Dayammmmmmmn that dropped us to 95th defensively in kenpom, lol
Illinois 105, Minnesota 97 Postgame
I really like the way we look with Coleman and Danna on the floor at the same time. More of that please.
Amen. At least give a few different looks here and there. You can play drop with Shannon guarding the ball. That’s it. But even then, he would be a part of a good trap duo. Show me that twice a game for all I care. But do SOMETHING. I am sick of double digit second half leads meaning basically nothing.
Those point totals are incredibly, insanely,....low.
That was fun! Domask was Barkley like in 2nd half. Harmon's defense was fantastic. CoHawk has scored 50 in 2 games! Quincy played great, and loved the minutes Dain got and his X factor plays. And Shannon is a dang pro. Nice work out there tonight. Minnesota played well. Impressed with Garcia and Christie; Hawkins is fun to watch. Their bench only scored 3 points on one shot. Go Illini!
InDaAZ
- Eugene, Oregon
We are basically Alabama. 95 is not good. But being 3 offense is amazing. I don't know how to feel. I'll take the win and move on
They made some tough ones too
Seems most teams are on fire against us!? I watched some replays and don't feel we are playing that awful on D and yet teams still hit their contested shots against us. Let's hope whoever we play in the tourney doesn't go into turbo mode against us.
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
I hope you guys just listened to Coleman’s presser….it’ll give you a look into how dialed in he is on scouts and his basketball IQ
Coleman's explanations and responses to the media questions are very insightful. You can tell how intelligent he is. He's also very well spoken and gives the media a lot of great info
You're correct but most fans will have none of it. Minnesota was making some tough contested 3s.I think they just made another off-screen leaning 3-pointer with a hand in their face… felt like the only really wide open looks we gave up were off rebound scrambles
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Well folks , that was an exciting game with the beloved SCORING the victory.........the goofers shot lights out and LOST........the name of the game is scoring more points than your opponent and that is what we did.........
I think the game turned in our favor for good when BU made an ADJUSTMENT and put TSJ back on the goofer PG.......It slowed down their movement and our D seemed to tighten up somewhat.......Allowing 97 points in a B$G game doesn't sound great but scoring 105 sounds exciting as hell to me.......
3 Illini with 20 + points........
Dain with an excellent game tonight and hit all 3 FT's........( I think )......Dain with his most minutes in B$G this year and he deserved every second.......dain gets more of Goode's minutes......
TSJ with 29 points......
The Doc Domask did some carving down low again and got 22 points.....
Harmon with hard core defense in the second half......
Cohawk started the game out great and played a very MATURE game again tonight...................
QG hit some 3's when needed and played hard all game long.....
hate to say it but Ty didn't deserve a lot of minutes in the second half.......
Goode hit a 3 but sat almost the whole second half and I'm ok with that.....................\
BU's radio presser............
talked about B$G perception as slow and physical.......not tonight................
Deon said good game O & D.......BU said not the D.....................lol
we ran one play .....Domask down low....booty-ball............got a lot of assists doing it................
since the debacle at psu cohawk has been great in practice and games...................fought through the game and got 20 points.....
dain gives us a physical presence.....figuring out how to play him in the booty ball scheme......he's a grown man and stopped some of the down low stuff by goofers.......
Harmon , when locked in , he can guard anyone.............
TSJ on the ball slowed down Hawkins and was a big key to the win...................
offense wins games , defense wins championships ....tonight our offense won us this game...........
pru , that was an exciting game , even moreso with the Illini winning......call you later babe........
ok sweetie........the spice was nice tonight with the Illini offense cooking on all cylinders......
Defense ??.....we don't need no stinkin defense......................./s
pru , it;s time for the winning after party ......you ready babe ???
lets git it on sweetheart.......I really really am ready..............................
anybody ready for some gopher stew ??????
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Agreed. Great ambassador and he was at the helm of a team that gave us our winningest season in school history. He's such a a nice guy and a standup guy.....which ironically was his demise with recruiting. You have to work in the gray area and he just wouldn't.
No way they hit the same rate that Minny did tonight. (I hope)
IlliniMike_Aurora
Straight outta Champaign
Or Grinnell College
It’s more about the matchups that I’m referring to. Most great defensive teams (Houston, Virginia) play as a unit, not so much 1 on 1.
They make the offense ugly.
How many dunks and layups in the half court do we give up a game? It’s gotta be higher than the median.
Tonight that number was 7, and Illinois outscored Minnesota in the paint. They just shot the lights out from midrange and 3.
Our defense stinks