Game Thread: Illinois at Texas Tech

[Illinicpa14]

It’s 1 game in November - yes this is horrible to watch but it’s 1 game…maybe we won’t read about how great we are and learn something.

Florida was 5-4 last year and ended up a 1 seed

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Can’t get my VPN to get around Curacao geography destructions, but it sounds like that’s for the best.

wtf?!?!

 

[NarrowJ]

This is not a top 5 team without Mirk or Davis. Full stop

Hope nobody was fooled into thinking we were. Might be the two most important players we have.

 

[PapaDelsMadeMeFat]

Halftime grades.

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[PizzaHutParkingLot]

Cam & Tyler have a lot of work to do during the half

 

[From the cheap seats]

Tonight we are Farleigh Dickinson…

 

[Illini1977]

that many turnovers is inexcusable, no composure even from the supposed leaders/non freshman

 

[hooraybeer]

ugly half. glad QC seems to be okay and EB was walking off at the end too. could be worse

 

[Illinidrew]

Well that was the worst....

 

[FloorGeneral]

Everyone relax. We're on the road. Bunch of freshmen. Missing key guys. Give me this environment for the team to gear up for the season. Good to get your !!! kicked to stay humble and locked in for the grind of the season.

 

[Chief forever 25]

25 percent free throws
11 turnovers
25 percent threes
Outrebounded 23 to 15
yikes

 

[wncillini]

We don’t seem to want to compete…we are so disconnected on defense it’s alarming.

Still like we've never seen a screen before.

 

[hiberto]

will we hear another fart noise from BU in post game presser?

 

[hooraybeer]

Can’t get my VPN to get around Curacao geography destructions, but it sounds like that’s for the best.

wtf?!?!

yeaaaaa pour a little rum and listen to the waves my friend. at least our jerseys are awesome

 

[AnnaMay]

To much standing around on offense. Probably need to start doing some ball screens because we are making their defense look amazing when its not.

 

[ChiefGritty]

This is not a top 5 team without Mirk or Davis. Full stop

It's not, but there's a bigger question here about whether we're actually putting our best foot forward playing cocaine ball with 5 freshman and Jason Jakstys every night.

A team is comfortable in chaos out there, and it isn't us.

If and when we do get Mirk back, don't we want to make him the protagonist?

 

[Bigtex]

I am guessing after the first half showing some of the expectations will be lower.
It is one thing to blow out bad teams

Our slowness was exposed. Didn’t take any advantage of our height

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

For the people for want to play 11 or 12 deep, this is why you don’t do that.

Just too much instability that results from no cohesiveness in those lineups.

 

[stlrunner]

Well at least DGL didn’t make that last dunk…

 

[chudaman]

There's no leaders on this team. Gonna be an all time let down.

QC will prove otherwise

 

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Half court offense looks horrible. As in, there is none.

And getting not a soul that can stay in front of their guy on D. Screen Lincoln up high.....and it's over.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

The sad part is, I don’t see a turnaround in the second half.

 

[illinifan4249]

Honestly the most disappointing part is how much better there crowd sounds consistently than our home games these days

 

[hoopsfan47]

Illini made every simple mistake you see in a grade school game. Now let's see if a little rest can effect the bad thoughts between their ears.

High pace and high energy games produce high turnover and high blunder results. Can we be the benefactor in the next half. We already made every boneheaded blunder so there can't be many, if any, left? We will see.

 

[DeeIL89]

-Can't make shots
-Can't get rebounds
-Can't make free throws
-Can't take care of the basketball
-Freshmen looking like freshmen
-Pretty much everything bad in the first half