That’s fine how many minutes is he playing where he’s a focal part of what we are trying to do?
Skyy and Jaden have the ball in their hands whenever they’re out on the floor. Be patient.
Pregame: Illinois vs Texas, Tuesday, December 6th, 6:00pm CT, ESPN
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Skyy and Jaden have the ball in their hands whenever they’re out on the floor. Be patient.
Second person I've seen say tonight. Isn't it tomorrow night?
Hawk is having a good year, but I doubt anyone at this point would have him as an AA. Probably not even All Big Ten first team.
TSJ on the other hand.
Interesting...when I read the post, I did not even consider that Rodgers, listed as a G/F and having seen time in practice as a PG, would be playing as a backup to Hawkins. TSJ was my immediate thought. Pretty sure CoHawk is not keeping Rodgers on the bench. That honor to me belongs toTSJ, RJ, Goode, and Mayer who are pretty good sized perimeter AND inside performers ahead of him. Just MHO.
What I see in Ty is an effort and motor that can be counted upon, great handle and passing skill, instinctive rebounder, excellent athleticism, and a guy who seeks to score whenever he gets the ball within 6-8 ft. of the basket. But, to put those skills to work and earn starter minutes on a championship team, he needs to develop a jumper he can bury inside 15 ft. and hit FTs at 70% plus. I won't proclaim that observation to be profound, just truthful. Until then, he will be a guy that the coach can count on to not make mistakes while bringing solid defense, good decisions, grabbing tough rebounds, and scoring in close at a high clip when opportunity knocks.and . That is not a bad thing, but I think he may have higher aspirations.
Yeah, Ty will be just fine next year at minimum - let's not get ahead of ourselves in early December. In the bulk of our schedule, TJ will play as many minutes as he can handle, and that doesn't take anything away from Ty.
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Client in Austin called me today on business. I told her at one point...big game tomorrow against Illinois...she and hubby big UT fans, graduates, etc. There was kind of a silence on the other end of the phone. I said "basketball. " After she recovered she said oh yeah, my husband was looking through his sports stuff the other day and he said "hey we're doing pretty good in basketball."
I bet you are...Came back on last time just to say GL tomorrow! Will be pulling for y'all the rest of the way (since we don't have to play you again of course).
If there are ever going to be games where they all get hot at the same time, hoping this is the first one.
I'm kinda hoping for an outcome like against Wake back in '04
Yeah, but under 10 mpg in the 4 games against P5 opponents thus far.
Do we know what jersys Illinois is wearing tonight?
There are the type of games that determine if Illinois is National Championship contender versus Big Ten Champ contender.
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I am going with my heart and saying Illinois 73-71.
I think Ty, at this time, is pretty much an interior guy. I also wouldn't say he has a "great" handle. It's good for a PF, great is a bit much.
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OH BOY, it's hard to focus on work today!
We are going to break out with a big shooting night soon, maybe tonite.
If we do and make texas guard us 25' from the basket, we add dribble drive
pull ups and dunks and blow them out. Three point shooting at a 40-42%
level from 4 or 5 players could make us a top 5 team. currently we're 124th
at 35%. We are better than that.
I feel like that's about to happen !!
If we do and make texas guard us 25' from the basket, we add dribble drive
pull ups and dunks and blow them out. Three point shooting at a 40-42%
level from 4 or 5 players could make us a top 5 team. currently we're 124th
at 35%. We are better than that.
I feel like that's about to happen !!
It's gonna be a defensive war. We've proven we can hang in there against good teams even when shots aren't falling, but boy we could really use some regression back to the mean. We desperately need to take care of the basketball as well. I don't think we can survive >11 turnovers tonight.
Meh. My sense was that the football losses were mostly games that we led late, and just couldn't hold on. The games were too long. The two hoops losses, on the other hand, are games where we made furious comebacks, but just didn't have enough time time. The games were too short.
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