Game Thread: Illinois at EIU (Exhibition)

[EfremWinters84]

38-31 Kipper with 15.

 

[Spoon House]

Heat check for Smith.

He's going to hear about that shot from Underwood later.

 

[JFGsCoffeeMug]

EIU with the oop after Smith airballed a 3.

 

[HTT]

This defense won't look good against good teams... Taking too many chances.

 

[JFGsCoffeeMug]

Nichols...you have to dunk that.

 

[blackdog]

It is very very noticeable how much more we push the ball at all times. Obviously still a work in progress but seeing some good things.

 

[Bailey]

The Good: Kipper, Mark Smith, Tejon
The Bad: Finke, Perimeter D, Transition D

 

[Illininer]

This defense won't look good against good teams... Taking too many chances.

Agreed. When we play the token trap up top, all it takes is one pass to beat it and they either have a wide-open 3 in the corner or the help defense covers that guy and he kicks it to the man under the bucket.

With this team, we either have to trap that up top hard or just play straight up man. We don't have the foot speed to recover, that or we don't realize we have to rotate quick enough or both.

 

[EfremWinters84]

EIU shooting 48%. Defense is indeed a concern at this early stage.

Alstork not very noticeable either. Has AJ played? Haven't heard his name nor seen his number.

 

[EfremWinters84]

EIU 11-11 from foul line. That helps explain the halftime margin of only 4 pts.

 

[breadman]

EIU 11 for 11 at the free throw line in the first half to keep them in the game. Free advice: STOP FOULING and play solid defense instead. Thank you.
Aww Efrem, you got me by a minute!!

 

[Spoon House]

AJ in for a little bit, not much.

Alstork hasn't been asked to do much yet. Kipper and Smith have just taken the team on their shoulders, and Lucas is also doing well.

 

[HTT]

Agreed. When we play the token trap up top, all it takes is one pass to beat it and they either have a wide-open 3 in the corner or the help defense covers that guy and he kicks it to the man under the bucket.

With this team, we either have to trap that up top hard or just play straight up man. We don't have the foot speed to recover, that or we don't realize we have to rotate quick enough or both.

If they have a capable big man, just run to our basket and he will have free layups the whole game.

 

[Dan]

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[PNWIllini]

Thank you Dan for posting these streams in the other thread. Listening from Seattle, WA.

 

[Spoon House]

Underwood is laying into them. Kinda flat out of the half.

 

[Spoon House]

lol, Lucas just telegraphed the heck out of that pass.

 

[skyIdub]

yikes

 

[FeelTheLovie]

I will say, EIU getting every call and then some

 

[EfremWinters84]

Sloppy. Too much dribbling.

As someone commented earlier, I'm not seeing the constant cuts to the basket for easy buckets.

 

[EfremWinters84]

Alstork looks sort of lost from what little I've been able to see of him.

 

[dweebs19]

Illini not starting well this second half. Maybe the kids are exhausted. Too many EIU players are open on defense

 

[Bailey]

who was that on the post up and dump off to finke? AJ? Very nice.

 

[EfremWinters84]

49-52

14 min left

 

[skyIdub]

wow