I claimed long ago, and still believe, that Dainja will likely be either be a starter, or the first person off the bench due to our big situation. Whether or not Dainja starts likely depends on the rotation the coach wants to play. Either way I expect 15-20m/game from him. The above ranges seem reasonable.
Has to be more than that based on our not so deep front court depth. I am thinking more like 5 PPG.
Questioning what that is based on.....we don't have anything to base that on.....seems closer to Lieb last year.....hoping for more than that....wow!
I have him as 6th man for minutes played. Maybe the 2nd guy off the bench depending on the game but will get a lot of minutes. Can’t play a B1G schedule without playing him a ton IMO.
That is where I basically am — 5 and 5 with a plus/minus of 1 with both stats. Hard to tell give we haven’t seen him play and. more importantly, we don’t know exactly how the new offensive and defensive systems look. I actually think him scoring at the high point of one poster’s predictive range — 12 ppg I think it was — might not be a good thing. I think that could very well mean CoHawk gets injured or is really ineffective.
Ok, sounds good.
Not even try to compare the effectiveness of CH and Dain on the offensive end, but they have to somewhat guard different types of players at the defensive end, CH for the agile big and Dain for the bulky bigs. That by itself should give Dain at least 10-15 min per game unless his defense is really weak.
Is the projection based on his 6 minutes of college playing time ?
They are projecting Clark, Rodgers, Epps, Harris with zero college playing time.
Good point. I hope DD destroys the projection !
They are also projecting Illinois to win the BIG with a record of 14-6.
I saw first hand when the Illini were in Bloomington. Kofi got in his head early and TJD was useless for 3/4 of the game. 3 of 9 shooting for a total of 6 points in 23 minutes.
When Grandy gets mentioned and Mayer doesn't? Sorry, I love Grandy but Mayer is way more of a game changer.
Honestly I forgot about Grandy. That's crazy. Still hoping he does well. Good egg
I agree Mayer has to be top 10.
Torvik must be smoking Crack if he thinks that Dain is the tenth man off the bench!! If Dain is not starting he will be the first or second man off the bench
Am I the only one whose brain immediately goes to Mystikal's "Danger" every time you see Dain's name in print?
What, his criminal work??
