He was good against a freshman. I stand by my opinion.
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I still have faith and hope for this team. My take a little past the half way point of the season. We sorely miss a true point guard and Kofi. We sure could have used Brandon Podz this year. No matter who he plays Gonzaga, Byu, DePaul, etc. He's good for 19pts, 5 boards. 40% from 3, 80% from free throw line, and 2 steals per game. No matter how much we complain Coach Underwood will never in his lifetime play a zone. We stink at free throws, Cohawk still thinks he is shooting 40% from 25ft. And not 30% nor 62% from free throw line.
Positive side we are very talented. CoHawk still make some of the best defensive plays seen. TSjr., has heart of a warrior. Epps is a true junkyardDog! He's a keeper. Sencire is stickem on Defense, DainDainja is gonna be phenomenal in the future. MatthewMayer is showing he is NBA worthy lately. Rj. Seems to be waking up! And man we will have played 9 games in January when it's over. Oh, UCLA hasn't lost a game since leaving us and Baylor in Vegas, 14 W's in a row.
So my friend here's to finishing the month of January off strong, hopefully. Continued success for our Illini and the Coaches. who put in 100 hours per week.
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Positive side we are very talented. CoHawk still make some of the best defensive plays seen. TSjr., has heart of a warrior. Epps is a true junkyardDog! He's a keeper. Sencire is stickem on Defense, DainDainja is gonna be phenomenal in the future. MatthewMayer is showing he is NBA worthy lately. Rj. Seems to be waking up! And man we will have played 9 games in January when it's over. Oh, UCLA hasn't lost a game since leaving us and Baylor in Vegas, 14 W's in a row.
So my friend here's to finishing the month of January off strong, hopefully. Continued success for our Illini and the Coaches. who put in 100 hours per week.
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No denying the offense wasn’t good and the FT’s were god awful, but you can’t be giving up 80 points on 67% shooting. If you do you’ll find yourself finishing in the lower half of this conference consistently. To put it plainly the defense was awful. I am a fan of coach Underwood in almost all regards. The one exception to that is his ability to make in game adjustments. It was crystal clear that we needed to either double or chip help with a guard on TJD. If for no other reason than to make him uncomfortable in the post. He knew he was always one on one and he knew he could win that battle every time. Not a good recipe for the Illini.
I agree with you on the double team but what I saw in the 2nd half was the double team being in the position but then the player's not reacting on the opposite side they would literally sit there and watch instead of going up and trying to block a reverse layout for a backside pass for a layup They literally stood there and watched the game as the main defender whether it would be Coleman or danger they would simply sit there and watch and both those guys did it also. I don't get that you don't givup. you punish them in the paint you make him shoot free throws there was way too much watching and it's been that way all year on defense
Amen. Began to wonder if there was some type of forcefield around our basket, particularly in the first half.
I remember Kansas bowing out early in the Big 8 tourney and making hay in the NCAA. There is a point to being fresh. If you are not fresh the great ones figure out how to maximize their energy and still win.
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It’s nearly impossible to explain this Illinois team
A 4-game streak. A perplexing loss. Who are the Illini?
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I needed a few days to absorb that loss. I was at the game. I understand why Underwood said that about TJD. He's going to get his and we did try to double in the second half. The off the ball D was horrible. Points in the paint from cuts off the double team seemed high.
Offensively we had good looks and missed a lot of easy shots throughout the game. And the aforementioned free throws were killers. We couldn't recover. We definitely didn't have that high energy we've had the past few games.
Hopefully we recover quicker from a game like this than we did last time. I think we will.
Offensively we had good looks and missed a lot of easy shots throughout the game. And the aforementioned free throws were killers. We couldn't recover. We definitely didn't have that high energy we've had the past few games.
Hopefully we recover quicker from a game like this than we did last time. I think we will.
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I don't know. I have watched the game 3x now. I just think we ran into the proverbial buzz saw. We didn't bring our "A" game and the Hoosiers did.
I watched with this game on TV with a buddy who's a Hoosier fan. That's right I'm not very smart. 
He thought we would smoke IU by about 17. After starting out 4-0 he thought he was right. Buuutttttt, he was wrong, sadly.
He would replay certain plays several times (as he DVR'd the game) and would say: Watch. Where was Hawkins on D??? He wants NO part of TJD." This was whether he was guarding him or coming from the weak side.
If you have an extremely strong stomach and rewatched the game maybe you noticed this too.
CoHawk's overall play, along with the team's blown layups and bricked free throws (as mentioned by so many) were absolutely mind-boggling and maddening.
On to the next. Got to beat the Buckeyes.
He thought we would smoke IU by about 17. After starting out 4-0 he thought he was right. Buuutttttt, he was wrong, sadly.He would replay certain plays several times (as he DVR'd the game) and would say: Watch. Where was Hawkins on D??? He wants NO part of TJD." This was whether he was guarding him or coming from the weak side.
If you have an extremely strong stomach and rewatched the game maybe you noticed this too.
CoHawk's overall play, along with the team's blown layups and bricked free throws (as mentioned by so many) were absolutely mind-boggling and maddening.
On to the next. Got to beat the Buckeyes.
The retrospective look by BU is like looking at your stock picks after the fact. Hind sight is 20/20. Trace Jackson killed the Illini, not just his points but he altered shots. We missed alot of layups because they thought Jackson would block it.
I don't like your friendI watched with this game on TV with a buddy who's a Hoosier fan. That's right I'm not very smart.
He would replay certain plays several times (as he DVR'd the game) and would say: Watch. Where was Hawkins on D??? He wants NO part of TJD." This was whether he was guarding him or coming from the weak side.
If you have an extremely strong stomach and rewatched the game maybe you noticed this too.
CoHawk's overall play, along with the team's blown layups and bricked free throws (as mentioned by so many) were absolutely mind-boggling and maddening.
On to the next. Got to beat the Buckeyes.
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