Game Thread: Illinois at Northwestern

[Illiniam1984]

All we want to do is shoot 3’s and make fancy passes. But we can’t shoot and love to turn the ball over. What happened to this team? Pathetic from everyone.

BU lost control of the team.

 

[FloridaMan]

This season is a disaster. Never would have dreamed we would be so bad.

 

[Jimbo]

If you showed me our schedule/scores thus far before the season started, I would have assumed there was some sort of team bus crash after the Texas game.

Plane crash more like,

 

[Ramrod2010]

An 0-3 start in the B1G would put me in the denial stage of grief…

I was just about to post, who had us going 0-3 to start the conference season? Against the lower half of the conference no less.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Women’s team is 100% finishing with a better record

 

[HailtotheChief]

this team cannot shoot for $h!t

Epps can . That one just bounced out. It's others I'm concerned about RJ used to be able to fit exame.

 

[ORANGEANDBLUE2011]

I’m hoping our insiders can bring us a rational thought but I also feel the reality of the situation is:

 

[PNWIllini]

90% of this game is 50% mental

 

[IMPE ALL STAR]

I’m speechless.

 

[skyIdub]

I don't get what's going on with this team at all.

I do. They've tuned the coaches out. CoHawk literally said it in an interview. He's lost half the team. Unfortunately it's the experienced half. They look almost uninterested at times. CoHawk, MM, RJ, and TSJ...I've seen every one of them lost or tuned out on defense...and making pitiful decisions on offense.

 

[KingWolf11]

BU lost control of the team.

He completely whiffed on scouting a lot of these guys thinking they could do what he wanted to do this year.

This is on him.

 

[BTYBILL]

I don’t see nba players out of the three we were expecting. At least not yet, and where is the jump from RJ everyone was expecting

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Think we could get anyone in a trade?

It is semester break. Perhaps a few quit and we play for the future, or take in a couple other free agents.

 

[KCBassin]

Hawkins HAS to be a scorer everyone just plays him to pass. Guard him with a 6'4 guy and he can't do anything. Why is there not sets to post him. He plays like a bad guard at this point.

 

[IlliniInCAN]

Think we could get anyone in a trade?

I’d trade him to the women's team for a real 3 point shooter

 

[RickBB]

2 things.

Northwestern wouldn’t go on a 12-0 run against the 40 year old 6-3 and under guys I hoop with at Lifetime Fitness.

Hawkins may be better suited for the NBA game than college. Where he can be the 5th option on the floor and pick up a couple buckets here and there. And the NBA game is primarily ISO and may get into some 2 man game from time to time. But offenses are less complex, so he may seem like a better defender because he’s only gotta guard someone for 24 seconds.

 

[Ransom Stoddard]

Terrible, terrible call. Beran was moving.

 

[LurkerintheOpen]

Just doesn’t seem like Brad is reaching this team. Certainly not that he isn’t trying. I just don’t see the “every day guy” mentality from the majority of the players. The few that do are pups (Epps, Harris). Guess that’s the risk you taking using the portal to fortify your upperclassmen on the roster.

 

[illinipimp]

Illinois women 13-2 , 3-1 in conference. Home against Northwestern tomorrow.

I-L-L

 

[GallopingGhost]

We are in severe danger of letting this avalanche into bubble team or NIT. We’re watching the snowball grow before our eyes. And the issue is chemistry.

 

[Illini8420]

We need more Chester Frazier recruits. Guys who actually compete hard and bring it.

 

[PNWIllini]

Some of you watch the footy.

“Its happened again

Its happened again

Coleman Hawkins

Its happened again”

 

[Jimbo]

I need to start drinking.

 

[SaintLIllini]

0-3 in the big ten dk if we comeback from that

 

[jumpingjack]

The game we fouled an entire starting lineup out
Unfortunately it's ours but ya can't have everything.