Game Thread: Illinois vs Ohio State

[ILL-Intentions]

Battle of Croatians down low. Understandably so but Tomi looks a little weak.

 

[RDS]

STOP SHOOTING all 3s when you’re in a scoring drought. Sheesh

 

[Chillinini]

BU : let’s try something different. New starting lineup! What else?
TU/Hamer : no need, let’s continue hoisting up three’s!

 

[stlrunner]

Its wild how cold this team is from 3.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

If we're even a reasonably good shooting team, oh how different things would be right now(this year).

 

[bleedorange and blue]

This is just a poor shooting team

 

[purcy51]

Morez was obliterated on that pass and no call. gmafb

And Tre gets called for a tap on the back...

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

How have we regressed so badly on defense? and offense? We just look like someone has stolen our mojo.

 

[sacraig]

1/7 from three. We get great looks, but just don't have good enough shooters.

Some of that is likely Tomi not being 100% but still taking open 3s (as he should).

 

[ginabackes00]

Looks like the scouting report is to leave us open for 3s. It’s a good strategy

 

[illinoisgrad1990]

Boswell has to shoot that three. He can't be afraid to miss. He's in his own head.

Agree, despite his recent lack of success with it. Kylan always kind of walks like a tired old man, but I’m not liking his body language today. I don’t read it as pouting over not starting, just really down on himself.

 

[PasadenaIllini]

Yeah, he was under pressure, but if he's going to bill himself as a player who deserves the majority of the minutes up front, he needs to vacuum that ball up....be a bit stronger.

 

[chief]

Gotta make shots, not take shots

 

[aaeismacgychel]

1-8 from three. Looks like we've learned a lot..........SMH

Guess we're gonna choose to die by the three this year. Great

I mean, in fairness, if we don't take the threes we're taking, you might as well never shoot them. The quality of our three pt shots today has been ridiculously good. They're wide open. You simply have to hit those at an acceptable rate.

 

[sacraig]

We are getting discarded on some rebounds without calls.

For the most part, the refs are letting both teams play.

 

[PleaseMakeABowlGame]

When you just cannot make your WIDE, WIDE OPEN threes. Not even guarding you. Have to take them. It's crazy how bad a shooting team we are.

And then people here in the postgame will scream about taking threes. In D1 ball, when a team doesn't guard you, you have to take them - you have no choice.

I'm honestly trying to struggling remember a worse Illini shooting team in recent memory.

 

[ChiTown]

You guys got to remember that Tomi is going to be a little rusty from not playing for a while and just getting him back is a plus.

 

[FloridaMan]

At what point do you just finally realize that we cannot shoot threes? I mean, if you're not hitting at least 30% and you shoot more threes than twos when does the light go on that we may need to adjust to a different strategy? Try to get some open looks down low and draw some fouls possibly?

 

[skyIdub]

All started when DGL left with 2 fouls.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Pretty sure we could get 5 random posters off this board and we could shoot 12% from three.

 

[madcrazeeballa]

At least it’s only been 8 attempts from 3, since we can’t make them

 

[BBlock24]

Anybody else worried that this team is mid?

 

[New Creation]

Kill shot by OSU now

 

[eas23]

Ohio St is shooting 40% for the game. We're approaching the point where nothing else matters of we don't start hitting 3's.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

You guys got to remember that Tomi is going to be a little rusty

Completely understandable, but what is the excuse for all our other shooters?