That's not fair. He will clearly flame out in the second round.
On that last play, Nebraska brought Mast and Sandfort to either side of the top of the key to set screens, giving Hoiberg the option to go either way depending on the defense. He chose Sandfort's side, which was probably the way the play was designed, and Sandfort just popped out to the 3 pt line and was wide open. Garcia came from the baseline and slid down to the paint. If Tomi agressively came out to stop the ball, you just drop it to Garcia for a dunk. Lawrence floated to the open area on the other side. Hoiberg had a clean look from 6 ft if he wanted to pull up with the floater, but probably decided Tomi was too tall and didn't want to risk it.
After a bad loss, I've seen people reacting strongly to some pretty clearcut coaching weaknesses that are rearing their heads on our team, but I haven't seen anyone call for Brad to be fired. Can you quote the specific post you're referring to?HFS, to those of you calling for Brad to be fired...
You're all acting like the season ended with this loss. We drop a stinker every year at home...so what? There are A LOT of games to be played.
Brad is one of the worst lineup managers in Div 1
Tomi would flash open in the high post against the zone but the KJ skill of getting him the ball with proper timing is missing on this year's team.
From the top down the mentality is "happy to be here". You saw it after the Alabama loss. You saw it heading into the UConn loss.
I'm trying to find where all of the criticism was after beating Tennessee on a neutral floor and OSU on the road. Are we going down the path that we won despite of our coaches there?
A players only meeting? We just came off of two quad 1 road/neutral wins and we lost a heartbreaker, on a buzzer beater, by a team that dropped a 46% three point shooting night on our heads. We won pretty much every other statistical category.
Every great Illini team had those EDG leaders. Douglas and Altenberger. Battle and Anderson. Williams and Head. Trent and Damonte. Guys that would defend you all over the court, out rebound you despite their size and frustrate the heck out of the other team while still being able to hit big shots. Don't see those type of guys on this team.
I remember Trent and Damonte’s senior season…
agree, when a guy scores almost 20 over his season average, yes one guy absolutely can beat you, especially in a close game. sandfort scores his average and we win by 13-14 points
Didn't say anything about it being anyone's fault. Just stated that if you want to be better than just good, you need those types of players on your team and we have seen those types of teams and those players in the past.
Plus, when Thortom or Sandfort are going off your head coach shouldn't wait til half to adjust. Should've put length on Thorton sooner told someone to.not leave Sandfort to help. Why wait 20 minutes to do it. Thats on BU
I thought Bam is who should pressure the ballot thecend and others but we had 7fters inside to protect at the rim. I don't think it's likely Sam Hoiberg is going to score the ball. We seem to forget who does what we'll for the opponent and help out too much. We shouldn't be leaving shooters to stop guys that really aren't scorers. That happened at the end and with sandfort a lot early .
My big concern is at the presser post game. It’s the same exact song and dance after every let down game each season. Rinse and repeat excuses. Fix the damn problems and grow as a coach! Just frustrating to be in the same position every year.
And what position is that?
That's just nonsense, but it's a typical reaction to a close loss. I have to tell you I think Nebraska was the team with the leaky defense. We scored 80 pts. almost at will. Wide open looks aplenty and clever ball movement in the paint. This was just a great game between two quality teams. Somebody had to win, somebody had to lose. It happens, and frequently. I was amazed at the crowd size.
First, I know I’m getting old, but have my math skills really deteriorated that much? That looks like 4.5 minutes of game time not 3. Second, did he “tap out”? I really don’t know if he requested to come out. But it is not uncommon for a coach to get a player a quick blow so he can finish game strong. That is what happened. He was only out about a minute twenty and then finished the game.Maybe instead of Fletch photos, get some cardio for Andrej. A 21 year old tapping out after 3 minutes of game action? [That included 6 stops in game action]
12:42 
Andrej Stojakovic subbing in for Illinois
11:38 Official TV Timeout
8:12 Andrej Stojakovic subbing out for Illinois
