Texas Tech 84, Illinois 78 Postgame

[Dan]

Welcome to the Postgame thread

 

[sacraig]

Well, I didn't think I'd say it at half, but this was winnable. Bummer. But a teaching moment.

Looking forward to the rest of the season, especially when healthy.

 

[InDaAZ]

 

[foby]

Losing sucks

 

[Illiniguy13]

Extremely cursed game

 

[skyIdub]

 

[NarrowJ]

They don't win the game without the TRO getting him eligible.

 

[blackdog]

As bad a first half as it was, make some dang FTs and we win this game.

The offense needs to be completely scrapped and back to the drawing board

 

[IlliniWC]

I foresee a lot of free throw practice.

 

[madillini4]

Keep your sky is falling posts to yourselves. Credit to Texas Tech. Learn and move on.

 

[BBlock24]

Free throws be damned, I came away feeling much better than I was feeling at the end of the first half. QC is legit.

 

[hooraybeer]

make free throws and we win. without Mirk and Davis. we will be fine

 

[ChiefGritty]

Will that be the last time a team with a court-ordered eligibility mulligan guy looks older and more mature than our team which we outcompeted everyone to build within the rules we were told would apply?

 

[racinghoss]

10,000 free throws made before breakfast this week

 

[JFGsCoffeeMug]

Can't wait to forget all about this game.

 

[JSpence]

This was set up like Gonzaga 2004, just on the road.

Must have been the rims.

 

[TheodoreRex]

Good:
Williams, Coleman, 2nd half Andrej, 2nd half for the most part Tomi

Bad:
1st half effort, getting punked on the boards.

Atrocious:
Big Z, Vaaks, free throw shooting.

 

[New Creation]

The tale of the game, missed free throws. Mainly by one person. Can he be mentally fixed? Or is he not a big game player, biggest game Vaaks has played in his college career and he was a dud.

 

[skyIdub]

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Free throws. That's it.

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[suburbanILLINI]

Vaaks and the twins did not play well. Hard to overcome that when you're on the road

 

[abchew2]

Should be able to learn a lot from this one. The what ifs suck though.

 

[Bucktown]

A valuable loss for the rest of the year.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

Good game for the kids, it’s November, this will be a different team come January.

 

[mk345]

Free throws, free throws, free throws. Just hope this doesn’t become a thing with this team