If we could shoot 38% from 3 we would be winning.
Game Thread: Illinois vs Marquette
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Turns out PG play is important. We have zero PGs.
This is what Curbelo should have looked like.
First half point guard thoughts after spending an off season convincing myself there was a plan I just didn't know about.
The Coleman haters are feasting tonight, but the Goode-needs-less-minutes crowd is hard to find.
Did we ever need that from Luke. If it weren't for Luke and Marcus stroking it we'd be in serious serious trouble. Miracle we're down 5 considering how pretty much every shot attempt Marquette has gotten is a layup or open 3
We just look a lot slower than Marquette.
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After all that, only down 5. Really interested to see how we adapt in the second half. There's a lot of room to improve. Gotta hand it to Kolek. He's playing like the second coming of Steve Nash.
Goode and Domask came to play.
I’ve seen these games before, we’re just trying to keep up… and we can offensively… but if there aren’t defensive changes at halftime, we’re going to lose. I bet monelyline on Marquette tonight just to ease the pain of us losing. Hawkins isn’t going to cut it, we need to slow this down, put Dain in, take advantage of that mismatch and let him kick it out.
Yea because we don’t have the right lineup, we have the personnel to win.
But maybe 14 of them were actually good looks. I’m not overly upset by the number just disappointed in the number of good looks we miss.
This is a really good and well coached Marquette team, so I'm not sure what to make of this situation, but those of us who expressed reservations about the potential of this team, those reservations look real to me based upon what I see. Issues with leadership on offense, shooting, shot selection, and point guard play are rearing their heads this game.
This is the unfortunately reality of a basketball team that has a defined weakness and why it’s not so easy for us to say “stop shooting so many threes.” The defense is going to pick and choose what it’s willing to give up. The help-side defender has been sagging off like crazy to help on our drives, and we just can’t knock down the corner three with enough consistency. That shot is there all game because MU will clog the lane. The Coleman stepback antics have to stop though.
I’ll say though. For as bad as Goode has been defensively, there’s a reason he’s in. Dang, that last 3 was important.
Like Michael Jordan’s flu game
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Marcus is getting hung up on screens and the whole defense is breaking down. Gotta put Ty on Kolek or maybe even DGL, who has shown an ability to skinny up.
They didn’t miss those layups on their own. We helped.
= No game or plan. Chuck 3s.
Our lineup/rotations are the only reasons we aren’t up at half
I'm encouraged so far, we haven't even come close to gelling as a team so far and Marquette did that last year with essentially the same team we are playing
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