Recent content by RockfordIllini

Don’t know why our ends kept crashing down. Against an fcs opponent have to trust that our interior linemen can hold and the lbs can come up and make the tackle. Have to keep that edge against a running QB. Did we not watch film?

I was surprised he was drafted. I don’t see how he fits in the NBA. Not a great defender or rebounder. Career 28% three point shooter on really low volume. Good pick and roll player and good and efficient post scorer but what NBA team is going to keep him on the floor to put up those push...

Always hard to extrapolate too much from week one, but especially with the amount of turnover we’ve had. Although we tackled poorly, we only had one penalty so a clean game overall. And it looks like QB is going to be a strength again this year which should keep us in a lot of games. That...

Omar Payne. Cary Booth. There have been a few others but agree Petro is probably their biggest miss in the NIL era as the rumors were we made a pretty sizable investment to get him. But in the film you can see what they saw. I still think there is an alternate universe where some combination...

Respectfully, McDAA doesn’t matter much anymore and hasn’t mattered for probably 10-15 years. There are now more national type games (Iverson etc) so McDAA no longer has a monopoly on annointing HS talent. Also somehow at some point McDAA became about less about showcasing the best players...

I see a lot of Lincoln hanging out in the corner and, once the defense forgets about him, cutting baseline for some alley oops.

So just to change the subject a bit to a more positive topic, a couple of questions for our insiders? How hard is Lincoln Williams to screen and will he play more than 15 minutes against UConn?

Jake is a senior this year, no?

I think this years team has as high a ceiling as last year’s team, maybe higher. For our returning core: Sounds like Mirk has taken a leap which isn’t uncommon for a 19-20 year old. I forget which announcer said it last year but he said Mirk was like a poor man’s Cam Boozer and I think that...

Nice game from Gus.

Agree it’s very silly. The question that should be asked is do we have a replacement for Keaton? That is, a lead guard who can shoot, play in ball screens and process and make the right play? We do. His name is Stefan Vaaks. Will he play that role to the level Keaton did? Still very much...

Is it just me or is Kylan better than Kristian Anderson? Just looks more polished and better feel and vision. Certainly doesn’t look like a first round pick vs a 2 way guy. And Kylan is only a year older.

Yes. Houston is very successful because 99% of college basketball teams don’t have 5 guys on the floor with the capability to process and pass and burn the blitz. We do. Similar to the Iowa State game in 2024. We knew they were going to trap Marcus down low, who was able to pass out of it...

Thanks so much for the nuggets. For #5, I hope Andrej realizes excelling in the last sentence to that update, along with more consistent 3 pt shot, is his ticket to the league rather than scoring a bunch of points on low efficiency. Probably just off season over optimism, in that we did lose a...

I wish Morez had stayed but I’m fine that he left. Just the nature of the game these days and we would up pivoting nicely with Mirk. And speaking of nature of the game, I will admit I don’t hold a ton of animosity towards Dusty for poaching our guy. Literally hundreds of guys enter the portal...