Game Thread: Illinois at Northwestern

[ChiIllini75]

Humrichous is not the guy tonight. His D is just not cutting it, I'd rather they roll more Tomi and Morez together late.

 

[Illini1977]

Morez and DGL need to be in. Get Ben and Will out for a bit

 

[JSpence]

Humrichous is not the guy tonight. His D is just not cutting it, I'd rather they roll more Tomi and Morez together late.

If this game tightens back up, I'm thinking we won't see him again.

 

[Fighting I 95]

That ben 3 miss was a killer. What would have been 13 points is now 6

 

[Ryllini]

This is a huge game for NW. most of our guys are seeing their first B1G game ever and on the road mind you. I think they are doing awesome. Let’s finish it

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Nicholson has blood on the jersey, shorts, and legs. They need to make him change

 

[blife]

Please get Hummer off Martinelli. He is getting anywhere he wants

 

[Mr. Roberts]

I was more concerned with Martinelli embarrassing him twice on the other end.

 

[HailtotheChief]

Nw has guarded the 3 well. Ben has had our best looks and just missed. I hope he n others hit a few soon.

 

[jamie13197]

I don't care if we win 53-52. A W on the road this year is equivalent of 2 wins.

 

[NarrowJ]

Martinelli 15 field goal attempts

Some of them will go in

 

[aaeismacgychel]

I'm shocked Brad is sticking with Ben

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Why is 3 in?????

 

[CDRUSN]

Ben is colder than a grave digger's handshake tonight, and defense is less than optimal. Let's try another option to get some momentum.

 

[Battle89]

Really sick of that 46 on the scoreboard

 

[madillini4]

Good lord get it together guys

 

[hoopsfan47]

Game killers.

 

[FloridaMan]

WHAT ARE WE DOING???? NO MORE TURNOVERS!

 

[New Creation]

Ben needs to be on the bench right now

 

[skyIdub]

You can't make these sloppy mistakes on the road in the B1G and win.

 

[FoundersClub]

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

 

[illiniguy24]

Ughhh

 

[NashvILLe05]

Making Barnhizer look like Gary Payton on D.

 

[WyattEarp]

Please step up the pace. NW has 1 GUY who could play in our 8-man rotation and we are letting them hang around. Play our game not theirs, why are we playing so slow.

We are amazingly skilled but young…and we are gonna sometimes struggle with bigger/physical teams. Particularly when we don’t shoot well.

And you know how it is…you need to control the boards overwhelmingly and then you usually need to fill the lanes quickly to get transition points. We just haven’t been able to be dominant in doing that. NW is well coached.

 

[Epsilon]

They’re playing tougher and more focused rn