Ill-Annoy ThoughtZ™

[RichZ]

1. We opened strong and seemed to be maintaining a 6 to 9 point lead pretty steadily.
2. Then Reed went to the bench for a breather and in what seemed like no time at all, our lead was down to 2.
3. And soon after, we were down 21-22.
4. What seemed like an eternity later, the score was stll 21-22. Actually it was 3 minutes and 10 seconds of game time 7:54 to 4:44 before either team scored a point. Reed's hook put us back on top, 23-22
5. We stretched that 1 point margin to 37-29@ the half.
6. We were 2 for 2 at the line in the first half. Illinois was 8 for 12. But the officiating wasn't biased.
7. 49-36@ 15:00 off Alex's free-throw.
8. Our lead again reached 13 points at 9:43
9. Ivisic shooting a pair of FTs. Apparently, Demary was called for holding onto Ivisic's arm with his neck.
10. 6 minute mark, lead is down to 6.
11. 4 points at 5 minutes.
12. And it's back up to 9 (62-53) at 4:06
13. Demary on a breakaway tosses up a very lackadaisical looking shot, misses, ill-annoy rebounds and sinks a 3.
14. Lead is down to 3 @ 43 seconds.
15. And back up to 9 at the final whistle.
16. The only stats we got beat in were rebounding and blocks.
17. Solo had himself a pretty damned good all around game, and Mullins deserved consideration, but for my money, Tarris was once again our PoG.
18. Our 14 dimes was well below our 19 SSIST average for the season. But ill-annoy had only 3 dimes for the entire game. Not sure I've ever seen a team get so few assists. Then again, I just ran across this interesting stat -- our season total for dimes is 713, while our opponents totaled 420.
19. Our 74-61 victory over them in November and this 71-62 game were Ill-annoy's two lowest scoring totals and worst shooting percentage games of the season.