Game Thread: Illinois vs Houston

[Rap47]

I hope next year's team has players who can beat their man off the dribble.

 

[sulli]

Pregame: Illinois at Michigan State, Saturday, February 19th, 11:00am CT, ESPN

Has anyone attempted one? Trent has in the past but he looks to me (not an MD) like he might be playing more hurt than he's letting on besides being nearly our only PG since Belo has not gotten his legs yet

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This was the problem for months and they never tried to get better.

 

[illini80]

Sadly this was not surprising. We were fortunate to get a second game.

 

[Chillinini]

Disappointing.

I foresee a lot of movement this off-season.

 

[Calillini]

Honestly love Trent and Damonte but I think that may be a factor (undersized)when we get to the NCAA tournament

Yes, exactly, the days of the 6‘ guard are fading

 

[SuperMetroid]

Wow. Truly pathetic way to end this game and season. Tied at 40 and you give up a 25-9 run?

 

[GallopingGhost]

Turnovers and poor shooting. Can’t come back from both, even with great defense.

Good season boys. Don’t hang your heads.

We will be back here

 

[bootsy1974]

I know early in the season it was a nice idea to have the 4 out - 1 in concept, but what this tourney exposed is you have to have guys who can get to the basket and create their own shot. We currently have two players that can do that, Curbelo, who has no outside shot, and RJ who coach only plays in small spurts (outside of today). It really hurt that our three seniors have almost no ability to drive the ball and finish.

Exactly you won't go far just relying on 3 point shooting. You have to have a diverse offense. Drive and kick out or drive get the basket and score/draw a foul.

 

[HailChief89]

I will miss Trent, Damonte! I hope Kofi returns for some reason. Great group of Illini players!

 

[Hof]

Oh boy! Not. I mean Not what I expected today. F@&k

 

[Sean8328]

I love Brad and hope he stays around but his loyalty to DMW, Frazier, and Plummer lost us this one imo and it should have probably cost us in round one. Also that group got outhustled both games which is ridiculous and should not happen specially after last year. They should be embarrassed.

 

[Epsilon]

Well, it’s been a lot of fun interacting with you all on this board. Thank you for the entertainment.

Thank you to the players too. Despite a pretty rough end, I enjoyed the season as a whole and appreciate everything they brought every day. Thank you for playing for, representing, and giving everything you had to the Beloved.

 

[Keisersose]

Honestly love Trent and Damonte but I think that may be a factor (undersized)when we get to the NCAA tournament

And of
Course add Plummer to that group. And Belo.

Love this guys. But our lack of length on the perimeter has been exposed before.

 

[freebird6]

Really poor effort today. Got absolutely punked.

Just ran into a better prepared and better executing, hard hustling team. Hard to say with the guy at the top that is one of the few totally detestable humans in the game. Thank someone that one of the others was relieved of his position before the tourney