Game Thread: Illinois vs Wisconsin
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That's not an excuse. The team needs a signature victory. Their NCAA hopes are clearly slipping away. They need to have a sense of urgency and they just don't. No mental toughness combined with poor coaching.
I cant watch anymore. No movement. No defense. No rebounding. No shooting. No passion. No wins. Someone on the team has to step up emotionally and lead this team into believing again.
Maybe giving some firepower off the bench. Pairing Tate w/JCL is probably better than pairing Tate w/Abrams but I am a proponent of playing your best 5.
Illini1221
Peru,IL
I feel like DJ told Groce he is transferring at the end of the year. There is no way he gets no tick. Just too good of a talent to sit on the bench.
GortTheRobot
- North Bethesda, Maryland
Maybe DJW is busy adjusting the bunson burner under Groce's seat.
See to me that makes it even worse.
AJ came in, put in effort, and after 2-3 minutes, made a mistake. He gone. How about we run one effing play to get him a bleeping shot when he's in? How about we let him play through one bleeping mistake before being yanked? One.
PostersLastStand
- Wayne County, IL
If you are the coach what do you say at half to motivate your team? What do you change, offensively or defensively? As a player do you look to your coach for inspiration, fellow teammates? Just how can your team get back in the game? What do they discuss at half? Does Groce start preparing for his post game why we lost this game speech.
Good point. With Groce's substitution patterns, I do not doubt this.
GortTheRobot
- North Bethesda, Maryland
Agreed. I would have preferred seeing AJ and DJW out there much more. Just shake it up and let some guys plays for a bit to see if they can get into the flow.
A wise man once told me, it's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
Not for me. I always used to root for SIU and DePaul 12-15 years ago when they were having success. I always enjoyed seeing Illinois teams do well and make the tournament. Then again, Illinois was also doing well at those same times, but I have pride in the state teams doing well. It's important for the state of Illinois to have some kind of representation in the NCAA's. It's been a few years since there was any. We are a good basketball state and I hate seeing Iowa and Indiana have 3-4 schools represented in the tourney and Illinois having none.
Go watch Northwestern. They are a team to be proud of, even for us Illini fans.
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You have to play Thorne and dj this half it the drought continues.
GortTheRobot
- North Bethesda, Maryland
Bless you for your continued support, it will get better.
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I just watched the last possession of the 1st half in slow motion. Lucas got screened by Nichols guy (Koenig bated him into it...slowly dribbled closer to the 3pt line...while Lucas gave him a cushion rather than pressuring Koenig), and because of the cushion he gave Koenig, Lucas decided to go under the screen and due to his distance from Koenig he and Nichols were pretty much forced into switching. Lucas (all 6' of him) was then matched up against a forward...and predictably was unable to box him out....and you guessed it....the Wisconsin forward tipped it in (Wisconsin's fourth offensive rebound that possession). Illinois players getting stuck to screens happens over and over again, and that leads to guys scrambling to catch up with passes, and leads to mismatches...and ultimately wide open shots (part of that is also the defensive pack-line, no-pressuring-the-ball strategy). Groce made himself a millionaire by somehow convincing people he can coach basketball. Thank God Whitman will be making the decision on our next basketball coach.
Illiniaaron
- Geneseo, IL
If that is true its a very immature way for Groce to handle it. The results on the court are not good enough to just bury the kid. Maybe he plays, could have some success, and both parties change their minds.
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