UIC vs Little Rock

[waadle]

Home Opener for the flames against Little Rock. UIC are 4.5 favorites and according to ESPN Analytics, UIC has a 74.3% chance of winning. What do you all hope to see today?

[goveybaseball]

Fens to get more PT and Kennedy to play.

[UICJohn]

A few things I want to see:
*More consistency on both offense and defense
*A 12+ point victory
*Smart shot selection - we aren’t the best real from distance but take them when they’re there
*Offensive movement
*One (if not more) of our Soph players to step up with a big game
*Fans to be there. They’ve been advertising homecoming more than I can remember. They are doing a tailgate with free food and beer. There’s a towel giveaway. I am hoping they’ve been advertising on campus too. We have more students than ever loving on campus. Come on guys. What more do we need to do. I’d love to see 300+ students and 3000+ fans. But that might be dreaming.

[sparkywantsportillos]

Kennedy might not play today, he is not dressed

[goveybaseball]

Anyone there? How's the crowd?
Rivera nice half I see.

[Camfan]

Crowd is far better than I have seen last year with the exception of the Loyola game for obvious reasons.

[sparkywantsportillos]

Lots of people here. If only the team was consistent, we would see these crowds be here often.

[Big D]

Let’s be honest. Little Rock is not very good. They’re making us look better than we’re actually playing, particularly on offense. I still just don’t like our offensive flow. Something is missing. Too much dribbling, too out of control, taking tough shots. Okani has done nothing and that’s not a good sign. We need consistent production night in and night out from him.

Rivera has a ton of points, but he’s generally out of control. Bigs doing nothing still against a team where they should be shining. Cam the best of the three so far.

[UICJohn]

I’m listening to the audio and it’s dreadful. Going in and out every few seconds. Not even able to listen.

[goveybaseball]

9-19 from 3
Is Cam actually getting minutes?

[Big D]

Man this 2nd half is dragging. Coach cannot be happy with this performance. Fans get Portillo’s chocolate cake since we reached 75 points. Good promotion. Have Portillo’s open a booth at CU1 and sell beefs.

[uiclaflame]

While we got the win, still didn’t like how our offense looked too. There was a string of a few consecutive possessions when Drew king first subbed in where we had some good plays - and thought maybe the offense would click from there. But it went back to the brutal, top of key pick, hand the ball off multiple times, dribble into nothingness and force a shot offense. It’s been like this for years… does the staff think it’ll magically start to work?

[uiclaflame]

All have to the say the audio is dreadful. Choppy and the worst when J-Hood yells after a bucket

[uiclaflame]

I just wonder what our identity is. I always see interviews where players and coaches claim we want to play uptempo/fast - but I don’t see it. I also don’t really see us having a defensive identity. At least Yak’s first few seasons in interviews mentioned focusing on limiting opponents 3’s as key goal - and it seemed like we did that. Now everything feels like a hodgepodge.

Would love if we beat Loyola but seems unlikely. And if we do, think we’ll have to just be on fire that night

[brokeboi20]

Definitely sloppy but we'll need to pick it up against Loyola if we want to remain competitive. Next string of games should be confidence boosters before hitting the MVC season hard.