Maryland 91, Illinois 70 Postgame

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#105      
Zorak
So we're out of the conference title picture. How bad does this need to get before we start talking bubble?
 
#106      
Battle89
mattcoldagelli said:
Honestly, what is the deal with our performances at home under Brad? We are orders of magnitude better away from SFC.
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Except in Evanston. I was there and also I’m going to the game Sunday. If I see two losses in person to the Wildcats I will absolutely lose it.
 
#107      
jumpingjack
BashCtIllini said:
So clearly Maryland said, ok their big man is out, let's pound the paint. We had no one able to stop it. We had no one able to slow it. With Ivisic, the game would have been different.

But when you shoot 21% from 3 while taking almost 30 attempts, you're going to struggle. We take the 6th most 3s in the nation and we are 244th in 3pt% and will drop again. Every time I bring up these stats, our ranking in 3pt% keeps getting lower.

How can we blow out Oregon on the road and get blown out by Maryland at home? well we have a team that just stands around chucking 3s and we're not good at shooting them. When we're on we blow people out. When we're off we can lose to anyone.

This game is perhaps an aberration because of no Ivisic, but we've also survived shooting so poorly because we own the boards. This game we lost the rebounding battle. I'm guessing we've won 0 games where we haven't won the rebounding battle.
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Rebounding and general hustle absolutely killed us tonight. We've trounced teams on bad shooting nights. But we just outworked teams.
Tonight, nothing.
 
#108      
NashvILLe05
Agreed on those players, but Maryland only got 2 points from their bench and they still whipped our a$$.
 
#112      
jamie13197
We are out of Conference title don't kid nor fool yourself.
We cannot have Nepotism like Lovie, IOWA, etc..
When you have kids planning and designing season without TSjr., Coleman, Domask. Etc.
Doesn't work and man looks bad.
When you lose an Amazing Coach and development man lik Coach Tim, UNACCEPTABLE!
Coach Chester Frazier, bleeding OnB! Now Hansberry averaging a fortune in points and boards, plus shooting 80% from free throw.
We sure could have used him and Dainja this year.
I do not tolerate favoritism nor Nepotism in my company, teams I Coach, and all of life.
You earn your place, merit, and performance.
Go Illini
 
#113      
racinghoss
Old Farm Illini said:
It’s safe to say that almost everyone is overreacting to this loss but you’ve gotta vent somehow so I don’t blame ya. To paraphrase our favorite Illini to ever transfer, just don’t come crying back and jump on the bandwagon when this team gets back on track.
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I totally agree that this team is capable of rolling off 8 or 10 wins in a row to make this loss seem like much less than it actually was...buuuuut, being disappointed in tonight's "game" is not an overreaction. We were never in it after KJs initial lay up.

Maybe dudes were not well. Yeah, Ivisic is important. We've waived the banner for this team all year claiming they are the deepest team we've had in a while...

It is fair to have doubts.
 
#115      
DICKnaggie
Indy Illini Fan said:
We are getting absolutely nothing from our bench outside of DGL …

He’s the only kid who’s got the fire …

Jake Davis tries hard but that’s not good enough to play here …

Carey Booth isn’t good enough to play here … That was a mistake in recruiting …
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This is a direct effect of our recruiting in the portal and think lower tier players will translate at this level. MD was an outlier and way more productive on a better team than Ben, Booth, etc. It's an indictment on the staff's recruiting, team composition and development. Not just tonight, but look at our 3pt shooting to date. It is not good.
 
#125      
Indy Illini Fan
DICKnaggie said:
This is a direct effect of our recruiting in the portal and think lower tier players will translate at this level. MD was an outlier and way more productive on a better team than Ben, Booth, etc. It's an indictment on the staff's recruiting, team composition and development. Not just tonight, but look at our 3pt shooting to date. It is not good.
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Ben has been a miss for how much we paid …

Will Riley has been underwhelming …

Carey Booth was a huge miss evaluation …

Jake Davis is a decent practice player …
 
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