Game Thread: Illinois vs Wisconsin

[bavanga3]

Brad really does lack in game awareness. Use it or lose it timeout and you let Wisconsin score and watch 3 seconds run off the clock instead of calling a timeout and giving your guys a chance. Thats the type of stuff that kills you in March.

 

[FloridaMan]

Losing the rebound battle again. Has to get corrected.

 

[blife]

Terrible last 2 minutes. Head up our a$$ getting back to stop transition.

 

[Second place is 1st loser]

Offense = phenomenal

Defense = okay

Defensive rebounding = atrocious

Nailed it.

 

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Wish this lead was more than 6. Wisconsin only shot 37% ...Illinois 58%

Wisconsin missed a ton of open looks and their top guys haven't got going

Blackwell pushed off with off arm on that "weight room" play

 

[UCantHideYer]

C’mon Robbie, Blackwell didn’t put Keaton in the weight room. With a discard with that much arm, my grandmother could have discarded Keaton.

 

[eas23]

With no Boswell and AS, need to expand bench play. Only 1 minute of Lee is going to tire this squad sooner than later.

Lee doesn't know what he's doing. There's a reason he's gotten literally one possession multiple times this year.

 

[TheFlyingIllini1317]

One more stop there would have been awesome. Hate the transition 3 we gave up late, give up tough two's and win this game.

 

[chief]

We look tired and slow

 

[Rooftop]

Our propensity to not foul is making us too soft defensively including defensive rebounding

 

[derrick6]

We can shoot!

Put a body on an opponent and we negate the offensive rebounds…we learned.

Keaton seems to miss free throws on a regular…strange. But he’s back.

Hum is Humming. He is who we thought he was.

Tomi is playing like the first round pick.

What’s Andrej’s issue?

 

[stlrunner]

I never like the feeling of having a lead…but you feel it should be 6-8 points bigger.

 

[BoiseBaller]

Rebound. That's it. That's the message. Rebound the damn ball and win the game.

 

[Ryllini]

These peacock games are a pain in the !!! even in Vegas. Finally coming at you live from the Cosmo. How have we looked?

 

[HailtotheChief]

Wisconsin with 9 offensive rebounds. HAVE to clean that up.

The athleticism of Andre on the glass is being misses on the long rebound misses on Badger 3s. Tomi and Z arent quick to the ball on the long misses.

 

[thehass]

Blackwell with the shoulder and arm extension on Keaton.. guess we don’t get calls like that LMAO!

That's his trademark.

 

[blife]

We have to get some stops. Have to push these 5 and 6 points leads out to double digits. Can't let teams keep hanging around.

 

[NarrowJ]

My guess is shooting percentages and offensive rebounding normalize in 2H

Wisconsin started 7-11, then shot 7-26 the rest of the half

Allowing 9 off rebs probably won’t happen again next half

 

[hoopsfan47]

A good comeback. Taking care of business and hitting open shots. My only concern is the short bench...but playing 2 Ivisic for lengthy stretches gives us a big advantage.....and yet losing the rebound battle. Gotta keep hitting shots and getting their energy from the crowd.

Much of the good shooting is attributable to Wisky only having 3 fouls and not contesting much or well at the rim. Might be a good thing....or not.

Once again we are seeing excellent ball movement which I hope is a permanent trait of this team.

 

[zentrails]

Lee isn’t ready for this level of play

I'd like a little Petro if he could only play a lick of D

 

[aaeismacgychel]

Wish this lead was more than 6. Wisconsin only shot 37% ...Illinois 58%

Wisconsin missed a ton of open looks and their top guys haven't got going

Blackwell pushed off with off arm on that "weight room" play

Wisconsin did pretty good on their open looks. They struggled on the contested ones though. Need to keep them from getting the good looks. Cleaning up the glass and getting back in transition would help wonders on that end

 

[Oldskoolkoach]

Our stadium atmosphere has just plummeted man. Whoever controls the music is just terrible. There's no way the players want this either. Just blaring music the entire timeouts and reviews rather than letting the band rip.

I'm sure this is a bit of an old head take but I truly can't believe anyone likes this.

Ive been to 90% of the home games during Brad’s tenure and its easily the quietest its been the last 2 years. Im not sure if the seating is wrong, speakers, crowd, DJ, or what, but its more quiet than an average HS basketball game, but louder than a Sunday evening church league game.

 

[Dragons89]

Needed to use the TO to get Jake back in the game. He sat at the scorers table for last two minutes.

 

[ImGonnaBeILL]

Hope we can get through this game with a W with what is essentially a 6 man rotation right now

This isn't going to be easy. Just hoping we can escape with a victory

 

[Bigtex]

Good tomi, Kenton and hum

Ok - Davis

Bad mirk and z