Well ... What if I told you that he is making double that amount ...
Then I would say, he should feel twice as bad about the results of his work.
Well ... What if I told you that he is making double that amount ...
Easing up.... lack of focus... lack of intensity... weakness of spirit... whatever it is there is no excuse to let this happen.
The Illini still have a creditable won-loss record. But their chronic weakness shows up when they let other teams back into the game when they shouldn't be.
Penn State scored 90 on us…. They also scored 90 against Rider back in December so maybe we’re ok.the defense wasn't good...but PSU also had 11 steals and in total we committed 18 turnovers that lead to a bunch of points including the 8 pts we gave up in the 30 seconds or so & we shouldn't blame all this on the defense...we were up 7 pts with less than a minute to go, the ability to inbound the ball, Shannon's turnover, whatever Hawkins was doing when PSU & the officials bailed him out by calling the foul as he was traveling, our missed free throws vs the foul on the 3 pt attempt & them making all 3 was more an offensive/ball handling/stupidity problem than defense or defensive scheme problem.
In the entire Underwood era inbounding the ball has been an issue. Its inexcusable. I like Brad, he does many good things and he can recruit but all his teams have a similar identity year over year. Poor PG play or no PG at all. Too many turnovers and carelessness with the ball. Offenses that go stagnant for significant stretches of time. The last one isn't much of an issue this year so that has improved. Really poor execution or play calling coming out of timeouts or in end of game scenarios where you're just scratching your head. Then of course poor tournament play. Hopefully this is the year! I don't want to see him go. The grass is not always greener but some of these criticisms of him not being a good in game coach are at this point at least fair. Reasonable people can disagree but we have 7 years of data now with many differently constructed teams and yet they all have these commonalities.Wtf? Seriously. We have arguably the Best baller in college ball and can't beat a miserable team in front of 3000 fans. Come on horrible coaching. Substitutions, inbounds plays, to letting a single player whining and causing 4 on 5 situations. Discipline and leadership. Strong
cohawk played last night like my ex-wife's menopause routine.....hot and cold , with a lot of emotional stress causing reality to be nonexistent in his/her decision making.................Might be why I battled a migraine all night long.......His body language was awful all night. Didn't want to be there. Brad needs to glue him to the bench when he's actively hurting the team.
A lot of fans not seeing and accepting what the team is showing them.
I had to restrain myself from any imbibing as it would have caused more harm with my meds that it would have helped....In fact , nothing helped last night for me to maintain a balanced calmness.........I mean we are what we are at this point in the season.
We need major changes on D. Effort, scheme, assignments…all of it.
I’m just not sure there’s enough practice and games left?
But I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so, take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
Then a shot of tequila.
No half measures PruWhen I played my coach would stress if the opponent had a layup that we had to stop the basketball going in and make them earn it at the FT line......What the beloved have been doing is not stopping the shot and even gifting a soft foul to give them a chance at a 3 point play......
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I wonder why Goode is out there at the end of games myself. Earlier in the year you thought it meant we would have a better free throw shooter without much lapse in defense. Neither has turned out to be true. Ty has turned out to be just as good at free throws if not better than Luke and has always been a way better defender. Unless we are needing threes to catch up at the end there is no reason to have Goode on the floor.Actually, I was more concerned with Goode being out there at the end. Right or wrong, my perception is that he has been unreliable at the stripe in end-of game situations. (If someone with convenient access to stats can show me that my perception is wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. )
I had to restrain myself from any imbibing as it would have caused more harm with my meds that it would have helped....In fact , nothing helped last night for me to maintain a balanced calmness.........
I still can't believe THIS ILLINI TEAM lost the game when we had possession of the ball with 40 seconds left and up 7 points .....
I REALLY REALLY REALLY CAN'T.....................JMHO..................
My perspective is that by no means is the team full of clowns. However:We understand the frustration. We're all frustrated. Let's ease up on the personal attacks on the kids. Perspective.
Forget about a guy named Trent Frazier? Andres Feliz?In the entire Underwood era inbounding the ball has been an issue. Its inexcusable. I like Brad, he does many good things and he can recruit but all his teams have a similar identity year over year. Poor PG play or no PG at all. Too many turnovers and carelessness with the ball. Offenses that go stagnant for significant stretches of time. The last one isn't much of an issue this year so that has improved. Really poor execution or play calling coming out of timeouts or in end of game scenarios where you're just scratching your head. Then of course poor tournament play. Hopefully this is the year! I don't want to see him go. The grass is not always greener but some of these criticisms of him not being a good in game coach are at this point at least fair. Reasonable people can disagree but we have 7 years of data now with many differently constructed teams and yet they all have these commonalities.
Well I am going to give my two cents as like the rest of you I am seeking some catharsis after last night. If it is any consolation, Kentucky gave up an 18 point second half lead to also lose by 1 point to powerhouse LSU, so we aren't the only fan base crying in their beer. Hope the fans and players can both put this game out of their minds and focus on the next one. But I do think the coaching staff needs to take a hard look at this game, and make adjustments.My overall issue with us on defense is that in pursuit of not fouling (which we do very very well most nights, we avoid cheapies and regularly have positive free throw margins) we just end up kinda hands-off and soft. We've swung the pendulum too far away from physicality.
For me, in any sport at any level THE cardinal sin is being easy to play against, letting the other team play the way they like playing, in their rhythm. I see some of that in this team especially on the defensive end and that's really worrying.
(You could definitely argue that all of this flows from not having real guards, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.)
I agree it's not working. Didn't last year and we abandoned it after the non-con and went back to the pack line defense (and the same at least one of the seasons where we had Ayo and Kofi if I recall). Not sure why we haven't done that this year because it just feels like we're regressing on D each and every week.Isn't this 5 way switching defense the same one we've abandoned in recent years because it doesn't work? Someone is under the understanding that it is working this year? Call me crazy but I prefer a defensive strategy where our best D players guard their best O players. This defense just promotes other teams to run their best O players through a screen being set by the person that's being guarded by one of our weak D players and then amazingly they have their best O players on one of our weak D players. Just amazes me how this can continue game after game and not try a straight up man to man.
Maryland was different imo they just fouled us.the Champaign Room article points out that late in games against MSU (x2), Nebraska, NW, maryland and PSU: Total 27:44 of game action= 4 total field goals made
Could they loan us a couple out of bounds plays?Fortunately I had to miss last night's game to attend my grandson's Jr. High basketball game, followed by my granddaughter's 6th grade basketball game. I did peek at the score in between games and saw the Beloved up by 7 (?) at the half. I didn't check again until I got home around 9 last night, only to see that we lost by one. I checked the box score and play by play on the ESPN, and decided that I didn't need to watch the turd that we laid in the last few minutes.
However, I the think that turd is dwarfed by the 29 pages of steaming, stinking fecal matter in this thread. Maybe unprecedented.
Like all, I'm, sad, hurt, depressed, whatever . . . But the amount of "hot" takes and downright idiotic comments here rivals the game threads . . . nay, EXCEEDS the game threads by a factor of oh, say, a million. According to various posters here, Brad should be fired; Luke, Marcus, Hawkins, Ty, Q, Dain, DGL, Moretti, Harmon all should be thrown out . . . I'm sure I missed some other stupid take . . .
Purdue lost to Ohio State (and Nebraska and Northwestern) . . . UCONN lost to Creighton . . . we lost. Fix the problems and on to the next game.
Make it a bottle after last evening.I mean we are what we are at this point in the season.
We need major changes on D. Effort, scheme, assignments…all of it.
I’m just not sure there’s enough practice and games left?
But I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night so, take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
Then a shot of tequila.
A man to man defense that "switches everything" could be fairly described as a very active match-up zone. In other words, the switching man-to-man defense our team is playing is incorporating some fundamental principles of a (match-up) zone.I don't understand why in year 7 BU still doesn't have a zone in his back pocket when it's needed. When your D is a layup line it's obvious your m2m is just not working. Switching to a zone for a few possessions here and there might help. Also not pressuring 35 ft from the basket when your guys can't stop penetration would be a good change to try.
No doubt at this point any 12 or 13 seed we face is going to press from start to finish.