Maryland 88, Illinois 65 Postgame

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#177      
Noblesville Illini
But who’s the hair brain that thought that he was the best man for the job and Tyler was, too? Think about it. How thick headed can you be?
 
#179      
Second place is 1st loser
Retro62 said:
I’m beginning to question the culture of our program. You look at the football program and you see videos of guys crying after the bowl win and saying they would die for Illinois. And then Gabe Jacas saying no amount of NIL would get him to transfer, and you see a definite culture that Bret has established.

Brad benefitted from guys like Trent, Damonte, and especially Ayo to buy in to our program. I do think Brad is enough of a general to get guys to buy in, but I’m wondering if a big problem is that he hasn’t settled on an identity himself. This Jekyll and Hyde product reeks of someone who’s still deciding how to move forward after the challenge of resurrecting the program. He may be a victim of his own success, trying to one-up himself.

There is one guy…one…who seems to be the centerpiece of our identity moving forward, and that is Morez Johnson. I’m not saying I wouldn’t love to have Kylan, Tre, Dre, or Tomi back, I just think he is the linchpin.
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Not bringing players back year over year is what creates a lack of identity. Last year was classic BU. Tough, gritty, nasty, OLD....then he overturned the entire roster because of coaching changes. It's tough to create identity when you have 7 new players every year. That needs to stop.
 
#181      
illini510
Also, what's going on with DGL only getting 3 minutes in this blowout game? Is he in the doghouse or something? I know he's been fouling a lot the times he has gotten in. I'm not sure he's sticking around and I wouldn't blame him
 
#184      
thehass
Not surprised we lost but was by the margin. Our defense was exposed again along with our youth. Some collapse is certainly on the players but the coaches and the game plan share responsibility. This team now will advance or die by the 3 point shot. Toughness would be nice too.
 
#185      
Snoopy
DeeIL89 said:
KJ has not been the same since the wrist injury. Perhaps it's mentally.
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Teams with older, athletic guards, and some decent coaching, seem to be able to game plan to get him frustrated and break Illinois offensive schemes. Then the chucking off the dribble 3's start and it seems to get contagious fast.
 
#187      
Fighter of the Nightman
I’ll try to stay only positive, lol…

1. If you even assume we can string NCAAT wins together, we certainly won’t be a 5 seed now! So no 1 seed until Elite Eight.

2. Maybe this will finally convince the remaining Neanderthals who choose to ever wear our default uniforms that they should be burnt! Throwbacks every NCAAT game, period.

That’s all I got.
 
#189      
BrimfieldBomber
Where did the EDG mantra go? There wasn't 80% effort out there tonight - let alone anything closely resembling what energy and grit Trent, Da'Monte, Marcus brought diving for balls, driving for contact, boxing out guys 50lb more than them, etc.
 
#191      
rmlsr
I wouldn’t let this 💩 head back into the building he would be walking home!!!
 
#192      
RimPressure
HensonHall71 said:
I honestly don’t get starting the game with Tre White on Queen, what was the point of that? I think we needed to start the two big lineup from the jump- not that anything would have mattered in this one, but it was obvious from the start we couldn’t match up with them
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Obviously we have the benefit of hindsight now, but I imagine it would have seemed pretty questionable before the game to change the starting lineup away from something that had been working well since the first Iowa game. And then if you do change it - do you start Morez in his second game back, the day after playing his first game back and only logging 12 minutes or so? Or do you start Ben and put him on Queen? And who do you take out? Everyone had been playing really well lately, I guess aside from KJ. Do you bring him off the bench for this one? If not him, then who?

In an attempt at taking away something positive: Morez played 28 minutes, so hopefully he still feels good and did not suffer any sort of setbacks or issues with his wrist - and if that is indeed the case, then the silver lining might be that at least Morez has proven that he can hold up to that workload going into the tournament.
 
#193      
steelmen72
This was supposed to be a 2 year journey for this team. We all knew this team would be young, one of the top 5 youngest team in the power conferences. The Illini have met expectations. We all know once Underwood goes young that his team don't accomplish much doing the season.
 
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Second place is 1st loser
BatteredWifeSchwartz said:
You really watched this game and thought KJ was the soft one? At least he showed some !!!!ing effort.

I thought Tomi was bad but he didn’t look set up for success. He was fighting and unfortunately fouling bc he was fouling. If anything, you look at Tre, Ben, and Jake and they were all terrible.
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Tre, Ben and Jake aren't the guys that HAVE to play well to win. KJ is a supposed lottery pick. Two nights in a row, he couldn't stay in front of his man on defense and his 4 to 12 assist to turnover ratio isn't going to get it done.

Yes, he he EXTREMELY soft and lose with the ball and his turnovers, more times than not, lead to layups. He's not getting the job done on either end. You don't pick out two role players when it comes to a game like this. You look to your leaders and outside of Boswell.....we don't really have any.
 
#197      
Ryllini
I get Rez hasn't practiced much, but he should've started with Tomi in the frontcourt. Having those two bigs helps you match their inside grit. Tomi did have 2 dumb fouls, but with Rez, he wouldn't have been put on an island with those two masses down low. We could've matched their bigs and put pressure on those two fellas. Atleast we got to see Davis on Queen a couple of times.🙃
 
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JKR
FromTheLogo said:
This is true, and I love Morez, but when in the corner or beyond the paint, they literally didn't guard him. It clogged the paint. Our offense is about spreading the defense out and cuts.
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We were cutless tonight.
 
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