Game Thread: Illinois at Indiana
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Halftime grades
TA/JT/TJL: D-
JCL/AJ: B-
MH/DW: F
LB/MF: F
MT/MM: F
Kipper must be the worst player in the world not to get some tick in a half where our bigs play like this.
Gotta grade out high in practice to play. Lol. Who cares about the games it's all about practice.
Why not get Lucas playing time and experience he needs to develop instead of playing Tate all the time who is not helping the team?
Positional grades. I would give Mav a 75 and MT a 40, still averages out to an F.
MrOizo
- Chicago
Malcolm plays 6 minutes after picking up 3 fouls... 0 assists, 1 turnover. 0-3 shooting.
Abrams with 0 points, 0 assists, 1 turnover. 0-3 shooting.
Tate with 0-0 shooting. 2 assists, 1 turnover. 0-0 shooting.
Three senior guards... hard to explain. Time for some other guys to get more minutes.
Abrams with 0 points, 0 assists, 1 turnover. 0-3 shooting.
Tate with 0-0 shooting. 2 assists, 1 turnover. 0-0 shooting.
Three senior guards... hard to explain. Time for some other guys to get more minutes.
PostersLastStand
- Wayne County, IL
Indiana is running to a spot launching a wide open three. No coach or player seems to figured this out. Defensively, we suck in design and execution.
Thorne looks way to slow defensively to be playing in the Big Ten. Always a step or two behind his guy.
illinoisfan11
- Peoria, IL
Bingo. I didn't expect to win at Maryland or IU, but I damn sure expected to see a team that looked interested in being at either game. So sad.
It's always terrible basketball, it's just sometimes the team we play (like OSU) plays comparably terrible basketball
When has Groce this year shown he has any interest in going to his bench? I mean, he had Malcolm Hill trying to offense/defense sub with 4 to go in 1H with 3 fouls. 0 faith in his bench
I wouldn't be particularly excited about playing in his system at this point either
MrOizo
- Chicago
Can't hide from this. Our offense has no identity either. This is the most damning truth about JG which hasn't changed in 5 years. It's time...Josh, it's time. :tsk:
MrOizo
- Chicago
He's definitely not part of the solution. I never said it was all in him but roll ahead with the Tate defense.
He played 11 guys that half.
Guys, there's so many valid criticisms. How do we keep filling game threads with invalid ones.
Illini1221
Peru,IL
That's still pretty generous for Thorne.
Cheez
- Sun Prairie WI
Nobody is saying that Tate is single-handedly losing us this game today. Groce - maybe. But not Tate.
What we are, have been, and will continue to say is that with Tate being bad both on offense and defense, it's more important to get Lucas minutes to acclimate him to the speed and physicality of B1G basketball than to continually trot out Tate to provide next to nothing.
I'm writing this solely for therapeutic reasons as I know it's not a particularly unique perspective. But I'm sick and sad at what Illinois MBB has become. I used to love LOVE watching this team, especially a Saturday afternoon game against a ranked IU team. I'd look forward to it all week. My dad would cook something delicious on the grill and we'd watch the game and win or lose it was usually a redeemable experience in some way. But that's been taken from me. Even in wins, I still can't enjoy watching this team play. And I hold BW and JG responsible. I'll always be loyal to the TEAM, but I just can't support this administration anymore. Sad time for the team and it's fans.
Trakis
- Chicago, IL
omg why are we having this conversation about TJL? He's a true freshman. It's not fair to draw any conclusions. The kid needs minutes.
I'd still rather have him out there over Tate.
Good lord we've spent all season yelling at Groce to give TJL more minutes, and now that he's in, we're all throwing him to the wolves.
I'd still rather have him out there over Tate.
Good lord we've spent all season yelling at Groce to give TJL more minutes, and now that he's in, we're all throwing him to the wolves.
You don't have to back off focusing your comments on Tate. I'm agreeing with you! This is all Tate's fault.
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