By his thinking there are probably only about 6 teams that can make the S16. Going to be a weird tournament with byes in the 3rd and 4th round.
Nebraska 83, Illinois 80 Postgame
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By his thinking there are probably only about 6 teams that can make the S16. Going to be a weird tournament with byes in the 3rd and 4th round.
Oh look. Another legacy game and hot shooting from 3 for our opponent.
It’s just so rare
It’s just so rare
*Excellent recruiter. Mediocre coach.
He's routinely got out coached by guys like Hoiberg, Shrewsbury, and Willard. The results haven't been pretty when playing against actually excellent coaches like Dan Hurley, Sampson, or Oats.
Does Brad's Elite 8 run = Ron Turner's post-Sugar Bowl hubris? "Doesn't matter who we recruit, we'll just coach'em up."
Hoiberg with the resources Brad has would be a problem.
If he continues to improve, he'll be the best freshman to ever come through our program. I'm all for that!
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It most likely was. And that’s cause TSJ was mostly unguardable not some great bit of coaching acumen by Brad.
He wins lots of games but has some bad losses and doesn’t win the games of ultimate consequence with enough frequency.
Also when we have these bad starts at home. (USc last year as another example) it seems the die is cast in first 10 minutes of game. Dig too big of a hole and too slow to stop bleeding to be able to talent our way out of it.
Having had time to reflect. And shovel some snow in a passive aggressive way. This team may be too inconsistent, even within a game, to put together a long streak. But even this loss feels different to me than USC last year. Or Maryland in just about every year.
Honestly, this could have been a 15-point loss. Probably should have been. But unlike a couple earlier editions, this group fought back, more than once. It gives me hope that they’ll figure it out.
Honestly, this could have been a 15-point loss. Probably should have been. But unlike a couple earlier editions, this group fought back, more than once. It gives me hope that they’ll figure it out.
I am still sticking to my R2 loss prediction. Obviously, nothing today convinced me.
It's the defense that's going to hurt the Illini once again. To bad, Ty got hurt and Morez left. You need grinders out there, and I really don't see it with this team and their softness.
The "One guy's not going to beat you" mentality has to stop now; it's sending a message to the defense: "Hey, let him score 50, it's ok." I equate it to LaRussa telling his White Sox players not to hustle down the line when the players should be hustling down the line.
No damn urgency. So be it, then. Eliminate "elite" in your vocabulary, and accept the tight R1 game, then a R2 loss.
It's the defense that's going to hurt the Illini once again. To bad, Ty got hurt and Morez left. You need grinders out there, and I really don't see it with this team and their softness.
The "One guy's not going to beat you" mentality has to stop now; it's sending a message to the defense: "Hey, let him score 50, it's ok." I equate it to LaRussa telling his White Sox players not to hustle down the line when the players should be hustling down the line.
No damn urgency. So be it, then. Eliminate "elite" in your vocabulary, and accept the tight R1 game, then a R2 loss.
LouHenson
- Naples Florida
This is for sure on the money. He is a really good coach for a school that does love sports though so they are building their basketball program. They have one of the nicest arenas in the league.
He’s 10-4 against Hoiberg - that’s not routine.
Illinois has never lost a game in the underwood era where the same reason every single time from fans is “out coached”. When they win, it’s never coaching, when they lose it’s always coaching.
It's the same old thing with the inconsistency, and it's actually getting old and exhausting.
BU says Mirkovic had two really bad practices and "couldn't play him. Couldn't put him in the game." But he started and played 23 minutes? Like, what???? Where do these comments come from? Brandon Lee must have some streak of absolute sh!% practices going.
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Neither did I but he should see time against Southern and if he does well Missouri tooFree Petro
Keaton has shown nothing to be taken off the court and our best shooter/player IMO. Boswells our best defender.
I hope Petro is able to have moments this season. But watching this game, at no point was I thinking "hey let's get Petro in there".
The real problem is not enough emphasis on our other players being ready and able to help when they get those mismatches against us. Just step out and stop the ball or make them change direction once in or or even trap it and make them give it up all together.
I think it was a reasonable recruiting strategy and Brad has done a great job getting European talent, but I'm not sure the style of play is ever going to translate to being a true top tier team.
That’s kind of how it though, a lot of the time in our wins it’s one player for us that takes over through pure skill. We’ve seen it through Ayo, Kofi, TJ, and even a couple times this season with Andrej. When the other team shuts them down and our mediocre defense can’t garner any stops, it’s hard to not blame coaching when failing to find a solution.
JJE
- North Port, Florida
Brad brought us from being absolute garbage to very good and occasionally great.
To win a national championship I think you have to be consistently great and occasionally exceptional.
I don’t know what it will take for Brad to get over the hump or if he will, but it’s frustrating watching a Michigan team turn into a juggernaut overnight while we sleep walk through a very winnable and important home game.
To win a national championship I think you have to be consistently great and occasionally exceptional.
I don’t know what it will take for Brad to get over the hump or if he will, but it’s frustrating watching a Michigan team turn into a juggernaut overnight while we sleep walk through a very winnable and important home game.
Yep, Brad didn't miss three friggin' front ends
I plan to
In hindsight, probably would’ve preferred we got Sandfort instead of Petrovic. He visited, word was Nebby came in with the bigger bag.
We take things for serious granted man.
Would’ve been nice to at least see if we could have penetrated more and collapsed the zone with Mihailo running point.
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Especially because the Texas Tech win is looking less impressive by the day.
So like Tomi today didn’t rebound and didn’t score or play defense
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