Game Thread: Illinois vs Maryland

[InDaAZ]

Brad: Hey, refs, our star player doesn’t get the star treatment that other teams’ stars get.
Refs: OK, Brad. We hear ya…

 

[Fly Illini Fly!]

How many layups have we missed.

How many have Maryland missed???

 

[FloridaMan]

I get that we miss Tomi. But this team has plenty of other options, on offense, to be up in this game. Ben, JK, and Davis are 1/9 from mostly wide open 3s. Have to have better out of 3 of our best shooters this half.

 

[ILL-Intentions]

let’s try shooting on the basket on the other side of the court this half, I bet they go in down on that side

 

[jamie13197]

I've said it all year this season. Each game we have someone ok from 3 land. Rest at 5%. We are shooting generally 25% as a team. Analytics say we'll be lights out example Oregon and Indiana, Arkansas a total of 7x this season. Not good and not IMO smart tatical plan for a season. Yet our 28 year old coaches say So. We have men that. An drive, 30 3s a game. Nope. Early exit from tourney.

 

[illinifan1987]

Me after catching up to the live game...

 

[blife]

34 of their 38 in the paint. Please cut off the dam lane this half

 

[the juiceman cometh]

Maybe they just figure they’ve all clearly been exposed to him so much while he was infectious that at this point, it logically makes no difference besides optics (and they don’t care about that), is my best guess. But I’ll admit I had the same thought, lol.

I had the flu this year and what I was told is that after your fever has broken you're not really contagious anymore. You may still feel like @#$% though. Not sure if that's where he's at but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

How in the creation are we only down one possession? The fight of these guys, most of whom belong in McKillme … for those who remember

Good ol' McKillme.

So what seems to be the problem?
I think my leg is broken
Is there a possibility you might be pregnant?
Uhhh, what? I'm a guy... And it's my leg that's the problem
We're going to order a pregnancy test.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Man.... Just. Make. An. Open. Three.

 

[logjam]

Can we play Jackstys without endangering his redshirt...?

 

[PasadenaIllini]

KJ needs to freaking D up out there. Way too soft.

 

[Wazababybrucedouglaskid]

This is 100 percent on the players! Wide open looks!

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

What happened to our elite shooting team?

 

[hoopsfan47]

Obligatory lunch money takeaway against JK.

 

[jamie13197]

Shoot it from 2 ft. Kj, wtf....

 

[RIP_Chief_2003]

9 missed layups

 

[biglug58]

For such a great free throw shooter, it’s amazing how bad Tre’s three points shooting is.

 

[BlabDunkAnd1]

Boswell needs to go to layup camp

 

[SuperMetroid]

Jesus Christ make anything

 

[New Creation]

Nice take and 1 for Tre there.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

I'm not feeling.it folks.

 

[OrangeKrush1981]

Our offense is frustratingly limited. Maryland is not going to let our guys get good looks from three. And when that option is denied, the ball sticks with each of our guys, much of the time. Not all the time, but too often. That makes it easier for a quick team that plays hard to disrupt what we do. Fortunately, Maryland's defensive overplays have led to a bunch of easy layups for us.

We certainly have a lot of very poor shooting performances. It's only halftime, so the 4/17 shooting from 3-point range our guys have turned in could turn around this upcoming half. But I have to say that I am really tired of this streaky, three-point shooting based offense. It works incredibly well sometimes, but not infrequently we got nothing ...

 

[skyIdub]

Boswell at the rim is.....inexplicable.

 

[azillini1]

Boswell sure misses a lot of layups