[NU Sports] An orange crusher

[Roy S. Lamberton]

During the Postgame interview on WGN, Carmody sounded resigned to NU not making shots. He
seemed to have expected Ill-noise to shut down Shurna, and that Sobo and Drew wouldn't
pick up the slack.

Strange, because in other games Crawford had become a shooting fool, and Sobo usually is
dead on when given open looks.

Maybe the "new rims" got into the Cat's head in the 2nd half. Ill-noise had a lot of
turnovers when they were going towards the one end in the first half.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Maycock [mailto:tkmaycock at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 11:55 AM
To: Beamsley, Jeff; Roy S. Lamberton; Weinbaum, Willie; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] An orange crusher

> I think it was Brandon Paul guarding Shurna and the double teams they threw at 
> Shurna when he had the ball.  They were determined to take the ball out of his 
> hands which they did.  He was 7-10 in the first half and 1-7 in the second.  


Yep. The Illini played much, much better defense in the second half, particularly on
Shurna. The low shooting percentage was mostly a result of taking much tougher shots,
rather than just going cold. The unfortunate part was that Sobo and Crawford in particular
just couldn't drain the few good looks they were getting. Well, that and the fact that NU
isn't blessed with a couple more players who can create they own shot or get to the hole
without help. 

Aside from good D and rebounding, the other bright spots were that Cobb looked much better
this game (although still not completely back to form), and that Marcotullio was able to
play more, and better, minutes. 

Tom