Recent content by Clemillini21

I wanted to post after the game but left some time to let everyone’s feelings simmer so that I could post what I still view as “mental wins” at this point in the season. I am hugely disappointed relative to what COULD have been, but even as we stand at 5-3, think about these for some positive...

Trying to gather my thoughts and thinking of the best case scenario, even though glaring issues remain. Thinking big men specifically - Tomi was not himself - Ben has never been an answer/reliable against high level teams like MSU - Morez… after that block and hard fall, things didn’t seem the...

Screw the season. In a bar at Halloween crawl they don’t have the game itself on, but there’s a quad share screen. Immediately thought of feelings for Bryant there. That’s an entire butterfly effect waiting to happen. If the Ayo situation where the skip looked badddd played out, butterfly...

Not inside info whatsoever, just deeply pondering in relation to life itself. Sometimes it’s just the relativity of it all, first example that comes to mind is if they think they can be a high playing time guy at a different university and make more $$$ at the moment Another scenario, I’d guess...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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” 🤦🏻‍♂️

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 👀