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As far as player development goes, who has Underwood really improved over the course of their Illinois career besides Ayo overall and Fraser defensively? Kofi slightly improved from the beginning of his freshman year through the end of his third year, but not by an impressive amount. DMW never got any better.Giorgi regressed from his freshman year. RJ seriously regressed from his flash of being good at end of last year.I need someone to tell me why Underwood’s teams at SF Austin were successful. DM if you want.
I have some good friends that are KSU guys and they were livid when KState hired Weber instead of Underwood. And they said we were the luckiest team in the world when we got Brad.
I totally bought in that the cupboard was empty when he got here. But man, without Ayo and/or Kofi, his teams here have looked pretty out of control, indisciplined, foul crazy etc.
None of these Illini teams under BU have consistently been fun to watch on offense, especially in the half court yet they hardly ever fast break.
For playing major minutes for the U 18 USA team Ty is a complete non contributer and Skyy has been as disappointing as BU’s teams have been in the NCAA tournament
I’ll grant BU big 10 season success but I’d much rather see us get to the sweet 16 and hopefully beyond that on a regular basis.
Can’t watch this team any longer- killed all my joy for this year. Have to start wondering about BU being the guy to really get this the Illini to be fun to support long term.