Game Thread: Illinois vs Tennessee

[SkyysNotFalling]

Bye bye buddy

 

[UCantHideYer]

Smart by Tomi

 

[PasadenaIllini]

They hit the glass extremely hard.

And Ben just can't rebound at this level.

 

[Oracle21]

This is a homer job. Got to take advantage of it

 

[SescIllini]

Spaz Lanier...grab a seat

 

[Jimbo]

Big to get him out if the game. Put Boswell on their next best scorer.

 

[foby]

Lanier now Lafar

 

[Epsilon]

 

[eas23]

How did Tennessee allow themselves to be in a situation where Lanier can get posted up by Ivisic when he has 4 fouls?

 

[WeWillWhen]

Such a smart play to see Lanier on Tomi, and go right at him.

 

[SuperMetroid]

And Ben just can't rebound at this level.

He clearly has the height and hops, just not good at boxing out

 

[Champaign88]

Ben with +/-10. Highest on team

He has one rebound when his defensive assignment has been to put two feet in the paint the entire game.

 

[rbillini]

Rebounding is going to cost us this game

No.

 

[Get yourself a new map]

That was the first time all game we attempted to exploit that type of mismatch. Tomi just don’t like to punish those yet. It’s coming though.

 

[NarrowJ]

If we win this game, we may have to stop talking about this team being finesse and soft

 

[DeeIL89]

We are in the bonus plus got to take advantage of it.

 

[Illini_Jack]

Time to close out fellas

 

[Champaign88]

Morez to protect the paint? What are you doing Brad.

 

[FreshlySqueezed]

If we win this game, we may have to stop talking about this team being finesse and soft

Even if we lose, we have to stop.

 

[Jimbo]

First to 60 may win this one

I’m good with that.

 

[New Creation]

how many at the rim layups is Riley going to miss.... he needs another year here. Got to get strength.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Even if we lose, we have to stop.

There's a lot of things/people need to turn the volume WAY down on. Over the top.

 

[derrick6]

Riley, Riley, Riley...strength is it

 

[Indy Illini Fan]

Ben does that and then gives up 2 straight Tennessee offensive rebounds. Oh my gosh

meet bench … For every one good thing, there’s 3 or 4 bad …

 

[PasadenaIllini]

He clearly has the height and hops, just not good at boxing out

Bottom line...he isn't getting it done out there.