Illini Basketball 2024-2025

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I keep hearing a lot about the old Big 10 team’s potential, but nothing about the new 4. I have looked a bit at USCs roster and they look really good on paper. Has anyone done some research on the new schools teams? I would love to learn more about our new conference brothers. Also any research on the effect of West coast travel on team performance.
 
#355      
I wonder who the heck keeps the count. Must be a pretty boring job.
I think Brad said in an interview they have a new machine - keeps count, analyzes travel path of the shot, sounded interesting.
 
#358      
I’ll eat crow, was worried we didn’t have a proven scoring threat. We picked up KJ and was still on the fence but man oh man, he is THAT DUDE.

Also, Ty with a jump shot should worry every big ten team. Ty’s been one of my favorite Illini for awhile, good to see him finally kicking the yips
 
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Bro Joel...

Sports Illustrate wrote that Riley is the real deal, ready to play at a high pwr 5 level now. A player with great offensive skills that makes other team players around him on the floor better.
This 24/25 season will be fun for the Illini Nation to watch ... I just hope the players gel and there are enough play minutes to keep the 8 or 9 main contributing players happy.
 
#360      
Much more dynamic than booty-ball! This new era of player turnover has also fostered a "gel quickly" culture that players come in having to trust, connect, and play on a quicker timeline since its more and more likely they may only have 1 season to make it happen. Let's do this!!
 
#363      
so many flippin' options, all good or better...should be glorious

Ivisic and Riley joining the crew this week: looking forward to that. can we get tickets to practice?

top half of the conference bound!
 
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I’ve added 69 views to the total…
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#366      
I’m not saying he does based on a 1minute 47 second video clip. However, if Ty has a reliable mid range and can shoot 30–35% from three he is gone to the NBA after next year.
 
#370      
BU has some serious bucket getters this year. I am pretty sure we will not have any 5-6 minute stretches without a bucket. Lots of guys who have high IQ, are willing to share the rock and can get their own at a high level. Staff never ceases to impress.
 
#371      
The toughest part will be keeping everyone engaged and bought in to team first. There is pretty good talent that will see limited minutes. When we lost Clark mid season and Epps poor attitude it affected the team. Hopefully Brad is ready.
 
#372      
Ty Rodgers with a jump shot would be absolutely ridiculous.
Ty could have the same type of leap Shannon had from his soph to junior year and then even much higher leap as a senior. Would love to see Ty accomplish that. There will be no shortage of scorers on this 25-26 team and should be no lulls or scoreless stretches. Too many bucket getters and facilitators on this team for that to happen.
 
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Out of curiosity, I viewed Duke University’s practice video from this past week and there are some impressive Duke players; there was good play out of number 14, number two, number seven and number one, but in our scrimmage video we looked better.

This was without two of our starters, and two great players.

We have something special.
 
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I keep hearing a lot about the old Big 10 team’s potential, but nothing about the new 4. I have looked a bit at USCs roster and they look really good on paper. Has anyone done some research on the new schools teams? I would love to learn more about our new conference brothers. Also any research on the effect of West coast travel on team performance.
There's a part of me that thinks these four teams may have a hard time adjusting to the Big Ten way of officiating. We'll see if this is even a thing.
 
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