Recent content by PasadenaIllini

I feel like if you're going to mention the 4.7 assists, you have to mention the 3.7 TOs. KJ did a lot of great things for us, but he just wasn't up for the offense-initiation responsibility we laid on his shoulders that season.

I feel completely differently. Unless an athlete is training to run that distance or longer at a fast pace, you just won't see D1 basketball conditioned athletes just trot out and run a sub 4:20 mile on the track. Basketball conditioning is completely different than miler conditioning...short...

Fair enough. Ben made some bigtime plays this past season, particularly on D.I just felt like Zens showed more lateral quickness and had faster bounce off the floor if that makes any sense.

When I watched Zens in the Wisky State Championship, he looked very lively with pretty good athleticism...not a freak by any means, but definitely a higher level of athleticism than Ben and Jake, both of whom were integral contributors to our final four season. Maybe you were watching a...

That is a ridiculous expectation to set. Our program has brought in players with more hype than Quentin who made a small fraction of the impact that Keaton made during their freshman seasons. Heck, Kiwane Garris had one of the best frosh seasons I can remember before that, and as incredible as...

Looking at KJ's stats, he's really focused on improving his care of the basketball this past season. 2.5/1 is a really good assist to TO ratio for a rookie playing on a mediocre team. Looking forward to seeing how he grows from here.

Seems pretty unfair to Kidd. The GM absolutely torpedoes his team by sending the team's franchise player to LA for much less value than he's worth. And Kidd is somehow supposed to coach up what's left. On the bright side for Kidd, someone's bound to hire him eventually.

I'm not a reflexive "insider defender" at all. Look at my posting history, and my opinions have certainly run counter to an "insider" or two here. But I don't really feel this line of critique is fair. I don't think anyone could have known exactly how good Keaton was until he showed up on...

Only one west coast game is absolutely huge.

It would shock me if he were more productive than Lucas. We're going to need Lucas to play some minutes given our depth chart at 1-3 at the moment.

He looks way more athletic than Jake or Ben in his highlights. I like him a lot and think he'll be able to challenge for PT much sooner than expected, particularly if we don't add any more front court players.

Good win by Minny at home to tie up the series. It'll be interesting to see if Wemby gets more than one game off. I hope not, because the whole sequence looked pretty bush league to me.

Lots of peaks and valleys with Ayo today. Great catch in the frontcourt to set up the foul shots down the stretch.

$%^& yeah Ayo!!!! Wow. Beautiful take and one.

He also has two consecutive 3s nailed in a row just now.