Illinois 88, NC State 74 POSTGAME
BirdDog9048
The Chief Lives
- Chicago, IL
I wouldn't call a 14 point win "scrapping it out".
Minutes for the SG and WF looking tough to get this year, should open up more next year. Kipper is also suiting up in 3 weeks, just curious to see him play. He is going to be the 8 ball and going against tougher competition in the Big Ten.
Illini1221
Peru,IL
I dont see Kipper getting a ton of minutes tbh. That being said, we've never seen him play so who knows?
They were missing a couple of guys. They might look good at the end of the year. Then again the ACC may eat them alive even if they improve.
Of course not... Just referencing Diaw's game being described as "old man/YMCA basketball". Sorry if I wasn't clear... My bad. There are many versions of old man basketball. They don't all have to pass the same to be in the same group.
NC State has a good amount of talent inside and out, plus they are pretty athletic. But man did they play some stupid basketball at times today.
Good win. It looks like Groce chose to play smaller, quicker guys on Smith and it worked. Abrams, JCL, and Lucas all took turns guarding him. And anyone notice Groce put Finke on Johnson (their guard who couldn't shoot) near the end of the game?
Yay coaching!
Good win. It looks like Groce chose to play smaller, quicker guys on Smith and it worked. Abrams, JCL, and Lucas all took turns guarding him. And anyone notice Groce put Finke on Johnson (their guard who couldn't shoot) near the end of the game?
Yay coaching!
Is he better than DJW?...wasn't ranked higher
Quick question. I truly believe that NC State will be a damn good team when they get Yertseven and Rowan. If they have a bad loss, we know that the committee takes into consideration who they were missing in their losses. If they end up being a top 25ish team, does the committee consider it as good of a win for Illinois since they were missing those two players? I would imagine that it'd have to work both ways but I don't know.
I think we need a 10 man rotation this year, Kipper is coming back as well.
NCState is flat out bad at the moment, but they get the big man eligible in a couple of weeks, Smith cuts the mistakes in half and they have enough talent to be a decent team. But they won't survive the ACC playing like that anymore than we will survive the B1G playing like we did in the first half.
You're on point though, Black is looking like I had hoped/expected, we really couldn't have asked for any more from Abrams. Improvement from JCL/TJL and Thorne gives us some hope that we may yet get there. Beating VCU would be great, but after last week I would take just showing up and noticeable improvement.
When Rowan is back and Yurtseven becomes eligible and freshman age, they will be better.
Newman beat me to it.
Looked to me like they were in a zone with finke out top, which I thought was pretty smart cause Dorn had shown the ability to shoot over top of it
TA was very good, lots of sneaky baskets, and Malcolm was Malcolm.
GO ILLINI!
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TA and Hill had some good old man plays tonight...which is what we need all year..our guys have experience let's hope they take advantage of it. That's part of the reason for all the venom after the last 3 L's
GO ILLINI!
[/QUOTE]TA and Hill had some good old man plays tonight...which is what we need all year..our guys have experience let's hope they take advantage of it. That's part of the reason for all the venom after the last 3 L's
Honest question, as clueless as our coaching staff looked with rotations the past 2.5 games, what turned the light bulb on at half?
Nope. Just went back and looked. Abrams and JCL were the starting backcourt in the second half.
Hopefully he didn't skim everything, because he will stop recruiting anyone else to fill our last 2 because he knows that he wont be here anyway...
Nice to get a win, but still a lot of work to do getting to the B1G season.
Leron, Tracy, and a nice 2nd half by Hill helped turn this game our way.