Game Thread: Illinois vs Duke

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#903      
At a certain point, you gotta stop falling for the bait. They're open for a reason and it's not because Duke, the 4th best defensive team in the country, can't guard us on the perimeter.
I mean it's not even bait at this point. You either shoot threes or don't. That's a coaching decision. Brad could simply say, anyone who shoots a 3 gets benched and we shoot only 2s from now on. That is an option. But if we are going to allow players to shoot threes, over 10 of the threes we've taken today are the highest quality three you can get- wide open in rhythm. So that's it. It really isn't bait in my opinion. You either have the green light to shoot threes or you don't.
 
#905      
This game has UCONN vibes excluding the 30-0 run. If this is a sneak peak into the Illini being put in an 8-9 seeded game, no thanks. They will get their butts spanked against Auburn, Duke, Bama, Houston, and any other potential one seed.
We still have to win 2 games to even get there. I'd give us a 50 percent chance of making the tourney.
 
#906      
Need a new coach that can actually coach. Never been an Underwood fan. How do you get this far in coaching when you cannot adapt to the players you have or adapt to the teams your playing…? Is he literally the only coach that cannot figure out an offense and/or defense to run?
 
#911      
Got lucky when Boswell chose Arizona over us and they still failed to realize it and took him back. Poor evaluation.
 
#912      
Illini three point shooting reminds me of this...

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#915      
It’s almost better for the program if we miss it this year. We need a hard reset, TSJ and Domask masked some major coaching issues last year, as UConn exposed. The same issues that caused our Kofi and Ayo loss to Loyola.
 
#917      
I'll take the under on the Illini breaking the magical 10% barrier on made 3s.
 
#920      
Those saying we’re taking good shots and missing them: that’s just not true. We’re taking a lot of open shots but also a lot of dumb shots. And giving them layups most possessions.
 
#924      
I agree, need to beat Iowa and one game in the B10 tournament to feel 100% safe. With that said, our metrics are still way better than all of the bubble teams
 
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