Mark Grote
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But look.
For Andre Stojakovic to be off the bench, to go 7 for 9 from the field, to go 3 of 4 from the line, and to score the 17 points, that's why this Illini team is so good.
Five players averaging double figures, and you don't know any given night who's going to whoop you.
That's scary, too, because who is going to step up?
He did 25 points, and then the other part, too, to add to what you're saying, Illinois, like they have done in all of these games, they out-muscle teams.
They out-rebounded them 38-21.
It gets to a point whereβ 16 offensive rebounds, Mark.
But, dude, Iowa started out with a 10-0 lead.
It's fine.
It's the beginning.
Maybe for youβ
No, no.
That was not fine.
I was super annoyed when they were just standing.
The most insulting part of it was watching them zone themselves in the 2-3 during some of those possessions.
I'm like, you know what would help?
Is if one of you screened.
Is if one of you decided to ball screen, said something.
When everybody's just standing around watching the point guard do something, and I know that's a lot of college basketball, but that doesn't mean that I have to sit through it in that particular game.
Now you get the rematch against UConn, even though the players are all completely different.