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in the age of the 35 second shot clock, wow.

big road W for the Nittany Lions, though. not out of the NCAA talk...8-6 in conference.

hell, Colorado-Nebraska on the same pace....CU scored 9 in the first half at ISU a week ago.

I didn't see the game, but judging by the box score I don't think this was your typical defensive bare knuckle beatdown, with methodic offense at work here. Well perhaps methodical, but methodically shitty. Zero free throws for the home team? Bad basketball.

It amazes me though how some of these teams can get locked into the Big Ten style of play, going from scoring 40 points in games, suddenly to 70 points in an out of conference matchup. I don't know if it speaks to their versatility, or their inability to control the tempo the way they'd like.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:I didn't see the game, but judging by the box score I don't think this was your typical defensive bare knuckle beatdown, with methodic offense at work here. Well perhaps methodical, but methodically shitty. Zero free throws for the home team? Bad basketball.

It amazes me though how some of these teams can get locked into the Big Ten style of play, going from scoring 40 points in games, suddenly to 70 points in an out of conference matchup. I don't know if it speaks to their versatility, or their inability to control the tempo the way they'd like.

bad basketball, bad shooting is my point.

PSU shot .283 and UI .300 from the floor.

you can say that's great D going both ways, but are you really going to say that.....

I'm not ripping the Big 10, it's just sometimes everyone uncorks a stinker of a game. and this was one. like i said above, Colorado scored 9 points in the first half last week at ISU. shot .173 from the floor.

I saw that score on the crawl and thought halftime score. When I saw the F next to it, I said 'what the F?' That type of score might happen in a Wisconsin game if it was going to involve a Big Ten team.

bad basketball, bad shooting is my point.

PSU shot .283 and UI .300 from the floor.

you can say that's great D going both ways, but are you really going to say that.....

SwhatI'msayin.

This isn't one of those Big Ten games in which you can point to defense, or talk about the patient half court style, killing the shot clock waiting for the best possible shot, etc. This was just BAD offense.

Props to PSU though. Great win for them regardless of how ugly it was. Illinois is a top 3 team in conference, imo. They needed this.

Somewhere Dick Bennett is smiling.

King Crimson wrote:in the age of the 35 second shot clock, wow.

Yeah. When I first saw that score across the WWL's crawl, I figured it must be a halftime score reported as a final by mistake.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:I didn't see the game, but judging by the box score I don't think this was your typical defensive bare knuckle beatdown, with methodic offense at work here. Well perhaps methodical, but methodically shitty. Zero free throws for the home team? Bad basketball.

I only saw about 10 minutes of game time in the first half and the offense was, in the interest of being kind, putrid. After having seen the crisp ball movement by the Illini a few days earlier I couldn't believe how lethargic they looked. Sure PSU is better than IU but that had nothing to do with the laziness Illannoy showed.

It's games like this that make it difficult for B10 teams to recruit the elite level kids and get back to the glory days of the 90's. This years McD AA game will feature ZERO recruits heading to B10 campuses this fall.