Penn State 90, Illinois 89 Postgame

[Manual3for4peat]

Maybe it’s time the CEO took charge of things. Seems to me like he’s got his fall guy ready.

 

[TheGMan]

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He can’t be the scapegoat anymore. Any defensive lapses are on Brad for not putting someone else in charge of the defense.

 

[illiram]

Anyone that thinks we will make it to the Round of 16 is delusional. We just gifted Penn State that game on a silver platter. We should fall to a 5 or 6 seed after this.

 

[skyIdub]

And on a more serious note.....I will never watch another Illini basketball game that contains those blue uniforms.

Done. Over. Don't care.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

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[sacraig]

This is the worst loss of brads tenure

Ignoring the first two seasons he was here, I'm going with the loss to Loyola.

 

[JFGsCoffeeMug]

Until we fix our defense, this team isn't going anywhere in March.

 

[Ryllini]

Thinking to himself "I wonder if the boys are familiar with the matador defense."

 

[CleverHandle1]

This game was lost on the plane ride home from MD. Hope the team learns from it.

I don't think they're going to learn from it. How many times does this have to happen so the "team learns from it." It ain't happening. They are who they are, and I hate to say it: the Iowa Hawkeyes! Scoring? Yes! Defense? NO! Faltering at the end of games (coach and team)? A resounding YES!

 

[RockfordIllini]

We still should have won the game but Goode was a turnstile for Kern. I thought DGL gave good minutes in the first half. Why not throw DGL on Baldwin and put TJ on Kern. I don’t letting a guy shoot layup after layup. Definition of insanity.

 

[Ramrod2010]

This is the softest most listless Illinois team I can remember.

Who cares how good you are on offense if you can't stop the other team from scoring?

Who cares how good you are on offense when you absolutely crumble under the pressure in the last 3 minutes of games?

Who cares how good you are on offense when you can't even execute the basic fundamentals of inbounding the ball?

This is inexcusable.

"It'S thE B1G. EveRyoNe sTrUgGleS oN tHe rOad."

Inexcusable.

You forgot SpongeBob:

 

[illini510]

In the grand scheme of life? Sure. But that seems a dumb question to ask on a fanboard for a college basketball team. Obviously most here care.

We care for a deep NCAA tournament run first and foremost. Let Purdont have their title. They are clearly a suspect team as well

 

[skyIdub]

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[Deep]

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Can someone help me.
Who is this and what does it mean?

 

[BoiseBaller]

I just realized, Brad got outcoached by a guy that I don't even know his name.

 

[madcrazeeballa]

I have a lot to say about this game and toms of hypotheticals that have us win the game…..but it’s really just the defense. Gotta do something about the defense. A zone isn’t the answer, I’m not sure why we pressure the ball 5 ft past the 3 pt line. I’m very pro packed line type of defense, but I’m not a coach.

But for the love of god, someone on the staff needs to fix the god dang defense

 

[OskieWowWow]

Also why were our guys running their routes at Jay Cutler speed on the football inbounds?

I wanted to throw something at my TV when I saw that. Terrible design, communication, or execution, maybe all 3

 

[Get yourself a new map]

Doesn’t even matter whether or not they hung on. It’s clear these guys can’t stop ANYBODY. Oh but THIS TIME they are gonna take a wake up call, right? It’s over, guys. Second round. Again. Effing again.

 

[Illini From Michigan]

I understand this assistant coach might not be the doing the best job right now, but this isn’t the first game our defense was atrocious. You are trying to tell me no other coach is taking any responsibility in handling our defensive game plans besides one young assistant coach? And if that isn’t the case, that’s on Brad for not doing exactly that.

 

[blackdog]

Had to do about 6 things in the last minute plus to lose that game and we did all 6.

Goode takes a transition 3. If we burn 10 more seconds of clock Penn State literally has no time to get fouled shooting a 3.

Leave the ball in transition and give up and open 3.

Try to dribble through 2 defenders and get stripped (maybe contact but a ref isn’t going to bail you out in that situation).

Miss 2 free throws. Still up 2.

Foul a 3 point shooter.

I guess I only listed 5 but I’m sure there’s one more in there. Wow, just wow.

And I also think I’m emotionally checked out. Thought we had the talent to be final 4 good but have felt very paper tigery for about 6 weeks. We are who we are and I don’t think we make the second weekend. Some mid major who can cut and shoot is going to tear us apart.

Burn all your timeouts not being able to inbound the ball (6)

 

[skyIdub]

Can someone help me.
Who is this and what does it mean?

Zach Hamer....Defensive Genius.

 

[IlliniKat91]

Can someone help me.
Who is this and what does it mean?

He's the genius architect of our defense

 

[sacraig]

Are we forgetting we lost to eastern?

That was an exhibition so technically doesn't count.

 

[IlliniCaboose]

 

[eas23]

I also just noticed on the last inbounds that Shannon broke free just as the pass went to Harmon and then was trailing behind him with no defender. So we had 2 opportunities to get the ball to him with a full head of steam downhill.