Illinois 120, Fairleigh Dickinson 45 Postgame

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Illini-Rule
Has anyone heard anything about FDU's coach being pissy after the game? I saw an article but I think it was click bait. Thought I'd check.
 
#127      
Bbuck21
Who would like to see the Illini as high BB IQ combination of Arkansas' 40 minutes of Hell and Loyola Marymount under Westhead?
 
#128      
Illinirog70
Illini-Rule said:
Has anyone heard anything about FDU's coach being pissy after the game? I saw an article but I think it was click bait. Thought I'd check.
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What more could we have done? We played everyone including the janitor! Starters played slightly more than a half, and the needed to be rewarded too. If we had tightened up the defense at the end, this could have been a 90+ point difference. And the young horses wanted to run, too. We would have scored a lot more points if we hadn't been chasing that elusive 19th made three pointer.
I'm sure the Illini benefited more from the Baylor scrimmage than this game but the coach has areas to critique from this game too (free throws?) You can't throttle the players just because the opponent is lousy...

One can never look at the opponent if the spread is a negative. That is on your team to do better.
 
#130      
Altuve27
Look, I know it was Farleigh Dickinson. We all know that. Things will get very challenging soon.

That said, the ball movement last night was 2005-ish. You can’t do it any better. Totally unselfish, making the extra pass to go from good shot to great shot. I don’t recall the ball “sticking” once. Beautiful basketball.

Keep moving the ball like that, and this won’t be the last time they drop 100 on somebody.
 
#132      
I-L-L 1318
AssemblyHallForever said:
You are right, last year was different than the last several years but we did have a couple of loses like the Bama game that we shot poorly. Even the Houston game we were 12-21 and we kinda let them back in the game.
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Gotta imagine shooting percentages will improve (aside from an outlier game here or there) as we get going just from a conditioning standpoint. There is no speed like game speed.
 
#133      
RichardKeenesCousin
Oldskoolkoach said:
I haven't watched the game, but I have been calling for us to go to the Grinnell System for 3 or 4 years. Posted it here many times...why not? We always have shooters; making them is not always a given, and we have size for rebounding.

Is our offense similar to the Grinnell System? Everyone keeps talking about our new offense, but I haven't seen it yet, and nobody has been on here much either.

If we core 120 every game, I like our chances
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well..... Illinois would be giving up several of their advantages for one. 1. Illinois has too much talent to distribute minutes equally. 2. Better competition would destroy the press. 3. Illinois would be sacrificing its rebounding advantage. 4. More possessions isnt automatically better. I've watched the Grinnell System up close at Greenville University. They beat people they shouldn't, but it goes the other way too. In Tyler I trust.
 
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