Game Thread: Illinois vs Houston

[PapaDelsMadeMeFat]

Mirk is having a rough game so far. Look for him to settle in and come out aggressive in second half.

Need Ben/Jake to move more and get open. Too much standing.

Wagler needs to drive and kick if he isn’t getting calls.

Someone give Tomi a titty twister again and piss him off.

 

[NashvILLe05]

We need to hit more shots. We need to duplicate our last two 2nd halves to pull it out.

 

[jamie13197]

Frankly I don't care if it ends 43 to 42. As long as we have 1 more point. Really good defense for all but last 90 seconds. I have know idea what coaches are doing wasting fouls on Starters in first half. Insane

 

[Butters]

If you foul that quickly, it defeats the whole purpose of the strategy. And then you leave their best player open. Don’t do stuff you apparently don’t know how to do.

Horrible execution

 

[Thaillini22]

Should be up like 8. Instead up 2. Most likely will get rolled out of half.

Why would you say that? Miserableness.

 

[AnnaMay]

I don't think Andrej was fouling there. The refs just called it anyway as anticipating it. My guess is they weren't going to get to the 6th foul.

 

[jumpingjack]

We've been here before. And lately that doesn't work out well for the other guys.

 

[Get yourself a new map]

Houston being only 2pts down is miraculous for them. Man, if we don't win this we'll be kicking ourselves. We played at least 10pts better than them

Same s$&t against Wisconsin. We played way too well to only be up like 6 or whatever at the half in both games. Does not bode well AT ALL.

 

[hoopsfan47]

Why was I ready to bet my life that would be the result? We blow another solid lead and our opponent comes through in the clutch to gain mo. Sad story repeated too often.

But we have to go back to work...and make shots while getting rid of childish blunders. Play smart. Play confident. Play to win. Have fun without being carefree. Play like you have been doing it for a decade....well...you have done just that.

 

[SummerofGeorge]

Don’t mind the strategy but poorly executed. Don’t let Bos take a foul and then we should have doubled Fleming with 4 seconds left. Overall, I am happy with the effort and the outcome so far

 

[thehass]

That was one of the worst executed defensive last possessions I've ever seen. Kylan AND Ben get their second fouls, and we give up an open 3 from the top of the key. Horrible

Just the way we drew it up.

 

[the juiceman cometh]

The Stojakovic foul was awful. Didn’t even touch him.

I think the ref was on a hair trigger because he assumed we'd foul again with another to give, and I don't think our plan was actually to foul there.

 

[CentralILLini]

Should be up like 8. Instead up 2. Most likely will get rolled out of half.

Then go to bed.

Username chex

 

[IlliniAlumnus]

How the hell are they calling touch and/or phantom fouls on us but Houston is allowed to pound us repeatedly?

 

[LuckyIllini]

Wagler is way off …

I don’t think Wagler has shot a floater all year long. Always goes for contact.

 

[bjp84]

Hope we don’t go to overtime and find ourselves in foul trouble because of that bonehead strategy. You only do that at the END of a game.

 

[BryceHopkins]

We knew it wasn’t gonna be easy… have the lead at halftime. Play another solid 20 min and advance

 

[WhereDoWeStandWithStorr?]

Game was lost in that exact moment. Couldn’t have done it worse.

 

[Heisenbobble]

Just awful basketball that half. I think Iowa is gonna abuse their over-extending defense.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised we have a boneheaded sequence or two. Thankfully we played the end of the half horribly but are still up.

If we hit some of these shots we’re missing, we should win this, just keep playing tough D and rebounding.

 

[foby]

Let's own this second half!

 

[FoundersClub]

Mirk needs to be better, full stop. The missed front ends are getting old.

 

[RML]

Ya know, if they score with five seconds left, it's fine, you have a chance to score yourself. I say don't give a first until there's under five on the clock. We gave two before that. Accomplishes nothing.

 

[RaisedMyBoysIllini]

I mean the last foul wasn’t a foul at all

 

[HouTexIllini]

We are better and we are a second half team

We’ve blown several second half leads in the second part of the season.