Game Thread: Illinois vs Alabama

[illini510]

Add Tre White to that list as well. Trying to get his was the losing basketball he played at Louisville, that crap ain't gonna cut it here.

What did I say about Ty Rodgers being more of a team first guy. I will still contend that we are better with Ty than without him. Brad has to live with this. He made his bed with this no defense squad

 

[PasadenaIllini]

Purdue only beat these guys by turning it over only 3 times (Braden Smith), shooting 57% from 3 and the game being at Mackey ...

You think this would be playing out differently at the Assembly Hall? I don't think so, man. I watched that game. Purdue played defense at a level that we haven't shown anything close to. And they have outstanding three point shooting and team shot creating...better than us. And they had just lost their starting center for the year. Ole Miss and this game are showing some deep flaws that will need a lot of work for us to overcome. B1G success is far from a given unless we do quite a bit of improving.

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

WHY ARE WE GIVING NELSON THAT MUCH ROOM?

Is that Ben or Brad?

 

[blueguy]

Get Humrichous on the pine. Way over matched.

 

[FoundersClub]

Who’s our alpha?

We need an alpha.

 

[sacraig]

It's true that we are still largely a collection of high quality parts that haven't formed into a well oiled machine yet.

It's also true that we can't buy a bucket tonight.

 

[NashvILLe05]

We look nervous…missing free throws, low IQ ball, 3 attempts way off on open looks. Wouldn’t be surprised if starting 5 changes after this game.

 

[Retro62]

How many threes have they hit? Good lord

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

And we get them after what I'm sure was serious practice from Nate. They are responding.

Oh they are freaking HUNGRY ...

 

[azillini1]

Just not playing together or hard. This team is just not "Every Day Guys" yet. We kind of thought we would struggle the first month or two. I hope we get better defensively.

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

How many threes have they hit? Good lord

How many have they missed ?? We should be down 25 ...

 

[aveseaboy]

If Ben isn’t shooting well I don’t see a single reason to have him on the floor

 

[PasadenaIllini]

Indiana, Ohio St. Michigan st. NEBRASKA, etc.I can keep going. Big18 is going to be a gauntlet.

I forgot about Nebby. They have just about everyone returning don't they?

 

[grantlab]

Ben and Tomi’s close outs need to be so much better… come on guys

 

[pvaughn8]

I love the commentators taking a dig at Purdue football

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Alabama has missed 14 threes and are still beating us 44-29

They've also made 8.

 

[Rich]

 

[NASchamp]

I mean, they are just a much better basketball team. Just the quality of looks will tell you that. We are bothered on both ends, and our effort isn’t where I thought it’d be: need guys going after long rebounds and diving on the floor for loose balls.

The quality of our shots was so much better in the first few minutes. They were shooting uncontested 3s.

 

[JCS1985]

The Illini squad looks soft too many euro skill guys getting killed by physical players

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

Why bring on White to possibly push out Rodgers? At least he played D, moved the ball, and hustled.

I'll just say it because it doesn't matter anymore ... TA brought White in and pushed out his own guy ...

 

[blife]

Got to stop their guards from getting to the paint. Hummer cannot guard Nelson, He is getting lit up

 

[UCantHideYer]

Highlight of game so far is hearing Purdue Football sucks

 

[WeWillWhen]

We are just not getting up on them at the three point line. Is this game plan?

 

[CDRUSN]

Bama is on track to hang a hondo on our D by the time this one is over. The only thing to stop it is if they call off the dogs.

 

[Illiniguy2442]

I'll just say it because it doesn't matter anymore ... TA brought White in and pushed out his own guy ...

So bad