Recent content by Ilanoy

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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Boswell, and Ty Rodgers, sure. Rodgers is not a scoring threat, though. The rest are not proven quality starters. Some promising freshman coming in, but still freshman in a senior and super senior or super super senior dominated league. We have time still, but it seems like the transfer well...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    How...how will we fill like 5 open spots? This year is going to be so weird. And likely not very good. We have a lot of solid 6th man type spots, but very short in quality starters. With the exception of Boswell, the rest of the transfers are firmly depth pieces or maybe a good off the bench...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    If we don't get Domask back, I am a bit worried where the scoring will come from. Boothe, White, Davis are not starters at this level. At least, not yet. Good depth pieces surely, but not starters or scorers. Boswell will be a good PG, but not really a high clip scorer, either. Right now the...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I think we are lacking a lotttt of scoring next year. Hope we can bring in some studs. The organic recruits we have, i don't see many of them starting.
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Iowa State, Thursday, March 28th, 9:09pm CT, TBS

    Illinois is taller by 3-4 inches at every single position. That has to come into play early and often. Iowa State has amazing defense, but it is difficult to overcome 3-4 inches at EVERY position.
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Morehead State, Thursday, March 21st, 2:10pm CT, truTV

    BYU was underseeded, but in any case, I don't mind playing them round 2. Assuming we beat Moorehead, of course. But they have no Q1 or Q2 wins. They do not have an answer for TSJ or Domask or Dainja. They can stop 1, maybe, but not all of them
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    Pregame: Illinois vs Wisconsin, Sunday, March 17th, 2:30pm CT, CBS

    I agree, lets get him rolling into the tournament
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Iowa

    Dainja has saved us this half.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Iowa

    Well...Iowa basically didnt score for 8 minutes, and we blew a 25+ point lead while Underwood threw in weird lineups and never called a single timeout while Iowa was absolutely surging. We also let a 5'10, 160lb freshman come in and dominate the game.
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Iowa

    Harding is not even a D1 level player and he has taken over this game
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    Game Thread: Illinois at Iowa

    Can Underwood call a time out for once in his life? Why does he let the insanely poor play continue for 10 minutes un disturbed? This Iowa run is 100% on him. Literally he has ONE job when the games start -- does he think you can take timeouts with you?
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    Illinois 98, Florida Atlantic 89 Postgame

    Domask was somehow the only one (other than maybe TSJ) who understood his size was an advantage, and backed FAU's smaller guards down. Even excluding all of his 3 pointers, he really had more of an inside game than Hawkins, Guerrier, or anyone else.
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    Week of 11/20 Games Thread

    Purdue might. I think we match up well enough with Tennessee. They play tough D and will have to be more careful with the ball than we were against Marquette...but Marquette is the best in the game at forcing turnovers
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    Week of 11/20 Games Thread

    Sorry..if we don't take one from Tenn or FAU, the non-con is really disappointing. Our best win would be...Valparaiso? Or Missouri? Not going to help come selection sunday. I do think we win at least 1/2 of those, so hopefully not an issue.
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    Week of 11/20 Games Thread

    It was kind of a blow out at home. It was a bit closer than the score indicated but Illinois isn't near the level of Marquette, and it wasn't really a close game. I think Brad was wrong to be so confident about not having a point guard. Maybe Moretti can be that guy, but it's hard to win games...