Game Thread: Illinois vs Fairleigh Dickinson

[Battle89]

Just sucks that we don’t have a true point guard

On the other hand I see several ninth men

 

[CDRUSN]

Professor Andrej is putting on a shooting, rebounding, slashing, defending, passing, and hustling clinic. Man am I glad he decided to return!

 

[Juju]

I love how we look so far, but can we get at least ONE season(this one, especially!) where we're healthy?? Is there something about being in Champaign that turns players' bodies into glass? I really, really like Fletch, but is there something about how he gets our guys in shape that makes them more susceptible to injury? It just seems like every year we're the Fighting ILLini...

 

[illinoisgrad1990]

Jake immediately crouched on the side of the court and waited for play to stop, sure seemed like he knew what happened

 

[hoopsfan47]

Just sucks that we don’t have a true point guard

Or a ninth man.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

This is quite frankly one of the best halves of basketball I’ve seen us play. We look ridiculously good out there

FDU definitely has something to do with it. #339 on Kenpom.

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Our freshmen can't replace Jake Davis, but they can recreate him in the aggregate.

Love the Moneyball reference

 

[Wazababybrucedouglaskid]

The ball movement is off the charts!

 

[Illini60613]

They are playing too fast for me to watch and read Loyalty. This is a new thing for me...

 

[Illinifrank67]

 

[Illini60613]

I'm old. This reminds me of Loyola Marymount and Hank Gathers

 

[IllinistrandedinHouston]

If we score 63 on FDU, what does Baylors 63 say about the Illini

 

[illini0440]

Our freshmen can't replace Jake Davis, but they can recreate him in the aggregate.

 

[skyIdub]

Fairleigh Ridiculous.

 

[Det_Illini_fan]

It’s the first half and our deep bench is already in

 

[FloridaMan]

I love how we look so far, but can we get at least ONE season(this one, especially!) where we're healthy?? Is there something about being in Champaign that turns players' bodies into glass? I really, really like Fletch, but is there something about how he gets our guys in shape that makes them more susceptible to injury? It just seems like every year we're the Fighting ILLini...

Curse of the cancelled Chief

 

[RollChief]

We’re about to Baylor them! Get to 63!

BAYLOR’D

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Who had Blake getting minutes in the first half on their Bingo card?

 

[foby]

More transition points in this half than all of last season?

 

[PopChampaign]

FAGBEMI!

 

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Fagbemi 3

 

[DeeIL89]

Transition game pretty good.

 

[SuperMetroid]

I know FDU is bad, but wow!

 

[AssemblyHallForever]

Blake downtown 3!!!!

 

[ILLHoopsterFan]

It is the first game, and I thought it was a crazy idea to go from slow ball to fast ball but so far so it looks great.