by PantherSigEp » January 23rd, 2013, 10:40 pm
Kind of a bizarre event. Took me a while and hearing from someone to finally figure out what had happened. Just a weird game in general I felt like. UNI played well with the exception of turnovers. Ended up with 15 but they had to have at least 10 by halftime, just seemed sloppy early on and SIU was picking their pockets without much trouble. Panthers shot the ball well again which was a real concern early on in the season and start of conference play, but 49% overall and 53% from 3. 10-16 FT's was probably the most concerning part of shooting tonight. Otherwise Sonnen looks confident and strong, James is playing like his old self, Bohannon is starting to shoot like his namesake, Tuttle is hardly ever a concern and Koch had 5 turnovers but at least he is playing aggressively and is playing really good basketball on both ends of the court. Deon Mitchell was the only one who looked off tonight. He was not his aggressive self and did not play a ton of minutes tonight. Only 4 pts in 21 minutes and had 3 fouls. Just seemed out of rhythm after having a strong last few games. Maybe the smaller scrappy SIU lineup frustrated him. UNI's defense is starting to shore up as well and hopefully this can spark some confidence as the Panthers have some big games coming up in Indiana.
[Insert snappy comeback]