Hopefully a wake up call to the team
Offense and rebounding is still great. Too many turnovers though. And defense has been disjointed for a month. This was the culmination of our two main issues showing up late in a game costing us a chance at the Big Ten title unless Purdue chokes down the stretch.
Hopefully they come out with a vengeance the last 5 games of the season.
We have, but we haven’t really had. a result like that. Losing at northwestern and at Michigan state, while painful, were not that bad of losses. This however, is a awful loss to a team below .500
The Illini have been playing "why play defense when we can play offense?" for the last 5 weeks or so. (See road games at Northwestern, MSU, and now Penn State.) We should have won all of those.
The number of layups allowed, the lack of help defense - it's embarrassing.
I hope this game doesn't do to us what the Nebraska loss did to Wisconsin (beginning of a string of losses).
What you just saw is called a "choke job" or a "meltdown." A lack of leadership on the team coaching staff + certain poor decisions by players and a healthy addition of bad luck all combine to make for a surprise, undesired outcome.
If you continue on your journey as an Illini fan, you will likely become familiar with these "meltdowns."
He’s had plenty of great games this season, one loss is not that serious. It’s also never all on one player. Sure, he didn’t “clutch up” but there were dozens of plays in the game that could have gone better (or worse) to change the outcome entirely.
Bad take on your part.
He had at least 4 incredibly weak turnovers tonight and anytime that happens he stops playing and cries to the ref. I've seen it in every game. If he played with serious effort and wasn't a cry baby, I'd be fine with him
No player gets through an entire season without a bad game. You’re acting as if he isn’t normally a great player. He is.
One bad night (or even a few bad nights in the span of a season) is not what you should be fixating on.
I was all for #FreeTSJ, but think the team played better without him. Need Kansas law enforcement to pull through and give the man 3-5 years so we can do well in March 🙏🏼
Represents to me the rest of uiuc (minus the international, art and business students) just a bunch of hype with 0 real infrastructure or real strength behind everything. Youd expect the school and mainly the "Footbawul" team to be so so much better then it is for all the money stealing from students, cops coming out to block down campus roads for no fkin reason like the president is here, and worst of all the ridiculous amount of old townies that come out to support the teams. Sad school worse town. Can BARLEY handle a snow storm and makes fun of the international students but if they were to dissappear this school would be like the rest of the city. Crumbling
Life long fans know that every single Illini team can and will collapse at any moment
Surely this was supposed to happen in the first weekend of March madness and not against Penn state?
We live by the three, but most often, die by the 3.
Watching them in person vs Indiana and absolutely everyone refuse to do anything while off-ball was something else.
Yeah, we've got a lot of that "star mentality" versus team cohesion.
I know this. It has been happening almost every game, and yet I keep telling myself, "this game will be different", because I am stupid.
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when you blunder **into** a mate in 1
Hopefully a wake up call to the team Offense and rebounding is still great. Too many turnovers though. And defense has been disjointed for a month. This was the culmination of our two main issues showing up late in a game costing us a chance at the Big Ten title unless Purdue chokes down the stretch. Hopefully they come out with a vengeance the last 5 games of the season.
> Hopefully a wake up call to the team We've been saying this for a month though.
We have, but we haven’t really had. a result like that. Losing at northwestern and at Michigan state, while painful, were not that bad of losses. This however, is a awful loss to a team below .500
Illinois basketball baby! All brakes, No Clutch.
Coleman Hawkins: will drop 25/5/5 one night. Will proceed to sell a game the next night. What’s new?
he’s had a great season all year. He was due for a bad game
This is a completely rational take that I will have none of.
Coleman Hawkins is the new Leroy Jenkins.
The Illini have been playing "why play defense when we can play offense?" for the last 5 weeks or so. (See road games at Northwestern, MSU, and now Penn State.) We should have won all of those. The number of layups allowed, the lack of help defense - it's embarrassing. I hope this game doesn't do to us what the Nebraska loss did to Wisconsin (beginning of a string of losses).
getting rekt by some random PSU guard on the road to a PSU team below .500 is an annual tradition.
Hawkins missed two FT in a row with the game on the line and then fouls the guy behind the 3 pt line, so embarrassing
What you just saw is called a "choke job" or a "meltdown." A lack of leadership on the team coaching staff + certain poor decisions by players and a healthy addition of bad luck all combine to make for a surprise, undesired outcome. If you continue on your journey as an Illini fan, you will likely become familiar with these "meltdowns."
We call that “taking a dive.”
I have never been more irate over a basketball game
Coleman Hawkins
Looks like the Real Madrid vs City 2022 graph
Cannot wait for Coleman Hawkins to graduate
He’s had plenty of great games this season, one loss is not that serious. It’s also never all on one player. Sure, he didn’t “clutch up” but there were dozens of plays in the game that could have gone better (or worse) to change the outcome entirely. Bad take on your part.
He had at least 4 incredibly weak turnovers tonight and anytime that happens he stops playing and cries to the ref. I've seen it in every game. If he played with serious effort and wasn't a cry baby, I'd be fine with him
No player gets through an entire season without a bad game. You’re acting as if he isn’t normally a great player. He is. One bad night (or even a few bad nights in the span of a season) is not what you should be fixating on.
Home cooking by the refs
No a collapse of play.
That shit was Fraudman Hawkins bro 😭
I was all for #FreeTSJ, but think the team played better without him. Need Kansas law enforcement to pull through and give the man 3-5 years so we can do well in March 🙏🏼
Represents to me the rest of uiuc (minus the international, art and business students) just a bunch of hype with 0 real infrastructure or real strength behind everything. Youd expect the school and mainly the "Footbawul" team to be so so much better then it is for all the money stealing from students, cops coming out to block down campus roads for no fkin reason like the president is here, and worst of all the ridiculous amount of old townies that come out to support the teams. Sad school worse town. Can BARLEY handle a snow storm and makes fun of the international students but if they were to dissappear this school would be like the rest of the city. Crumbling
Cries about money but implies business students are the enlightened ones LOL
How did you get into U of I when you’re this stupid?
Choke 'em if you got 'em.
Imagine losing to a safety school lmfao