GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
Illini Basketball 2022-2023
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While I'm always looking forward to each Walken photo that you post, Pru, I've gotta ask with this one...what the hell is Richard Belzer doing to that cow?
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Molestation takes on many forms and creatures .....Beauty or beastly is in the eye of the beholder.........
Red tape. Enrolling in December.
Will he red shirt 2nd semester so he can learn the system?
Joel Goodson
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blackdog
- Champaign
It's always cool to see the guys who lived in the old building get to fully experience the new. Not quite as big a jump as the Football team with the Smith Center but still nice.
Delbert's owner was interviewed and he told the story of when he received a call from an assistant from Auburn who wanted to buy an orange jacket. He asked the assistant if the jacket was for him. The assistant said it was for the head coach. Delbert's owner said he wouldn't sell a jacket to Pearl, said have a good day and hung up.
Dan
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We have a tip time for the Texas game (Dec. 6th): 6:00pm CT
RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
I have a goal to use the word "ratio" like this. Im not cool enough to do it yet, but I will get there eventually.
I'm a bit worried rolling into the season with only 11 scholarship players. Last year we had 14 scholarship players at the start of the year and by the end of the season, we lacked depth.
I've never been a fan of the "save a schollie" thing.
Joel Goodson
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You're conflating different things. Perrin would be here, if possible (red tape delay). Keeping one's powder dry (thus enabling a mid season add) is absolutely the right move.
Cause that 15th schollie would have provided more depth?
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
Based on the footage in this video at around the 9 second mark, it looks like Hawkins has some new tats on his lower leg. I initially thought it was K-tape (referring back to comments earlier in this thread).
Earth-shattering revelation, I know, but I'm bored.
We lacked depth at the end of the season for reasons entirely different than having x number of players on the roster. We needed players the coaches trust and we didn't have that, both for reasons in the coaches' control and for reasons out of it. Throwing more darts for the sake of throwing darts rarely yields an effective, useful/usable basketball player, as we saw time and time again in Underwood's early years (Matic, Higgs, Eboigbodin, etc.).
Joel Goodson
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Not so sure it is with the new transfer windows. Probably less likely to see a midseason move now.
I'm not. We were a little on the small side, which created issues in the front court. Our second shortest starter this year will probably be taller than our second tallest starter last year. (Skyy being the only projected starter who isn't at least 6'6", which is what Jake was listed at)
We had a number of guys who really only fit in specific roles. This year we have a bunch of swiss army knife type players.
Many super senior players last year. You practically cannot repeat that.
But, the health/depth issue at the end of last year largely came from the fact that we only play 7 players for the most part. I think we will be alright if we don't repeat that. I will feel even better if Perrin is here now but again that is out of the control of the coaching staff.
The depth issue last year was due to an unusual number of injuries/health problems. Hopefully we don't see that again anytime soon.
I will concede that this year's roster includes more versatile players, so if we have an injury, that player's role could be assumed by a few other players. That wasn't the case last year, as (pointed out by another poster), we had a lot of guys that weren't very multidimensional.
We're thin at the 1 and the 5. Need to stay healthy there.
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