Agree, but when the highs are really high, that's when the letdown is the biggest. I expect some, but 4 days should help. When it comes to the post-season, you gotta put success behind you and crank it up for multiple games, so this should be a good experience to learn from either way.
Pregame: Illinois vs Washington, Thursday, January 29th, 8:00pm CT, FS1
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Agree, but when the highs are really high, that's when the letdown is the biggest. I expect some, but 4 days should help. When it comes to the post-season, you gotta put success behind you and crank it up for multiple games, so this should be a good experience to learn from either way.
I feel pretty good since the rest of the team didn't play great besides Wagler.
Let’s get a camera in Ubben for a live feed of Practice.
This Illinois team is going to run the table. My only question is how do you compare this team with the 2005 team? That was one tough team.
This Illinois team is going to run the table. My only question is how do you compare this team with the 2005 team? That was one tough team.
The rest of the team shot 9/27 from 3 and made them when it mattered and dominated on rebounds.
Right I'm just saying its not like the whole team played out of their mind.
Illini in Italy
- Illini HQ, Florida Panhandle
Really? Where did all those rebounds come from? Keaton didn't have a single one. DOMINANT performance on the boards
texasbestillini
- Austin
KW's poise is off the charts.
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This virtually never happens anyway, unless we count 110+ point offensive performances in buy games against KP 300+ teams
Even in the historic drubbing of Oregon last year, Tomi and Kylan shot a combined 8-22 from the field, Will was held to 5 points and Morez nearly fouled out in 16 minutes
I wouldn't be surprised if KW doesn't look for his shot at first and gets many assists. He will take what Washington gives him. Very humbled and unselfish, imo.
Get others involved, get your points when feeling it and expect this team to cover the points. No letdown!
Get others involved, get your points when feeling it and expect this team to cover the points. No letdown!
Ditto
Chad Fleck
- Eureka, IL
I've heard some good observations that part of the rebounding advantage at Purdue had something to do with the switching that Painter employed. It makes sense.
If their big guys got switched on to Wagler, they were pulled out 20+ feet from the basket and weren't in a position to rebound. Then our height simply dominated the boards.
Where did the 13 offensive rebounds come from? Where did the 4 threes in the final 4min come from?
Maybe you could nitpick Stojakovic on defense, but I thought everybody did their part. Obviously Wagler was the star of the show.
Great point. Painter said giving up 13 offensive boards was the reason they lost. Said Illini forced his defense to become inverted and his big men were boxing out 18 feet from the rim.
Let's get AS back on track. Learn from the PU game, take the ball to the hole wisely, and let the game come to you. He will hit some three-pointers, I believe, when playing within the offense.
Washington is 2-5 away from home. The two wins are Wazzu and USC.
ginabackes00
CrazedUIFan
AS has to be a triple threat to play/score consistently on offense. The obvious is he needs to hit 3s at a slightly better %, but for him to grow, he has to see the floor better when he drives. He has one thing on his mind when he takes the ball to the basket and it makes it easier to defend.
Agreed. He's looking to score if he drives and he needs to make a decision to kick out faster if it's not going to happen. Otherwise he gets picked or doubled.
Not this team. Their "trap game" was Nebraska at home. As well as KW played on Saturday Matt Painter made it clear in his postgame. It was the Illini rebounding and mindset that made the difference. Painter specifically noted that when Purdue decided to double Keaton and rotate at the end of the game that is when Tomi, Mirk and Jake all came up huge in the clutch. What an impressive performance by the entire team. When this team plays the defense its capable of, they are better than both the '89 and '05 teams. The issue is they don't always play their best D and with Bam out, stopping players like Braden Smith is really difficult.
Andrej over the last 3 home games is shooting 6/11 (54%) from 3.
sacraig
- The desert
Huh? The rest of the team played fine. Wagler just played like an NBA All-Star.
One one guy is cooking like that, you keep feeding him. The rest of the team did an okay job keeping the #2 offense to fewer points than our #1 offense and they hit shots when they had to and worked to get Keaton open looks. They also outrebounded Purdue by 13.
We maybe watched different games?
Its best to avoid getting attached to players in this day and age. But I could easily see Mirk sneaking into my top 5 Illini list if he stays all 4 years.
Might get flamed for this, but he reminds me of Draymond at MSU. Plays with passion, extremely competitive, has playmaking abilities, great rebounder, can bang down low but also hit the 3.
ptgrd23
- orange county CA
Andrej chased the an All-American all over the court for 37 minutes. Never complained, did his best. He was fouled multiple times when he drove to hoop but it was not called most of time (refs let the players play most of game). 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 0-3 from 3. At this point Andrej is not a killer 3 point shooter like Keaton, Jake, Big Z, Tomas. Or average like Ben and Kylan. However if they sag off him because of his driving ability he should take it to open up the drive.
I like Andrej's game.
Good size, Drives well to hoop just like Keaton and Kylan. Forces opponent to pack the lane which opens up 3 for not just Andrej but whole team,
Playing better defense thru hard work.
Rebounding better.
Needs to tighten handles. Loses ball too often going to hoop. Need to work on Eurostep.
He should sprint down the floor on rebounds so he is open for outlet pass like TSJ as Andrej is great in open court.
Need to shoot 500 3 pointer per day all summer like TSJ to improve.
Really hope he comes back next year. Imagine if we get Tomas, Big Z, Jake, Andrej and Petrovic to come back.
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