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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: Lkdog on January 18, 2024, 11:53:57 AM
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Illini 2.5 favorites.
KenPom has us at 5 point favorites.
Torvik 4.1
Bring the Horsecockington Illini.
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Need to take this one tonight and Rutgers at home on Sunday.
If we drop these next two, let the bubble talk begin.
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Need to take this one tonight and Rutgers at home on Sunday.
If we drop these next two, let the bubble talk begin.
We are slight favorites in all of our 8 remaining road games except Wisconsin and MSU.
Will be tough to go 4-4.
This is one we should get. Don't let them go off from 3.
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They just flipped the MSU road game to an L for us.
MSU could develop into a really tough team.
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Muck Fichigan! (sorry tempo)
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Muck Fichigan. Sorry, Sven.
We do need this one.
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Took our ILLINI -3.0 so, I am hopeful.
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He's got Moretti in more than expected thus far.
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He's got Moretti in more than expected thus far.
I'm surprised he's getting 1st half minutes. 6 so far.
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Must be doing well in practice or they saw something in Michigan that said they needed a real PG on the floor.
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Must be doing well in practice or they saw something in Michigan that said they needed a real PG on the floor.
DGL isn't getting minutes and we need somebody to come in but he is getting a lot of minutes
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Good first half both sides, ILLINI playing up to capabilites (disjointed) on offense a little bit with all the booty ball...keep it going and get fouls at least.
Michigan is playing above theirs so far imo.
Rebounding is better, alot of missed bunnies again....
Someone better get in front or foul out Dug...he is diggin it so far, and if he keeps it up possibly will be our undoing. The team will feed off of him.
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This actually would not be a bad game to give DGL some minutes in small stretches...2-4 here or there.
I commend the kid if he sticks with us, this year isn't the way he envisioned, Moretti playing in front of him isn't either. He has serious talent, just needs time to get it all together.
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Domask has both of our turnovers. He had 5 of our 9 turnovers against Maryland.
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DGL isn't getting minutes and we need somebody to come in but he is getting a lot of minutes
Looking ok. Missed the first 10 minutes. Good to see some offensive boards and making good on 2nd chance points.
Hawkins hitting from the Upper Peninsula.
Gotta make a statement the first 5-6 minutes.
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It seems like we are out playing them and only up one.
Strange game.
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This actually would not be a bad game to give DGL some minutes in small stretches...2-4 here or there.
I commend the kid if he sticks with us, this year isn't the way he envisioned, Moretti playing in front of him isn't either. He has serious talent, just needs time to get it all together.
No way he is staying if Underwood keeps him on the bench like this while playing moretti (fr) Rodgers (soph) ahead of him.
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Guerrier with another good game. 9 pts and 9 rebounds.
They look to be getting easier shots than us.
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Please remove the Jardiance commercial.
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From the little we have seen it appears he is lost defending. And he is not shooting well at all.
We have a small margin for error.
But they went right at Moretti when he got in also.
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90% FT shooter is 1-3 from the line
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Domask has both of our turnovers. He had 5 of our 9 turnovers against Maryland.
Now has all 4 of our turnovers
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Michigan refuses to die.
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Nice response after Michigan's run.
Wtf was the technical for?
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Does Sencire Harris get in the box score now ?
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Nice response after Michigan's run.
Wtf was the technical for?
Walking on the sideline
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Walking on the sideline
Kinda weak but whatever.
Thankfully Michigan couldn't capitalize
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Nice response after Michigan's run.
Wtf was the technical for?
Typical Big 10 refs, big time BS. Not like Harris was acting like Juwan Howard.
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Typical Big 10 refs, big time BS. Not like Harris was acting like Juwan Howard.
Only against us would they call something like that. Never seen it called anywhere else.
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Way to hit the board Hawkins.
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This game is over. Michigan is beat mentally
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Only against us would they call something like that. Never seen it called anywhere else.
No, me neither. Total joke.
And another offensive board for 2 points
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Howard about to eat another L against Underwood.
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Solid road game performance. Wonder how long they're going to let Howard lose every game to us.
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Only against us would they call something like that. Never seen it called anywhere else.
It had to be because it was baseline and not sideline, but still flimsy.
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It had to be because it was baseline and not sideline, but still flimsy.
As Bardo said, warn them first.
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Hawkins on the offensive board
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That rejection by Ty
chefs kiss
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Coleman absolutely fucking wrecked those dudes
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Domask 4 straight when we needed them.
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A good win after our last game. Rutgers up next.
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Don't ya just losing to your home state team, Juwan?
Muck Fichigan!
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Great job by the kids tonight. Played really well for all 40 minutes on the road.
Michigan is a dumpster fire that won't be extinguished anytime soon but road wins in conference are gold.
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Neither Dainja or Moretti saw time in the 2nd half.
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Great job by the kids tonight. Played really well for all 40 minutes on the road.
Michigan is a dumpster fire that won't be extinguished anytime soon but road wins in conference are gold.
Road wins huge.
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Very solid.
We will win next game easily to go 5-2.
Then we have a gauntlet of tough games.
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Coleman Hawkins 😍
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Also thanks Juwan for letting us run the score up on your sorry ass squad 😂
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Nice win! Had to miss game and only got to listen to some radio. Had my own game to play.
In the radio highlights a few minutes ago with Harmon dunked after a steal I thought he can dunk and then Deon basically said the same thing.
Glad they bounced back and another big run in the second half. Love it. Too many seasons in the past twenty where it was other teams making the second half run.
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Had to watch on delay, been out of town for work and Ms Custard needed a proper railing upon my return.
Jk I had to put the kids to bed at halftime. I do now have pussy on my lap, but it’s the geriatric cat.
But anyways I wouldn’t be too hard on Domask for the TOs. He does throw the ball away especially around the perimeter and doesn’t protect it sometimes when trapped, but Dude had been playing power forward at SIU and we asked (sold?) him to do something entirely different. And he’s been absolutely exceptional at it.
The TOs are just a symptom of that massive shift in what he’s being asked to do, and he’s a heady enough player to figure that shit out.
Good solid win on the road against a program that was fired up to play us. Rodgers is coming into his own, Hawkins is thriving in the spotlight, Domask just keeps producing, Harmon was a man out there, Guerrier eats pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Gotta win 3 of the next 5.
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Had to watch on delay, been out of town for work and Ms Custard needed a proper railing upon my return.
Jk I had to put the kids to bed at halftime. I do now have pussy on my lap, but it’s the geriatric cat.
But anyways I wouldn’t be too hard on Domask for the TOs. He does throw the ball away especially around the perimeter and doesn’t protect it sometimes when trapped, but Dude had been playing power forward at SIU and we asked (sold?) him to do something entirely different. And he’s been absolutely exceptional at it.
The TOs are just a symptom of that massive shift in what he’s being asked to do, and he’s a heady enough player to figure that shit out.
Good solid win on the road against a program that was fired up to play us. Rodgers is coming into his own, Hawkins is thriving in the spotlight, Domask just keeps producing, Harmon was a man out there, Guerrier eats pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Gotta win 3 of the next 5.
We have a strange team. The weakness is no Center and no PG. The strength is no Center and no PG. If they hit the boards and guard and shoot well enough we are a tough out.
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We also have a strange team in that the improvement in our shot selection is night and day from last year.
Turnovers are easier to live with if the shot selection is good. A bad shot is essentially a turnover that isn't counted as 1. Except when Guerrier gets the put-back :D
We had 13 offensive boards.
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Gotta say, I like the BU version of PG with Rodgers over us having possibly Nimari Burnett, which was heavily (?) recruited by us. The kid didn't impress me at all as the on court leader of that group.
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Gotta say, I like the BU version of PG with Rodgers over us having possibly Nimari Burnett, which was heavily (?) recruited by us. The kid didn't impress me at all as the on court leader of that group.
Burnett is not impressive. I thought he was much better than he actually is, but he looks like shit.
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We also have a strange team in that the improvement in our shot selection is night and day from last year.
Turnovers are easier to live with if the shot selection is good. A bad shot is essentially a turnover that isn't counted as 1. Except when Guerrier gets the put-back :D
We had 13 offensive boards.
Agree we are taking much better shots this year. We had so many end of shot clock crap threes last year.
We average 11.5 TOs per game (a lot in early games) but only 9 per game in last five league games. That is big improvement.
We have low Assist numbers (13 pg) but a lot of that is due to all of the isolation plays we run now.
We averaged around 13 TOs per game last year.
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Howard still winless against the Illini 😎
Oh Dickinson too still 😎😎
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I was under the impression Burnett was a good athlete. Maybe he got hurt?