Game Thread: Illinois vs Penn State

[GallopingGhost]

What is wrong with Dain? Finish a layup!!!

Mayer is a black hole on offense and napping on defense.

Confidence just really low.

But we got this. If we keep it single digits before half we all know how the 2nd half will go

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Do any other fan bases focus on or complain about jerseys as much as ours? I have to imagine not.

Oh hush, lol. Me jokingly complaining we wear ugly jerseys instead of our two PHENOMENAL throwbacks doesn’t impact you at all. Let me be.

 

[New Creation]

I cannot stress how difficult it is to give up a 50% offensive rebounding percentage to Penn State

Aren't they the worst O rebounding team in the league?

 

[Rudd21]

Not a good sign they are controlling the game with Pickett doing nothing

 

[logjam]

 

[21ChampaignSt]

Why do I always get Loyola vibes when we play PSU? One team is just going out there and executing their game plan, the other is Illinois.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

What is wrong with Dain? Finish a layup!!!

Mayer is a black hole on offense and napping on defense.

I'd be TSJ in the same bucket defensively. Three times now he's lost his man cutting to the basket. Not great.

 

[ILLFAN67]

Matt and Shannon both take some bad shots. Coleman’s 3 was ridiculous.

 

[Homecoming 2019]

Make your layups kids

 

[KCBassin]

What happened to Dain? He was like 70% in the post and we get him layups and he just misses he can't be playing if he can't score.

 

[GrayGhost77]

RJ has been completely MIA this game so far.

 

[grantlab]

Ty is playing his @ss off

 

[mikeyo]

Matt and Shannon both take some bad shots. Coleman’s 3 was ridiculous.

ridiculous enough Hawk took that shot 40 times this year

 

[hoopsfan47]

The blatant difference in these two teams is PSU knows exactly how to use their skills to dominate the Illini...and the Illini have to idea how to use theirs. Too many bad shots by our guys and too many layups and uncontested threes for them.

 

[BBlock24]

And misses both FTs lol.

 

[ILLFAN67]

Dain is missing everything

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Unfortunately the way we're moving around, we seem dead tired out there. Not sure why, but we're just being outworked.

 

[LJ22]

Free throws are FREE. Make them. No excuse.

 

[CDRUSN]

Dainja leaving all his short hooks and layups short. Get him out of there, his repetitive misses of easy shots are the equivalent of turnovers every time we try to run the offense through him. Love Dain, but he is not engaged tonight.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Get Dainja out of the game.

 

[Spokane Illini]

Not a great start again. They are just much higher IQ offensively than we are defensively.

 

[dbeverly26]

Aren't they the worst O rebounding team in the league?

One of the worst in the country, by choice. They just don't send anyone to the boards.

 

[Godard]

PSU looks unconscious from 2...make it stop!!!

 

[Rudd21]

Pickett is going to go after Epps every possession

 

[Bigtex]

What happened to Dain? He was like 70% in the post and we get him layups and he just misses he can't be playing if he can't score.

He is no longer going toward the bucket. Everything is fade away or falling away