Add KB to this comment, except he's not a freshman.
Maryland 91, Illinois 70 Postgame
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Age for sure. If TSJ was 18, he would've been a top 5 pick in that low-talent draft that was last year. If KJ was 23, he'd probably be around where TSJ was.
With that said, I'd argue no other 18 y/o is doing what he's doing outside of Cooper Flagg. Let's not forget the good that quickly. Has won us a ton of games this year.
I don't want to see them.again this year, or ever. MD just has our #, more than PSU.
I’ll call it like it is … Brad doesn’t have the same fire he did when Trent and DMFW were here …
I’m not seeing it … Haven’t seen it all year …
And Will Riley with the disappearing act outside of 1H against MSU.
There is plenty of tape of KJ now and good coaching knows how to defend him. He’s having to work harder and is making more freshman mistakes because they have sped him up. Our beloved on the other hand are still unable to stop the high illegal screen and roll. There are a lot of player mistakes and coaching mistakes which equals a 20+ loss. Players and coaches need to take accountability and be better.
Our guard play is not really good right now outside of DGL. Careless turnovers, casual play, missed layups. We have two "sharpshooters" who can't make a wide open three to save their lives, and as a team our shooting is atrocious. Yet, we have an offense that is designed to shoot 35 a game. When they aren't falling, we can't make a layup. We desperately lack toughness. When you let Julian Reese go for 27, welp, don't know what to tell ya. We had a fringe D1 player who should be an off the bench/hit a couple threes guy trying to guard him all night who just got absolutely abused out of the gate. Not really his fault, maybe we should have tried to get someone in Booth's place who could be a backup 5?
Really disappointing given what we saw against Oregon and Penn St, and the near miss against TN. Losses are piling up. We are staring at a 6-8 seed, early exit because we can't string together a few wins. Seriously disappointing given our talent.
Really disappointing given what we saw against Oregon and Penn St, and the near miss against TN. Losses are piling up. We are staring at a 6-8 seed, early exit because we can't string together a few wins. Seriously disappointing given our talent.
Final score is irrelevant. The outcome was decided when it was determined Tomi could not play at full strength. Queen and Reese were toying with us and could have scored 70 if the coach had been smart enough.
In case you didn’t see the stat line, 89 points from Twerps starting 5 and 2 from their bench.
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First back-to-back double digit losses at home since we were bonafide bad in 2019. And the margins this time were worse.
Good question. We looked like total crap tonight. Anybody else want to comment on this? For the first time I can ever remember, I am looking more forward the football team.
You’re spot on with this. We didn’t bring in the right talent or the right pieces and that’s after having a great season last year where we should’ve capitalized on it. It’s like BU pulled a wool blanket over everyone’s eyes. Even Boswell has been inconsistent.
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Any team that has a strong front court knows what to do to us now.
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
Only two guys playing with that kind of intensity, DGL and Morez.
Well we saw how good we can be earlier this year and now we've seen how bad we can be. I thought we might have a game or two like this but not after we had appeared to be putting things together. Our inexperience has been showing the last couple of games.
0 points for Ben H tonight is horrible and unforgivable please give his minutes to DGL immediately.
Zesty
Serious question…was Brad one of the coaches that was sick?
He sure seemed disinterested at times today. I want to see more of the 2022 Ohio St ejection side of Brad a little more…
He sure seemed disinterested at times today. I want to see more of the 2022 Ohio St ejection side of Brad a little more…
NASchamp
- Atlanta
This is where multiple people redshirting and having an open slot on the roster kills you.
Wonder what Lincoln Williams thought of the game.
Illini BB to fans: "You need to lower your expectations."
Fans to Illini BB: "They're low."
Fans to Illini BB: "They're low."
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