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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    think he was taking issue with your statement that you had better foresight than the staff did meaning sky being easy to identify up front as a flake
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    wisconsin they lost by 30 to byu lost by 30 to nebraska lost to teams like oregon, usc and high point doesnt seem like good territory to me, definitely noplace close to generationally elite / best in ten years type of territory
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    boyd and blackwell as best b1g backcourt in last 10 years? just off the top of my head illinois had a couple guys (tsj & domask) who were both 1st team all conf and went to an elite 8... blackwell and boyd played on a 24-11 team bounced by high point and neither of them made 1st team best b1g...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    this is still extremely contextual though, you added 4 filters to your data set if i want to know a players ability in a certain area i dont compare him solely against above average players because that skews what im looking at dont know what was originally said at this point but feels like...
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    so in an effort to show that it wasn’t limiting to mostly elite players, you chose elite players from an elite team to back that? hmm
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    for awhile was thinking it was a completely unserious troll account someone does for entertainment, but now starting to think its actually serious but just really unplugged from reality about mostly every subject lol
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    good luck actually convincing people of this lol
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    who would you have in front of him in the b1g? mckenney and mccoy prob both start for mich lajuan watts prob a starter for wash kur teng maybe? only guy i can think of but wouldnt completely rule out him being starter either
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    Illini Basketball 2026-2027

    coen carr having same odds and andrej and sandfort is sorta weird... guess they think a lot more of him than i do
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    making claims that he's the best defensive player in the draft have even less merit when he goes out and commits 7 personal fouls en route to some guy who didn't even get drafted dropping 36 on him did you read the article at all? dont think you even read the title/headline... theyre saying he...
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    oh dang, way off there... need to not just grab whatever google ai decides to spit out (whoops)
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    he still cant guard well, had 7 personal fouls in 28 minutes the other night while his counterpart (who is a no-name undrafted guy) put up a monster game with 36 points going back to original comment of 'best defensive player in the draft' (which everyone knows is silly) --> just because you...
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    aday mara changed the entire game when he was in there opposing offense rim percentages were like 20-25 percent lower with mara on the floor than with him off... morez a fine defender but didn't change the game in this way as someone else said even lendeborg mightve been better too since morez...
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    College Sports (Basketball)

    mike boynton never even had a top 30 defense at ok st avg kenpom defense rank of 61 made 1 ncaa tourney in 7 seasons missed the nit 4 times in 7 seasons 51-75 b12 record defense probably had more to do with mara and johnson jr than a mike boynton midas touch
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    Illini in the Pros (Basketball)

    surprised you thought youd get any answer other than morez loved it here and evil brad pushed him out lol
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