Recent content by Clemillini21

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    Game Thread: Illinois vs Nebraska

    Not going to take the time to make this an analysis as usual. But this is why Illinois is better without Coleman. TSJ is a star player type but he plays all game. Will comment further after the game but smfh. I love him overall and has some great moments but star players are NOT consistently...
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    Penn State 90, Illinois 89 Postgame

    Also, no idea why Guerrier isn’t coming in more often. Almost like Brad is afraid to use both him and TJ at the same time, and given our defensive struggles you can add in the Goode > Rodgers issues. Frustrating beyond belief, yet I still have confidence in this team outside of a single win or...
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    Penn State 90, Illinois 89 Postgame

    The probability distribution from this team is right skewed, but has both a fat left & right tail. I think I’ve seen worse basketball before, and less talent on teams. What makes this so disappointing is that we’ve been on the edge of the fat right tail several times… only to slingshot...
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    Former Illini in College Hoops

    Just a small tidbit. I’m sure if you gleaned over my previous posts that you’d see I’m an Illini fan in a Clemson grad family. My grandma got my cousin and I tickets to go see Clemson-Louisville on Tuesday and up until the game started, somehow forgot I’d get to watch Skyy playing. Well… the...
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Tennessee

    And yet, after that whole awful officiating sequence, it is also correct that now the Illini are being outplayed. Vols have swagger and momentum and now they’re playing with a fire in their hearts
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Tennessee

    A lot of foul calls making a difference doesn’t have much to do with total # of fouls called, it’s all in the timing and momentum. Not sure why some on here are acting like the 2nd half isn’t being majorly dictated by the refs against the Illini (more than the 1st half was dictated for the...
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    Northwestern 45, Illinois 43 Postgame

    This (!!!), and although there aren’t stats for the last opposing drive of a game; that prevent defense we ran had to rank us near dead last on game winning drives by opposing team. Believe it or not we were *only* 77th in points allowed to opposing teams in 4th quarter. Felt much worse than...
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    Northwestern 45, Illinois 43 Postgame

    I don’t post much, but at the end of the season did some stats digging (see recent post). A lot of this was due to turnovers and penalties, but an extra nugget that we were 109th in time of possession. Defense was NOT good at all this year outside of Newton… but they were also on the field way...
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    Northwestern 45, Illinois 43 Postgame

    Take it as you will, and stats aren’t updated for today’s game yet. But coming into this game, we were 39th in defensive yards per play allowed. Granted, that’s only good for 10th out of 14 in the Big Ten. Turnover margin at 112, with this level of defense, is what really made the difference...
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    NCAA Tournament 2023 Thread

    Was scrolling through some pre-tournament articles from ESPN, and low and behold in the middle of their fantasy draft 😂 the whole opposing team’s player has their best game against us is no conspiracy. “Been a lot of Illinois destroyers” 🤦🏻‍♂️
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    NFL Draft

    Saw this earlier in the day and meant to post it here. I’ve seen a lot of analysis and stats but this one really put it into perspective the results given a higher number of snaps. Also note the improvement going from last year’s numbers into this year 👀
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    Rutgers 91, Illinois 88 Postgame

    Some of you are awful first reaction fans... we lost by 3, to a ranked team in the big ten, and they shot 20(!!!) more free throws than us. Look at the team stat sheet and they out-blocked and Offensive rebounded us. This was made exponentially worse by the foul calls making our guys scared to...
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Duke

    That block/deflection by Monte. Then the effort from Miller to dive for a loose ball at risk of hurting himself, loving the dedication from the guys tonight doing whatever to bring home this win! Hope Miller is good after that, definitely deserves to be for the dedication he gave on that play
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    2020 NFL Draft Thread

    I’m a packers fan (I know, shame me), and it kills me that they won’t draft a wide receiver, it’s not even a “we could use another decent receiver or young talent at the position”. It’s that it’s the most glaring hole on the roster by far IMO, no reason not to take a chance on at least 1 or 2...
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    No fans at NCAA Tournament, B1G Tournament

    No it’s actually not. Since Gobert tested positive the Utah Jazz players and any teams they’ve played in the last two weeks would have to refrain from play for two weeks. That would result in teams playing a differing number of games at the end of the season. The logistics of it wouldn’t work as...