Illinois 120, Fairleigh Dickinson 45 Postgame

HoopsterMan · 2026-11-04T12:36:26-0600

Rebounding Dog said:
Yes…. guys that play well fast Wagler did great with keeping a snails pace. Coleman looks like he plays better up tempo …. the game was fast last night and the passing was quick with very little dribbling… interesting change! Fun stuff…. run run run

Fascinating. Coleman is definitely twitchier, but that's a fairly significant shift for one player.

Fly Illini Fly! · 2026-11-04T12:50:10-0600

https://twitter.com/x/status/2118051904471110000

aaeismacgychel · 2026-11-04T13:04:56-0600

ThePortalMadeMeDoIt said:
Z has to play better

He’s dinged up. It’s the first game of the season and we won by 75pts.

Last year in first game:
4pts, 9R, 2A, 2Blk in 18min

This year:
4pts, 5R, 1blk, 1stl in 10min.

In his second game of the season last year he has 16pts, 9rbs, and 7blks

He’ll be more than fine.

Fly Illini Fly! · 2026-11-04T14:07:30-0600

Dan said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2117634659106615804

To put this further into perspective:

Illinois scored 1.591 points per possession.
FDU scored 0.597 points per possession.

That mathematically means that if the two teams played 100 possessions, Illinois would win by:

159.1 - 59.7 = 99.4 points (!)

.....

The actual game was 75 possessions and Illinois won by.... 75 points.

March2TheArch · 2026-11-04T15:51:25-0600

RollChief said:
It was probably just a bad game and ramping up to real moments that matter, but it seemed like they're working on something with him that's giving him some hesitancy on the defensive end. Not sure if it's getting burned on pump fakes or something, but he seemed like he was second-guessing himself on the defense, or just didn't really have the dog in him that I remembered last year. Honestly, I was thinking that he looked more like Carey Booth on defense than the Z we know and love. I'm sure it's just ramp-up stuff that he'll get past.

Hope so.

Makes me wonder if he's nursing some injury. He looks stiff at times.

grue2 · 2026-11-04T15:56:58-0600

lstewart53x3 said:
...

You think someone who’s one of the greatest offensive minds of his generation (crafted the #3, #14, and #2 offenses in the country by age 29 (the first 3 offenses of his career) and is on pace for the #1 offense at 30) was a hire worth criticizing as our 5th and lowest paid assistant at 24?
...

There is a big difference between questioning and criticizing. I saw far more questioning in the forum than criticizing.

lstewart53x3 · 2026-11-04T16:19:26-0600

grue2 said:
There is a big difference between questioning and criticizing. I saw far more questioning in the forum than criticizing.

This is all from is from one recruiting thread in 2023. We made the E8 in large part due to Tyler’s evaluations and offensive design that very season:

The hire was heavily criticized here and elsewhere.

illini0440 · 2026-11-04T16:26:35-0600

I’d like to point out I don’t think I criticized the hire

Fly Illini Fly! · 2026-11-04T16:41:43-0600

https://twitter.com/x/status/2118090409372950596

lstewart53x3 · 2026-11-04T16:48:44-0600

illini0440 said:
I’d like to point out I don’t think I criticized the hire

Of course not, no reason to be critical of yourself

Thaillini22 · 2026-11-04T16:50:30-0600

lstewart53x3 said:
Of course not, no reason to be critical of yourself

Illinois 120, Fairleigh Dickinson 45 Postgame

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