Ben’s numbers at Illinois, and Luke’s numbers at Indiana are basically the same
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Ben’s numbers at Illinois, and Luke’s numbers at Indiana are basically the same
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How much can we pay Ty to rip off the redshirt?
As long as we don't play a team with bigs like Maryland. Teams with even 1 skilled big man will cause big issues. Morez may and can hold his own but it's a challenge. When Morez sits it will be even a bigger issue than when Coleman was here trying to guard bigs when Dain was out. We only have one player suited to guard the quailty bigs in post with Tomi out. It may be an over reaction but after Maryland it's obviously a serious cause for concern. I'm very optimistic but I'm also a realist. Ben or Booth will likely be at the 5 with Morez out or in foul trouble and while at times they can make plays, they are not built to play many minutes in the B10 at the 5. Booth is only 19, room to grow stronger so I'm optimistic he can be one day. Hopefully he can show us something when Morez sits until Tomi comes back. I saw enough of Davis n others trying to stop those B10 bigs the other night to be concerned. I don't know how anyone honest with themselves wouldn't be.
Well I don’t think anyone thought Ben was recruited to play the role Luke played.
Ben is getting Coleman’s minutes.
Jake Davis is the one getting the minutes Luke Goode would have had IMO.
2X2L
- Metaluna
Tomi, get well soon - for your sake.
Reminds me:
I was 18, a lifeguard summer after high school. Came down with a kind of similar virus (which I won't name because insensitive people came up with vulgar play on words). Conked, I mean conked, out for a week, high fever, no appetite, lost 12 pounds, lost great tan, speedos no longer accentuated my young Greek god physique. HA! But I recovered.
And so will you, Tomi.
Rest, sleep, eat, restore precious bodily fluids.
My best to you.
Illini: rally around this setback. Thanks.
Reminds me:
I was 18, a lifeguard summer after high school. Came down with a kind of similar virus (which I won't name because insensitive people came up with vulgar play on words). Conked, I mean conked, out for a week, high fever, no appetite, lost 12 pounds, lost great tan, speedos no longer accentuated my young Greek god physique. HA! But I recovered.
And so will you, Tomi.
Rest, sleep, eat, restore precious bodily fluids.
My best to you.
Illini: rally around this setback. Thanks.
I'm severely depressed and mentally overjoyed that this was the correct response.
What a time to be an Illinois fan.
LouHenson
- Naples Florida
Maybe this is why you play him in games your up by 30 in?
And I'm assuming you are not a highly conditioned professional athlete. gotta watch the spleen though.
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IIRC Luke left for IU's business school, at any rate not our choice in the least so this "trade" talk is rather pointless
If this is accurate, that's still 3 games before that. Season has been riddled with bad luck, have to find a way to work through it, you have no choice.
Maryland was like the worst possible matchup (outside of maybe Michigan) to not have your starting big guy... and not have a big guy at all for most of the game (due to Morez's fouls).
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Pointless? Sure. But it’s interesting to think about the roster construction and the choices that were made.
So your opinion is that his opportunities and NiL offers at Illinois and Indiana were reasonably close, but because he wanted to get a degree from IU’s business school, he chose IU over Illinois?
I do see what you're saying. However, they did get pounded by a team who was 0 - 4 on the Big Ten road. They also lost to USC after destroying Nittany w/out their best player.
The other night, w/out Tomi, the Illini were still the favorites, and they came out and looked overmatched, disorientated and deflated. And it showed. And they were pummeled. These are reasons why I think we fans are flustered and disappointed right now.
Having typed that, BU needs to stop with the excuses, build his team's confidence and coach them up for NU. And outcoach Collins.
I mean, how confident do you expect our fanbase to feel right now? We've gone 1-3 in the last 4 and just got our a$$ kicked at home to a mediocre Maryland team (gave up 53 points in one half) and we will likely be missing one of our better players for the next 4 games.
We come out soft against Northwestern, I could totally see us lose.
Nebraska is sliding but they are hard to beat at their place
OSU recently beat Purdue in Mackey
@ Rutgers is no cakewalk
@Minnesota who just beat Michigan and Oregon..
We desperately need to go 5-0 or 4-1 in that stretch and I can see us going 2-3 or 1-4 with how terrible we've played recently
Telling everyone a player is out with mono isn’t an excuse…..he also hasn’t made an excuse, he started last games presser with we got our butts whooped….and to counter your points, we also throttle Oregon, went toe to toe with Tennessee, second half against Bama, beat Wisconsin, should’ve beat MSU without our best player essentially. Brad didn’t make excuses after that either, said you can’t win missing 10 FTs
sacraig
- The desert
Correct, though I WAS eager to get back to dodgeball.
I hope that we can be, I will root that we can be. But rather be pleasantly surprised vs let down.
skyIdub
"I can't tell you. Secret."
He's also the best defensive guard, by far, on our roster.
Well, I hope the positives you point out will rule the day in the end.
Big Jack
- Decatur
The Truth....
Cool, don’t watch then.
Do you not understand that we already only have two interior defenders? One being a true freshman and the other a solid 21yr old sophomore. Remove the latter and you have one freshman and two 6'9" guys that play about 3" and 20lbs below their actual size on defense.
That was a tough game for us before Tomi was out due to matchups. Without Tomi it was always going to go down the way it did. The biggest issue we have is that our two other "interior" players are basically tall wings that can't play post defense especially against good size down low. To me, that's on Underwood, but Maryland is more an oddity than a norm, so it's forgivable.
Get some vitamin D and something from Pru's stash and calm down.
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