SuperMetroid
- Evanston
Wasn’t able to watch this one. What the hell happened? God I !!!!ing hate Maryland
Maryland 76, Illinois 67 Postgame
This wasn't a train wreck???????
This is a pattern. Brad isn't subbing and there doesn't seem to be anything to get him to change that.
He should have had a plan to "ease him in" at home against Maryland. If we lose this particular game because of TWO minutes with either of those two on the floor, then that's pretty pathetic. There are lots of reasons to sub. I listed some big ones.
For one thing, Maryland is always supremely confident against the Illini. They have a proud roundball legacy of their own and were not intimidated when they came in to the Big Ten. Illini have not yet given them a reason to be feared by Maryland.
Plus, the Illini are once-again highly ranked and good opponents will raise their game and get further motivated. Illini didn't match that energy.
And also, the Illini don’t seem to like to play teams from the Eastern Time Zone. Even when they play them in the Central Time Zone.
There’s no ‘logical’ reason why they should be so dominant against the Illini since the players have changed over the years. Illini have just not asserted themselves and Maryland knows this.
This was still a winnable game until the end but once again the Illini did not get the job done. This is a game where no Illini stepped up as they do not have their new Alpha to take charge during crunch time. And probably won’t have one for the remainder of this season. It will have to be Alpha By Committee.
If you’re going to have games when your focus and energy are not there... this is the time of year. But as the weeks get closer to March... that’s when you can NOT have games like this.
IlliniTilDeath
- Chicago, IL
Finally. These 6 need to feel the heat and we desperately need the energy.
Yep. I don’t feel like it’s whining to suggest we are not the same caliber team without our best player.
problem is.. talk about bad defense.
It was almost comical the way shots refused to fall. They just need to put this one behind them and get ready for the next game.
MANY many stupid post game comments . . .Can’t wait for all the overreactions
8 out of the top 10 teams lost this week..
Our experienced guys were struggling with the pick and roll. Two freshmen would have really had trouble. When you’re not scoring, you better stop the other guy.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
We shot 9-40 in the second half, our rim was the diameter of Fran McCaffery's sphincter when we're beating Iowa by 20, MD owned us in the paint, and yet it was a one-possession game with 1:09 remaining. Turnovers roughly even, rebounds even, better from three, got to the line a great deal more than they did until the final minute. @Retro62 kept commenting that he couldn't believe we were losing to this inferior team at home. They trailed Michigan by a dozen at home in the first half on Thursday. Michigan! At home!MANY many stupid post game comments . . .
Just a bad half of basketball for us and still we could have pulled it out. That's my postgame cold take. And I flew off the handle when I saw Reese turn around to pursue T.A. in the line b/c I assumed, being the predictable DB that he is, he was the instigator. Apparently not, much to TA's discredit.
Put it behind us, go to Michigan and take care of business, come home and beat Rutgers. It's a long season.
It’s classic loyalty and not surprising whatsoever but the overreactions are awesome
Disappointing loss for sure. Looked disconjointed at times with a lack of focus and effort but we also need to remember we have a lot of sickness going thru this team right now. Nearly half them missed three straight days of practice before the last game and most likely the rest will get it if they don't have it already. You just don't get over that stuff overnight. When we played Michigan State we dug deep and came up with the win in a dog fight. Today we looked good for about the first 5-8 minutes before we hit a wall. I got a feeling our overall health and lingering affects from our sickness that we have been dealing with right now had more to do with today's loss than we know. You can only will push your body so much. With just 2 days rest we were probably on low reserve when the game started. Seems like we have this happen sometime every year. Just one of those things that we seem to always have to deal with. We will be fine imo.
I’ll say it again. The loss of TSJ hurts. It’s not an excuse, it’s reality. Can’t really depend on a 7 man rotation night in and night out in the B1G. Will have nights like this when one is in foul trouble and a lot of the rotation has trouble shooting.
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Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
him being suspended has cost us at least 2 games , maybe 1 or 2 more in the next 2 weeks
In his post game, Underwood says he 'doesn't believe in fatigue. And never has. Best conditioned team in general country. Million dollar recovery room. They're 21-22 years old. Play everyday of their life.'
That's unfortunate. Let's drop to a 5-man no rotation then. /s (Though we are one unfortunate injury or incident of this happening). Guys can give their best effort but when gassed, it may not be enough. The team has been through an emotional and mentally draining couple weeks (let alone physical). I hope he believes in that.
That's unfortunate. Let's drop to a 5-man no rotation then. /s (Though we are one unfortunate injury or incident of this happening). Guys can give their best effort but when gassed, it may not be enough. The team has been through an emotional and mentally draining couple weeks (let alone physical). I hope he believes in that.
He says anything else, it's not good for the team, and some on here would complain about whining.
I was fomulating this same reply in my head. He implies that we should be saying "yeah, tough loss to a good team on the road, get 'em next time."
It's "only" a Quad 3 loss because it's at home, but man.. this is team's closest game outside of Quad 1 was an 11-point Q3 win against Oakland. We were consistent. VERY consistent:
Quad 1 : loss or single-digit win
Quad 2-4 : double-digit win
This is an outlier so bad that it forces you to wonder.
Agree with your assessment but disagree with “we’re gonna be fine”. I guess “fine” is relative but I think we’re going to probe for what our bottom is without TSJ. We’ve peaked and I predict be bottom out around top 25.
Big Ten play will exploit our depth and frankly our athleticism. We don’t have any big time athletes on the team. TSJ will be missed.
drsmitty74
- Rochester
I prefer this one today.
I took my son and we both were silent the whole 1.5 hour drive back to Springfield.
Just disappointed in all facets today. All of the guys were in a funk on the same day.
Two dudes punked us all day on our home court. Reese and Jones, both lefties, took our pizza from us in the Pizza Hut parking lot, ate it in front of us and threw the crust at us for leftovers. We bought another pizza and they took that one too, did the same thing and peeled out of the parking lot laughing and honking their horn. How can we get dunked like this at home?
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Props to you. You're on the Loyalty postgame thread. In the wake of a loss like this one, impulse control and stoicism are scarce resources.A very frustrating loss, but we move on. Nothing worse than watching the game at a birthday party, but have to keep a brave and happy face on for everyone else who doesn’t understand. It took every ounce of me not to flip the beautiful dessert table.
I nominate this for Loyalty Hall of Fame quote list...thx Altgeld, I needed that laugh!
"...our rim was the diameter of Fran McCaffery's sphincter when we're beating Iowa by 20"