Game Thread: Illinois vs Minnesota

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illiniguy24

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We have forgotten how to play basketball as a team, every possession looks painful...
 
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freebird6

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No doubt the last minute announcement of the suspensions blew up the scout and prep that they went over the last few days. Obvious that Minny had some time to get ready.

Mav with some nice blockage
 
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Minnesota has had 6 guys play minutes thus far. I'm baffled by the lack of a press.
 
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frankfortillini

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I hate to say we're just not coached very well. I love Coach Groce but unless he get new assistants that know how to coach, JW needs to make a change. This is just not event remotely fun to watch anymore.
 
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freebird6 said:
No doubt the last minute announcement of the suspensions blew up the scout and prep that they went over the last few days. Obvious that Minny had some time to get ready.

Mav with some nice blockage
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Same problems tonight that we've had all year so..... No.
 
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We have given up 40 pts to a severely under manned Minnesota
 
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freebird6

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TheBucket said:
Minnesota has had 6 guys play minutes thus far. I'm baffled by the lack of a press.
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do you think they have practiced a press? Not sure they would have thought of that with no knowledge of the suspensions.
 
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I'm expecting a new "This is the low point" article from Robert following this game. Still somehow standing behind the thought that we can't judge Groce.

We're down 8 at home at half to Minnesota... on Senior night.
 
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Groce should be fired if we lose to this team at home.
 
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freebird6 said:
do you think they have practiced a press? Not sure they would have thought of that with no knowledge of the suspensions.
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That's what I asked a couple minutes ago...you would think we'd have a press in the arsenal for late game situations at least. Might be a good time to roll it out in the second half.
 
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illini8507

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This is supposed to be fun to watch. This is not fun to watch. I'm seriously considering firing up Netflix and saying eff the second half
 
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bleedsorangenblue

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Defense stinks tonight. Way too many easy baskets for MN inside, not to mention unguarded 3s. We have turned the ball over and are not converting free throws. Really are going to tighten things up to have a chance in the second half. Can we please play a second half better than the first for once?
 
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icengineer

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freebird6 said:
do you think they have practiced a press? Not sure they would have thought of that with no knowledge of the suspensions.
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You want us to believe that this team has not practiced a press? maybe not in the past couple of days, but come on.....:tsk:
 
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westcoastillini

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terrible half

bad defense
no semblance of offensive schemes
team just looks tired.

as the first half progressed it felt like we are seeing a truck with no wheels.

all of this against a team with 3 players suspended.

this is just brutal.
 
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freebird6

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CoalCity said:
That's what I asked a couple minutes ago...you would think we'd have a press in the arsenal for late game situations at least. Might be a good time to roll it out in the second half.
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Interesting thought. Not sure how much time they have spent on that ....I am more baffled by the lack of high hands close outs, Pack line filling in when Sharp is getting down the lane and other things that I know are part of the scheme... wonder why those are missing entities at this point
 
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Is it correct that Minnesota has ZERO (0) scholarship guards active for this game?
 
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