - 28.57%
Michigan FTR - 31.91% / Illinois FTR - 22.64%
Michigan TOV% - 12.99% / Illinois TOV% - 13.38%
We were 21-47, including 10-30 from three-point range. A/T ratio for this game was 1.375 and our PPP was 1.16.
Illinois was 24-53, including 5-17 from beyond the arc. They had an A/T ratio of 1.11 and a PPP of 1.07.
We sucked on O, but Illinois out-sucked us more.
and thank god Illinois helped us down the stretch going to man and missing the last shot. Wake up call!
He really came through.
And the Illini got caught watching the paint dry.
Jesus, Digger. Nice to say Minny is taking over and leave us off the list of people at the top of the conference that should be "on notice." Here's a clue, you old bastard. The team that won the conference by three whole games? Yeah, we're here and we're not going away. We on, and fuck you, you Domer dick.
calmer about being dominant--as with MSU fans--we can just start ignorning the petty stuff. He's sorry, anyway. They just roll him out of some bar come spring out of pity.
He totally trolls us. He's so transparent about it. I wish they would roll him back into the ditch.
Or did someone say "no you weren't" (or something to that effect) in the background when Beilein was being interviewed and he said "we got a couple of open shots..."? I swear I heard that but it's not like they keep the video of that part up on the internet.