Friday, December 09, 2005

Illinois 58, Georgetown 48

• It is counterintuitive to say anything negative about a team which is 9-0.  Still, we have to wonder how our team is going to fare as the competition gets tougher.
• This was ugly.  The shooting percentage for the night was 32.3%.
• Pruitt:  3 points in 13 minutes.  These numbers don't sound like one of our starters.
• Randle:  0-for-3 from the arc.  Was his shooting a few games ago just a fluke?
• Augustine:  4-10 on FG.  That's not what we've come to expect from King James.
• Brown:  3 assists.  He's a point guard.  'Nuff said.
• McBride:  8 points, no assists.  Nothing to complain about, nothing to praise.
• We keep saying our team is going to get a lot better over the course of the season.  The problem with this logic is that other teams are improving too.  Do we believe that our team is advancing at a dramatically higher rate than others?
• I'm still a glass-half-full fan, but this was an ugly, ugly win.
• Now for the good stuff:
• Augie had 13 rebounds.  That's huge.
• Jamar Smith was 3-of-5 from the three-point line.
• Free throw percentage at 78.6%.  Better.
• Defense!  Outstanding.  Is our defense really as good as it seemed in the first half last night?
• Only 10 turnovers the whole night.  That's an improvement, as most of our games have been in the high teens.
• Tomorrow's game will be tough.  Oregon has never lost in Portland.  Our team will be playing after a difficult travel experience with basically no time for prep and practice.  It will take a studly performance for our team to be 10-0 Sunday morning.
• One last question:  Why didn't Calvin Brock play?