2021-22 Season Wrap-up

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #15 on: March 20, 2022, 08:26:43 PM »

Quote from: illinifan57 on March 20, 2022, 07:57:29 PM

Custard, good assessment of the situation of the team, coaching, what needs to be done, etc.

Finally got to this.
You cover everything well, all the way to the last point. We never did establish an identity.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #16 on: March 20, 2022, 08:35:03 PM »

Wonder if Robb left illinireport.info in his will to Custard, he could definitely write for it for sure lol

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #17 on: March 20, 2022, 08:59:30 PM »

It’ll be a minimum 3+ years to get into the NCAA tourney again.

Kofi is being underestimated. Brad has shown to be a very mediocre coach without him. He coached a team of Frazier, Ayo, Feliz to 20+ losses before Kofi so I don’t see much success without Kofi.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #18 on: March 20, 2022, 10:21:14 PM »

Appreciate it guys. Sorry for all the typos and shit I typed it up quick on my phone before heading out to watch the other games with some buddies at an open air bar since it was so nice out today. Don’t really feel like fixing them.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #19 on: March 20, 2022, 10:54:28 PM »

Quote from: Lkdog on March 20, 2022, 04:51:43 PM

A lot of tough luck for sure, but most teams have to deal with issues like that each year.
This is Underwood's 5th year.
He should have already brought in more versatile athletic players for the modern game to compete not only in the Big Ten but nationally.

The Big Ten is simply not competitive athletically. We haven't been really.
We have had very average quickness and speed.
It's like the playoffs in football for the BT.

We have done well in the BT but that is like being one of the taller midgets.

After today there likely will only be 3 at best of the 9 BT teams left.

I also wonder about the assistants here.
Where was the supposed toughness and defensive intensity that Chet was supposed to bring?

We really didn't have anyone make a big jump in development.

In game adjustments were worse this year.

Time to regroup. We have made some progress for sure to be fair, but are not a factor nationally by any stretch.

I don’t really disagree with anything here other than stating this level of missed games is something every team deals with. Ironically the only other tourney team that missed more games to injury than us is Houston.

And then take into consideration that we had two banged up major rotation guys in Curbelo and Trent who have been on the court but haven’t been able to produce anywhere near what they do when healthy/right. And we’ve been down a veteran starter that can spread the floor all of March.

Yeah all teams have shit to deal with but this team had objectively more than almost everyone else. We still didn’t have the recipe, but it was certainly a factor in the record and performance of this team in the face of the expectations.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2022, 11:23:40 PM »

Hawkins/RJ/Belo (?), and Rodgers will be the build for next year. Payne/Dainja will be servicable, BU will switch back to more of a guard oriented team outside/in as far as play without Kofi.

That said, we need creators on offense (RJ-Coleman) and then shooters, then inside play to get more athletic.

Transfer portal should help us after defections (Creans).....let's see what BU can do now. 3 potential All-Americans, 2 legit high profile 5th yr guards gone. Expectations will be low for sure.

BU better hope he can create an offense with players who can score as well as hopefully shoot. The end of the season proved 3 shooting alone will only take you so far. Wisconsin learned that lessson also today.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2022, 11:41:50 PM »

Should have a lot of playing time to sell on a recently higher profile program. Hope we can make some waves.

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Re: 2021-22 Season Wrap-up

« Reply #22 on: March 21, 2022, 06:42:07 PM »

The recipe for B1G success is not the same as NCAA success. Which is why the B1G continues to struggle in the tourney more often than not and hasn’t won a title. You need height, length, athleticism and bigs that can spread the floor, plus a good draw. Michigan had seen a lot of success the last decade in the tourney by not being like most B1G teams.

I liked your assessment Custard, especially the part above. I don't like saying it but, the Big 12 seems to be way ahead of the BIG in embracing this strategy. Here's hoping that our incoming talent has the right athletes to spread the floor and play multiple positions. Was thinking earlier today back to when BU first arrived and played that pressure ball he'd used at prior stops. Maybe it was our lack of talent or BIG norms/refs that made it flop. Actually, it was probably both. I'd like to see him try that approach again with a roster built to do it well. Also, please Lord, can you send us a point guard?

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