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Tennessee 66, Illinois 64 Postgame
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DGL only playing 5 minutes is terrible. I have seen enough Ben H aint him his minutes should be divided between DGL and Morez. There is just no excuse not to play DGL more with Ben H being so terrible lately.
What is obvious is when you look at Power 5 competition we lack physicality. I think Bos, KJ, Tre, Tomi can match up. Having Ben, Davis and Riley can't.
So need to add Morez, DGL, and Booth. Keep playing Riley at the 3 and possibly with Tre on the court.
So need to add Morez, DGL, and Booth. Keep playing Riley at the 3 and possibly with Tre on the court.
Experiential learning, situational learning, etc. I bet we spend some time looking at that film next week.
ginabackes00
CrazedUIFan
This is simply not true. This was on everyone.
If KJ had made that put back layup in the first half and either him or Kylan nailed down both free throws during 2 minutes left in the game we probably would be looking at a win. Nevertheless, the team's ceiling is still high and the growth is there. Gotta keep working on the easy things that will win you games.
uofi7477
- Silver & Gold Vandals
Would Coach Green be available to work with BU?
Ryllini
- Lombard
I've watched that coast to coast travesty too many times now. How do we not stop the ball. The biggest learning lesson for any player. Tomi, you have to wall off. Of he wraps a pass around 1 or 2 things happen. Time runs out or you get beat doing your job. Fu*k!
I like our team though.
I like our team though.
They seriously are!Some of you guys are insufferable
We shoot 29% from the field, 17% from the three point stripe, our best player turns it over 7 times(only two assists)....I can go on and on.
We played hard, but the guys who have the ball in their hands late are inexperienced and make mistakes.
We didn't have one player play well. Not one.
If Brad calls a time out and gives Tennessee a better chance to set up with 5 seconds left and they still make the layup then everyone would say he shouldn't have called the TO.
Have you or Indy heard how Riley is looking in practice? Just doesn't look comfortable so twitchy out there hopefully it slows down for him as the season goes on.
Who would deliver this bit of wisdom? The AD?
"Brad, you need to clean up your end-of-game coaching."
"Okay boss, I'm on it!"
Illini in Indiana
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Had to walk away from the wife for a minute, and pretend I wasn't pissed. Only yelled at the TV 2 times. I'm kind of proud of myself!
15 minutes later I'm thinking. Bring that effort every game for the rest of the year, and we go 16-4 in the B10 and go back to the Elite 8.
15 minutes later I'm thinking. Bring that effort every game for the rest of the year, and we go 16-4 in the B10 and go back to the Elite 8.
Not sure if this showed up on TV, but before we threw the ball away at the end of the game, BU spent nearly the entire timeout yelling at/ complaining to the ref about a call. KJ then throws it away out of the time out.
There's plenty of blame to go around here. But at such a crucial point of the game, I would have preferred our coach to be coaching our guys instead of yelling at the refs.
There's plenty of blame to go around here. But at such a crucial point of the game, I would have preferred our coach to be coaching our guys instead of yelling at the refs.
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This. While it's disappointing the manner in which we lost, they are the #1 team in the country. Lost opportunity, but there will be more.
Thank you. I'm disheartened to the core, but this
DevILLDawg
- Meredosia, Illinois
He's 6'9 and didnt have a rebound til the dunk. I watched his man get offensive rebounds at least twice on him but I would bet money there were more than that.
Thank you! I'm sickened and disheartened, but this is the right take. Just hurts to have it within easy reach and let it slip through our hands.
90% of this board keeps saying this and Brad keeps playing him Ben was 3rd on the team in minutes today. It's gone way past stubbornness at this point. We're in the territory of foolishness and ridiculousness.
But if Brad can't react to the obvious given the mountain of evidence, we may just have to concede that our guys will need to play well enough to overcome the considerable disadvantages that Ben brings to the table. Heck, they very nearly did today against the number 1 team in the country so maybe we can continue to do it throughout the rest of the season (hoping against hope)?
But if Brad can't react to the obvious given the mountain of evidence, we may just have to concede that our guys will need to play well enough to overcome the considerable disadvantages that Ben brings to the table. Heck, they very nearly did today against the number 1 team in the country so maybe we can continue to do it throughout the rest of the season (hoping against hope)?
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Battle89
- Cary-Grove, the better Trojan team
We got their players fouled out, we got some classic Barnes decision making, it was all there and we cannot make an inbounds or a layup.
Maybe Brad can exchange that unused timeout for a slice at Pizza Hut.
Great game to watch. Listening to the commentators they were correct in saying the experience of a Tn team vs the youth of ILL. The experience won out. Sour taste, but I like where this team is now.
Losing hurts and blame get thrown around too easily. KJ had some great moments (4 point plays), but.....
5 of 15 from the field, 2 of 8 from three, 7(!!!) turnovers to only 2 assists, lazy inbounds passing, a critical miss from the line....
As the leader.....he has to be better.
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