Maryland 81, Illinois 65 Postgame
After the Kofi news, I had a feeling we'd drop this one even against a bottom conference team like Maryland.
This is a "meh and move on" loss for me. I'm not even in the least bit upset honestly.
This is a "meh and move on" loss for me. I'm not even in the least bit upset honestly.
Disappointing week. That’s for sure.
Before this thread really gets going......the fact we lost is bad. We lost because we scored less than MD. That does not necessarily mean Monte was the reason. He is not out there to score. Unfortunately, our scorers did not win this for us. THAT DOES NOT MAKE MONTE A GARBAGE PLAYER
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Brad’s stubbornness was on display for this one. A zone or doubling Scott would have made sense, but we kept letting them leverage their length and mask their poor shooting by keeping our relatively short lineup in man to man.
Those lack of adjustments have nothing to do with Kofi. It was baffling.
This team has a choice: act snakebit and pack it in, or get nasty and get after it. I didn’t see the fight tonight.
And before I try and erase this game from my memory, I’m getting pretty tired of Hawkins and Williams throwing up half-hearted ball fakes and dribbling to nowhere in particular. Either put it up or keep swinging the ball.
Those lack of adjustments have nothing to do with Kofi. It was baffling.
This team has a choice: act snakebit and pack it in, or get nasty and get after it. I didn’t see the fight tonight.
And before I try and erase this game from my memory, I’m getting pretty tired of Hawkins and Williams throwing up half-hearted ball fakes and dribbling to nowhere in particular. Either put it up or keep swinging the ball.
To win the big ten you need to take care of business at home, and you need to beat the middle of the pack/ bottom feeder teams. We did neither the past two games.
Welp. Gotta sweep the Indiana road trip. Really not sure what happened. It fell apart so fast.
I think the takeaway is we better find a good replacement big man next year, because with all due respect to both of them, a team led by OP and BBV in the post isn’t making the tourney
Calillini
Now appearing in Tampa
Better hope his concussion protocol isn’t like Belo’s or we are headed south if this is any indication of playing without him.
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As good as he was in the first half. He was just as bad in the second half.
That sucked. Can't expect threes to fall all 40 minutes
Govoner Vaugn Fan
- New Orleans
Curbelo rusty, Kofi in Champaign and the Terps played a great game. Get well Kofi.
We go as Kofi Kofi goes. Belo really gave not much tonight at all and DMW missed every open 3. We have no answer for Scott, so really it made no difference. Let’s just pray Kofi does not have an extended absence like Belo did, if so we are at best a middle of the pack team. We can loose this game and recover but our margin of error just took a hit.
IlliniKat91
- Chicago, IL
I thought they were good this game and let them play. We got sloppy in the second half and cold while relying on the 3. That's always a recipe for disaster
You should be the least bit upset that we will not be in first place now and will be fortunate to not drop 3 in a row considering the next game is MSU. This is a bad loss for our season, no matter what.
He had 8 rebounds and 6 assists...no one else had more than 4 rebounds.
This ain't on DMW.
They were sagging off Belo choosing to let him take a 15 to 18 footer rather than drive past him. I think he can and will knock those down if guarded like that again. With out him driving and Kofi inside good looks were hard to come by.
Two positive takeaways, actually 3, BBV is awesome and Trent is incredible, Plummer can stroke it. One bad, this team as a whole can’t play defense to save their lives. Taking a zone would have helped but that will never ever happen while Underwood is the head coach