You must not be watching him play when he’s been in.
Nebraska 83, Illinois 80 Postgame
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You must not be watching him play when he’s been in.
Nebraska is not a top 15 team.
I'm sorry...
Hoiberg knows Brad Underwood teams will chuck 3s because *statistics* after 3 passes side to side....
Any disciplined approach would be to drive and attack the basket....they don't have a good defender on their team... I'm sorry! They HAD to foul every drive...but we kept going away from it....
He's brought consistency which has been great. Seems like he ignores defensive ability when he recruits. Is that because we don't have the funds to get more athletic players or becuase he chooses to build the roster this way.
I know what you mean, but I’m not sure how an undefeated ranked team at Home can qualify as a trap game. I think what you really mean is you just felt like we were gonna lose because that’s what this team does when we have a chance to go on a winning streak.
For what it’s worth I also felt terrible about this game going in
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
A trap game. Not a trap team.
A game like this doesn’t get away from a top 3 B1G team. All credit to Nebby, they were the better team today.
But Illinois best game wins that game by 10.
Nebraska is a good team that going into this game should have scared anybody paying attention. The Illini are right on track for their second quadrant (think 5th to 10th) place finish in the conference, as expected.
Nebraska has lights out shooters
Good teams will pound the F out of them down low. Something we absolutely failed to do today.
Tomi scored his only 3 points (I believe) with a minute or two left to go ...on a 3. Mirk is on a milk carton somewhere. Size matters only when you actually use it.
Good teams will pound the F out of them down low. Something we absolutely failed to do today.
Tomi scored his only 3 points (I believe) with a minute or two left to go ...on a 3. Mirk is on a milk carton somewhere. Size matters only when you actually use it.
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We definitely deserve criticism for the effort and game plan today, but this is also just loyalty after a loss
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Refs aren’t out to get us when we’re playing at home vs. a program with no history, though, lol… We gifted them points off the bat, that was the margin of error.
It's Groundhog day every year. Once again, we are inconsistent, can't defend, play only when we feel like playing - all while coaches sit on their hands. No adjustments to try to stop a guy making 7 threes in a half. No timeouts to chew some *** and demand some fire and intensity out of the team in the first ten minutes leading to a 13 point deficit on our home floor. And then another 10 point deficit in the second half. No flashing to the middle of a zone defense, pass the ball around the perimeter until time expires and chuck a three.
And half our fanbase chastises/patronizes those that are upset by it. SMH
And half our fanbase chastises/patronizes those that are upset by it. SMH
When you give up 80 to 90 points every single game, you, we are gonna lose a ton. We are not gonna make 30 free throws to bail us out. Our defense is no better than last year or year before.
Andrei is no better at this point than Rj Melendez and that shocks me. Keaton, Bam, and Mirch are keepers. I said start of season we are a 12 or 13 loss team.
Keep promoting Son and his buddy. That'll work, actually it Doesn't. Nebraska is solid. That was a horrible team effort and coaches. They need to stay out of bars when in Champaign.
Andrei is no better at this point than Rj Melendez and that shocks me. Keaton, Bam, and Mirch are keepers. I said start of season we are a 12 or 13 loss team.
Keep promoting Son and his buddy. That'll work, actually it Doesn't. Nebraska is solid. That was a horrible team effort and coaches. They need to stay out of bars when in Champaign.
AyoDos11
- Southern Illinois
We NEED to figure out how to play defense. Can't have one player go nuclear every game.
Wagler played 40 minutes tonight and looked excellent. Imo, he is clearly the best player on this team and will be a lottery pick this year. He is so mature for a freshman, and I can't see him not getting better and better as the season goes on.
Wagler played 40 minutes tonight and looked excellent. Imo, he is clearly the best player on this team and will be a lottery pick this year. He is so mature for a freshman, and I can't see him not getting better and better as the season goes on.
Nebraska is not elite but they are a good team that plays hard. They will end up as a fringe top-20 team at the end of the year, just like Illinois.
As well as a TERRIBLE call in the final minute to give them two FTs. I hope that foul call gets addressed. Guy drives on Tomi, shoots an elbow to the throat, and gets a foul call.
He has not brought consistency. If he did we would not have these chat boards so often each year
Brad should have challenged the play instead of yelling at the ref that it was bull!!!!.
Yeah that stings me the most dude having 26 before half and 32 for the game. Also they let Hoiberg play like he was prime J KIDD out there lol. He had anybody who tried to guard him on a string. A few years back Trent and Damonte would've ate both them dudes lunch. Bos locked Sandfort up some in the 2nd half but he cant guard the whole perimeter.
Their defense is designed to prevent shots at the rim, has been for years, and coming into this game they were literally #1 in the country in % of shots at the rim.
Our bigs struggled but I actually thought we did a good job penetrating their D. I bet you will be able to count on one hand at the end of the year how many teams get more points in the paint vs Nebraska than we did today.
Bad loss. Argue with a wall. Do not give two !!!!! how "good" or "better" Nebraska is this year.
This loss has happened way too often in Brad's tenure and continues to repeat itself every year since 22.
22 PSU, 23 Maryland, 24 USC, 25 Nebraska all at home.
Team is going to be fine, will get to the tourney but seeing this kind of effort, at home is inexcusable.
Cant give up straight line drives to a guy logging 9 minutes a game, Dre cannot get out rebounded on the block by Sam !!!!ing Hoiberg, bad call or not Tomi fouling a dude with 3 seconds left in the shot clock on an off line drive.
The program floor is raised back to an expectation we hoped for but what is its ceiling when this kind of !!!! happens every year?
Very much a "Im not half as mad as I am disappointed" piece of commentary but the rollercoaster stuff is exhausting. Win a home.
This loss has happened way too often in Brad's tenure and continues to repeat itself every year since 22.
22 PSU, 23 Maryland, 24 USC, 25 Nebraska all at home.
Team is going to be fine, will get to the tourney but seeing this kind of effort, at home is inexcusable.
Cant give up straight line drives to a guy logging 9 minutes a game, Dre cannot get out rebounded on the block by Sam !!!!ing Hoiberg, bad call or not Tomi fouling a dude with 3 seconds left in the shot clock on an off line drive.
The program floor is raised back to an expectation we hoped for but what is its ceiling when this kind of !!!! happens every year?
Very much a "Im not half as mad as I am disappointed" piece of commentary but the rollercoaster stuff is exhausting. Win a home.
By all accounts, Ben is a good human being. I think by now it's clear that he just isn't going to be anything more than a complementary player at this level. I think at this point we need to accept who he is.
Good post. Play Man? Play Zone? Hey everybody, we are too soft and slow to play great defense no matter what defense we play. They dribbled around and through us all day long. That !!!!er #21 shot most of his threes wide open because he was way passed the three-point line, where nobody can guard him without charging at him and fouling. Nebraska is quick and much more athletic than Illinois, and they swarm to the ball with a stifling defense. Frankly, bad free-throw shooting hurt our chances as well. We worked our asses off to get it close at the end, but Nebraska has much better athletes than the Illini. Those here that said Nebraska is not a very good team are simply wrong. They will continue to have a very good year.
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