Game Thread: Illinois vs Houston

[CHILI1992]

His drives have been very good. He’s getting there.

Just not finishing though. The missed layups are the issue. Nothing more nothing less.

Defensively he’s been great.

He has absolutely got hammered every drive

 

[curtmoss]

Ug! Houston has six fouls so instead of driving we throw it away.

 

[RML]

Looks like they figured out how we're passing out of that blitz. They almost got that one.

 

[Illinois_in_MD]

Completely unforced turnover to kill our momentum!

 

[Sheldon Ram]

Please keep AS on the floor Brad

 

[IllinistrandedinHouston]

So far Houston with six fouls, Illinois only two.

Housto has 40 fouls, only six called

 

[fantasydaily708]

Houston cant buy any bucket 2 or 3 and we turn it over again

 

[FoundersClub]

That type of TO just can’t happen in a game like this.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Houston has to start making some buckets eventually

How about in November?

 

[foby]

There's your 1, Mirk. Now go destroy them.

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

Ugh! Ball up 7 and we throw it away. Go up 10 at half, key is to put pressure on their offense to score! They will press and the looks on offense for us will get better.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Keaton has not played that bad. ???

I've really liked his defense. He has been doing a decent job at getting to the rim. Just needs to finish.

 

[TheChief4Life]

Weird turnovers. Like, Houston is good, but we really seem to be killing ourself so far. We clean it up, I can see us winning by a lot.

 

[SilverTurbo]

14 pts for Houston! Didn’t expect that near half

 

[Wazababybrucedouglaskid]

We can pick them apart! No need for across the court passes that create no advantage!

 

[jamie13197]

Nothing streaming about todays TV coverage. More timeouts than a kid in trouble. Smh

 

[hoopsfan47]

Houston has to start making some buckets eventually, but let's get so far ahead that it doesn't matter

They actually started the game by making a few jumpers while we were making layups and free throws. Things have changed over the past 10 min.

 

[Champaign88]

Keaton has done nothing, dude needs to wake up

The missed layups are annoying but he’s been solid on defense and isn’t turning the ball over against a hard trapping defense (he is getting the most pressure from it).

 

[biglug58]

At this point Houston not looking particularly good. We’re also not having a great game but if we turn it up, I think we’ll be fine.

 

[Illinicpa14]

Get to the foul line and hold this lead into half (and get ball to start the second)

 

[Ander1345]

Mirko take a deep breath, ok to slow it down for a minute.

 

[blife]

Cannot Piss away ANY possession. Ball strong and no more airmailed passes.

 

[IlliniAlumnus]

It is unreal that Tugler only has 1 foul. Should have at least 3.

 

[zentrails]

3 bad to by mirk

CMON!

Jitters by the 2 freshmen I think, they'll settle down

 

[Ats123]

That one was really unforced. Yikes