You need talent and chemistry. There is a reason our best Illini teams historically have had the most NBA players on them. Dont kid yourself . It takes both but with talent you can win without playing your best. Plus your not gong to win NCAA Titles and that’s our eventual goal. Without talent you can forget about going very far towards reaching it but with 2,3,4 or more NBA level talents you can play below average and smoke more college teams. We have had those teams before and I hope we do again soon. This team is a good start but they do need to mesh but Goode hitting some jumpers could go a long way to fixing that issueIndividual talent does not make a team. Chemistry does. We have a good team that has shown flashes. Unfortunately, we seem to be hitting the wrong teams at the wrong time. Indiana will be psyched this Saturday if N.W. beats them. We still have to play N.W. and Purdue. Hopefully we can beat Minnesota, O. State and Michigan but nothing is guaranteed. At this point, I would be happy with a split and 7 seed. We still have time to round into playing up to the potential that we have flashed against earlier top ten teams.
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