Illinois 81, Washington 77 Postgame
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Btw, our Seattle Illini showed up strong!! Heard the ILL chants on TV several times!
Definitely vote for more DGL. His explosive first step and good defense are a good combo.
And just to have a second play. Here’s slide. Get a double screen to your best scorer and then clear out for a kick-out 3. Both the screeners pop out as safety valve options if the primary option isn’t open.
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Man those last 4 3 pt attempts I wish would have gone inside. Anybody watching the game new that’s where we were winning. Those were wide open looks by Tomi, he just missed them.
Survive and win. Not pretty, but survive and move on against PSU.
Huge win, great to get that northwest sweep with such a young team. This will prove huge as a road win far from home missing threes and free throws.
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Give me back my Afta, heh heh
Always some goof having a career night. Seems to happen to Illinois a lot thru the years.
How about Ben with 6 rebounds.There was some good that came out of this game and not so good.
Good:
Bam finally hit some layups
We have KJ
We have Tre
We won
that's what it looked like to me too
I thought KJ was great on Davis...
Whew! That was… uncomfortable. But a road win is a great win!!!!!!
I have so much confidence when DGL drives to the hoop. He’s great with those finishes around the rim and loved the make over Jase Butler.
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The best news of that game is it should keep us humble (from that Oregon win). We gave up 46 points to a very mediocre Washington team in the 2nd half., Brad's going to rail them for that. Can't do that moving forward.
Two B1G wins, we will come back home and take on Penn State. Well we learned that even if a kid is not in the starting lineup (like DJ Davis) we can’t let up on our defense.
I agree- it’s ironic because side wouldn’t have put KJ on a smaller, quicker guard but it worked - it may have also been “ nobody else has stopped him” kind of approach
Felt just like Northwestern- but to have KJ be clutch down the stretch after a couple of brutal late games against NU and Tenn- good for the confidence of the whole team, Tre and Bos coming through big time as well at the end
Love that we got the W when the threes weren't falling. Can't expect to go 16/29 from three every night. You have to find other ways to score and we did work in the paint today.
Thanks for your thesis, but by let down I mean being up 17 and letting an inferior team come back and almost win the game.
Yep. And we still won, despite so many of our 3's just not falling. That's the game that even great teams lose.
I may be in the minority here but I absolutely loved what I saw today. Some amongst our fan base think every game should turn out like the Oregon game. I saw perseverance, composure, and resiliency today on the second game of a west coast road trip. Sooo many Illini teams in the past would have folded in this situation
Pretty much like I expected. Much more of a half court game.
Glad we won on a cold shooting night.
Thought we started out great on defense, but they made some adjustments and we never countered. That's concerning to me. Gotta change things up when needed.
Glad we won on a cold shooting night.
Thought we started out great on defense, but they made some adjustments and we never countered. That's concerning to me. Gotta change things up when needed.
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