Game Thread: Illinois vs USC

[IllinistuckinGopherland]

Hornery looks like a guy named Hornery.

 

[madillini4]

I’m sure Shon Morris is a nice guy but hard to believe he has made it this long

 

[Illini4Christ]

Come on bam use your other four players on the court

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

This crowd is as lethargic as the team

 

[FloridaMan]

This would be much worse than the NW loss. Can't lose to a bottom tier team at home and expect to hang a banner.

 

[Fighting I 95]

If we lose this im afraid a skid will start. @Indiana then @Michigan st. will both be losses with this type of effort today.

 

[WyattEarp]

Why are they unable to get back on defense? USC's transition is killing us.

I darn sure don’t know. But they have definitely struggled with that off and on this year.

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

We just look tired … like stayed up late the night before because we’re playing USC tired.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Shooting - White and Boswell 4/17 (24%), rest of team 11/20 (55%).

 

[foby]

Good heavens...

Those who thought this was a cakewalk...

USC good team getting better
Big roster turnover like ours
Ton of new players....some WE WANTED like Claude and St Thomas
Good coach

 

[NarrowJ]

Good heavens...

Those who thought this was a cakewalk...

USC good team getting better
Big roster turnover like ours
Ton of new players....some WE WANTED like Claude and St Thomas
Good coach

I'll add these:

Best player and PG out

Other PG in foul trouble

Nobody can make a 3

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Morez just gets fouls called on him no one else gets refs just assume freshman big = fouls it's very frustrating

Honestly, I think the fouls on him today have been reasonable. He's moving into the shooter and leaving his feet while making contact. It's a foul that is very common for freshman bigs to make. He'll learn from it as the season goes on but sometimes it takes that offseason before sophomore year

 

[WizardBill]

Seems pretty obvious, we just are not playing today. Have to escape with a win and move on. Figure out why we are just not playing well today. Not shooting well, defense is just ok. Offense doesn't exist.

Now is when we show we have what it takes to hang banners. Win when you don't have it.

 

[Iamgroot]

Wow this defensive and rebounding effort is just embarrassing

 

[azillini1]

This looks like it will go down to the wire. Would be a bad loss for us.

USC got clobbered by St Mary's and scored only 36 points, lost to N Mexico and Calif. Yes it would not be a good loss... kind of like Northwestern

 

[FoundersClub]

We need a Riley heater in a bad way

 

[Old Farm Illini]

Riley needs to teach Ivisic about the backboard

 

[blife]

Tomi looks a step slow and off today

 

[TheodoreRex]

Give their best shooter a in rhythm 3, Tomi smokes the easy layup, give up an O rebound and then a layup. Flippin terrible basketball

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Someone forgot to tell USC they are playing on the road, because they look way more comfortable than we do.

 

[JSpence]

Not every other game. Relax.

Hm? Toss out the game against the worst team in the sport and it literally is. Near-loss, blowout, near-loss, blowout, and today.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Starting to get a not great feeling about this one

 

[Captain Bubbles]

USC has fallen asleep on those Illini inbound plays.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

I'll add these:

Best player and PG out

Other PG in foul trouble

Nobody can make a 3

The reliance of this shot will make us look great(PSU and Oregon), then awful (second half versus Washington and today)

 

[Jon]

Just get to double bonus as soon as possible. Easiest path forward if we can't make shots or rebound right now