Game Thread: Illinois vs UCLA

[LoveLovie]

We aren’t quite talented enough. Just try to hang in there.

 

[BlueLeader]

Hawkins getting whipped.

 

[WeWillWhen]

Campbell + Jaquez are good.

 

[FloridaMan]

Started out great, then TO's and FT's showed up. Gotta be better on both counts, but we can beat this team.

 

[Pikeillinifan]

A couple bad, bad calls but we’re just not there yet.

 

[GallopingGhost]

They look like they have 2 players who have played with each other for 4 years and we don’t. That’s kinda the difference on their offensive end so far

 

[FromTheLogo]

Tyger is a HANDFUL. Sheesh.

 

[Rich]

I don't want to hear about Coleman and NBA in the same sentence ever again

 

[CentralILLini]

UCLA is not playing very well either

 

[azillini1]

Killed us the last 5 minutes. We lost our offensive flow that we had the first 10 minutes.

 

[the juiceman cometh]

13 turnovers in a half

Felt like 30!

 

[IllinistuckinGopherland]

That is an absolutely terrible call

Uh. It was absolutely correct. He caught it on two feet. Then hopped with both feet.

 

[Illini_Jack]

Turnovers are the difference

 

[BashCtIllini]

someone needs to get a hammer and nails out and nail Hawkins feet to the ground. How many times is he going to jump at a shot fake and get completely out of position? Especially when he has a minimum of 4 inches on the guy faking.

 

[kyillinifan]

You see what a senior guard can do against a freshman. That wasn’t a travel.

 

[Flyin' Illini]

terrible call on dain

I mean, he traveled. You can argue that it usually doesn't get called, but to me it was am obvious travel.

 

[Chillinini]

Getting outplayed and out coached the second half of the first half.

Time to see how they adjust and come out in the second half. Big tell.

 

[Chad Fleck]

What exactly happened on that Dainja call? I'm still confused.

 

[ILLFAN67]

Wow on the turnovers, 13 is crazy. That’s a lot by everyone. We need to play much better. You cut that in half and run good offense we are tied or winning.

 

[Mr. Roberts]

They had 16 more shots than we did. 16!!!!

 

[IlliniForceOne]

Tough close to the half. 10-0 UCLA.

The good: our defense.

The (very?) bad: turnovers, FT shooting. Any sort of offensive flow.

I get the freshman struggling. I get Mayer still needing to find his legs. We need much more from Coleman in games like this at this point in his career.

 

[KingWolf11]

Ucla played horrible and they are killing us. We don’t have near enough shooting

 

[Flyin' Illini]

We aren’t quite talented enough. Just try to hang in there.

Talent is certainly not the problem.

 

[Epsilon]

Well, at least there will be a lot of tape to watch. Let’s get this cleaned up and put it behind us in the second half. Bring back the intensity with better focus.

 

[sacraig]

terrible call on dain

Nah, it was the correct call. It's just something that they always seem to miss or let slide.