Someone needs to start a poll on who can virtue signal the hardest

Virtue signaling is annoying, but not as annoying as people who can’t tell the difference between “virtue signaling” and just trying to get other people to be decent human beings and not big dumb idiots.

Having Kofi is great for winning a bunch of games in the B1G and then losing in the tourney to a team that can exploit the very weaknesses that keep him from being an NBA draft pick.

It just doesn’t matter if he can go for 20 and 10 every night with a ton of awesome dunks when he can’t pass out of the post effectively and can’t guard anyone mobile. His presence also necessitates a slowdown in both the half court and transition because so much of the offense runs though him.

I said it all of last season: Of the better teams in the nation, Illinois had one of the most traditionally constructed rosters.

If Illinois wants to compete for Final Fours/National titles we need elite guard play/three point shooting and mobile athletic bigs who can guard multiple positions without switching, protect the rim, rim run, and rebound to get the guards in a position to score in transition.

And at least one of them needs to be able to stretch the defense with the ability to shoot from deep. Giorgi and Kofi just weren’t those guys. Grandison could but he’s a liability in other areas. He’s a below the rim 3 playing the 4.

If we could add Garcia, we’d have Hawkins, Garcia, and Payne filling the roles of Kofi and  Giorgi. And Grandison is back. Our guard play should be good to great next year but lack of length will be a problem unless the lengthy freshmen step up.

The key to the season might be getting something out of Hutcherson on the wing to help that out a little.

With Garcia next year’s team may not win as many games in the B1G, but would certainly have the ingredients for a deep tourney run.

I fucking loved watching Kofi play basketball for Illinois, but our blueprint should be what Baylor put on the floor this past year. I’m all in favor in continuing to move in that direction.

All good points, but:
1. I would like our tournament chances better with Kofi and a high seed than without Kofi and a 7 seed.

2. Kofi improved a ton from freshman to sophomore year, who’s to say he wouldn’t improve a lot the next year too? He doesn’t need to pull a 20’ jumper range out of his ass, he just needs to learn how to find the open shooter when he gets doubled.

We have like 200 million J&J vaccines that are going to expire because nobody wants them. Send them to India!

I don't think there's a larger contingent of insufferable people sans a vegan convention than cyclists

IDK, cyclists are mostly only insufferable when they’re cycling. They are otherwise just normal people. Vegans are insufferable all the time.

Of course, conspiracy theory nuts are up there on the insufferability rankings, so don’t sit too comfortably on your high horse 😎

The key, as I understand it, is to treat stop signs like yield signs, but then fail to yield.

Just getting back from a trip down south, and the difference was stark. Almost everywhere I went, probably 95% of black people and 80-85% of people of other non-white races were wearing masks everywhere, and probably 5-10% of white people were wearing masks when not required (and only about 75% of them were wearing masks when required).

I haven’t said this lately, but fuck Republicans for making coronavirus prevention a political issue. I don’t know whether it’s ever forgivable.

behold, the ultramaskers

Man, what kind of fucked up perspective do you need to have to look at a pretty deadly disease and think that the people going overboard to protect themselves are the idiots, and not the people who refuse to take simple and perfectly safe steps to protect themselves?