Maybe this was said already, but did anyone catch when the announcer said, "Brad told me they really don't have an offense. We just find the mismatches and exploit them." This may not be word for word, but it was something along those lines. However, the offense we love to run is dribble hand offs 35' from the basket....
Wisconsin 95, Illinois 74 Postgame
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Cooper Flagg was lighting up NBA players before he even got to Duke
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
If that's the case I'm ready for a coaching change. Appreciate what Brad's done, but he's clearly done what he can do and it's time for an upgrade, especially with what we are paying him.
DICKnaggie
- Champaign
I'm sympathetic to this, especially as someone who was hospitalized with Norovirus a few weeks back, but if this is really the case then why in he
are sick players routinely sitting on the bench, in layup lines, travelling, etc.? It makes no sense. If they are/were not contagious, then why is everyone sick? And yes, there is a lot of it going around, but I sure don't see this level of illness generally around campus/ in class.He hasn't been able to adjust because no one is teaching him how, it's like here you go figure it out yourself. I cannot imagine his handlers or agent are real pleased with KJs illini experience
This happened at the same time as all 5 illini are standing around outside the 3 point line, all 5 just playing catch until late in shot clock. Coaching? Then the camera shows Brad shoulder to shoulder with a smiling Tyler. It's really run it's course with me, I have ZERO expectations the rest of the way. Maybe I will be surprised
I just wanna ask the insiders a very silly question because the season is just not fun right now. I admittedly do not know that much about basketball other than enjoying watching it. Brad is a really good coach, and I don’t think you move on from him unless a surefire, can’t miss upgrade is available.
THAT BEING SAID. Let’s just have a fun hypothetical where Shauna Green’s team goes and beats the brakes off of #3 UCLA tomorrow. Let’s say they make a deep run to the elite eight or better in the women’s tournament. Let’s say Josh Whitman knows that he has a big 10 commissioners job waiting in the wings and he gets a little frisky. Let’s say he makes an offer for Shauna Green to become the first Female head coach for a men’s basketball team…
Question one: does she take it?
Question two: what would the fall out from that be?
Question three: is that the kind of move that gets an A.D. fired?
Question four: would she succeed?
biglug58
- Chicago, IL
Man when I saw that Wisconsin -3.5 I almost thru a bag oon Wiscy but never like to bet against the beloved.
Brad will be alright. He hasn’t had a good year but he is smart and a hard worker. He will make some changes on the coaching staff. Also I sure like oolder teams. We need to kill it in the portal this offseason. KJ needs another year but lottery money is hard to pass up. DGL is good as gone.
Brad will be alright. He hasn’t had a good year but he is smart and a hard worker. He will make some changes on the coaching staff. Also I sure like oolder teams. We need to kill it in the portal this offseason. KJ needs another year but lottery money is hard to pass up. DGL is good as gone.
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Not an insider, but I don't see that occurring anytime soon. The only female head coach that I'd even consider for a men's job right now is Dawn Staley. Think about that - only the head and shoulders best female coach in the game would even be on my interview list.
Illinois may not have it's absolute cherry-pick of the top coaches who would want to make a move, but I feel confident that Josh Whitman would not go down very far on his list to get a successor high on his wish list.
Illinois may not have it's absolute cherry-pick of the top coaches who would want to make a move, but I feel confident that Josh Whitman would not go down very far on his list to get a successor high on his wish list.
Big Jack
- Decatur
I noticed Tre as well. All I know is if the illness running through the locker room is what I had a couple weeks ago, it zaps you. After 5 days thought I was feeling better, went to the gym, lasted 20 minutes. The next day I was back in bed for two more days. I've been over it for about 5 days and still have low energy.
Big Jack
- Decatur
I feel like KJ’s agent should owe the staff a solid since they’ve been obscuring the real cause of his wrist injury.
Big Jack
- Decatur
NIT??
Here's us limping into the tournament
This is a problem. Michigan State jumped on him hard with the primary defender and the screen defender every single time KJ ran a pick and roll and there was no answer for it. Last night Wisconsin did the same thing and guess what happened....the exact same thing because we had no adjustment for it.
illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
It was truly the most outrageous line all year
I laughed hard (cried inside) when the announcer said this because yep....checks out.
Yep, and that was essentially a chose by Underwood... He absolutely could've changed the way he did things in order to keep Amani, Sincere, Dain, etc.. Underwood chose Hamer over Frazier..
We could also have built around Ty...
3 of those guys are dogs and tough as nails. But Underwood decided to build around "skill". Problem is, he misevaluated the skill and we are also soft.
Underwood brought in 4 freshman. I think he did recruit. It’s just that two of them are so good, that they will be off to the NBA next year.
rmlsr
- El Paso,IL
Best example of that is right there!!! Spot on.
I love how staff can watch that type of ball screen coverage completely disrupt our offense and simultaneously say “nah, not for us. Analytics don’t support it.”
This is great. I wonder if Riley will come back.
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