Game Thread: Illinois vs Valparaiso

[LoveLovie]

Is moretti scared to shoot?

 

[dbeverly26]

So many missed bunnies my god

 

[Illini8420]

Horrible effort all around

 

[vikings001]

Effort level on defensive rebounds is completely unacceptable

Our 2 best rebounding games are Marquette and Kansas. This team doesn’t care to try against these opponents. Also wtf is domask doing? Terrible game

 

[foby]

If we are lucky, this is the worst half of basketball we play all season.

 

[grantlab]

Is this a fart noise game?

 

[BashCtIllini]

This group has consistently not played with any level of enthusiasm against weak opponents. They play their best against our best competition, which is great, but they absolutely play down to poor competition too. A team like Valpo isn't good enough to ultimately beat us, but we should be up double digits right now, not down 8.

 

[hoopsfan47]

Someone said it...and it is true. Excessive turnovers from bad, careless passing and poor FT mechanics have pretty much plagued every one of his teams.

 

[FloridaMan]

The "everyday" culture seems to be broken because this team has definitely not brought max effort every day this season - so far. It's a long season, but we have seen this type of play for a few years straight now.

 

[Illynois]

Such an obvious lack of shot creating guard/point guard to break down a defense and settle an offense. We're going to win a lot of games, but this style in general is just frustrating to watch.

 

[vikings001]

Trying not to overreact, but we’ve seen 3 Spain games, 2 exhibition games, and are into our 4th regular season game where it’s safe to say, this is a bad shooting team, and that’s just not going to change this season. We need to find a way to manufacture more looks at the rim, because hucking from 3 is going to lead to a lot of losses

We’re almost a worse layup team than 3 point shooting team. We were actually not bad from 3 against Marquette and Kansas.

 

[IllinoisGrad0609]

This team has yet to play a good game. It's going to be a long B1G season.

 

[jacekpardol]

Valpo ranked 331. What's the worst lose we ever had?

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Thank the lord I didn't go tonight

 

[Goillinikobd]

Sorry, but not surprised, I have seen this movie beforeb

 

[hoopsfan47]

Illini getting outrebounded.

 

[IllinoisGrad0609]

I don't care if they go in from time to time. STOP SHOOTING THREES!!!!

 

[vikings001]

Someone said it...and it is true. Excessive turnovers from bad, careless passing and poor FT mechanics have pretty much plagued every one of his teams.

It’s not even bad FT mechanics. FT shooting is all mental and these team is mostly just bad at it. Although we were 11-13 from FT against Marquette. It’s all about who shoots them.

 

[hiberto]

So many missed bunnies my god

I will never understand how people that are that tall and only a couple feet from the rim with their arms extended can miss these kinds of shots

 

[TyroneHogglegg]

This group has consistently not played with any level of enthusiasm against weak opponents. They play their best against our best competition, which is great, but they absolutely play down to poor competition too. A team like Valpo isn't good enough to ultimately beat us, but we should be up double digits right now, not down 8.

Hmmmm maybe just maybe they are not that good of a team team. Maybe barely mediocre. Uh oh I went and said it. I don’t see them winning many more, if any, than last years team. But time will tell.

 

[vikings001]

This team has yet to play a good game. It's going to be a long B1G season.

The good news is the big doesn’t look great.

 

[Illini8420]

Keep feeding Dain this is the type of game he’s supposed to dominate

 

[LoveLovie]

Keeping it at 4 would be a big win.. as sad as it is

 

[vikings001]

I don't care if they go in from time to time. STOP SHOOTING THREES!!!!

What do you want them to do? Drive to the hoop and miss layups and FTs? The only guys driving I trust are Shannon and ty.

 

[dbeverly26]

I will never understand how people that are that tall and only a couple feet from the rim with their arms extended can miss these kinds of shots

Playing at this speed is extremely difficult. I think that a lot of it is young players adjusting to that and just being cold, but man is it tough to watch.