1 Foul on Mirk?!,!, F U Refs!!!
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AgreeI wonder if we should have thrown Jiriak in there, if anything just to throw his weight around…
It was a game of men against boys. Literally. First there are at least 5 players on Illinois who have played professionally in Europe. Second, their average age is over 21. They have 4 players over 22 years of age and 7 players total over 21. The NCAA needs to do something about this, and if not the NCAA then the courts. It's ridiculous that a team has professional athletes playing.
Anybody who thinks the officiating in this game was "fine" is either a TBS lackey, an Illinois fan, or oblivious to the rules of basketball. IMHO, of course.
If the Nebraska game officials had worked this game, Iowa would have won. Iowa had ONE second half foul against Nebraska, and Nebby had three. Both teams played basketball. Yesterday, Illinois was playing rugby while Iowa was playing basketball. Simple as that.
Illinois is awesome at rugby. Basketball? I didn't see a helluva lot of that from them. I did see players pushing off constantly, both guys with the ball and rebounders. I saw guys make clean blocks on shots with their hands and arms who then fell on top of or crashed into the shooter with no call. I did see #0 travel at least once almost every damn time he touched the freakin' ball, and he wasn't called once. Not to mention all the other non-calls on traveling in the lane. Koch and Banks get called for touch fouls all night while Illinois goes careening around the floor with nothing being called. I could score too if I were 6-10 or so, 250 or so, and could simply knock people out of the way until I shot a lay-up.
Even Robbie Hummel, who I used to think was a good announcer and fair-minded, said BS like this: "Wagler did a great job there of knocking the primary defender out of the way. Knocking him out of the way, but not TOO hard." What the hell?
I watched Iowa's 1987 Elite Eight game vs. UNLV yesterday morning. The way the game was played then and the way it's played now . . . WOW.
Of all the great things Ben McCollom did this season, NOT getting a single technical may be his greatest achievement. You coach and you plan and strategize, your players play by the rules, and what do you get? I don't know how he takes it. I really don't. Or the players. I was thinking maybe put in Jirak and let him just clobber a few of those big guys. Ya wanna play rough, dudes? Hell, let's do it.
Did you see what Alvaro did when he was in? It was just like during the regular season. He looked like an All-American for a game or two, and then he'd look like the last guy you'd pick last in gym class. Sadly, yesterday was gym class. He made some stupid passes, he missed a couple shots, he never got a single rebound . . . He didn't deserve any more minutes than he got. We needed good Alvaro, but a physical game like that rugby match just wasn't gonna work for Alvaro.
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All of which is why I thought it might be worth trying Jirak in there for a little and see what happened. He played well @ Purdue weeks ago against their bigs. I know he looked like the stage was too big when Ben inserted him briefly against Florida, but I thought it might have been worth a try yesterday just to let him crash into some of their bigs for awhile and match them scrum for scrum.
My thought exactly.I wonder if we should have thrown Jiriak in there, if anything just to throw his weight around…
They will if they keep their refs with them.It’s amazing that the ticky tack calls were pretty even, but then they choose not to call crap around the rim….including an obvious goal tending. I guarantee the Illini won’t have it so easy from here on out….