AeroIllini
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Here's to hoping basketball does a bit better than football, at least we aren't at the bottom there
IMO next years team will not be a lot better than this years team despite the great recruiting class. I believe this because it seems to take a year to teach defense. This year has a soph group that has had significant playing time and should be at least competent defensively. If they get both Wilkes and Kiir, they should be better by tournament time next year but this years team has depth and scoring and should be able to compete within BIG. I also wonder if Kipper is being groomed as the defensive stopper. If he can effectively guard MH he can guard 1-4 and that would fit JG's strategy as I hear him.
IMO next years team will not be a lot better than this years team despite the great recruiting class. I believe this because it seems to take a year to teach defense. This year has a soph group that has had significant playing time and should be at least competent defensively. If they get both Wilkes and Kiir, they should be better by tournament time next year but this years team has depth and scoring and should be able to compete within BIG. I also wonder if Kipper is being groomed as the defensive stopper. If he can effectively guard MH he can guard 1-4 and that would fit JG's strategy as I hear him.
WRT Kipper, I think that was probably the initial plan. But Kipper has blown away initial expectations, so he'll be a whole lot more than a defensive stopper. WRT this season, there aren't a whole lot of minutes to be had. But he'll be inserted for more than defensive purposes.
Too much stock is put into practice reports. It is encouraging to hear good things but it really doesn't mean something until it translates into actual games.
You play the way you practice. I find this old cliche to be pretty truthful.
You play the way you practice. I find this old cliche to be pretty truthful.
What's Leron Black's status? Is he playing?
You do play the way you practice. You virtually never play the way the homer local media reports through conversations with a self-interested coaching staff that you practice.
He already fouled out of the first 4-6 games... lol....
You play the way you practice. I find this old cliche to be pretty truthful.
That's why they call it foreplay.
Great picture.....looks like Morgan may be taller than Thorne!
And Finke makes Leron look small
Either Maurice or Robin Gibb...Finke could be the lead singer for the BeeGees.
Either Maurice or Robin Gibb...
Forgot about Barry. I was trying to match Finke's face with one of them in my head. Good call.Barry
Yet Leron outrebounds them all in almost every practice.