Up Next: Illinois State

[UNIGrainer]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

Look at the box scores for our 5 losses in the league (besides @WSU). They are staggeringly similar. Panthers lead at half, score is usually in the 30s. They give up a bunch of points in the second half, the other team's scoring goes up by 50% or more in the second half compared to the first, and the Panthers lose. Rinse. Repeat.

[strike00]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

The last five conference losses, UNI's opponents have shot over 50% in the second half.
Tonight ISI Red 51.9%
ISU Blue 54.5%
Loyola 61.9%
Bradley 51.7 %
SIU 62.5%

the only conference loss where a team shot below 50% is WSU.

this is pathetic.

Edit: Ha UNIGrainer beat me to it.

[Kyle]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

10 road games. 9 losses. Pathetic.

[hoopfan]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

A real dog**** performance again tonight. Hopefully this season is an eye opener to everyone on this board who ripped on Mark Phelps, Chris Lowery, Dan Muller, etc. for their lack of coaching ability.

I'm sure we'll hear another press conference about the team playing pretty well, but just not making 1 or 2 plays here and there. Maybe a non-PC press conference is needed.

We have one of the top-3 PG's in the MVC, a top-3 big man, and one of the better shooters and we can't win a game.

Hopefully those of you planning on going to STL were able to get Thursday off of work so you can at least watch the Panthers play a game when you get there.

[hoopfan]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

Look at the box scores for our 5 losses in the league (besides @WSU). They are staggeringly similar. Panthers lead at half, score is usually in the 30s. They give up a bunch of points in the second half, the other team's scoring goes up by 50% or more in the second half compared to the first, and the Panthers lose. Rinse. Repeat.

Yep. Pretty sure the game plan when playing UNI is to come out and keep it close in the first half and figure out UNI's game plan. Then go to the locker room at halftime and make adjustments know UNI won't change a thing they are doing.

[Kyle]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

I don't think we'll play on Thursday, but crazier things have happened.

Loyola/Drake/UE are locks and SIU's remaining schedule is brutal.

@WSU
@ISUblue
BU
@UE
@UNI
ISUred

[06panther10]

Too much talent on this team for this to be happening. Simply inexplicable for us to be this bad, its unacceptable. This is the worst the Valley has been in over a decade and we are going to finish with a losing record. Its hard to fathom.

[run&blade]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

They lack the physical ability to play 40 minutes. The crowd and familiar setting helps them over the hump at home.

On the road they just don't have enough guys that can contribute to the bucket of things that need to be done to win. That bucket includes muscle, quickness, smarts, ability to score, and size.

This team doesn't need to play in some garbage tournament at the end of the year, they have been playing and practicing for months. Couple more weeks isn't going to help at all.

What they need is an influx of better players. Coaches usually don't get fired because mistakes with X's and O's, they get fired because of the talent they didn't acquire.

Next year all depends on the new guys, the current roster isn't good enough.

[orangetennis]

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our streak of 20 win seasons is likely going to end this year

[arealcat]

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How do we always seem to have a long stretch with few or zero points. Not blaming Jake, but it seems that his teams have always done this. I don't understand.

[northwest iowa panther]

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I see we are promoting $5 tickets for our remaining home games after WSU. We may have to go with "if you kept any of your football tickets from the 2013 season they will get you into a men's basketball game."

[06panther10]

our streak of 20 win seasons is likely going to end this year

Uh, yeah. That sucker is long gone. And the way its going now, so are the streaks of 18+ wins, and avoiding Thurs in STL.

Streaks we do have going or are still working toward; 4 years w/ no NCAAs, 4 years of going 0-1 in STL, 3 years of being pathetic on the road.

I'd love to be optimistic but we are trending downward.

[Kyle]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

I'm still not convinced our talent level is the problem.

We have talent. Not enough to mask mental errors and overcome playing like crap (16 turnovers), but the talent level is very good.

[Kyle]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

Uh, yeah. That sucker is long gone. And the way its going now, so are the streaks of 18+ wins, and avoiding Thurs in STL.

Streaks we do have going or are still working toward; 4 years w/ no NCAAs, 4 years of going 0-1 in STL, 3 years of being pathetic on the road.

I'd love to be optimistic but we are trending downward.

This is where I am at. I hate being a cynic and am generally a positive person, but it's hard to see any bright spots right now. The program is simply not a good place and nobody really knows why.

[Kyle]

Re: Up Next: Illinois State

I'm sure we'll hear another press conference about the team playing pretty well, but just not making 1 or 2 plays here and there. Maybe a non-PC press conference is needed.

A few quotes from the post game interview with coach Jake.

"A few plays didn't go our way and obviously I'm disappointed, but I saw a lot of things I liked tonight."

"Obviously I would have loved to get the win, but the thing I liked more than anything was our defensive effort got better."