Illinois Post Game Thread

[tzznandrew]

It does not even come close to reflecting his dominance. I have never seen a player so visibly in someone’s head as Clingan was with Hawkins and Shannon. These two were seeing ghosts.

It goes the the difference in mobility between Clingan and Edey. Both are defensive forces, but one translates to the next level and one is an exceptional college player.

 

[Tenspro2002]

That give-and-go play with 8:50 left between Spencer and Clingan, wow. Special.

The poise, trust, and connectedness they had to recognize, sync up, and execute a give-and-go with 3 seconds on the shot clock was unbelievable and completely emblematic of this team.

 

[Bomber36]

Here it is, folks. Started and finished by Diarra. Plenty of transition buckets against a team who said they wanted to run and put up 100 on us. Beautiful stretch of basketball. As good as I’ve ever seen.

It’s even crazier to watch like this. Wow, we are good. They make me so proud to be a Husky!

 

[jostar1]

 

[UconnU]

I kind of prefer Alabama just for the banter. The Alabama crowd will absolutely give us We Want UConn and other comical commentary. Clemson basketball doesn’t really have a following.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Thoroughly enjoying the Illinois fans on twitter and their board complaining that only one foul was called on Clingan.

Have no idea what game they were watching or if they understand the rules of basketball. The dude did not foul. So disciplined again.

 

[TheHorde]

Underwood didn't cover himself with glory but let's be fair. The only thing Brad Underwood could have done to prevent that buzzsaw was forfeit at halftime.

 

[Bomber36]

He’s a players coach. He really does get what it takes to get through to the kids.

 

[auror]

Dan Hurley walked on some hotel carpet with the bare feet, so had the guys cleanse him.

 

[Bomber36]

Thoroughly enjoying the Illinois fans on twitter and their board complaining that only one foul was called on Clingan.

Have no idea what game they were watching or if they understand the rules of basketball. The dude did not foul. So disciplined again.

Sour grapes. DC played his most defensively disciplined game of the year. They were the unfortunate recipients of said game. Deal with it.

 

[BugsyCT]

Thoroughly enjoying the Illinois fans on twitter and their board complaining that only one foul was called on Clingan.

Have no idea what game they were watching or if they understand the rules of basketball. The dude did not foul. So disciplined again.

Exactly. Just because their strategy was to continuously try to draw fouls on DC doesn't mean he committed any. The kid is tall, a huge wingspan, and he stayed disciplined.

 

[maple]

lol wait what, Florida went back to back 17 years ago

I know, lol, someone else pointed out I’m an idiot. I misread the graphic on TV.

 

[jostar1]

 

[Lefty2one]

Sour grapes. DC played his most defensively disciplined game of the year. They were the unfortunate recipients of said game. Deal with it.

They're also used to playing in the Big 10 where refs give them soft ass calls and kinda protect star players.

 

[tzznandrew]

Thoroughly enjoying the Illinois fans on twitter and their board complaining that only one foul was called on Clingan.

Have no idea what game they were watching or if they understand the rules of basketball. The dude did not foul. So disciplined again.

There were a few that some refs might have called a foul and I could have lived with. But there were also a few drives Newton and Castle had in the first half in which they were hammered at the rim and no foul was called. Fair is fair.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm one of those fans real time that's always calculating what can go wrong. Even so five minutes in I'm thinking, Illinois is showing their bellies. But they saw it all in the Big 10!

 

[CL82]

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The stat of the night is that Illinois went 0 - 19 on shots contested by Clingan.

 

[jostar1]

 

[Bomber36]

The stat of the night is that Illinois went 0 - 19 on shots contested by Clingan.

Incredible.

 

[TheHorde]

The stat of the night is that Illinois went 0 - 19 on shots contested by Clingan.

And they only scored 14 points while Donovan was on the floor. His +\- must have been insane tonight.

 

[Karmacop]

Some love from the SDSU board…

 

[storrsroars]

That's taking things too far. DePaul did not play us tougher.

But Georgetown did.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DePaul played us tougher.</p>&mdash; Spencer4Hire (@SpencerHatesU) <a href="">March 31, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You have to love Cam!

 

[storrsroars]

You have to love Cam!

Ah, you got there before I edited out all the script... there's a punchline now.

 

[Ha Who]

I’m sure somebody already said this, but I just got home and don’t wanna go through all nine pages. It’s nothing we haven’t seen.