Recent content by HensonHall71

Kylan was a good chunk of the mid range so I would expect that stat to only improve this year. Andrej is the only one that really takes them on a consistent basis on this team and he's good at them, so not a concern at all

The advanced metrics ratings don't care how you stop an opponent from scoring, just that you stop them at a higher rate than their other opponents this year, it's simply points scored per possession you allowed your opponent vs. what they scored pp on other opponents, normalized to 100...

Timing was no doubt a big factor in having a limited pool of top candidates to choose from - but the timing now is even worse!

It was one of those hires that was pretty obviously a bad fit from the start - similar to Petersen. That's not just 20/20 hindsight - when 95% of the reaction from this board is "WTH?" when they are hired, it usually ends up poorly. Hiring retired guys from lower levels of football given how...

This is not a “we didn’t want him anyway” post but of all the guys we’re getting on visits he was one I think the fit may not have been right. He’s a great talent and we would have been lucky to have him but an athletic wing that doesn’t really have an outside shot right now and just wants to...

Thank you for that trip down memory lane- that 1995 game as I recall snapped a very long home winning streak for them against non-conference opponents Then in 2020 I remember the coach K commented "We got beat by a team that is better than we are, and older, more mature, They kind of imposed...

I remember looking up the most 3pt attempts by frontcourt players and Illinois led that stat by a wide margin. If you are a big that wants to play on the perimeter there is no better offense to play in than ours

To be clear I'm not arguing against playing UNC in Nashville, it's a great opportunity, my point was purely on where it lands on the schedule, in the middle of three very tough opponents coming to Champaign. I would have been nice to have the UNC game at the beginning or the end of the stretch...

Yeah, I wonder why they scheduled UNC in between two home games- just added an unnecessary road trip to the schedule

That’s great to see the guys coming back- you know the love for the program is strong and we’re building the right culture when you see NBA guys coming back to work out in the summer

This is what our offense will look like this year - we have a PG Mirk

IANAL - but I don't understand why the conferences can't come out with their own rules for eligibility like the SEC did with Bediako last year. A local court eventually denied the injunction, rendering Bediako permanently ineligible. If the conferences had bylaws that declared players...

We spent a lot of time this summer fretting over who the backup PF will be - our starting PF goes down with an injury. If we have the opportunity to bring in one of the top rebounders from the MVC, who's the brother of our highest priority recruit and we're actually debating if we would want...

TBC - he lead Providence in assists last year, while not playing a traditional PG role, he brought the ball up and initiated the offense quite a bit. So, this isn't asking him to do unnatural things for him. But our scheme is different, he's getting used to different players, etc. so it will...

To be honest, that is the least impressive highlight reel they've released so far - which is likely one reason we haven't heard more buzz around him. I was expecting a lot more P&R plays or him making some of those highlight reel passes we saw some of from him last year. I'm sure it's getting...