[Oskee] Illini let game slip away

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Todd Sweet (trsweet at ilstu.edu):
> I'm not so sure it's a mental toughness issue as it was a physical toughness
> issue yesterday.  MSU's players were simply stronger to the point of
> overpowering younger, less physically developed players.  We were a bit
> outmatched athletically, also.  Give Tisdale and Davis 2 more years of
> weight lifting and you'll see them overpower people too.  The Breslin Center
> is an extremely tough place to play, let alone win.  I'd rank it as one of
> the tougher home venues in the country.  The good news is that a loss at MSU
> doesn't do anything to hurt our tourney resume.  A win would have been
> icing.
> 
> As for Legion, I think he took a couple steps forward, and  at least one
> backward.  This seems to be his growth pattern.  He does some good things,
> some great things, and some things that are so out of the flow they are hard
> to fathom.  Overall, I think he's making progress toward fitting into the
> lineup and he certainly turned out to be a big boost on a day when the rest
> of our guards couldn't buy a basket.  Legion just needs to temper his shot
> selection just a little bit and he will be fine.
> 
> I think the bigger concern is McCamey Jekyl and Hyde act.  We just can't
> have him disappearing like this (and making some boneheaded passes to boot).

I think it was a starting guard disappering act. I believe our three
starting guards were 1-17 from the floor and 1-15 from three point
range. Ouch. Our starting frontcourt had more fouls than rebounds.
Double ouch.

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