Game Thread: Illinois vs Duke

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therealmiket86
Second place is 1st loser said:
You're a good guy, I'm sure, but I'm sorry....they've got to shoot open shots and they have to make them. That's it. End of story. Tomi is useless out there today night.

If we're just shooting decently from 3.....5:eek:f 16. We're down 2.

That's it. The offense is running fine. His guys don't believe that they make shots and confidence is everything when shooting it. They need to see a few go down.

Don't overanalyze. Need to make open looks and HAVE to rebound. Tomi has gotten rooted out time and after time.
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Teams are letting us shoot because we suck
 
#806      
Iamgroot
Wow it's getting so bad were getting sympathy calls with 17:30 left in the 2nd half this is going to end great
 
#808      
Mr. Roberts
Illini defense


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#819      
NASchamp
Flagg flexing when he has no muscle is funny.

But I’m probably just bitter at this point because we’re getting our a$$ kicked and no one seems to even care.
 
#821      
The Galloping Ghost
aaeismacgychel said:
I mean, these are some of the best quality shots we've gotten all season. We can say, hey, don't take those threes, but then we should simply go in with a gameplan of shooting 0 threes a game. Most of these three point shots we're getting just can't be any easier to make. Don't know what else to say.
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At a certain point, you gotta stop falling for the bait. They're open for a reason and it's not because Duke, the 4th best defensive team in the country, can't guard us on the perimeter.
 
#822      
New Creation
NarrowJ said:
I think the point he's making is that if we just shot 31% (5-16) instead of 0% (0-16) we would be right in this game

The players are shooting open shots from the perimeter and just cannot buy one

I think the coaching staff has screwed up quite a few things this year, but they cannot make open shots for the players
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I think the other point was, we can’t shoot. 31% would be below are average on the year at this point. They are purposely leaving most of our team open from 3.

These team needs morez. I said it when he went down. We might not win another game this year and end the year on a 0-10 losing streak.

We seriously might not make the tournament and will be an NIT TEAM.
 
#824      
ChiTown
Unfortunately this game reminded me of the Illini playing Chicago State vibe…..some days you’re the windshield and other days you are the bug,we’re are definitely the bug getting owned by the windshield.
 
#825      
Second place is 1st loser
Fighter of the Nightman said:
I can’t get past the fact that Underwood had a 17-10 team that was struggling and was set to play #3 Duke at MSG on FOX in the Saturday prime time spot … and his preparation was to keep trying what we’ve tried so far.

I fear the ship has sunk.
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You don't think that we've had great looks? You find like our drives and dishes at the basket? This x's and o's are fine. If we're shooting even reasonably well.... we're in the game. What he's trying is working. He did his part. The boys have to carry their end of the couch and put the ball in the basket.
 
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