Game Thread: Illinois vs Wisconsin

[stlrunner]

Pleasantly surprised by Tre White tonight.

Not surprised by Humdinger…

…still surprised Jake Davis plays.

 

[NarrowJ]

I'm sorry to ruin the Ben-trashing party here but Morez just gave up 4 straight points, got blocked, then committed an offensive foul. Everyone ok though?

 

[IllinoisGrad0609]

No ability to get the ball inside. Just awful.

 

[FloridaMan]

Doing pretty much what we've done all year. Fire quick threes and hope for the best. Ugly, ugly for the most part with the exception of Arkansas.

 

[aaeismacgychel]

You take an awful 3, there's going to be a runout ending in points.

 

[illinifan1987]

Atta boy Riley!

 

[One Man Fast Break]

This year Illini team is a lesson in what being a good recruiting/bad retention team looks like and its drawbacks. Last year we got great contributions out of super seniors. This year it’s reliant a lot on younger guys who got talent sure but those generally aren’t guys you win a whole lot with. If they’re all gonna be gone in a year anyways then it’s kinda like what’s the point? You’d hope underwood would learn that lesson with the 2022-23 team but I feel like it’s a bit of a Deja Vu and that team only had its tournament resume salvaged with a few high profile OOC wins to carry the load, this is going to need more consistency in conference which could be trickier.

 

[BBlock24]

Shooting 27% from 3 ain’t going to cut it.

 

[Illiniam1984]

delete

 

[PizzaHutParkingLot]

Our depth takes a huge hit if all of Booth/Humrichous/Davis are unplayable...

 

[PasadenaIllini]

KBeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[FloridaMan]

And of course the opponent is feeling it from three. No resistance at all. Wide open looks.

 

[WyattEarp]

Can’t blame Ben for that last one…no one in the same zipcode as Klesmit on that tray

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Strong take by Kylan there, and I loved seeing the finish, but a little strange he didn't even look at the wide open DGL in the corner

 

[New Creation]

Was Ben already that bad this game?

 

[JSpence]

We need to run some sets, not sure what we are doing on offense right now. Draw something up out of the TO please

You seem to have just awoken from a long coma. Welcome back! Would you like the good news or bad news first?

 

[PasadenaIllini]

Spacing on our offensive sets is atrocious.

 

[illinifreak30]

Terrible call on Riley

 

[aaeismacgychel]

When Tre shows up to the game showing that he wants to play basketball he's a great piece. Just needs to do that more than once every 4 games

 

[IllinoisGrad0609]

Hey guys! I know! Let's just shoot threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!

 

[illinifan1987]

Was that not an over the back? I'll take it

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Big 2nd foul on Blackwell there. Great offensive Edey style rebound by Ivisic

 

[New Creation]

This team will figure it out, but it might be ugly.. we have to hope just stay at .500 or better until February.

 

[illiniguy24]

We look totally out of sorts on both ends

 

[Illiniam1984]

Welp looks like another loss tonight folks.