Starting lineup for tonight
Ethan Brown
QC
Andre
LW
Tomi
First off the bench - Vaaks
Ethan Brown
QC
Andre
LW
Tomi
First off the bench - Vaaks
Pregame: Illinois vs Penn, Thursday, November 5th, 7:30pm CT, FS1
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Low chance LW starts over Vaaks or Zens coming off a DNP - Injured. We also rarely play 2 non-shooters on the court together.
Not worried about winning this one. As we know Fran's typical teams are strong offense weak defense. So I want to see how we do defensively. I see no problem outscoring their good offense with our exceptional offense.
RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
Wait, didn’t we just beat University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) a KenPom 107 ranked team, 101-66? And isn’t Penn 22 spots worse than UIC?
Listen, I am a cautiously-optimistic person. And an Illini fan my whole life; college years during the Groce era. I know to keep my expectations in check. I know to only relax when the clock is 00:00. But I’m going to give our guys and coaching staff some credit.
This will be Penn’s season opener, we’re at home, we’re attacking more in transition, keeping a faster tempo, working with a greater set of bodies in rotation, and playing a stronger defense. All things that will help us. If we want to be “that team” we need to take out a Penn team with our talent.
Listen, I am a cautiously-optimistic person. And an Illini fan my whole life; college years during the Groce era. I know to keep my expectations in check. I know to only relax when the clock is 00:00. But I’m going to give our guys and coaching staff some credit.
This will be Penn’s season opener, we’re at home, we’re attacking more in transition, keeping a faster tempo, working with a greater set of bodies in rotation, and playing a stronger defense. All things that will help us. If we want to be “that team” we need to take out a Penn team with our talent.
Good point.
For all the complaints about FDU being a bad team, we also destroyed UIC who’s a better team than Penn (according to Kenpom).
We can send in hockey line type substitutions of players and dare the Quakers to keep up with our speed, length, shooting, rebounding, and athleticism. Our whole roster faces better than the Quakers' talent level every day in practice. Instead of melting down, Fran's going to be slack jawed.
We’re going to boat race these guys
Yeah, me too. I had to interrupt my wife’s reading to show her that. She’ll have fun tonight watching Fran.
That’s a zinger.
Who is the other non-shooter in this group?
People on this thread say the craziest things. I guess you’re either a pessimist or an optimist.
Andre isn’t magically a shooter now.
Come on man you know it's Dre
It is a maybe!
It’s Zens or Lincoln. I think they stick to vaaks coming off the bench
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