ILL in IA
- Iowa City
Full compliment of timeouts? You sure
Miami 81, Illinois 79 POSTGAME
Ayo was the guy. Miami knew that. I think they should have played off that and had Kofi crashing with Ayo and getting a dump off.
It's not going to work. I think BU will make that adjustment.
Agree on D...if we let a team shoot 59% and 56% 3p, we will lose like tonight.
Kofi finishes 8/8 and was largely ignored by everyone but Giorgi. It's not rocket science. Get the effin ball to Kofi!
chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
The funny thing is that, overall, I agree it's not working, but Georgi nevertheless seems the only player who consistently can get Kofi the ball.
BananaShampoo
Captain 'Paign
- Phoenix, AZ
I'm not so sure the cooks are that good based on what I've tasted so far.
Yeah. Think this is probably the unit that works. Bench would have Feliz, GB, Kipper, Tev and Verdonk. Bench could put up 40 a night
You hit the nail on the head. I don’t know if he doesn’t have the green light to try and do anything offensively, or if he doesn’t have the confidence. There were so many times in this game that he had lanes to attack the basket and didn’t do it. When your defender can stand in the center of the lane you cause a problem.
Underwood has to figure this D out. You cannot allow a team come into your place and shoot 60%
Major positive tonight is Damonte has made some major steps in the right direction offensively. He looks like his old athletic self, that put back dunk was awesome.
LarryGotFouled
- Plano, TX
No
No joke. I must have seen it 20 times. Marcus Arnold anyone? The South Dakota St guy that went off for 30 and then transferred to us and did nothing?? That is *totally* an Illini Special. Watch - Lykes will grad transfer to us and morph into Ahmad Starks.
Giorgi had 2 beautiful passes to Kofi....very Jokic esk.
He played great tonight compared to almost everyone else on the team. He hustles on defense, his hands are always up, he’s always looking for steals, and he rebounds well for a guard. If Ayo has his hustle and effort on defense he would actually look like the 1st round pick he’s supposed to be
Check the predictions for yourself.
Almost no one had this as a loss. Most people had 10-1. about split between 9-2 and 11-0 from there.
So far this season, we haven't seen play that justifies the top 25 ranking that many of us were hoping for. We're possibly going to get moved out of the tourney predictions next week.
Like I said, I'm just waiting for Underwood to show his coaching prowess.
I dunno. I have a sneaking suspicion that GB's woes are a side effect of a poorly designed offense overall.
Ayo...overrated, Too soft . Trent playing worse than before Ayo arrived offensively, Offense running weave like a hs drill allowing college players a chance to relax and get set up to defend. Seems like team doesn't respond to what Underwood wants. Underwood was definately perplexed in first 10 minutes of first half. Big hole at 4 with Giorgi not looking comfortable out there. Need a win against a good team sometime to offset this bad loss. Do not expect it with what I have seen so far. Not enough heart and leadership from Ayo and noone putting him in his place to let Andres, Alan or Trent to take charge of offense.
SuperMetroid
- Evanston
Another symptom of not bothering to show up for the first half - we used up all our TOs trying to stop the bleeding.
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Should have never gone iso there. Hero ball was not what got us back in the game. In fact, it was barely Ayo at all who got us back in the game.
Outside of Arizona, the Illini played all mid to low Division 1 opponents and a D2 team before the ACC challenge and that level of competition just won't cut it against Power 5 teams.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
It was the most disappointing overall basketball we’ve played in YEARS, if you ask me ... UIC loss at the United Center level apathy and ineptitude. Did we play great in the comeback? Of course. All that shows us is that we DO have the pieces, and that’s what’s so concerning.
It’s honestly surreal to me to imagine that I grew up watching Frankie Williams to Dee Brown...
We are going to need some big upset wins if we have any chance of making the tournament. I think we will be better prepared later this year. Maybe playing them back to back we will be prepared for Michigan...?
TheFameProtector
- Champaign
Spot on. I think I'd start by taking one of the PGs out (probably Feliz, think he'd make a great sixth man) and bringing in AG. They need a lot of work on defense but Giorgi is our best guy for feeding Kofi right now.