Game Thread: Illinois vs Minnesota

[Oldskoolkoach]

About airballed the most wide open 3 of his life and plays defense like an open window against flies...not sure that's doghouse, or just not playing well

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

I keep hoping that this team will show up defensively....I do believe we are who we are now.

 

[Bigtex]

Goode in the doghouse

I wouldn’t say doghouse.

3 point shooter who has lost his confidence and a below average defender

 

[PizzaHutParkingLot]

Ty has to shoot the ball when he gets it under the basket

 

[RockfordIllini]

Moretti needs to be in Hawkins and TJ needs to take Christie. Full stop. We are -15 on the Christie/Domask matchup right now pending free throws.

 

[fatboyslim]

Take the layup, Ty!!

He has passed on at least 3 or 4 attempts.

 

[biglug58]

They can’t sustain this 3 point shooting, right?

 

[skyIdub]

 

[DB11Headband]

7-11 from the 3 point line? That’s insane

At this point, is it?

 

[BRucks]

We know that Christie shoots threes, right?

Our defense is predicated on stopping the three.

 

[MAUI DERON]

Relax. It’s the first half. Underwood will make adjustments at halftime and get this cleaned up.

 

[FleetFeetIllini]

I keep hoping that this team will show up defensively....I do believe we are who we are now.

Always have been

 

[CDRUSN]

I'm about to lose my manure with the Illini giving up wide open threes with no adjustments to address it.

 

[grantlab]

Other than Shannon and stretches of Amani, we have truly lost all “nastiness” on defense that we had in December. I’d rather watch a Rutgers brand of basketball than this if it means we make it hard for other teams to score.

 

[blife]

Goofers will not shoot 7/11 from 3 in a half again this year. I know our D is lacking but, our opponents luck factor/slop factor has the be quadruple their norm when we play

 

[alaskaillini]

MN shooting better from 3 than we are from the FT line.

 

[Get yourself a new map]

NOBODY misses more front ends than us.

 

[HailtotheChief]

Christie almost never drives the ball. Put a quick guy on him and don't help no matter what!

 

[madcrazeeballa]

They can’t sustain this 3 point shooting, right?

Against our D? Maybe not 64% but over 50% with the looks we’ve given them….why not

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Ty is turning down shots consistently now. He has to get back to attacking if he is going to be on the floor

4 on 5 with him on offense. I thought he might grow offensively as the season progressed. He doesn't look to score whatsoever.

 

[TonyClifton]

Goode on Garcia?

 

[Mr. Roberts]

Why do we always put Goode on their best scorer?

 

[Manual3for4peat]

Goode on Garcia. What are we doing?

 

[New Creation]

What I am confused about is how we were a top 10’defensive team before the new year. Now we don’t even know what defense means….

 

[grantlab]

CAN WE GET ONE FCKING STOP