I hope the "next man up" mentality rules the day. BU has a chance to redeem and get this team motivated to win some games here.
Pregame: Illinois at Wisconsin, Tuesday, February 18th, 7:30pm CT, FS1
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This really sucks! Just made my wish that we had recruited Somerville from Peoria or another big instead if having 2 redshirts ir a skinny Booth who isn't ready to play the 5 in the B10. That was a whole in our depth I was afraid of if this happened and it has twice.
Yay, More BH.
This sucks. Morez had the most fire the last couple of months.
This sucks. Morez had the most fire the last couple of months.
Carey Booth time!
JJ, take off that red shirt!
Can we just have Kendall Bostic dress out for the men's team already?
JJ, take off that red shirt!
Can we just have Kendall Bostic dress out for the men's team already?
Hey @Illini4Christ - gonna need you to pray for a miraculous healing for Tre. I’m betting he somehow gets healed real quick.
altgeld88
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Goodness. That literally makes me nauseous. Poor guy. Did that happen on that epic two-hand rejection?
That's a grave loss given his steady improvement and presence this winter.
So where are all the apologies to brad? Everyone !!!! on him for not playing him the last 8 minutes. Obviously had a reason.
Should be a lot of apologies to Brad in here. Lot of people were shitting on him for not playing Morez last 8 mins. All makes sense now.
You all are an insufferable group my lord
Don't worry Morez injury will be his fault too lol
He went out on one of the more bada$$ blocks I've ever seen.
If that's the last image of Morez Johnson in an Illini jersey, how magnificent is it?
Get well soon big fella. Thanks for the tenacity this year.
If that's the last image of Morez Johnson in an Illini jersey, how magnificent is it?
Get well soon big fella. Thanks for the tenacity this year.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Noted and agreed. But Morez's baffling absence in the final eight is a drop in the large bucket of incomprehensible coaching and personnel decisions over the final 30 minutes of the game. I'm hoping it was just a bad night for Brad. Not long ago he made effective adjustments against OSU and we romped.
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Wasn't he like the prime candidate (if there ever was any) for guarding Flagg? Boy is that game gonna be rough....
Do we really think KJ was getting to the rim all game and then just stopped because the coaches told him to? No. The 20% of bad 3s we take seem to over shadow the 80% of open looks we take. We had at least 3 WIDE open looks with about 7 minutes to go that we couldn’t make. You HAVE to take those shots. If you don’t take the open looks it becomes even harder to score inside. Also contrary to popular belief we were + when Ben was on the floor and -when he was off.
Dravyn comes in and gambles on defense like he always does and gives up 2 baseline drives for easy buckets.
And don’t make me go back to last year and find everyone’s posts about Tyler being a good offensive coach lol
Dravyn comes in and gambles on defense like he always does and gives up 2 baseline drives for easy buckets.
And don’t make me go back to last year and find everyone’s posts about Tyler being a good offensive coach lol
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At this point Tre White has to play, right?
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
Indeed. Unfortunately, many are armchair power conference head coaches.
Unlike me, to whom you or L'ville had to explain the design of modern inbounding plays last season.
Hawaiian voodoo.
We’re a very narrow lens group instead of wide lensIndeed. Unfortunately, many are armchair power conference head coaches.
Unlike me, to whom you or L'ville had to explain the design of modern inbounding plays last season.
I didn't want to have to say this on Feb. 17th, but Mr. Booth, you're up 
This takes the staff off the hook now...plenty of reasons why we now get our !!! beat!!!! We have two redshirts sitting the bench. "Out for a while"......ha, ha.....a broken wrist in the middle of February = end of season my friends. The way Morez plays, I am not buying he gets back in action before the end of the season and it's not fair to him to play until his wrist is 100% and then some. Our best player gone for the season. So much for March Madness 2025!! Wow....talk about a season completely falling apart at the seems. Let's' see how the staff coaches this situation......
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