Can't blame Trent on the last play. Marquette bodied him off the ball. It's kind of confusing to have a game this close but one team has 20 more free throw attempts.
Where was Trent the last five minutes while Curbelo dribbled it away to Marquette and threw up prayers? Never touched the ball. That's totally on Underwood and staff. Inexcusable.
You mean last year?Yeah this is the Illinois basketball I'm used to. I wish I was old enough to really remember them being good.
BU needed to bench belo and teach him he cant play hero ball and continue to do dumb $hit. really would like an explanation why he left him in the game
This ^^^^Eh maybe Underwood’s playing the long game. Curbelo’s gonna learn a lot more from how bad this feels than he would from Underwood pulling him for Trent.
Bad game from Curbelo. Ball handling is going to be a concern all season. Hopefully the fouling is not.
I was convinced this was the plan the last 5 min. Basically see had to show he could get it together and be that guy or fail and have gone learn.Is it far- fetched to think Underwood let Curbelo play it out at the end to prove a point?
Yeah I'm still baffled as to why he kept Curbelo in for so long (when it was clear as day he was playing poorly)Underwood was just as bad as players. Just a full team implosion and it didn't have to be. Unbelievable.
In fairness, I don’t really understand why he didn’t see that Curbelo was doing hero ball and didn’t pull him. But Shaka Smart is not the better coach. Not by a long shot. They gambled and won. We imploded. Sad thing is Marquette really isn’t that great of a team. But certainly better than us tonight.I'm not sure how you can think Underwood was the better coach tonight after watching him let Curbelo have the ball in his hands over and over in the last 8 minutes after watching what had happened all night. That Marquette team has no business beating Illinois.
If Curbelo continues with the crap I watched tonight.. ..we're in big troubleI’m not going to make some sweeping negative generalization based on one road loss without our All American, but I think it’s pretty obvious we are in trouble without Kofi, suspension or foul trouble.
I highly doubt we play that poorly again with our full team, and I’m hoping this can serve as a learning experience. Last year, we lost to a terrible Missouri team on the road and a subpar Maryland team at home and got a 1-seed, so this is hardly some season-ruining loss. However, if we don’t address some issues next Monday against Cincinnati, we are likely not the team we thought we were.
He proved that against Loyola last yearElephant in the room, Underwood is proving to be very poor at in game adjustments.
Trent got mugged on that play.Trent turned it over in the last minute.
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Nah. We are that good. get hutch back and Kofi back. Curbelo will get it together hopefully sooner than later.Wooah, I think we all got too high on this team but let's drink some calm down juice
And I think that was the play where the MU guy kicked the ball as wellIt was also a foul
Thanks for stopping by nick irvinHe proved that against Loyola last year