Illini Basketball 2026-2027

#27      
Apparently Jake Davis played 15 minutes in our Texas Tech game, and we scored 0 points in those 15 minutes.

That's insane considering he leads the nation in offensive rating.
Did you mean "he scored 0 points in those 15 minutes" because "we" (as in Illinois) were up 9-7 when he got subbed out at the under 16 timeout.
 
#29      
Lucas Morillo.

For all intents and purposes -- I'm counting Andrej as a starter, he was our second best player. It means we return 3 starters and replace Keaton and Boz with Vaaks and Coleman. That's a great starting 5, one of the best in the country (no it's not better than last year; losing too much in the backcourt to make that claim, Wagler was incredible).

We return 2/3 bench guys, but are losing Humrichous. We're bringing in Morillo to plug that void (yes I understand they're different players, but one's out and one's in).

Ben played lots of minutes last year and was very good. He played 22.5 minutes per game.

I think the starters will play more this year as a whole, but you still need Morillo to be able to play 15-18 minutes to truly feel we have a hardcore top 8 (which we need, since we don't have much of a 9th, at least as of yet).
Think I'm going with Tomi...does he stay relatively healthy this year? "Good Tomi" makes us so dang hard to deal with
 
#30      
Did you mean "he scored 0 points in those 15 minutes" because "we" (as in Illinois) were up 9-7 when he got subbed out at the under 16 timeout.
It makes zero sense. Watch the first few minutes of this video; first 9 points are scored with Davis on the court (2 threes by Boswell and 1 from Mirk).

 
#32      
With almost a full year of Fletch under his belt.
Fletch needs to work with Z. Pushups, pushups, pushups - saw him with his shirt off, and his chest is borderline inverted. Talent aside, Z needs to put on muscle and I find it extremely odd (even as a hard-gainer myself), that he is that muscle-deprived.
 
#39      
Neither are 6”7.
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#45      
Already hearing some stuff.....will post something by the end of the weekend after the first week is done.

I will add one nugget already: Stefan Vaaks has exceeded expectations so far.
After watching that long form highlight video, my expectations are very high for him. Guy is way more athletic than I realized.

So if he's exceeding expectations thats exciting news
 
#48      
Already hearing some stuff.....will post something by the end of the weekend after the first week is done.

I will add one nugget already: Stefan Vaaks has exceeded expectations so far.
Let me guess. Q is going be better than Wagler and Lucas Morillo is going to be a borderline starter. :illinois:
 
#50      
Already hearing some stuff.....will post something by the end of the weekend after the first week is done.

I will add one nugget already: Stefan Vaaks has exceeded expectations so far.

so, he's pretty good?
 
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