USAFILLINI
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I understand what you are saying, but what do we hold a head coach responsible for?
Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa, Saturday, February 24th, 1:15pm CT, BTN
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TSJ was definitely not their best defender against PSU. You can tell he was tired and it affected his defense.
I was bored at work, so I ran the numbers for the past eight games (starting with at NW)
| FG% Last 10 Mins (+ OT) | ||||
| Domask | 51.3% | 46.0% | |||
| Hawkins | 49.2% | 38.9% | |||
| Shannon | 48.2% | 32.4%  |
Draw your own conclusions.
Both.
Homecoming 2019
- Chicago
Need eFG%I was bored at work, so I ran the numbers for the past eight games (starting with at NW)
FG% First 30 MinsFG% Last 10 Mins (+ OT) Domask 51.3% 46.0% Hawkins 49.2% 38.9% Shannon 48.2% 32.4%
Draw your own conclusions.
Sorry Fighter but I am still in a lousy basketball mood and therefore I can't buy into this thinking. After being humiliated 3 times in one season last year by Penn State, our game against them this week should have been the epitome of what you describe above. The only person who looked this way was TSJ.
And I will somewhat exempt those who were not even here last year, which is no small part of our team given our portal moves. I say somewhat because I still expect some base level of wanting to win and giving the effort needed to do so.
Other than that, I see no reason why one loss last year to Iowa would fire up this team if the recent Penn State history did not.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
*Loyalty heads explode
I used to be angry at Brad's hoarding of timeouts but now realize we need all we can get just in case we're asked to inbound a ball at some point.
NASchamp
- Atlanta
Both…
Feels like we’ve been awful at inbounding since Groce. Ridiculous we can get it sorted.
JFGsCoffeeMug
BU:1 Trash cans:0
- Chicago
Something LaTulip noticed is that it looks like Luke is so focused on sticking with his assignment on some possessions that he totally loses track of what's going on around him (including obvious help opportunities). This might be partially due to a fear that you will be immediately benched if you blow your assignment. So players are becoming "selfish" defenders at the cost of our overall team D.
Constantly playing out of a fear of being benched is a trickier issue to address.
uofi7477
- Silver & Gold Vandals
And Underwood says that TSJ played unbelievable defense so obviously he hasn't watched the MLT video.
TSJ is just worn out.
Loved the LaTulip video. But that's the thing. Most of the stuff he pointed out is obvious. Communication, effort, sprinting back on defense, see ball see man. And this isn't to say his breakdown wasn't enlightening. But it's not hard to see what we're doing wrong. It is hard for me to understand why we can't fix it.
altgeld88
- Arlington, Virginia
I'm with you. It's bewildering. I'll pile on here and add that I simply don't understand why, when one of the guys is trapped, the nearest teammate doesn't move toward him. "Go to the ball" is b-ball 101, as is (for a guard) never picking up your dribble when guarded unless you have no choice and are about to be trapped. And yet I see it all the time with us. Oh, and failing when trapped to look down court for the outlet before doing anything else.
OK, now I'm grumpy again.
Interesting would’ve thought it would be a smidge higher but I think Iowa is heating up so that might be spot on.
Definitely an indictment on the rest of the team but also shed some light for me why Goode is getting that tick. Honestly deserves it with what Harmon and Quincy were doing. His breakdown really put the focus on where the breakdowns are happening and how each player has been responsible.
I did too…and I agree.
Although mostly straightforward observations, I feel like it did a good job of highlighting some things.
My own takeaways and crackpot theories:
1.) Brad should have listened to Indy and hired LaTulip. He would have checked a lot of boxes. Would have been a huge asset to this program. But Mike must definitely be some kind of masochist for watching that WHOLE game like 4-5 times. Yikes! (Or just good at his job.)
2.) We have complete & consistent coverage confusion…but why are we suddenly so overwhelmed? Its as if we’ve
got multiple defensive schemes happening at once on every other play. Fairly obvious that it’s lack of communication and effort…
Why so much confusion?
But his film does a nice job of highlighting
it…ex. Domask icing/forcing baseline and Coleman in high, wrong-side 3-quarter deny in the post…not good…and a ton of other examples like that I could mention.
3.) The effort level is trending in the wrong direction. Not good. I love this team. I do not want to fall out of love with them. I’m vulnerable dammit!
( I cannot take another off the rails end like last year. Don’t they know what they have? Don’t squander this… )
4.)We went(defensively( from to # 2 to # 140…? Is that right? WOW. Damn.
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and it still feels too low170.5 Total
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