Illini Basketball 2026-2027

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PizzaHutParkingLot
chrisRunner7 said:
I have not been checking the board much lately so I may have missed the news...

Is Vaaks still expected to play for Estonia in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers on July 3rd and July 6th?
Is Mirkovic still playing for Montenegro on July 2nd and July 5th?

Andrej commented a while back that he would have discussions with the Serbia and Greece national teams... but I never heard anything further about that. I imagine "discussions" were as far as things got for now given the talent on those teams.
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Jokić lobs to Stojaković would feed families
 
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lstewart53x3
Bigtex said:
@istewart53x3 My response.... has Illinois ever had 3 guys average 30 min/game? 4 guys? Hard to believe 5 guys
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A couple of things:

1. I wasn’t talking about their season long average. I was talking about true, non blowout games, that happen in the heart of the season. Cupcakes bring down a star players season average.

2. My post wasn’t meant to be a minutes breakdown post. My point was that because this team is well established there won’t be a whole lot of minutes available for the 9th man. Sure, Vaaks might average 32 and Coleman, as an example, might average 28, but that still leaves the same amount minutes available for the 9th man.

3. Last year, we had 3. Mirk played 29.5 on the season and way more than that in close games. I imagine we would have had 4 had Andrej been fully healthy. He played 26.5 on the season and mentioned that he wasn’t fully healthy until the tournament.

4. I later corrected myself that Tomi likely wouldn’t get there.
 
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