Recent content by I-L-L

Interesting comment and here's why.... The big question is, can all of or a majority of the returners take the leap, right? Tomi, in my opinion took a step back from his first year here last season. At the very end of the season he started to pick it up again. I thought Mirk was fantastic, will...

It’s bc so many don’t understand chemistry and truly liking one another and playing for one another. If Blackwell is that guy I welcome it. If not I don’t want him. I want this team to care about one another. I watched that badger team several times this year (beat us twice for the record) and...

I think you fall into the generation of all or bust. I would rather you enjoy the success that has mounted and become what it is despite all the criticism from so many. But that’s our world we live in today and it’s sad. Just enjoy. Enjoy what is happening right now and hopefully for years to...

It might get easier but doesn't mean it gets better for humanity as a whole.

I appreciate your reply. However, you only picked out a couple of sentences of my post. My post was more about how money becoming the top priority for so many people in our world. And again, I believe in working hard and trying to earn really good money if that's what you want, but not just...

I can definitely agree with what you're saying understanding this is the reality, but I think too often we just accept it and live with it (anything in life) versus trying to change it for the better. Our attitude is, well, I can't do anything to change it or it's an impossible task to change...

I hope you find faith

I won't judge Keaton one way or the other. What an incredible freshman for our Illini! Truly enjoyed watching him and this team. But I do judge all the comments about money. Our world has become all about money versus so many other things that are more important. Don't get me wrong, making money...

I really like Z. He doesn't get stats for the altered shots on defense. He's good for 2-3 dunks and 2-3 rebounds a game in limited minutes. He doesn't turn the ball over. He rebounds. Maybe most importantly he's the only mean dude on the team! Tomi has lost all confidence. I remember seeing a...

I hate to say this, but I'm starting to wonder if a new rule should be put into play for offensive flopping. Remember when a defensive flop became a technical? It helped stop that quite a bit. I'm not an advocate for more time wasted on replay, but it's gotten ridiculous!!! I can think of...

Agreed. Road win against a conference opponent on senior day. And there were 3 phantom foul calls by refs in favor of the Terps. Is anyone else getting tired of this? Typically reffing balances itself out, but I feel like if you drive against and flail your body/arms/legs the refs are blowing...

I've been saying this for a couple of months. You're right. Tomi doesn't go hard. Z goes really hard. He also is a huge defensive difference and tonight BU stated if we're going to reach our ceiling we need to be better on D. I love Illinois. I love BU. I even really like Tomi. But facts are...

If we had Morez instead of andrej we’d be a top tier team. Morez’s toughness and physicality is all we’re missing.

So many are acting like we just lost at home to a really bad team. We lost on the road to a tournament team with a good crowd looking for a bounce back and we lost at the buzzer in OT. Were there some things we could've done better? Of course. For one, Big Z needs to play about 5-7 more minutes...