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Title: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 08, 2022, 11:16:58 PM
How will they fuck it up?
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: ridingthegrange on January 09, 2022, 10:23:23 AM
Listened to a Mike Decourcy bracketology discussion yesterday.  He was looking back at winners over the last 20 years and pointed out that just about all of them had elite level point guards.  According to him, most of the popularly projected final 4 don't have great pg's.  Duke and Zaga were examples.  He mentioned that, if Illinois gets Belo back, it could be a game changer that many ranked programs don't have.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 09, 2022, 11:04:50 AM
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 09, 2022, 11:39:36 AM
I hope it's all a factor for us, but I think guard play has been one of the 1st things to look at for quite a while. Coaching and guards more so than the bigs.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 09, 2022, 03:27:22 PM
After a rocky start Trent has done a pretty good job handling the point.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Judge Judy on January 09, 2022, 03:28:34 PM
After a rocky start Trent has done a pretty good job handling the point.

I think it’s mostly Damonte handling the PG role. And doing much better as of late.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 09, 2022, 03:32:56 PM
It’s kind of been by committee but yeah they’ve settled in and done pretty decent. We haven’t seen any ball pressure to speak of though.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: The_Truth on January 09, 2022, 05:32:44 PM
Listened to a Mike Decourcy bracketology discussion yesterday.  He was looking back at winners over the last 20 years and pointed out that just about all of them had elite level point guards.  According to him, most of the popularly projected final 4 don't have great pg's.  Duke and Zaga were examples.  He mentioned that, if Illinois gets Belo back, it could be a game changer that many ranked programs don't have.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all week…🤣🤣🤣
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on January 10, 2022, 11:22:56 AM
25th in the AP. I thought Ok might get 25th after beating the Cyclones.
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Beach Bum on January 10, 2022, 02:01:31 PM
We're back
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 16, 2022, 11:21:45 PM
Lots of teams ahead of us lost this week, we have a big matchup tomorrow, do we see a big jump in rankings?
Title: Re: Illini will be ranked come Monday
Post by: Custard on January 19, 2022, 11:35:14 PM
https://youtu.be/MhhSs5dsf-k