Game Thread: Illinois vs Ohio

[Hat-trick_Kane]

Forget trading buckets lol

It’s even worse than that

...yikes...very confused at this point. We should have improved by now. Instead we’re actually getting worse as the game goes along...not good

 

[Illini_Jack]

This is not good

 

[LouRocks]

They are sharing the ball and moving it much better than we are. We need to wake up

 

[SuperMetroid]

Bad turnovers and even worse defense

 

[texillwek]

Forget trading buckets lol

It’s even worse than that

...yikes...very confused at this point. We should have improved by now. Instead we’re actually getting worse as the game goes along...not good

 

[Illinilakes]

Wait I thought we had a good strength and conditioning coach?

Hey Underwood, make some adjustments please. How about ball pressure up top? A press maybe.

 

[ChocolateThunder]

Playing too much one-on-one basketball. Not much passing.
If this continues, we will have to hit 3's to win this game.

 

[skyIdub]

Wait I thought we had a good strength and conditioning coach?

OMG we've been duped!!

I'll start the Strength and Conditioning Coach Change thread.

 

[azillini1]

Bad turnovers and even worse defense

Yes, Ohio only has 5 turnovers in this game... none in 2nd half. We need some intensity.

 

[hoopsfan47]

Ohio 7-15 from the arc...Illini 2-10...familiar story? Gotta learn to put it in the net when it counts. Of course, Ohio has nothing to lose comparatively speaking and are far more comfortable shooting meaningful threes. This game is likely not going to end well for Illini.

 

[CubsIlliniFan]

We are exposed as a individual team instead of a universal team Ayo just drove into traffic instead of working to find a better shot. If this how we are playing against Ohio, Baylor will blow us out.

 

[Sizzler22]

Have they ever heard of zone defense? Lol

 

[Ga65]

5/12 ft’s
2/10 3 pt
12 TO to 5 TO
Not top 10 stats

 

[hoopsfan47]

Curbelo passed a shot...DFW passed a shot to get it to Ayo...then finally the SR. DFW shoots it. Need that willingness to play the game.

 

[skyIdub]

OMG Bardo complimented Illinois bench energy??!! Wtf is happening?

 

[Ubermensch]

Ohio just flat outplaying UI at every position. I'm impressed with how well Jeff Boals has his team playing.

 

[hoopsfan47]

Miller finally shows up.

 

[Deleted member 11228]

OMG Bardo complimented Illinois bench energy??!! Wtf is happening?

Took him long enough.

 

[skyIdub]

It's 2020...trust nothing you hear and only 25% of what you see.

 

[Illinilakes]

It's 2020...trust nothing you hear and only 25% of what you see.

Underwood, please keep Curbelo orchestrating the offense up top. He can get anywhere on the court. Keep Ayo and Miller on the wings.

 

[CubsIlliniFan]

Took him long enough.

It is a short term thing, he will fall back in line and hate on the Ilini later

 

[skyIdub]

Took him long enough.

Because....they haven't deserved it? Imagine that.

 

[Ubermensch]

We need to bring Andres Feliz in off the bench.

 

[Retro62]

Frankly, we just didn’t have to work at all the first two games...this the real first game of the season, and we are seeing how much work we really need...I think we’re going to look a lot better against Baylor.

 

[SescIllini]

Besides some bad stats listed above, Ohio has two players with bulk of offense. Their PG was too big for Trent to handle and using same mismatch on Damonte down low.

Either get more offense from Damonte to negate or go with two bigs. Looks like Damonte getting more offense the last several minutes.