I'm thinking Belo with a little Frazier on the side...
Illini Basketball 2021-2022
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“I haven’t really focused on that yet — the business side of it. I’m going to leave that to my people,” Cockburn said. “I need to focus on my game right now and helping Illinois be better. Whenever that happens, it will happen. I’m going to take my time with it.”
I need some people
Have your people contact my people.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
He doesn't have any people.
Your guess is as good as mine, but my read of that game was the team was pretty fatigued mentally from the BTT and thought they were still dealing with a team without the talent to take them out. Illinois played flat for most of that game, and never really responded IMO to the fact that they had us scouted really well and had the bigs needed to disrupt us. Tough loss for such a good team, but that's college bball.
For the first 30 minutes of the Loyola game, they were getting easy shots and ours were very tough. Underwood is almost always outstanding, but for this game I think your blame on the players is misplaced.
Even the best coaches have bad games and that was a bad one.
Illini played a poor game. Loyola shot lights out and wanted it more. They had a huge letdown the following game and shot some ridiculous percentage like 19 %. This years team will learn from that experience and with Belo at the controls, we should be a better team for it.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
#HutchFactor
I wonder which asst had game planning duties for that game?
Unfortunately, it wasn't Nick Irvin.
I've also wondered if three members of our coaching staff had their minds elsewhere before and during that game.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
POTD (I know it's early...)
As I reflected on the Loyola game, a few thoughts came to mind:
1. Loyola was underseeded and belonged on the 4/5 line.
2. Being on the 8/9 line gave Loyola an advantage in the advance scout/prep department. As a 1 seed we were a virtual lock to be their opponent in the round of 32 while our potential opponent was a toss up in the 8/9 game. This means Loyola could devote 100% of their advance scouting to Illinois, which, to their credit they did a great job of. They picked out a perfect offense and defense to exploit our weaknesses and we were unable to adjust.
This also led me to two follow up questions:
1. Had Loyola been seeded properly and we still played them in the second weekend, would the outcome have been different given we would have had 5 days to focus exclusively on Loyola?
2. If they still beat us, but in the round of 16, would that haven taken some of the sting out? In other words, would a S16 appearance felt like the season was a success? Or was anything short of E8 on the 1 line a disappointment?
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
It will age well.
I hear their are some things in place from someone with good sources.
texillwek
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One of my main complaints about the squad last year was that the staff—for all their talk about positionless basketball—constructed a very traditional roster.
Loyola was a good team that had the personnel, scheme and experience to neutralize a great deal of what made Illinois such a great team in B1G play.
That game was a perfect microcosm of the B1G’s 21 year title drought.
Loyola was a good team that had the personnel, scheme and experience to neutralize a great deal of what made Illinois such a great team in B1G play.
That game was a perfect microcosm of the B1G’s 21 year title drought.
Coach should have adjusted and gone zone for at least a while to break their rhythm and flow. Assumed we were too good and would work thru it. Bad coaching game, guys were struggling and we didn’t make adjustments to help..
Still wouldn’t trade Brad for anyone at this point.
Did BU ever watch a rerun of the game? At one point some time ago, he said he hadn't viewed it yet.
Not sure they needed to. Once seemed to be enough to precipitate a clear step change in recruiting and roster construction.
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