Game Thread: Illinois vs Chattanooga

[TarheelIllini]

Need curbelo to handle the pressure D. Trent struggling

 

['16caine]

Need Curbelo

 

[OrangeLife]

I can’t believe the refs are going to take over.

And we are getting outplayed.

I have watched a bunch of games and they let them play, except this one. Did we get the quaker ref squad??

 

[PassingBy]

Very little movement off the ball. Not much intensity...again.

Coaches watching the game (I am following it on the web)

 

[blife]

Not a good start. We look way to tentative. And it looks like a ref crew that is going to make it rough for Kofi to play Kofi ball after the pounding we are used to giving and getting in BIG.

 

[IlliniTaffy]

Why is Cockburn out?

 

[WeWillWhen]

Them: shooting 5-9
Us: shooting 1-6, Kofi and Trent with fouls
Bad start

 

[hoopsfan47]

pretty obvious C will not let Kofi get clean dunks...like every other team that has figured out how to beat the Illini. No one else on the floor can score. Need RJ and AC to loosen this game up and create energy. Plummer not effective as they know he can explode so keep a big and quick defender on him. Could be a long night.

 

[fatlard]

Well. I think my Sunday may be free.. but I may not be happy about it.

We are definitely flat and not hitting shots.

 

[PNWIllini]

Refs are just calling a basketball game by the rules. We just aren’t used to seeing that.

B1G refs set teams up to fail in the NCAA. Happens every year

 

[Jester87]

Uhg.... bad feeling about it.

 

[Ransom Stoddard]

Why is Cockburn out?

He usually gets a breather around the 15 minute mark.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

How is undercutting a guy on a lob not a foul?

 

[Pikeillinifan]

What is wrong with these guys?

 

[New Creation]

this is very questionable right now...

 

[GrayGhost77]

We haven't played a real game in 8 days and it shows.

 

[Illini8420]

Uh could we please see a Curbelo-Kofi pairing?

 

[GBIllini]

Payne got undercut bad!

 

[FloridaMan]

I'm at a loss with this team this year. Just hard to reconcile the inconsistency between talk and play.

 

[New Creation]

ps. this is one of the worst 2point field going % defensive teams we are playing... but they have taken Penn States Defense and applied it

 

[fatlard]

Do we go down by 30 like Indiana?

 

[OurMottoisOskeeWowWow]

 

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Okay, get the damn jitters out and play.

 

[spillini]

RJ please

 

[dbeverly26]

There is not enough beer in the world