Game Thread: Illinois at Rutgers

[Jimbo]

Playing our way into the 8/9 line.

 

[DeeIL89]

I think Morez had Riley open when Will drove to the basket.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

Ben trying to be Domask the last 2:30 is not the recipe... I'm sorry. He's been good, but that's not it.

 

[jumpingjack]

Tomi is a warrior.
One way or another, that dude deserves some serious bank. Love that dude.

 

[Wazababybrucedouglaskid]

Tomi is the most important person on this team!

 

[HailtotheChief]

KJ is not the same player since the injury. He is dropping fast. Lucky he didn't just ha e another turnover.

 

[Coop70]

Very little that this team does seems the result of thought. Just mindless action and hope. Don't want the old ivy league back door but come on.

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

 

[CV Illini]

We are just weak. Unless KJ figures it out we ain’t going nowhere.

 

[mark]

I don't see any of them going pro after this year they turned the ball over too much they cannot shoot the three they fell too much you're just not that great of a team they're decent but they're not great.

 

[azillini1]

This is slipping away

 

[Troop44]

If this is the KJ we can expect we are in trouble the rest of the season.

 

[SuperMetroid]

Guy jacks Morez out of the way as he’s trying to catch the ball no call

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

It’s really such a disgrace to ruin these kids’ work this way. All the money flowing into the conference growth and just bum ref product.

Going down 21-6 to start the game. I refuse to put the blame anywhere but on us. Refs should have been a non factor.

 

[ChiTown]

I think I hear the fat lady .

 

[OrangeKrush1981]

I am not an apologist for refs. They stink, every game.

Thing is, they just don't care who wins. So do they contribute to losses, incidentally? Yep, mightily.

A well-coached team is prepared for that, hard as it very much is.

 

[Illiniam1984]

Still keeping Humrichous in the game. Lol

 

[Retro62]

Imagine if we didn’t start out down 17…ugh

 

[CoachHooleyHoo]

This loss is 100% squarely on this coaching staff. To not attack in the paint in the 1st half is criminal. Never should’ve been down 17 and have to claw their way back. I’m with @Indy Illini Fan someone should get fired tonight.

 

[Illiniwacker]

We are just weak. Unless KJ figures it out we ain’t going nowhere.

Its everyone underperforming.

 

[FightinIllini30]

This team isn’t good. Sorry folks. This is not a good basketball team

 

[Illinifan55]

Whereas other conferences have refs fairly call games and even give the better teams some calls to help inflate the good teams resume's ultimately giving them easier paths for the tourney in March.

 

[UCantHideYer]

Surprised they didn’t call a foul on KJ when Tomi came down on that Rutgers foot!

 

[Old Farm Illini]

Don’t care about the outcome of this game as long as Tomi recover from this without affecting him in March.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Don’t want to hear any pearl clutchers acting like the rest of us are ~so crazy~ if we lose this one. We have MAYBE 3 losses where we just simply got beat … we’ve beat ourselves the other 5, and we’re staring at 8 losses in early February?! That’s a big deal. That’s bad. Everyone should be extremely concerned about that, especially now that we’re out of excuses. The fact it seems to infuriate me and be just another day to our team is simply heart breaking.