Game Thread: Illinois vs Maryland

[New Creation]

Why do we struggle against Maryland.

And how is that not a foul on Reese….

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

How is that not a foul on Reese?!?!

 

[hiberto]

This is not a ref problem at all. This is an us not playing well problem.

oh I agree, just saying in a close game it could affect the outcome

 

[skyIdub]

Big minutes from Dainja.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Ty Rogers needs to have a seat. Maryland understand that he has no shot at all. They are sagging and helping off with his man. And his turnovers are killing us....and he makes a nice inside play just as I'm typing this. I don't think that what he offers posting up offsets his many liabilities this game.

Ty leads our team in rebounds and assists right now and has a 2:1 A:TO ratio, but sure, let's bench him.

 

[dbeverly26]

We are not staying in front of anyone today

 

[JSpence]

Can’t remember if Werner said it or another podcast I listened to said they didn’t practice at all the days before the MSU game cause a lot of guys have been battling sickness.

And Brad has since said they've gotten past that and are practicing again. No excuses. The team is getting taken out of their game by a tall-ish team and they need to take care of the damn ball.

 

[Iamgroot]

This embarrassing how easy were just giving them open lay up smh

 

[freddbird]

Crowd is light so far. Cold as heck walking in!! Just watched Dainja sink about 100 straight FT’s warming up.

the streak ends at 103

 

[FloridaMan]

DD keeping us in it today. Good on him.

 

[SescIllini]

Maryland has officially entered the danger zone

 

[purcy51]

We look way worse with Dain out there with how clogged it gets. Can this put an end to Dain needs more minutes from Coleman talk from some here?

Considering he's scored 7 pts in his limited time so far...I doubt it

Edit: I'm not saying we're better with him out there, just that the talk will continue

 

[FloridaMan]

OMG these reviews are insufferable. Make it stop.

 

[madillini4]

Jfc. What an awful defensive showing. They can’t shoot. Make the half time adjustments and put them away.

 

[Marshall_Lucky]

Oscar worthy acting there

 

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

Suddenly Dainja providing a needed spark.

 

[illinifreak30]

He didn’t touch him

 

[Eternal Optimist]

We are not playing good fundamental basketball as a whole, but we are also still up at halftime somehow. Feeling good about the rest of the way after the half.

 

[PasadenaIllini]

Ty leads our team in rebounds and assists right now and has a 2:1 A:TO ratio, but sure, let's bench him.

His defender has lead Maryland in completely disrupting anything we want to do offensively. Stats lie.

 

[GTL Adam]

How are you able to retroactively review a play if 40 seconds have gone off the game clock?

 

[Illinifan55]

Not sure why Dain gets so much hate on this board. He's not that bad defensively... yeah, he might not be great against top tier big men like Edey... but he's definitely not bad defensively. He's a big body to have out there and be physical.

 

[LoveLovie]

Beating these losers by 2..time to figure stuff out

 

[KC_Illini]

And Brad has since said they've gotten past that and are practicing again. No excuses. The team is getting taken out of their game by a tall-ish team and they need to take care of the damn ball.

Hey man don’t shoot the messenger.

 

[New Creation]

We scored 39. Which is good half for offense. But our defensive has been atrocious giving up 37.

 

[zentrails]

Tied would be OK with me

Two is even better, now Coleman needs to play a lot better in the 2nd half