Game Thread: Illinois vs Eastern Illinois

[chief]

BU looked like he's enjoying the hell out of this game.
And wow, it's weird not seeing TF out there.

now we got Sincere

 

[3nDGuy]

ESPN app has TJS’s position correct

 

[zentrails]

Is this color guy incredibly annoying or is it just me?

All the abrasive attention seeking of Dan Dakich with none of the insight into the game or interesting things to say.

Yep, before the end of the half they were talking about football instead of the game fer cryin' out loud

 

[IllinistuckinGopherland]

Hot take: Epps and Sencire will be All B1G back court in a couple years.

My least favorite thing about college hoops right now: this will only be true if Brad successfully recruits them two more times.

 

[hoopsfan47]

Freefrow?

LOL...thanks logjam....a slip back 65 years when I worked hard on my free frow shooting..like all kids.

 

[ChiefGritty]

Dainja definitely got away with switching pivot foots there, but he has some polished big man moves.

He's the only guy who paused the whole half. Took a dribble, pause, defender flys by him, easy basket.

 

[727ill]

Love the talent but worried about our bigs getting destroyed in big ten play.

We will be trapping elite bigs in conference play.

 

[hoopsfan47]

My least favorite thing about college hoops right now: this will only be true if Brad successfully recruits them two more times.

yep...would love to see those two in Champaign for a nice 15+ year NIL career!!! Throw Trent in and we would not need another guard for a decade.

 

[hoopsfan47]

The pieces are there to do some pretty great things this year.

Agree....lot of pressure to put the pieces of this puzzle together.

 

[sunman]

We will be trapping elite bigs in conference play.

I hope it’s enough to cover up our issue.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

Melendez struggling a bit so far.

 

[dbeverly26]

RJ’s gonna miss more threes tonight than he did last year

 

[PattyOBryant]

I got a sneak peek at John Crispins pre-game notes: "....make sure you mention switching defense every 5 seconds..."

 

[madillini4]

TSJ living up to that sniper handle

 

[Illini_Jack]

We're shooting from the outside pretty well

 

[jumpingjack]

Ooof that Hodges dunk

 

[RML]

Mayer doesn't seem to be having a great game.(edit, better now!)

 

[Navy_illini]

We have no one who can match up with Edey this year (I don’t know many teams that do) but he will have to run the whole game. I think our length and athletic play will be a problem. We have multiple players who could score 20+ a night. Just depends who is on.

 

[Ryllini]

I was really hoping the defense would be further along. It is not good right now.

 

[FloridaMan]

Mayer will need to play some D if he wants to stay on the floor. He is getting schooled by a bad EIU team.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Mayer is getting toasted on D.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

I got a sneak peek at John Crispins pre-game notes: "....make sure you mention switching defense every 5 seconds..."

Wait, are we playing a switching defense?

 

[DICKnaggie]

Mayer doesn't seem to be having a great game.(edit, better now!)

Getting abused on defense.

 

[jumpingjack]

Unfortunately, I can see Zack Edey and Hunter Dickinsomething going all "Kofi" on us. Instant foul trouble for Dainja.

CoHawk says:

 

[BWA]

Mayer is lackadaisical. I don’t get it.

Him and RJ have bad body language tonight.