Texas Tech 84, Illinois 78 Postgame

[Ga65]

Who do we think he's referring to when he said "Our physicality has been atrocious. We've got guys that don't hit, don't want to hit people."?

I thought we just got beat up by older stronger players. Z lost the ball at times after coming down with it. How many times were our players on the floor? Mirk and Jake would have made huge difference in our toughness. Actually thought Coleman was tremendous under the situation. But if you watched MSU vs Duke this was not an unusual situation. Same thing happened to young Dukies.

 

[lstewart53x3]

Worked rally well this game.

Guys, I know the current staff crafted the most efficient offense in Illinois history last year and has Illinois’ offense at #1 in the country so far this year, but Rap47 has some truly innovative ideas. Surely, we can find a spot for him somewhere on the bench. Maybe replace leggings?

 

[Altuve27]

When Zvonimir makes a shot from 3, a fan in attendance will when a car.

 

[wc_illini]

Guys, I know the current staff crafted the most efficient offense in Illinois history last year and has Illinois’ offense at #1 in the country so far this year, but Rap47 has some truly innovative ideas. Surely, we can find a spot for him somewhere on the bench. Maybe replace leggings?

Just for the record, I wouldn't say we're #1 so far this year. Current ratings are still heavily weighted towards pre-season expectations. Adjusting the date range seems to remove those, in which case Torvik has us 31st.

I'm not saying we're doomed. But to play 10 points worse than the spread (which accounted for injuries and was based on us being a tier below the best teams in the country at full strength) was a dose of reality compared to some hope/hype that we belong in that top tier. We still may end up there, but it shows we have further to go than I'd like and makes me re-consider our floor this year.

Also, here's what EvanMiya says about us (small sample size alert):

 

[EmpoweredIllini]

Just for the record, I wouldn't say we're #1 so far this year. Current ratings are still heavily weighted towards pre-season expectations. Adjusting the date range seems to remove those, in which case Torvik has us 31st.

I'm not saying we're doomed. But to play 10 points worse than the spread (which accounted for injuries and was based on us being a tier below the best teams in the country at full strength) was a dose of reality compared to some hope/hype that we belong in that top tier. We still may end up there, but it shows we have further to go than I'd like and makes me re-consider our floor this year.

Also, here's what EvanMiya says about us (small sample size alert):
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do we trust evan miya with the whole tomi thing? does this take into account only this season (not great sample size yet) or is there context from last season bleeding into this?

i keep trying to remember we don't have jake or david when analyzing us, whether its offense,defense,rebounding

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Just for the record, I wouldn't say we're #1 so far this year. Current ratings are still heavily weighted towards pre-season expectations. Adjusting the date range seems to remove those, in which case Torvik has us 31st.

I'm not saying we're doomed. But to play 10 points worse than the spread (which accounted for injuries and was based on us being a tier below the best teams in the country at full strength) was a dose of reality compared to some hope/hype that we belong in that top tier. We still may end up there, but it shows we have further to go than I'd like and makes me re-consider our floor this year.

Also, here's what EvanMiya says about us (small sample size alert):
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Combine the bolded.

Reevaluate in a month.

 

[lstewart53x3]

Just for the record, I wouldn't say we're #1 so far this year. Current ratings are still heavily weighted towards pre-season expectations. Adjusting the date range seems to remove those, in which case Torvik has us 31st.

I'm not saying we're doomed. But to play 10 points worse than the spread (which accounted for injuries and was based on us being a tier below the best teams in the country at full strength) was a dose of reality compared to some hope/hype that we belong in that top tier. We still may end up there, but it shows we have further to go than I'd like and makes me re-consider our floor this year.

Also, here's what EvanMiya says about us (small sample size alert):
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I hear you man and most of that’s fair. But I’m not sure EvanMiya’s description there is fair. The sample size is one game, without our all American and another starter, in the first road game of the season.

 

[wc_illini]

I hear you man and most of that’s fair. But I’m not sure EvanMiya’s description there is fair. The sample size is one game, without our all American and another starter, in the first road game of the season.

Combine the bolded.

Reevaluate in a month.

do we trust evan miya with the whole tomi thing? does this take into account only this season (not great sample size yet) or is there context from last season bleeding into this?

i keep trying to remember we don't have jake or david when analyzing us, whether its offense,defense,rebounding

I'm pretty sure this year's "Opponent tilt" is based on just this year's games, so you're all correct that the sample size is insufficient (though it's also partly based on playing worse against Penn than FDU, so it's 3 games not 1).

But it was true (to less of an extreme) last year (mostly on defense):