Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
So glad you went with us!
Illinois 87, Iowa 83 Postgame
So glad you went with us!
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
Maybe you skipped some pages/posts? It was a few pages back, but.....more regrettably...it's been here every year DMFW has played.
Too many people were obsessed with comparing him to his dad or not being offensively gifted. Start Tev Jones...start Alan Griffin....an on and on. Seriously.
My eyes see DMFW more confident on offense than at any point in his college career. He won't replicate last seasons 3pt%, but that is more of an outlier than an "improvement", followed by a "regression". He's not ever going to be as fluid with his dribble drives and he'll never be the finisher that his dad was...but I love to see that he's willing to go in there more this year than ever now that he's been on the ball with Curbelo out.
I love him...and I just wish more posters would have a better perspective with the player that he is...instead of wishing he was something else.
We simply don't win even half of these B1G road games over the last two years without DMFW.
bent his left leg un-naturally to fall down to my eyes, didn't see any contact from Kofi at all
Still not a smart play by Kofi, you just have to let that one go. I like the hustle though.
IIRC that won't work, because at least when the ball is being rebounded, unlike the play clock, the 10s clock is not supposed to start until the opposing team has control of the ball. The play clock resets as soon as the ball hits the hoop. The refs can't assume which team will get the rebound, so have to wait to see who gains control.
Someone correct me if I got this rule wrong. Maybe I'm remembering the olden days since I'm old, but I thought that someone (timekeeper?) used to actually start a stop watch to keep track of the 10 seconds.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
It is really amazing what a night-and-day different player he is from his dad stylistically, who also faced a lot of unfair criticism of what he wasn’t which ignored what he was, in the opposite direction.
Now, take the best parts of father and son and you’ve created Chris Paul, but alas.
Right? I mean, minus the foul, he closed out on two 3 point shooters in the same possession with a vengeance. I thought he was going to land on their bench and kill somebody on the first one. He may have fouled the Dorky McCaffery but still one heckuva motor on a dude that big.
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
This is an excellent memory.....and the image of a Hybrid Williams.....yikes. I don't remember dads wingspan...but good lord....Frankie with just DMFW wing span and shoulders..... would have been a freak.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Well I just mean you take Frankie’s court vision and artistry and scoring ability and add Da’Monte’s grit and timing and junkyard mentality, and lets be honest a healthy bit of pure evil and that’s Chris Paul, top 20 basketball player of all time.
HRF + DMFW = OMG
(By the way the thing the two have in common is a preternatural understanding of what’s going on on the floor and sense of anticipation for what comes next. They both play a half second ahead of everybody else, just in very different ways)
He has Plummer, Grandison, and Trent to shoot the 3 in addition to Kofi to feed. Last year we were not that dangerous as a team from 3. As long as he does enough to keep his defender honest, he is doing his job. Last year teams were sagging way off him (especially early in the year) and he took the wide open looks. Not sure they are giving him as much room this year.
But did he graduate from Illinois?
Well if his tweet is true, I thank God for sending him our way.
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
Probably not yet, but it only matters to a select few.
and you won't endear yourself to the zebras if you whine after EVERY foul that is called on you.
while true for game experience....game experience while being the "hunted" at the top of the scouting report is something much different.
I 100% agree. I have been critical of Belo from day 1 regarding his overhandling. He did look to have cleaned that up a bit in his last game. He wanted to be the shot taker in the Marquette game and that bothered me more than his turnovers. Great talent but, he needs to understand the needs of other shooters and scorers. I look forward to his overcoming his present issues and hopefully he will give more respect for other Illini strengths.
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
To be sure, there were a lot of factors, but pretty sure Papi gets an assist here.
Probably about as many as all of the raves about how he sees the floor. He makes a lot of desperation passes when he has penetrated too deep and jumps into the air trying to find somewhere to throw the ball.
frozenrope9190
- Aurora, IL
I think what's bothering me the most about Curbelo's absence is we fans have an insanely long amount of time to evaluate the Marquette game.
He got a competitive job offer before he could.
He went to Illinois to go to the NBA, not to get a degree. So, yes, he excelled in his major and graduated to the profession in which he was studying.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
This whole thing started when someone posted that Ayo "graduated". Maybe not as egregious as calling Grandison "Granderson", but it's nice to get the facts right.
In the 30 seconds I spent googling, I couldn't find anything explicitly saying he graduated. My assumption then is no, he didn't.
Going into your old man's profession is hard enough but in the same organization? That's tough, especially for Da'Monte, who can look up and see Dad's jersey hanging in the rafters. Kudos to Monte for (1) stepping up, and (2) doing the same thing in his own way.
