That kid needs to learn that he doesn't need to shoot the ball every possession he steps on the court. He's gonna fast track himself to being a go-to-guy on an irrelevant mid-major team if he doesn't learn to adapt to higher levels of play.
Illinois 70, Indiana 62 Postgame
the national
- the Front Range
Also, sorry to hit this hard, but we have higher fish to fry than Indiana. We win, but I don’t really care about Hummel. It’s waaaaaaaaay more important that we figure out this hard situation with playing my time, lineups and folding in TSJ. This game served as that opportunity. DGL and Domask helped make that possible. We are a team with bigger aspirations and bigger challenges than most teams. I would argue that I haven’t followed a team with this challenge.
To quote FoxSports “Illinois is elite, as in elite eight. If they can figure this out they will be final four or better”.
All wins are good wins.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
It almost makes me wish BU would go back to subbing him in like he did the first game back, but I also understand that you don't bench your AA-caliber player once you get him back. Still, they've seemed off the last two games. I thought it was the crowd at NU that shook them but now I'm wondering if it's a wave in team chemistry we need to ride out
I went through the play by play and we missed 15 shots inside 7 feet. How can we not finish on layups? Add that to the untimely turnovers and all the missed FT's and this is what you get. I hope TSJ gets his mojo back, and I wish CoHawk would cry a little less often. Glad our bench made their contributions and thank the good Lord we have Domask!
We looked like a team that was clicking well as a team prior to the suspension. I figured Ty was part of that. Seems he would be part of getting that back
Team's ceiling is undoubtedly higher with him than without him, so I'm fine with letting him play through it.
Ugly!!! I don't think we could play much worse. Couldn't make a layup. Shannon was bad, but he did come through with free throws. We're obviously struggling to work him back into the fold. It will click at some point. At least we won. That would have been a horrible loss at home. I would like to see more ty in the second half. He played well in the first. Quincy's freethrow shooting hasn't been good. I thought Coleman passed on some threes he should have shot. We also didn't make cuts to the basket when domask was in bootie ball mode. Just really out of sync offensively. Thought we should have doubled more defensively to help coleman. I liked us going zone in the first half for a few possessions. I still love this team, but we are playing our worst ball right now.
Dain isn't the answer either.
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
or a statistician
Noticed a possession where Coleman missed and was jumping up and down to whine about a no-call, which resulted in him being late to get back and covering a three point shooter (it was a miss) that resulted in an offensive rebound for the Hoosiers because a size mismatch down low (I think he could have rotated to the preferred spot had he not been whining).
Not today he didn't. He needs to play to his strengths and not force bad shots. Both of his shots were good ones today. He missed a lay up he would make most of the time and a wide open 3. Today He didn't force anything that I saw.
Seems we know how to play without Shannon, but don’t know how to play with sub-par Shannon. Hopefully we won’t have to from here on out
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
@insiders - surely not everyone on team/bench/staff/mgrs are on same page ,
as fans , we think everything is copacetic now that TSJ is back and we should be rolling,
but obviously , seems like two (or three) different teams this year: post suspension, suspension, and pre suspension
i like this years team more than last couple,
but is it more than rust right now.....
as fans , we think everything is copacetic now that TSJ is back and we should be rolling,
but obviously , seems like two (or three) different teams this year: post suspension, suspension, and pre suspension
i like this years team more than last couple,
but is it more than rust right now.....
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
That was the most unpleasant two hours I can recall watching Illinois win a basketball game.
You’ll feel much better this Summer on a 90-degree day spending it out at the Indiana Dunes while watching videos from your colorful beach towel laying on the blazing sand of about how the Illini had won their first National Roundball Championship of the 21st Century.
Gentle breezes off the Lake... cloudless blue skies... the sound of frolicking gulls... children screaming and yelping... and images of Terrance Shannon on your cellphone driving to the hole and banking one sweetly off the glass and through the twine to seal the victory and secure some nice shiny big new hardware for the Illini trophy case.
That should lift your spirits sufficiently.
Really impressed by his effort on fighting through screens
Goillinikobd
- Southeastern US
Uninspired and underwhelming
I have faith that they will get their team play mojo back by the end of the season, just worried about their seeding by then.
I have faith that they will get their team play mojo back by the end of the season, just worried about their seeding by then.
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I’ve been rewatching this one without the emotion of a live game and honestly, Indiana is a bad matchup for us. We’re built to run teams off the three point line and make them take tough twos. Indiana could care less about the three point line. (Which is an interesting strategy in this era of basketball.) They kind of want the shots that we force most teams to take.
the national
- the Front Range
Also, sorry to hit this hard, but we have higher fish to fry than Indiana. We win, but I don’t really care about Hummel. It’s waaaaaaaaay more important that we figure out this hard situation with playing my time, lineups and folding in TSJ. This game served as that opportunity. DGL and Domask helped make that possible. We are a team with bigger aspirations and bigger challenges than most teams. I would argue that I haven’t followed a team with this challenge.
To quote FoxSports “Illinois is elite, as in elite eight. If they can figure this out they will be final four or better”.