Pregame: Illinois vs Penn State, Saturday, December 10th, 11:00am CT, BTN

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Epsilon said:
Definitely something we’ll need to work on before the PSU game if they are a strong 3 pt team. Even the commentators for the TX game picked up on the over helping. I suspect Brad will focus on this with the team before the game but it may take more than a few days to completely iron out the kinks. It is going to be so fun watching this team develop this year.
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Bilas' comment about Illinois "over helping" was probably his only valuable insight.
 
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One thing I've noticed is Sky not being super effective in the half court when he dribbles past his defender. He really needs a floater or push shot or some way to score going to the basket other than trying to go over bigs. He's a great athlete but isn't a Derick Rose (young) or Jae Morant type jumper. If can consistently provide this aspect to his game"The Sky's the limit"
 
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blackdog

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Fighter of the Nightman said:
Love it! While this is only technically two sellouts in a row, I believe it is the fifth straight sellout for Big Ten games (obviously going back to last year). I know attendance is down across all sports and we might never see it rebound to the "old days," but I would love to start a new streak!

EDIT: It would also be nice to start another home winning streak and get SFC back to the absolute snake pit/automatic L it used to be for visiting opponents. A win vs. Penn State would push our home winning streak to 8 games, and we would LIKELY be favored in every single home game this year. If we go undefeated at home (that did NOT used to be a crazy goal, and it should not be undoable this year!), we could get the streak up to 19!

I HAVE to believe the 38-game home winning streak that was snapped in 2006 by the buzzer-beater-that-wasn't vs. Penn State is the program record.
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They are definitely trying. I got a call from the Illinois ticket office today saying I had bought tickets last year and wanting to see if they could interest me in coming back. Good effort but should I tell them I already have season tickets? 🤣
 
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Loyalillini10 said:
You are thinking of Miles Leonard…
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I felt Bilas was just blah, apathetic and more blah. To be quite honest, I don't want him doing any more of the Illini games.

No approval from his overrated blah is necessary.
 
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lexwaldez

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Navy_illini said:
Not a trap. Bu is going to have them focus after our first 30 minutes of play against Texas. I am interested in how Clark responds. I expect he comes ready to play
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I agree. Skyy bounces back and has a game. He's due.
 
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OrangeLife said:
In a stunning announcement it has been revealed all five Illinois starters will enter the game with one foul (for charges they missed in the Texas game).
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Great One ! Why do the Illini always get homered, even on Neutral Court. We beat 8 tonight. 5 From Texas and 3 Zebras.
 
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IlliniShelt said:
Refs are against us, Kevin Warren is against us, announcers are against us, are people going to start posting about next about Mrs. Underwood being against our team?
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Refs are incompetent but unbiased, Kevin Warren is a nitwit riding Michigan's jock, announcers (and opinions of them) vary greatly.
 
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What we really need is an impartial judge of the reffing each game. I’d love to be validated when I feel like they’re skewing the game against us (but they’d obviously be wrong if they thought it was the other way around).
 
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