Recent content by sdillini

What he actually said was "they are in the conversation". His voice trailed off at the end so it was easy to miss it....

Never said that, of course. And nothing like quoting 2 out of a million to prove your point. And Deron Williams didn't have the rep of a bad hs shooter. You should have mentioned Kendall Gill.

While it's pretty easy to suggest a few outliers who improved in college, of all the predictors of future 3% shooting performance, I would bet anything that past 3% shooting performance is the most highly correlated predictor.

If a great 3 pt shooter in HS struggles in college, not sure why you would infer that poorer HS 3 pt shooters might fare better for some amorphous reason. Anything can happen, of course, sometimes guys improve. But it's WAY harder to shoot threes in college than in HS, due to actual defense...

Last Harv Schmidt year, all white team.

I like the sound of 26 points on an off night:) Can't be at your best every night.

His defense was even worse that this years team. Would fit because of lack of lateral quickness like this year, but paired it with a complete lack of interest. The only thing that made him play D at all was Weber yelling at him constantly. One of my favorite Illini of all time on the offensive...

While this is true, I think it's a bit disingenuous because I don't believe we really recruited Watson much at all. Don't remember being in his final 5 or anything like that. You can't start recruiting a guy like that hard after your plan A's have committed elsewhere. He had legitimate other...

I believe Tate started the second half. Didn't play long, though.

Sounds like a kid who'll be looking for Florida or CA offers...

Get used to those shot totals. Thorne shoots on 90% of his touches. He's the ultimate black hole.

To State College, PA?

With two injured QBs might have been a good idea to put him in for a few snaps against Rutgers or earlier in the season, no? I'm a big Lovie supporter, but some of the coaching decisions this year have been past curious. Throwing this kid to the wolves his first game is coaching malpractice.

Pretty good, fair question if you ask me. There are "players coaches" and Lovie has that rep, that treat their players like "adults". That was the essence of the question. Given the utter stupidity/lack of discipline/knowledge of the rules shown by our player so far this year, I'd say a little...

That's silly; he was always known as an over-achiever coach. Took a bunch of nobodies at West Virginia to the final four. The knock on him was he wasn't a good recruiter until very recently.