Game Thread: Illinois at Oregon

[Illini2010-11]

My verdict so far... This Oregon team is not impressive. We are the better team.

Or Illini are starting to click and have top 10 aspirations. Oregon is a very solid team that is struggling to match our tempo and depth. Illini can't let up in the 2nd half at all, as I expect Oregon to make adjustments.

 

[Bigtex]

Have we made a single bucket to close a half all year?

No. And haven’t used a timeout to set up a play. More often than not don’t use the first half timeout

 

[eas23]

The only way that boxscore could be funnier is if there was an indicator of the Humrichous dunk.

 

[Spokane Illini]

This could redefine rotations after this game

 

[JSpence]

Our Back ups are destroying Oregon right now.. QUICK SOMEONE GET GREG FROM SLEEPERS ON THE PHONE.. he just laughed at our bench... said we don't have anyone else outside of the top 4

... and they went on to wonder IF it's going to be DGL or Morez or Riley to make this a great team. They know this squad really well and you have completely mischaracterized their comments but go off, it's been a fun first half.

 

[Frank]

Get Jake some more open 3 balls please. Among many great makes that half, his second 3 was the most automatic one we’ve seen all year from this team. He’s playing like I imagined Humrichous would over the summer.

 

[illiram]

Puddles is upset after yesterday. Let's catch them while they're down.

 

[biglug58]

Boswell may be the worst finisher at the rim I’ve ever seen.

Username checks out

 

[Illini IndyCar Fan]

Can these play by play announcers please learn to pronounce our players’ names correctly?

 

[IllinoisGrad0609]

Normally I agree with this take (on Ben). Tonights not the night to dog him. He's actually playing with some energy and has been good defensively other than losing his guy once.

I'm not seeing it. He's currently a team worst (by far) -11...

 

[Orangetool]

Boswell and KJ will pick it up, I feel good.

Gotta figure a way for Ivisic to give us more inside.

 

[CleverHandle1]

This could redefine rotations after this game

For sure. Maybe Davis should start for BH.

 

[Battle89]

The ginger ponytail is the man tonight!

One could say Jake is being Mercer-less tonight

 

[PlayDeeBrownNote]

Now we just need to stop shooting “MTV Rock n Jock” 10-pointers and we’ll be good.

We need an extra basket 20 feet above the normal one too

 

[skyIdub]

Ben has lost his guy on D for a made three 2 or three times.

 

[ILLfated]

Is Boswell the new Curbello? Enough with the missed gimmes and stupid TOs!

His shoe game is on the same level

 

[WhiteHorseWings]

Jake MF Davis

This would be the true the anti-Illinois game to win with an end of the bench guy having a career night.

We are literally in the Hall of Fame of being on the wrong side of that.

 

[Chad Fleck]

I'm not seeing it. He's currently a team worst (by far) -11...

My eye had him playing pretty well on D. Nice wall ups and contests.

 

[CleverHandle1]

Get a few offensive rebounds and keep Oregon off the boards, I think Illinois can run away with this.

 

[hoopsfan47]

This could redefine rotations after this game

Don't think so, but it does give some guys a huge confidence boost...as well as fan interest and confidence. Not to mention lowering the staff's collective heartbeat.

 

[PopChampaign]

Goode + Plummer = Jake Davis

 

[SescIllini]

Will needs another year of college, tools are there. Needs to get better in several areas, get stronger, learn the game.

 

[Bigtex]

OK Brad, can you please accept that Ben is not worthy of anything close to this amount of time on the floor? He's a total liability on both sides. And, poor Will Riley. That kid is driving the struggle bus hard...

Must be watching different game. Ben was good on defense and adequate on offense

 

[UCantHideYer]

Kudos to the coaches so far for all our scoring beyond the scouting report: DGL & Jake Davis as alpha dogs, Big Ben driving, and Tre with mid range.

 

[Oracle21]

When 3s go down, it masks lot of bad things. I didn’t think our defense was good at all. Oregon got to the rim at will in that half. Too many easy dunks allowed.