By the end of the season, he just might be there!“Getting close” lol
By the end of the season, he just might be there!“Getting close” lol
Agree. I know I will collect flack, but I dont consider BU an elite coach.I wouldn't say that. Brad is the same coach he was last year, the year before and his first year here. What's different this year is the youth and inexperience of the team. We're relying on three true freshmen and one (essentially) redshirt freshman to provide a ton of minutes. I'm not trying to give this team a pass by any means, but we only have one player from last year's team getting significant minutes. What is it they say? The best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores. We've had to live with the inexperience all season, combined with two key transfers and two sophomores that haven't been able to contribute as expected this year.
Here's hoping these freshmen and sophomores stick around awhile and gel much like the seniors at Northwestern did, or as the Frazier/Williams/Kofi team did last year.
RJ shooting 24% from three and Luke shooting 22%. Case closed.Again did Goode or RJ shoot one ?
Oh, heck yeah. Plenty to complain about but if I did that I'd be just copying the majority of posts today (and throughout the season) and reposting.Lol of all the things today, this is your complaint? He didn’t have to run back on D because it was an And-1 and media timeout. Maybe you should go back and look it up again. Coleman brought it today even if some others didn’t.
Having Ayo, Kofi, and Trent for a few years covers up a lot of mistakes and gets you a lot of wins that you don't get with the players the Illini have now. I'm not saying we don't have good players, but they aren't anywhere close to what Brad had the past couple of years.Agree. I know I will collect flack, but I dont consider BU an elite coach.
We have been very successful in B10 and I love our progress under BU but I generally believe that we have underperformed with our available talent most years under BU, including this year. The years not over though.
No idea what other coaches philosophy on this is, but our guys clearly have the green light and so they take it.Someone mentioned it in the game thread, but where does the "heat check" mentality come from? Whenever anyone on this team makes a three, they seem to think they are entitled to another attempt, even if it is well behind the line and contested. It isn't just one or two guys either, it's everyone. I don't notice guys on other teams doing that nearly as much, so what is it about our team that is different?
Some of you guys, man… Coleman was *by far* the best player we had today, and his 2/5 from 3 performance you’ll take all day. Why even name him here?I don't know man. Brad should pull these players (Jayden, Coleman, etc...) that decide the best plan on offense is to jack up 25-30 footers. I'm convinced Coleman thinks that he gets more points the further that he shoots the ball. Brad needs to rip into this team and tell them that we are shooting WAY too many shots that we can get whenever we want them. But he just lets those same culprits play and jack up stupid shots that occasionally go in.
BOLD: amen to that.That is not the gameplan. The fact that they go out there and do that and it’s clearly not the gameplan is what makes watching this team so unpleasant.
And to be fair, until we got some buckets in transition we were well under 50% from inside the arc. Nothing worked today.
Our two sophs who have made sophomore slumps instead of sophomore jumps.RJ shooting 24% from three and Luke shooting 22%. Case closed.
Having Ayo, Kofi, and Trent for a few years covers up a lot of mistakes and gets you a lot of wins that you don't get with the players the Illini have now. I'm not saying we don't have good players, but they aren't anywhere close to what Brad had the past couple of years.
That fits right in on this teamRJ shooting 24% from three and Luke shooting 22%. Case closed.
You can’t make that the case for Goode. He is coming back from an injury that affects every aspect of the game; shooting, conditioning, defense…Our two sophs who have made sophomore slumps instead of sophomore jumps.
Yup this is why redshirting was the correct moveYou can’t make that the case for Goode. He is coming back from an injury that affects every aspect of the game; shooting, conditioning, defense…
I appreciate the word play. But Goode has been back for about 5 minutes.Our two sophs who have made sophomore slumps instead of sophomore jumps.
Not sure when they shut Key down, but the results of their 4 games prior to today were:Yes O$U is playing well right now. Once they took an ineffective Key out they been playing better
If you shoot the 3 as bad as we did today you won’t win many games
Team looked slow and lacked energy today. Don’t know if 3 games this week plus putting the energy into the NW had affects or what
Mayer is now shooting 36% from 3, or about 25 points higher than Shannon. That’s one more make per 40 shots. He’s also 14-46 in his last six games and laid a pretty big egg today. He freelances as much as anyone out there and the fact that he does get hot from time to time doesn’t change the fact that he’s not executing the offense. People see him make a couple in a row and his halo becomes blinding, I guess.Mayer's on the floor because he shoots well. He's one of the best shot creators in the nation, and its not close, we live with him. I agree, TSJ needs to get a grip and realize he's just better going down hill than shooting the ball. That's on Brad to let him know his role on this team. But that should've been done in November, not March.
When you lose by double digits luck is quite a bit less important.BOLD: amen to that.
Non-Bold: We can’t play fast/change the tempo on teams if we can’t show enough focus and determination to consistently rebound both defensively AND offensively…in some sort of consistent organized way.
PAINFULLY OBVIOUS STATEMENT: On defensive because it starts the break. On offensive because of the greater odds to end it satisfactorily…
That is a good one for your “luck”-“character” discussion. If you show enough effort to consistently rebound you make at least a little of your own luck.