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The only way I see the Illini winning this is unfortunately with a decent officiating crew. UConn’s only real weakness is they foul and aren’t particularly deep especially at key spots. Put pressure on them and hope the crew doesn’t let them play like ISU. A lot of officials will not want to put...

What's this non-sense about being independent? You cheating on the Illini

I mean is any freshman good at defense.

Didn't one of his coaches go to PSU. Pretty sure that was a situation where it was over before it started

Would OA have eventually strangled Gentry?

Only time I have used it was with the in-laws at the beach and the live sports stream was terrible. Regular streaming was fine. Being at a vacation house no idea what the quality of the internet was

Guess I am a little surprised by the quality of game peacock is getting

Pretty interesting... in CFB the blue chip ratio is like the end all be all in being able to win a championship. Is scouting in basketball that much worse or is one transcendent player just that much more impactful because there are only 5 on the court

Yea that's why it would be terrible. Every single player that enters the draft will also enter the portal. Why wouldn't you? It will only make the current problem worse. Need to wait until after the deadline to withdraw so players have some idea of who they will be competing with for playing...

Terrible idea. If they make it 30 days it cannot start 1 day before the championship game. Personally I think it would be best to be 30 days following the deadline to withdraw from the NBA draft.

Will always be too soon

Exactly. Paul is like top 10 all time in the NBA in Win Shares. Outside of Illini fan circles this isn't really a discussion. Deron could be exceptional and not be on the same level.

False. Illinois dominated Wake but Deron and Chris were actually pretty even. Deron had more assist but more turnovers. They were pretty close on points. Neither shot particularly well (Deron was 0/4 on 3s.). For Paul to be on a very hostile court and to play Deron even says a lot. Wake @...

Eh Chris Paul was and probably still is the best pg from that draft class

I actually like Weber and he did do a fabulous job in 05. The fact is he was out of his league in this job. If he had a staff that was given clear direction on what type of team to assemble (not just go get whatever Top 100 will play for them) and could execute he would have been much more...