OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
If you could combine him and Scheyer's recruiting ability, you'd have the perfect K replacement at Duke.
Northwestern 70, Illinois 66 OT Postgame
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Hamer is handcuffed on D by the focus on offensive lineups that feature guys like Ben and KJ who struggle to defend. As long as those guys are offensive cornerstones, Hamer has a tough assignment…KJ should play a lot regardless; Ben based on whether he’s hitting shots only.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
A big problem with tonight is we just wasted a fantastic win on Thanksgiving day with a huge audience. We could have and should have built on that.
Through 8 games so far all I am seeing of Ben is Luke Goode 2.0. Ben's role so far has been a spot up 3 point shooter and nothing else. We have seen very little of him playing in the mid range, hunting for matchups, and booty ball. Ben is 6'9 and all the coaching staff have him doing is spot up and take open look 3. When that is your only role on offense and you are a defensive liabilty, you have to be consistent when taking open 3s. I think one of the biggest question with this team and for Brad is what is going to be the real starting five? Riley is a good 3 point shooter like Ben is but Riley is also a better defender than Ben is in my opinion.
This has got to be one of the worst takes i have seen this year.
Huh. That's an amazing point of view, given that we all just saw that shot used repeatedly tonight to beat our team.
Note that Barnhizer uses that shot all the time, it is not luck that he made them. And NW deliberately worked to get Barnhizer that shot.
Depends upon what you mean by "more chances." If you mean spot minutes in situations when we need to break a zone or when the other team doesn't have a great scoring threat at power forward yes. If you mean starting like he has previously, absolutely not.
Ben, Boswell and Riley missed shots. 1 of 18 from 3. Kj kept us in the game most of the night. Ben had good looks and just missed and chucking so many threes that will happen.
KJ had 20, 10, and 7 with 6 threes and 4 tos.. He was fine. Boswell missed some big lay ups and the game was very physically called . Only had 11 fts. When we take so.many threes Riley and Bemgotta hit more that 7% if they take 15
This game was called at LEAST three different ways throughout. This argument continues to lack any footing.
If you want to say that Riley was abused, then show numbers and film. Besides, this is all coming from your own assumption that calls for fewer Ben minutes meant more Riley minutes... when Will got 30 and Morez got 12.
If you feel like you're catching up now, take a pause and do more of that.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
So I'll add another person to "didn't watch this game or doesn't want to recognize reality."
39 minutes, 3 points, 1-9 from the field. Torched defensively.
I'm trying to find the plus/minus from the game, but I'd bet a lot Humrichous had one of the worst ratings of the team.
Not sure why so many people are rushing to his defense. He just isn't a Big Ten player. If Underwood plays him more than 7-10 minutes a game, we're screwed.
39 minutes, 3 points, 1-9 from the field. Torched defensively.
I'm trying to find the plus/minus from the game, but I'd bet a lot Humrichous had one of the worst ratings of the team.
Not sure why so many people are rushing to his defense. He just isn't a Big Ten player. If Underwood plays him more than 7-10 minutes a game, we're screwed.
Morez and DGL getting 20 minutes combined is comical stuff.
Boswell isn’t stepping up as that floor general and veteran leader we need in crunch time to manage the clock down and run the offense for a good open look. Frustrating.
unbelievable stubbornness on Brad's part. His postgame he flippin doubled down on it saying something along the lines of Ben's stats shooting the 3. Ok Brad, you go with your stats and I'll go with my eye test and feel for the game. Your boy is getting cooked on d and is 1-9 from 3 (they are literally picking on him and trying to get matchups against him). But nah, we'll keep our 5 star stud who plays his freakin butt off on the bench.
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He gives great post-game pressers, too. He doesn't BS, but is somehow always incredibly nice about everything. I’m a fan.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
No doubt he is good at x's and o's. He also is good at working officials, without coming off as a whiny jerk like Izzo. With about 7 minutes left in 2nd half, he had a mini meltdown with the officials (probably deserved a technical), I believe on Barnhizer missed dunk. After that, two straight possession we had shooting fouls (on plays that were not called all night).
He is in a perfect spot at NW.
He also somehow keeps his players for 7 years. We need to find a middle ground there. Turning the entire roster over every season simply isn't sustainable.
Bottom line, this team does not understand how difficult it is to win the Big Ten. You cannot take no for an answer, you have to make layups, rebound and take care of the ball. If you don't do this consistently, you will not even be in the upper half of the Big Ten. This team will only learn how to win by losing....it just sucks because some of our players will lose and then head off to the NBA, something that is new to IL.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Sometimes, those who are so close to a situation can't see the reality of what is really going on.
Yup. Really bad decisions by Riley.
just got home from the game... frustrating so so frustrating.
1. While it was still a high percent Illini fans, and we got some good chants in props to NU and their student section. The students are very very energetic and definitely a factor. Also overall more NU fans show up to their games now. No longer are the days of old welsh Ryan where it was all orange.
2. NU had a terrible first half and we should've used it to go up by 10+ but we also played poorly.
3. Its only December losing this isn't the end of the world, but we have a lot of tough games this month can't let it keep happening.
4. Unfortunately as much as it pains me I now want NU to win some games so this stays as a q1 loss.
1. While it was still a high percent Illini fans, and we got some good chants in props to NU and their student section. The students are very very energetic and definitely a factor. Also overall more NU fans show up to their games now. No longer are the days of old welsh Ryan where it was all orange.
2. NU had a terrible first half and we should've used it to go up by 10+ but we also played poorly.
3. Its only December losing this isn't the end of the world, but we have a lot of tough games this month can't let it keep happening.
4. Unfortunately as much as it pains me I now want NU to win some games so this stays as a q1 loss.
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