One of his first highlight tapes posted here was him dunking a lot and making a lot of 3s. He had that effortless thing about him that D1 guys usually have against regular HS players.
I think we can get some good years from him.
Illinois 105, Cincinnati 96 (Exhibition) Postgame
I think we can get some good years from him.
Just watching the highlights it seems Q was initiating the offense a lot more than Vaaks. I was expecting Vaaks to be spamming the pnr with our bigs with Mirk out but maybe it’s Q that is going to be the initiator after Mirk- it is impressive how good of vision he has and he seems to be able to break down his man and find someone open and even hit the step back
I don’t want to put this expectation on him, but he did look an awful lot like a freshman we had last year!
I don’t want to put this expectation on him, but he did look an awful lot like a freshman we had last year!
Quick, smooth, confident release from Ethan Brown.
FeelYourPaign
- So Cal
So excited to see hóops!
Out hustled is inexcusable and will definitely be addressed in practice.
Out of position and Gameplan go together. According to Brad they didn’t even scout the game so this was bound to happen. In an in season game the top Cincy scorer would have been game planned.
If lack of athleticism is truely a problem it really isn’t fixable so to worry about it or complain about it is not very productive. Just need to score more to overcome it.
The recruiting is very specific to promote open shots and driving lanes and height at every position. It seems to have worked. If it has come at the cost of elite athleticism I’m all for it.
When this team locked in last year they could really defend. What I would like to see is playoff intensity on defense all year long as long as it doesn’t come at the cost of injuries.
My goal for the team is no major injuries or illnesses.
The time to win a championship is now.
Absolutely true.
We are back to get the rebound and go. It looks like we want to shoot within the first ten second again.
I used to live about 45 minutes from Columbia Mo, lot of fans upset he got away, even more that he went to Illinois
If we can learn to defend, we will be hard to stop. And if we can't, well... At least we'll be entertaining.
Just basing this off the highlights but the thing that struck me is many times these exhibitions are discombobulated messes offensively but spacing and execution were looking pretty crisp last night despite all the freshmen minutes and the lineup roulette.
Like everyone else, was excited to see Brown's production. Easy to see how a sniper like him could be very plug n' play for this offense.
I was expecting the backcourt overhaul to cause us some early season growing pains but we're looking like we might already be ready for the moment.
Like everyone else, was excited to see Brown's production. Easy to see how a sniper like him could be very plug n' play for this offense.
I was expecting the backcourt overhaul to cause us some early season growing pains but we're looking like we might already be ready for the moment.
Joel Goodson
- 9th man conundrum
not bad. I just wanna know the name of that song/artist (cause Shazam is stumped)
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
This was the message and GIF I sent my brothers.Ummm…so….uhhh…this is our offense…without….our pre-season first team All American?
Hehe….Live look at the rest of the B1G…
“Big Ten coaches realizing Illinois hung 105 on a preseason top 20 KenPom defense without a preseason AA who will be the fulcrum of the offense…….”
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OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
After seeing the defensive switch turn on late last season, I’m pretty confident about the defense rounding into form.
I’m not saying we’ll be top 5 defensively or anything like that, but I am confident we’ll at least be good enough defensively to complement what looks to be a potentially insanely impressive offense.
Our defense definitely got better as the year went on last year, but man, it still lost us a lot of games.
UCLA-20+ point lead
MSU-lead late in game and we couldn't get a stop.
Wisconsin- let's focus on the BTT where we lost not one, but TWO 15 point leads. The game at our place we also had a double digit lead, but let's write that off to attrition given the injuries.
That's off the top of my head. It did get better, especially in the NCAAT. Playing at that level would be ideal.
That was likely a quad one win, missing our best player, and an exhibition substitution pattern against a team that had already played an exhibition and beaten another projected tourney team.
Plenty to work on especially defensively but encouraging start.
Plenty to work on especially defensively but encouraging start.
Seems that Brown has outplayed Vaaks, and from last night may be particularly better for the team if Vaaks is not needed as the main facilitator instead of Q or Mirk.
We've seen high school rankings can be meaningless very quickly.
Right now I'd be surprised if Vaaks starts.
At the end of one of the highlight videos posted here on IL, it included the end-of-game congratulatory routine. Does anyone know who the Cincinnati guy (player, assistant coach?) was who the Ivisic twins and Jake (and maybe one or two others) hugged? And why. They kind of made a big deal of it, even. Former Illini, maybe? Just curious.