Game Thread: Illinois vs Penn

[Heisenbobble]

Wagler triple double watch: 7pts, 5rebs, 5ast.

LMAO, okay. His +/- is … rough.

 

[Thaillini22]

Our end of half/game D is THE worst

You mean, like, ever? In history?

 

[Illinois_in_MD]

How does the other team make their 3's and we cannot???

I mean, fortunately Penn hasn't been making theirs at a great clip, otherwise it would be a lot closer!

 

[Champaign88]

First half player grades.
Mirk - A+
Boz - A-
Drej - B
Wagler - B
Jake - D
Tomi - D-
Ben - B+
Z - C

Tomi is an F. He’s just out there getting in light cardio.

Mirk 17 + 10 in a half

 

[Illini88]

Great heart/effort tonight. Now stay locked in for 20 more

 

[1867]

That might’ve been the shortest half of basketball I’ve watched all day.

 

[RML]

This team drives me absolutely flippin nuts... HUGE size advantage and just letting em fly from 3.. Such poor decision making and coaching

Almost every time we get the ball in the paint- great things happen. But nah, we'll just shoot 3's

Good things happen inside because of Mirk.

 

[RaisedMyBoysIllini]

Love him but Wagler ain’t nba ready

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Didn't love the three to end the half, but otherwise...good close.

 

[OneTime3]

This should be a 30+ point game if we are playing even "ok".

 

[Loyalillini10]

Penn is so outmatched but is only down by 10.
Sorry Brad, but WHAT ARE YOU DOING????

Yeah, it's Brad that's making them miss all those FTs.

 

[BrimfieldBomber]

The last 5 seconds of a half is guaranteed points for the other team. It's getting old.

 

[Illiniam1984]

Brad better F****** figure things out or else we will get bounced tonight or the next game. Make the changes at the half….

 

[spillini]

Not impressed with Brad so far

 

[gary?]

Can't be too upset about that first half. But we can definitely play even better in the second and put this game to bed.

i can be plenty upset about that first half. we are way bigger than this team but are living by the 3-point line. game is not over

 

[Cook]

Once again bs end of half/end of game D

 

[bavanga3]

Brad Underwood has ZERO situational awareness and it trickles onto the court. Just giving away points. May not hurt us this game, but how many one possession games have we lost? That issue isn't fixable at this point. Hes shown zero ability to change in that regard. Let's hope we go on a heater.

 

[One Man Fast Break]

Use your fouls to give SMH.

Exactly. Just grab him at half court. Why do they just let him get a momentum building three like that.

 

[BoiseBaller]

lol perfect end to the half. Nobody pressures the ball, give up a wide open 3 when we have fouls left to give. Our BBIQ was like -3 on that possession.

 

[Witherspoon_illini]

According to Mr.Obvious we have to play much better basketball if we want to beat Houston and Flordia

 

[Thaillini22]

Got out to a 20-13 lead, followed up by 20-17. We're winning.

 

[FrankNitty30]

Some of you need to pace yourself on the end of the world posts.

 

[Rap47]

Penn can’t stop the Illini in the paint.

They don't have to

 

[From the cheap seats]

Instead of taking a shot with almost no time on the clock, we shoot early…and then give up a three. We’d have been a point further ahead if we’d just dribbled the ball until the shot clock ran out. There would have been only 3 seconds left. Of course, Fran would have put Donovan Dent in. So never mind.

 

[RockfordIllini]

Can’t play drop vs Power. Burned us twice.

They hit an ungodly amount of contested midrange 2s in the first half. Stop chucking 3s and keep punishing mismatches and we should be fine.

Wish we could find our shooting though. We aren’t going to be able to physically overmatch any other team we play like this.