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What about the 5? Are they that confident in Perrin? Or do they expect Hansberry to play some 5?
For me the best college player ever was Kareem/Lew Alcindor. How can you do better than he did? Every year he played he was National Player of the year, NCAA MVP and his squad won it all! That may never happen again.
psh, Impossible.....there is no back channeling going on!
These kids shouldn’t be reading the message boards, and definitely shouldn’t care what some poster speculates about their roster spot. They should be focusing on the court, winning games, and getting better.
I don't disagree -- and I would be shocked if any current Illini wouldn't have 100 things better to to than reading what any of us post, though they might have friends who pay attention.
I just think it's easier said than done to block it all out. It's not human nature to ignore all the noise, and just one more thing to have to fight through as they try to get their game back on track.
I would love to see a long March Illini run to prove everything I posted wrong; it just seems the last couple years we have had some bad mo-jo going into the tourney and it's not too hard to see that happening again.
Given your handle, I hoped you would've put two and two together...or should I say one and two?
Question about Morez. I love seeing his highlights but wonder how he will do in the college game. He clearly dominates now due to his size, physical prowess but how will he score in college? Where will he get his points at the next level? Can he shoot? I love Ty Rodgers game but he is very limited offensively. Is Morez going to be similar?
I’d guess the only time current players read this board is if they are in some need of comic relief.
It was quite a bit easier to win the National Championship in those days, since only 16 teams made the tournament. Repeating as champs is extremely rare these days. It was fairly common prior to 1975, when the field expanded to 32.
A couple of interesting things about his early college career:
The NCAA outlawed dunking the ball after his sophomore year, in an attempt to level the playing field. (It didn't)
In those days, freshmen weren't allowed to play. UCLA was coming off consecutive national titles the year he had to sit out. In an exhibition game against the varsity, Alcindor & his fellow freshmen beat the defending champs by 15 behind his 31 points. After the game, UPI wrote: "UCLA's Bruins open defense of their national basketball title this week, but right now they're only the second best team on campus."
He broke the UCLA single game scoring record in his FIRST GAME. (56 points)
He was doing a lot of dipping all right…
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Joel Goodson
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Makes sense. He's from France so he's probably on a different schedule, getting up earlier, and waking everyone up .
Going to take a really top transfer to keep Ty coming off the bench IMHO. He’s going to make a big leap between now and the start of next season.
You don't mention RJ because he's not in your projected top 8, or because he's not on your projected roster?
Mark me down as still believing that he's going to have a breakout game and will be a major contributor as we move through February and into March. These off-seasons(free agency periods) have become so unpredictable. I don't think that it's even feasibly possible to start to figure out who's going to be on the roster, much less the rotation. Let's just win now.
I hope you're wrong about this one, but I appreciate the response.
He said yes to a question with two choices. He either doesn't know or doesn't want to answer.
If ever there were a player that just needs to see the ball go through the hoop a couple times it’s RJ right now. Brad clearly has all the confidence in the world in him to find his stroke though and I hope he does.
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