Recent content by 80'sIllini

And who knows, the player we get over the summer, likely from overseas, may turn to be quite good.

No, I don't think he came here to play the 4 as his main position. My point is that he can for spot minutes if needed to do so. How many 4's would be happy to guard him on the perimeter since he can hit 3 point shots? I can't recall where but I saw him listed at 215 and he looks to weigh that...

Good post. What's not talked about much is that having 10 solid players capable of playing meaningful minutes makes for more competitive and game-like scrimmages during practices which can only help players improve more readily. With only 8 guys, or even 9 who are game ready, scrimmages have...

If Morillo is currently 6'7" and 215 lbs it isn't unreasonable to think that he could be 225 lbs by the start of the season. I thought I saw somewhere that he is still growing in height also. Anyway, those figures are probably not far off from what 4's are in the big 10. For example: As of...

I'll take the opinion of the staff over any of us non-insiders who have pretty much seen nothing of our freshmen play other than highlight tapes against high school competition or a playground AAU game. I'll admit that other than Coleman and Morillo the other frosh are not highly ranked but...

Former 5-star recruit Joson Sanon enters portal St. John's guard Joson Sason has entered the transfer portal. The former 5-star recruit from the Class of 2024 was the top-ranked player coming out of Massachusetts. In 37 games for the Johnnies this year, the sophomore averaged 7.9 points and 2.4...

No disrespect to Jake and his contributions to date- the guy is an intangible monster and sniper from the baselines when open. But Morillo is gonna be too good and too able to get a shot off even if not wide open, unlike Jake. If we do get Blackwell, then I agree with these minutes allocations...

Z's off the ball defending of the rim and blocking shots is elite but his on the ball defense is just ok, his rebounding is below average and so is his shooting if you look at his % from 3 for the whole year. Not to say he can't improve a lot in those areas and to do so it's incumbent on him to...

https://www.proballers.com/basketball/player/285167/brandon-lee

No way Lee is 6'4"- probably more like 6'1".

There is a 5" height difference between them.

Exactly. He's had 2 years to work on his shot and may be passably good at it by now. Elliot Cadeau certainly improved his 3 point shooting % over his 3 years to date in his college career. By season 2023–24 (North Carolina): 18.9% 2024–25 (North Carolina): 33.7% 2025–26 (Michigan): 37.6%

Loved watching him play and how he carried himself on and off the court. Wishing him a long and productive career in the NBA!!

Diop has monster potential and is already quite good. Will command major $ wherever he ends up.

I was at the FF4 weekend this year and on Sunday before the championship game my friends and I watched the NIT championship game which was held at the stadium where the Pacers play. The place was empty except for the satanical Bruce Pearl and his buddy Barkley. Must have been < than 2000 people...