Pregame: Illinois at Maryland, Sunday, March 8th, 2:00pm CT, FOX

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Mistakenj
RockfordIllini said:
Mostly agree with this analysis and I agree on Michigan. They are better than us and probably beat us 7 out of 10 times on a neutral, probably 6 out of 10 times at SFC, but our effort was poor. LaTulip said he thought we played timid and I agree. I actually think we had a similar level of timidity vs Purdue, at least in the first half, we just had a nuclear Keaton to save us that game.

Concerning that our two worst efforts have come in 2 of our last 3 games but as I said in the Oregon post game thread, I’m chalking a lot of it up to physical and mental fatigue due to being in the dog days of a long season + we had to play short handed for an extended period of time.

Poor shooting, defensive mistakes, lapses in intensity all can be attributed to fatigue. And as I also said in the post game, we aren’t the only ones going through it. Lots of teams are playing down to their competition and/or losing games they shouldn’t including several last night. And on some level those two losses are at least excusable/explainable in that one was the back end of a long road trip which literally no one has swept against a tourney team who has only lost once at home and presents some individual matchup problems for us, and the other against an absolute wagon/one seed. Not like we got blitzed at home by Cincinnati or even lost on the road to Ohio State.

That’s why I’m optimistic we can regain our form. We will only have one game in the next 9 or 10 days depending on if we earn a triple bye (which we likely will). Think we can get our legs back and solidify what we want to do defensively for the post season.

Now if we come out with another tier 3 type effort in our first BTT game like last year when we got smoked by Maryland, I will be concerned that we peaked too early and won’t bring our best ball to the big dance.
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This is the time of year when you’re ready to get out of Big Ten play .
 
#53      
RabidDawgClassic
attending an illinois-maryland football game at maryland was one of the most needlessly unpleasant experiences ever. we got there early to check out the campus (beautiful) and were met by 99% pretentious jerks. let us never be the fan base that can’t welcome an opposing fan to CU with respect and a reasonable amount of playful banter
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Food for thought: If you wake up and meet a pretentious jerk... well, you simply met a pretentious jerk. If 99% of the people you meet are pretentious jerks, odds are YOU'RE the pretentious jerk.
 
#54      
EmeraldCityIllini
Cary67 said:
When I watch Z shoot it from 3 I just cringe. Tomi has a nice release and form that looks like it has a reasonable chance to go in. Zs shot looks like he should pass it to someone else
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I feel like you can tell with Tomi 99.9% of the time before the ball is even released. When he gets his legs into a release, I always feel good about it. But he has too many open ones this year where he doesn't seem to get all the way there and the shot is short.
 
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jumpingjack
thefalcon5 said:
Andrej yeeting the ball at him yesterday for an and one alley oop made me laugh so hard.

Yeah he get insane arc on his shots. Which isnt bad but given his height they look like circus shots.
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Yeah I rarely say this but he needs to flatten that shot out. I only put that much air under my jumper because I'm old and don't get off the floor anymore, neither of which apply to Z 🤣
 
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IlliniTime
BrownTown said:
The blocks were great but how many shots at the rim did Oregon miss because they didn't wanna get swatted?

Thought he was stronger with the rock off rebounds as well.
Illiniguy13 said:
I'm just hoping Tomi comes out of this slump come tournament time. He's shooting 19% over his last 5 games. Z is 10% over the last 5...it's been rough from 3 for those two lately
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Maybe they should stop heaving half court shots before games. Might not get them in the right shooting form.
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PopChampaign
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#69      
pruman91
I met my first person from Maryland while on Spring Break in Ft. Lauderdale , FLA in 1971......the dude never shut up.........continuous babble for hours.......I snuck off with his very attractive lady friend later that night......she agreed that he never shut up.........what a memory !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............it really really still is............

GO ILLINI , stomp the twerps.........another worthless prediction of................

Illini 82
twerps 65

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