Game Thread: Illinois at Northwestern

[Iamgroot]

KJ not hitting his shots and not get foul calls.

It's cause hes taking terrible shots he needs to pass out

 

[sacraig]

I shouldn't have mentioned anything about cold shooting nights. My bad.

 

[ILLI die hard]

N.U. playing the way they want, this is their game plan and its working.

 

[Orangetool]

Riley on a mission.

 

[Iamgroot]

Northwestern is just annoying as a team. Going with the IU/Puke defense of foul on every possession multiple times cause they won't call them all. NW is not this good should not be a 3 point game.

Either way we need to play through it and make the pass to the open man kj can't do these backdowns he's killing any momentum we get

 

[foby]

 

[21ChampaignSt]

We're fine. Nothing wrong with what we're doing besides either missing/rushing shots at the rim or making bad/rushed decisions once we get to the second level of the defense.

 

[FloridaMan]

12 fouls evenly distributed between teams in first half. I’ve seen much worse.

Your complaining impacted officiating yet?

Nope. But the game threads go as the games go. The Big Ten needs to fix their product because it sucks. This game is infinitely less entertaining than the one we played last week in large part due to NW being allowed to ugly the game up. It's ridiculous.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

And Yes... refs are ridiculous

 

[Orangetool]

I like our coach for adjustments.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Would like to see the ball in Boswell's hands more, KJ's less.

 

[OrangeAndBlueBlooded]

Cats get an A at uglying it up

Their basketball skills not looking so good either.

 

[stlrunner]

Truthfully most boring half of the season.kj has to pass out of theres terrible shots fr.and how about play some f×ing defense we should be up so much more very disappointed with first half effort

Play some defense? Defense is why we even have the lead. Rough first half on offense, but holding a team with 2 x 20ppg scorers to 24 at half is pretty solid.

Cut down on the turnovers, start hitting some shots and we’ll be fine if we keep the defensive effort up.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Tomislav and Will - 19 of the 27

https://twitter.com/x/status/1865229712722641002

 

[chief]

This tempo definitely favors the home team

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Second half:

 

[ChiTown]

I want to see us with more ball movement and guys moving without the ball too.

 

[Orangetool]

Cats get an A at uglying it up

They are a homely group.

 

[skyIdub]

A couple of good adjustments and hopefully it opens up.

 

[DMark59]

KJ is not a first round pick next year!!!! Are you actually watching the games????? He's a walking turnover machine. He dribbles into congestion to damn much!! He should not be our primary ball handler

 

[doowink]

Refs changed the way they were calling the game at about the 6 minute mark in first half…let’s see how the 2nd half goes…if it’s a wrestling match then we could struggle…call it like the final 5-6 minutes of the 1st half and I think we win by double digits

 

[Illini4Christ]

Prediction for the northwestern players the second half:

 

[Bigtex]

I know they don't play the same role, but notable that Jake Davis has passed Carey Booth in the rotation.

I don’t understand the Jake Davis minutes

 

[foby]

Second half:

Well I hope Barnhizer gets kicked out if he does that to Jake

 

[EyeoftheIllini]

Riley on a mission.

He’s really responded to the physical nature of game. Tried a soft drive to hoop early that didn’t go well. Playing much tougher with a bit of an attitude. Really happy with his half. We know he can score if given the chance, but how would he respond to physical B1G? Passing with flying colors. My favorite half for him yet. And D has been pretty good too.