Game Thread: Illinois vs Chattanooga

[Keisersose]

So many opportunities. Can’t cut into it after getting stops and then get a layup three out of chaos.

 

[BDMAN]

I don't want to get banned but we are not a smart or high IQ team Belo cannot make that pass to Co-Hawk and he cannot make that not smart play when he fumbles the pass SMH!!!

 

[plooger]

Ball game. I can’t believe this is the result with this team lol

Sadly quite believable, even if not predicted. Wildly invonsistent this season.

 

[hiberto]

shot selection has been terrible. drive to the rim and get to the line!

 

[illinitiger]

Zero points from Trent is a tough look

Damonte made at least a break layup...pretty sure

 

[Redbull]

There are so many things that are killing up....to point our one person/thing doesn't do any of the rest of the poor play justice.

Including BU. No Melendez or Goode.?

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Hard to understand personal decisions tonight. I know Frasier and Williams are seniors in this very well could be their last game but being bullheaded about not playing somebody else is going to get us beat

Too late now. Can't put a freshman in with 4:00 left and hope they save our bacon.

 

[SuperMetroid]

How do leave a guy who does absolutely nothing else but shoot threes wide open like that

 

[chadbrochill420]

From big ten co champs to bounced in the god-dam round of 64

 

[IceCuban]

Hawkins got jobbed on those two possessions, but he doesn't get calls because he shows up the refs

 

[HailtotheChief]

They are freaking out when they get close. Run a set and dont force things like a bunch of beginners

 

[ILLFAN67]

Curbelo has 6 turnovers!!!!!!

 

[grantlab]

Sad thing is, this isn’t “bad shooting.” Chattanooga has 17 more shot attempts. There’s a reason we can’t take the lead.

 

[RML]

What happened to Williams? He’s disappeared late in the season.

He was being tough on defensive. Need him to go hyper aggressive again

 

[sully]

Ehhh played well overall, just needs a breather to settle down

true plus it'd be unfair to the young lad on just singling him out. This is an entire team effort (or lack that there of )

 

[HailtotheChief]

Hawkins got jobbed on those two possessions, but he doesn't get calls because he shows up the refs

Bull., He forced a bad shot

 

[krushalot2005]

This has to be coaches stubbornness to not play any of the freshman, I love the seniors like the rest of us but truly isn’t their night.

 

[bootsy1974]

Oh god T.O. If things weren't bad enough. Win this game.

 

[WeWillWhen]

Getting outrebounded by 8.
Shooting 3-16 from behind the arc.
Super senior Frazier is 0-7.

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Hate to be melodramatic, but this one could scar the fan base … no Tourney in 2020, Second Round flop as a 1-seed in 2021 and a First Round loss after that? Sours the turnaround.

Let’s save this.

 

[OrangeKrush1981]

I dont know what you can tell these freshmen after watching the play of these upperclassmen .

Coaches are often suicidally-stubborn about playing guys that brung 'em to the dance. It is well beyond frustrating that Williams gets SO many minutes.

 

[tigernike23]

I’m sorry, Ayeni’s foul on Kofi was ROUGH. Anyone not seeing this? It’s a hack-a-Shaq defense.

 

[sully]

Oh God that dbag TO is in the stands rooting against us. F that broke loser

 

[New Creation]

its almost to late... and just like that.. Chat.. plays worst than us

 

[Spirit of the Prairie]

we just look like a team with ZERO chemistry

I think you hit the nail on the head (and, by the way, could our players do THAT?!). That presser with Kofi, Curbelo and Frazier looked and sounded exactly like that - no chemistry. They TALK about "unity...connected..." and all that, but they rarely look that way on the court. This game and too many others show that. So much of what is wrong with the team seems to point to coaching because we've got talent but it's not honed. And Curbelo and passes and turnovers.... sheesh.