Game Thread: Illinois at Nebraska
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The aggressive run ‘em off the line zone was actually pretty effective u til the twins got back screened.
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It's mostly bust. Outside of his 30 point game, it's been lackluster. He seems to me to be the odd man out, doesn't really fit in with what they want to do.
Yes, really. Nebraske as made more 3s against our MTM than our zone. They don't use a "pick and pop" the us a pick a curl. We need to protect the ball a little more.
Why does Andre give me RJ Melendez vibes??
Should've been free throws. Hoiberg pushed Mirk in the back.
As poor as we are shooting and as hot as they are remarkable we are only down 6.
Seemed like we couldn’t rotate faster than they moved the ball to me, was why there were so many wide open shots. Stay in man and make them run/move, can switch to zone for a few possessions to throw them a changeup though, for sure.
SuperMetroid
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Really needed a timeout as soon as that run got started. Ben’s block at the buzzer may end up being huge for us
That wasn’t because of zone, they barely scored when we were consistently playing zone. When they went back to Man, Nebraska went crazy. They want us to chase players through screens, that’s how they get open. The last couple of possessions of zone were horrible because Andrej missed coverage, which is why Underwood was so pissed.
What we looked like, and how in tune with each other we were the last couple minutes of that half:
If Frager goes 10/13 from three and we lose, fine. I can’t live with letting Pryce Sandfort come off screens unbothered
They made more 3s against the man because of the barrage of moderately defended shots in the last 3:30, every shot vs zone there was nobody within 5 feet of the shooter
We were doing well until Mirk and Andrej decided to try and beat the double team 4 times in a row down the floor that turned into 0 points. When we were passing out around and finding the open man is when we built the lead.
Well, he's been bust more than 50% of the year, and double figures in only 1 of last 5 B10 games against a terrible Maryland team.
Was more due to them making shots than anything, those were at least moderately defended. The zone was giving wide open 3s.
If we can get calls in the lane when they are fouling Andre or Keaton then its gonna be tough. Nebraska was hacking keaton and andre and 0 fts for em
Andrej is going to have no !!! left after Brad chews his !!! out the entire halftime. Be interesting to see how he responds in the 2nd half.
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