Recent content by mikraso

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    Illinois 70, Indiana 62 Postgame

    Other teams don’t have to “give the crowd”—specifically the Krush-style sections—anything to work with. Other teams’ Krush equivalents get hype and stay hype. When was the last time you heard/saw Purdue’s audience take plays off just because the game was discouraging or unexciting? Krush is soft...
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    TSJ Thread

    What are you quoting from?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Wait, there’s a Pagliai’s in Iowa City, too. Are they related?
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Chattanooga, Friday, March 18th, 5:50pm CT, TNT

    Also, Underwood talked recently about how his scouting mentality/division of labor amongst the staff has changed a lot since last season AND that he is very happy with how it has gone. Hopefully that bodes well for our tournament performance!
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Notre Dame, Monday, November 29th, 8:00pm CT, ESPN2

    Agreed with this assessment, but I’ll add that part of Kofi being in the lane is his ability to box out for someone to cut/drive to the basket. We saw that a lot with Ayo and Curbelo both last year and have seen it a few times this year. Our other bigs are not holding up that bargain when Kofi...
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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Arkansas State

    If you’re having problems with the stream, we had luck hitting play from beginning. Took us to live.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    I’m well aware? Maybe it’s the cynic in me, but my understanding is that Uber themselves put that gif together.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    Booo, bad take. Corporations sneaking advertising into conversations on the internet or otherwise is very different from anything NIL related.
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    Kofi Cockburn in the transfer portal

    Not raggin on you—I hate the corporate “watermarks” making their way into gifs.
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    Coaching Carousel

    Is there no way to delete a comment? I cracked a joke and see someone else already made the same joke and now I am stuck. Please enjoy this gif of me in the mean time:
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    Coaching Carousel

    Y’all thirsty and I for one am parched 🧃🧃🧃
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    Pregame: Illinois at Michigan State, Tuesday, February 23rd, 6:00pm CT, FS1

    Wow, how did I not hear about this? That’s so !!!!!! for him to be having that discussion publicly.
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    Michigan State 76, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    Wow, that did not match my expectation with how efficient he has been at the three. I must be recalling other games.
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    Michigan State 76, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    How many of those are Griffin...? Do I even want to know?
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    Missouri 63, Illinois 56 POSTGAME

    Suicide sprints ruined my knees. Careful what you wish on people.