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General Category => Fighting Illini Basketball Forum => Topic started by: ILLINICHIEF on November 03, 2025, 05:14:07 PM
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6:30 PM Jackson St vs ILLINI in Champaign
BTN is televising
29.5 is the spread
157.5 o/u
Jackson St. is predicted to finish 3rd in SWAC, 5 new freshman players, one the coaches son, 7 players over 6'6", no 7' and their tallest player 9.5 pts per game (28.6% FT-WOW), in only 104 minutes played.
We gang rebound, BU was pissed about the rebounding after the FL scrimmage....we run away with this. That said, the ILLINI have a way...of letting guys have career nights....so....
92 - 68 ILLINI win, but don't cover the spread.
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No Andrej, Petrovic and Lee tonight.
Seems they are taking it easy with Andrej and Petrovic. Lee hurt his ankle just yesterday apparently so not sure how serious that is.
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Where is the weather report for those traveling to/from the game? And the inside stadium temp?
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Where is the weather report for those traveling to/from the game? And the inside stadium temp?
I don’t know, but I’m here in Mississippi waiting for that and the game to start…
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and so it begins
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I don’t know, but I’m here in Mississippi waiting for that and the game to start…
Good one, Judge Judy!
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A fag sighting on the court
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Mirkovic has a little bit of Jokic in him and we can really shoot the three…
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Mirkovic has a little bit of Jokic in him and we can really shoot the three…
It's Jackson State, ye of "we suck, only beat the bad teams and got pantsed by Indiana, OSU, UW"
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Thrilling matchup this one
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3 PT barrage, hell of an % so far team wise.
Sub Par opponent is a VAST understatement
Rebounding highlighted after FL, as suspected, but still against a sub par, undermanned, undersized team.
Offense even though many rotations are being used, is very stagnant, if we play this year against better competition, and DO NOT shoot a high %, we will be in trouble.
Wagler is very smooth, Mirko over handles, and has good has he is, he is not aware of smaller guards reaching and getting ball or nearly getting it...better teams with better players will cause a lot of T/O's from him in the open court.
GREAT half, none the less, very good warmup for our team.
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Agree about the offense very little cutting towards the rim or post feeds, they're just passing it around the arc and jacking 3s
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6'2"-6'6"-6'7"6'9"7'0' and more
6'6'-6'7'-6'9"-7'0"-7'2" and more
Lost track of all the combinations already LOL.
BU has some problems for some other teams this year....IF we don't play JUST m2m and we do some zone and DON'T JUST shoot 3's every game.
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Fun game. Nice to see a few threes go down for Humrichous.
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61.5% on Free Shots. Not going to cut it in The Only Tournament That Matters!
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Weber on the mic
Not going to lie
I miss him
The nil, transfer portal has made college basketball a non interest.
Give me the weber days anyday
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Weber on the mic
Not going to lie
I miss him
The nil, transfer portal has made college basketball a non interest.
Give me the weber days anyday
You should be banished for that take…
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You should be banished for that take…
why?
Lots of good time
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Weber on the mic
Not going to lie
I miss him
The nil, transfer portal has made college basketball a non interest.
Give me the weber days anyday
Right on man! I miss the days of:
38-33 "defensive struggle" games
Losing home games to Tennessee St.
Losing to UIC
Not capitalizing on the recruiting trail after the 2005 championship run
Missing the tournament
Inject another dose of all that directly into my veins!
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Weber on the mic
Not going to lie
I miss him
The nil, transfer portal has made college basketball a non interest.
Give me the weber days anyday
Jasn with a bigger L than JSU
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Jasn with a bigger L than JSU
he needs to get his head out of that work toilet
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61.5% on Free Shots. Not going to cut it in The Only Tournament That Matters!
Run and Gun, Miss the Free Ones for Fun, Pass and Chuck, against J-St....who gives a F....K!!
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23 assists, 12 TOs
40-73 / 17-37
42 points in paint
Rbs 61-19
We covered
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I’m afraid this team is going to turn it over a lot again against athletic lengthy teams. It concerns me that these euro guys don’t seem to have any idea how aggressively defense is played here. Hopefully we can get healthy because we’ve got an outrageously difficult schedule coming up.
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I’m afraid this team is going to turn it over a lot again against athletic lengthy teams. It concerns me that these euro guys don’t seem to have any idea how aggressively defense is played here. Hopefully we can get healthy because we’ve got an outrageously difficult schedule coming up.
By euro guys, do you mean Mirkovic and Petrovic? Z has 2 years experience here, and Tomi has 1.
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Mirkovic said after the game that this game is faster than the Euro game. I assume that KJ would have said the same last year.
We had 3 starters total 3 free shots.
They had 17 fast break points. We had 5 but out rebounded them by 42.
We had 37 attempts from 3. History says that's not good because we may end up closer to 25% in games as opposed to the 45% last night.
Every year we're told early about being good shooters yet we're closer to, if not on, the last page of 3 pt percentage shooting than the 1st page.
Wagler had a pretty quiet 18 points, 6 rebounds and 10 of the team's 24 free shots.
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Several guys that take it to the rim didn't play.. Brandon Lee, AS, Petro.
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https://x.com/glenn_kinley/status/1985538096968945893?t=kgH-8g2AJ4J60u9gGGW6EQ&s=19
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"Underwood was asked about the joy David Mirkovic plays with, said he loved it but then said that pass probably is not working in Big Ten play.
"Those are things that are enjoyable to him. We have to get them a little less enjoyable."
Mirkovic: "Coaches were a little bit angry about that pass.
Humrichous: "You probably won't see it again."
Mirkovic: "Maybe... I will try not to."
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Channeling Frank Williams
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Mirkovic, thought he was Maravich. Would be shocked to see that one again.