Game Thread: Illinois vs Northwestern

[madillini4]

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Anyone got stats on Plummer 1st half vs. 2nd half offensive stats for the year?

Feels like 80% of scoring is in 1st half

 

[Rap47]

Grandison should be on the bench

 

[Illini John]

How many times have we seen this movie?

 

[FromTheLogo]

This is where we bury them. Mark it.

 

[Epsilon]

The dude lands on Kofi’s back and he’s arguing the foul? Lol

 

[JSpence]

O/U : 19.5 turnovers for ILL today

 

[skyIdub]

The whole team is a turnover machine this half. To put that on "BU can't coach" is dumb.

This is on the players. They are so weak with the ball right now. Terrible decisions from every single player on the floor.

 

[ILLFAN67]

Finally a foul will we shoot free throws finally?

 

[mydosburns]

Turnovers to fast break points. No bueno

 

[IlliniReb]

O/U : 19.5 turnovers for ILL today

I’ll take the over

 

[IlliniForceOne]

Anyone got stats on Plummer 1st half vs. 2nd half offensive stats for the year?

Feels like 80% of scoring is in 1st half

Meh. Points are points.

We’ve also won quite a few games this year so naturally he will also be playing fewer second half minutes.

 

[blife]

WTF is with 4 guys standing outside the arc NOT moving at all, and ball goes in to KOFI for him to try and fight threw doubles and triples. This is as bad of offensive execution as we have seen.

 

[dbeverly26]

Just didn’t come out ready to play all around. Can’t turn your back on anyone in this league, even for a second.

 

[sinmyp1]

We need to stop, take a breath, realize we are the better team and start playing like it.

 

[Naborman88]

Did they forget that when Kofi gets the ball down low everything works better? Short buckets, kick out to open shooters?

 

[FromTheLogo]

I do feel the heavy minutes that have been logged by some of the fellas are catching up to them. They look at least a step slow today, no?

 

[grantlab]

Doesn’t happen often, but Kofi has had a bad game. He needs to cool off and not let his frustrations get the best of him. No patience and almost playing to “expect a foul” rather than using his sheer size advantage (recognizing it’s not easy when you are getting fouled a lot, and it isn’t being called enough).

 

[alexander58]

While this 15-2 run is frustrating, the mistake we made was not putting our foot on the pedal when we were up 15-18 for long stretches in the first half. This NW team likely folds at halftime if we stretch it to 25+.

Instead…we let them stay within striking distance. And here we are.

Missing open 3s early in the half….

 

[Docta Illiniwek]

Weber ball right now

 

[pruman91]

should have a 20 + point lead and getting some tick for Podz and Goode

 

[IlliniForceOne]

As Purdue learned this week, there are few cakewalks in this league.

We should not be surprised that NW dug in and responded.

 

[Retro62]

I thought this was going to be a relaxing afternoon…ugh

 

[D1959]

Im not sure if I can keep watching

 

[ILLFAN67]

Did they forget that when Kofi gets the ball down low everything works better? Short buckets, kick out to open shooters?

He’s been getting the ball and turning it over , or missing shots, or not making a great pass out.