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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: ILLove1997 on November 20, 2024, 12:10:07 PM
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Bama favored by 8.5 currently
Young Illinois team will likely struggle on the road with bama's physicality and length. A good early season litmus test however I think the Illini cover but fall short!
Really like when teams go on campus though, neutral games are terrible for the sport IMO, so big props to the Illini and well bama for doing that yeah
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Aren’t we playing at a neutral site?
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ESPN? Is that regional?
I'm not buying SEC to watch this game.
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Aren’t we playing at a neutral site?
It is QAnon97. Be glad at least some of the details are accurate. My ESPN app has the game on SEC Network.
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Aren’t we playing at a neutral site?
dammit I thought it was at coleman, oh well I retract! RETRAAAAACT!
and the goggles said its on ESPN so yeah...
I'll be using trusty ol' sportsurge in all likelyhood
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BAMA and the spread seems very likely, if not an understatement against us currently.
Illini haven't shown anything that suggests that we can hang with an overly athletic team...back cuts/alley oops may be at a high rate tonight against us.
Turnovers on both sides along with tempo any form of solid defense can create will dictate this game result.
Bama has more than enough length and athletic ability to really give us fits. If we have 15+ turnovers we lose by more the spread says.
Expect B1G games from
Ivisic - 10' shots and passing against Cliff
Nelson - May score big for them tonight....I could see a "career" type of game for him unfortunately.
DGL and anyone else will have to really "D" up to stop Sears tonight...he may get 25+ against us.
Bama 89 - ILLINI 78 it may be worse I hope I am wrong
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YouTube TV has SEC Network with this one unless I am wrong.
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Good to see you LK!
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YouTube TV has SEC Network with this one unless I am wrong.
Oh shit! What's up LK?!
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And the gauntlet begins. We’re about to find out where we stand in short order.
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And the gauntlet begins. We’re about to find out where we stand in short order.
And it isn't even January.
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And the gauntlet begins. We’re about to find out where we stand in short order.
Honestly i prefer watching good competitions vs blowing out another directional school ive never heard of by 40 points, even if we lose.
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YouTube TV has SEC Network with this one unless I am wrong.
Oh hey LKDog is here. How ya been, dude?
And yes, Youtube TV does have the SEC Network.
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Fucking volleyball? This could drag on for another hour.
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This volleyball shit needs to end asap!
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Let's go Florida. End this shit.
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Let's go Florida. End this shit.
What a terrible set up for this game. Fuck the SEC NETWORK. The people that set this shit up are fucking ignorant.
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Bama on fire to start. Lovely.
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Damn, that was quick. Stay the course and hopefully they cool down.
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Free shots, shake my head
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Can't hit nothing now. This could get out of hand.
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We’re getting bullied now…
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you mean to tell me team chemistry matterS?
bringing in a whole new team but 1 guy doesn;t work?
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Boswell is highly overrated…
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Grant Nelson and Alabama can’t miss. Damn
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Bama should be up by 30 if they didn't miss so many wide open threes.
Defense. Yuck. Offense picked it up a little towards the end of the half.
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Boswell is highly overrated…
He tried to hero ball which led directly to Bama opening it up. He might be a decent on-ball defender but I'm largely not impressed with him thus far.
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11 3’s for Alabama. They’re just hitting big shots. Just when I think we’re about to make a run, they hit a big shot.
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Need to get it to single digits at 8 min mark…
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Fuck yeah, let’s go! This team is gonna be good if they can get it clicking!
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Lots of talent!
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This looks like the Washington Generals' defense.
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Hell of a job fighting back to cut it to 8. Too bad we quickly fell apart after that. Trials and tribulations of a young team.
Free shot percentage tonight is sending PAMan to an early grave
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Young team keeps fighting. Just can’t get a couple breaks to go our way when it counts.
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Free throws are KILLING us. 50%
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Tie game if we make our free throws…
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Hell of a job fighting back to cut it to 8. Too bad we quickly fell apart after that. Trials and tribulations of a young team.
Free shot percentage tonight is sending PAMan to an early grave
Wife currently making sure the life insurance is paid up....
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Nail in the coffin there. Ugh
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Good news is that we wont face anyone as good as bama the reat of the year, refs kinda blew, we didnt shoot great and they shot lights out, oh well on to the next one
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Sears went scoreless and Bama still dropped a hundo. Fuck.
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Sears went scoreless and Bama still dropped a hundo. Fuck.
Doesn't matter if the other 3 guards drop 50.
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Hopefully they can learn to defend before January 6th
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If Bama is the 8th best team in the nation....level of play is down. I know they dropped a 100, but that is more of an indictment on the ILLINI defense than the talent (AND THERE IS A LOT OF IT) on Bama's side.
Free Throws would have possibly won this for us alone, some sort of defense would have been able to keep the helter skelter Oats team to less than a Havlicek score.
Philon is an absolute talent, but he is a punk....saw him throwing at least 5-7 elbows at different players.
Lesson learned I hope, if we are behind on defense now, and get better as most BU teams do as the year goes on, we will be fine.
Didn't cover, didn't think we would, by January, I would put our team up against almost anyone else...Feb we go on run, March we will be one tough out.
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Alabama is deep and put on a clinic on offense. 23 assists and 52% from the field. Game was decided in the stretch in the first half where our starters were back on for a while and they pulled out to the 15+ point lead.
We are thin for how many guys we had come in.
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He tried to hero ball which led directly to Bama opening it up. He might be a decent on-ball defender but I'm largely not impressed with him thus far.
I believe he just led us in scoring or was very close...just checked 2nd highest by 1 point. Also had 7 reb-3 asst-1 TO. He played better than KJ imo, his turnovers not only hurt us due to being a turnover, but most seem to be at the worst possible times.
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Wouldn't mind seeing BH more involved in the offense, double pick and rolls for him and Ivisic?
DGL seemed lost again tonight, really hope he gets more PT, KJ turnovers are at least a chance for some minutes somewhere?
Rez is much bigger than I thought, he also defended fairly well on drives.
Ivisic is the key this year, him and BH imo. Both experienced in different ways, BH should be able to lead in much the way Domask did.
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Take out White and put Riley in the starting lineup…
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I believe he just led us in scoring or was very close...just checked 2nd highest by 1 point. Also had 7 reb-3 asst-1 TO. He played better than KJ imo, his turnovers not only hurt us due to being a turnover, but most seem to be at the worst possible times.
He played better after that post. He was our second leading scorer behind Riley. I'll put away my pitchforks for now.
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Take out White and put Riley in the starting lineup…
This.
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The great thing about positionless basketball is that since you are positionless, you don’t have to guard your position!
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Good to see you LK!
Hey guys.
First time I watched this group closely.
Interesting mix of players and a lot of talent.
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He played better after that post. He was our second leading scorer behind Riley. I'll put away my pitchforks for now.
Correct, wasn't trying to pile on, I will not sharpen mine so much LOL
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The great thing about positionless basketball is that since you are positionless, you don’t have to guard your position!
Less positioning, means more scoring for the other team....reverse coaching?
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Hey guys.
First time I watched this group closely.
Interesting mix of players and a lot of talent.
Its going to be a very fun year for basketball, I'm quite excited about this team
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Here is a video of the game. I was under the weather, busy this week, and don't get SEC. So I have not viewed it yet. Should I bother?
https://youtu.be/UteO2Ws9Png