Game Thread: Illinois vs Kentucky

[Epsilon]

Garbage defense

 

[KBLEE]

Jake Davis just gave Kentucky 5 points. Two terrible plays.

No he didn't. The UK player tripped him.

 

[cjw1901]

Humrichous came closer to making that 3/4 court shot than anything he shot against Xavier

Right, it seems the further Ben is from the basket, the better his shot looks.

 

[RockfordIllini]

Amazing we are in it considering 8 turnovers and 3-14 from 3.

Let’s compose ourselves at the half and make a run.

 

[BashCtIllini]

It's as simple as this, can we shoot 40% from 3 in the 2nd half? If yes, we probably win, if we shoot like this again, season is over.

 

[DrMac210]

Two guarantees in life:

1) If ILL gets a team in the bonus early, they will continue to throw up 3’s (and miss) instead of taking it to the hole.

2) Whoever ILL dorks will have their best game shooting in months

 

[OrangeKrush1981]

Our bench has not been good this game.

We don't really have a whole lot of bench now that Will is starting. Morez ....... Ben ..... DGL .... Jake. So, Morez is our bench. Roll with him.

 

[NBASucks]

Who gets the ball to start the second half?

 

[FloridaMan]

Brad better be all over these refs about the moving screens. Every possession they are using them. If we come out and turn the ball over early I may be TV shopping tomorrow. As frustrating a team as I can remember. But, this game is SO winnable!

 

[DeeIL89]

Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Get your sh*****t together. This is on the coaching staff. Maddening how this team's bad habits never got fix. We still have a shot to win this game because Kentucky hasn't put on a display of dominance but that will depend on how much we continue to give the game away.

 

[Deep]

Gameplay on Butler - let him shoot. Well, that didn't work...

Why do we always have to leave some dude on the other team open???
I hate that game plan

 

[IlliniSaluki]

This must be how teams feel when they play like against us and are only down by a few points at half when we should of been blowing them out.

 

[pruman91]

Our bench has not been good this game.

Rezilla has been ok.......

 

[maxatlof]

Down five at halj and KJ has done nothing but sabotage our our chances so far....? I'll take it. Now if he can get his head out of his a$$ in the second half we might have a chance

 

[krushalot2005]

So stupid - in the bonus 10 minutes and you get one more foul because you chuck threes. Whoever is in charge of the offense should be fired.

 

[chrisRunner7]

Will Riley needs more shots!!!! He's 1 for 3 and it feels like the only way he's getting a shot off right now is via one-on-one ball.

 

[jrum48]

I'll take him over Ben any day.

Agreed!

 

[Illini2010-11]

After all of that, it is only a 5 point game. Clean up the turnovers (not sure if this team knows how for an entire half), and I think Illini come home with the win.

This is a very average at best 3 seed. The bracket was setup favorably...no excuses for the coming 20 minutes. Get it done!!!

 

[sunman]

What has happened to Dre
Now is the time to play with that intensity.

 

[GoodePodzMelendez]

He seems like he has checked out.

 

[One Man Fast Break]

They’re saying “we didn’t play that well and barely had Oweh and are up five”

 

[DeeIL89]

Keep driving to the basket cause we've been scoring that way so far. Get focus on defense and stop with the turnovers.

 

[doowink]

Eliminate the silly to’s, keep Butler under control and I like our chances

 

[azillini1]

We are out boarding them 21 to 15 and the 8 TO's early really hurt us. We are only 3 of 14 from 3 and we are still in this game. Get Riley involved, KJ take care of the ball, and play more Rez with Tomi.

We can still win this if we play well.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Down 5 only because we’re beating ourselves. Chance for Will to be a legend this half. That little Mormon dude can’t guard him if he’s aggressive