Illini Basketball 2024-2025
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Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I thought he came in 1979, so my bad lolThat is interesting math.Lou arrived in the spring of 1975. The Elite 8 was in 1983/84. We all know when he reached the FF.
DGL's fadeaway looking good!
PizzaHutParkingLot
- McPherson, KS
Chuck Nuggets
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That video is very impressive. I hope they can come together.
The question is, will anyone beat us?
If this team gels quickly ... The ceiling for this team is national championship ... I truly believe that ...
We may drop a tough one in non conference ... But when you play good teams, if you lay an egg ... It doesn't come back to bite in March ...
Truly think this team wins the Big Ten next year ...
Everyone want to talk about IU and that's fine ... But Woodson has done absolutely nothing with all the talent he's had ... If I was AD ... He would've been fired after last year ...
Chuck Nuggets
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I was real worried IU might go after TJ Otzelberger. That would have been a grand slam hire, IMO.
I believe every word you said. Our second five would beat the lower half of our conference, now that is SICK.
We don't rebuild ... We reload ...
I hope Kasparas comes back for year two, what a great player he looks to be.
Boswell can flat out play the point. We have missed that elite point guard but will be visible to everyone watching us next year.
Boswell can flat out play the point. We have missed that elite point guard but will be visible to everyone watching us next year.
chiefini
- Rockford, Illinois
With 12 very, very talented guys, these scrimmages are going to show who really wants it, who hustles the best, who shoots the best, and who defends the best. The two sides are pretty equal, making practices brutal, where the level of competitiveness is going to be off the charts. I know it’s just “Practice,” but WOW! Hopefully, they can still gel as teammates and develop chemistry because this could be special…
LadyLoyalty
- Indian Wells, CA
Ty’s jumper is looking smoooooth!
Ty turnaround jumper.....
A few things in my mind:
1. This team is so deep and talented it’s wild
2. Kasparas Jackucionis will be out best player
3. Ben Humrichous has something to prove, and I hope he does it
4. Ty Rodgers pulling up smooth looking jumpers made me smile like an idiot
My observation was Lou Henson and Tony Yates, then Lou and Jimmy Collins built recruiting pipelines by cultivating relationships with the influential high school coaches in the state. That took some time.
Then recruiting started changing in the late 1980s. The high school coaches gradually had less influence ...
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rmlsr
- El Paso,IL
Video is very promising this team looks like they have some very talented pieces and depth that creates mismatches. Oh and we still are waiting for 2 very important talented players to join this group!!! We are going to be very very good team and be interesting to see how high our ceiling will be.
We all saw Ty take jump shots in practice last year but didn't take a single one in a game. He's going to have to actually take some and make them to keep his playing time this year. If he does that it would raise his game tremendously
The coaches tweaked his mechanics on his release and shot.Ty turnaround jumper.....
They brought in a new shooting system (Noah system) that facially recognizes the players and calculates the depth and shooting angle of each shot so he has elevated his release angle and his accuracy is getting better.
He is shooting 1,500 shots a day while the Noah system captures the ball’s position 30 times per second to provide metrics such as the arc of each shot, the ball’s left-right position and depth within the hoop, release time, position on the court, makes and misses, and shot type — such as a catch and shoot versus off the dribble.
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Poor Morez... A video of all makes doesn't show him hoovering up all the misses!
Ah yes....you are right. BTW, best player I ever coached against in intramurals was Larry Lubin. He was literally a one man press. Had to use a couple of guys to bring up the ball against his team. And a phenomenal football player as well.
Kylan - 15PPG, Ben - 15PPG, Riley - 10PPG, KJ - 10PPG, Tomislav - 8PPG, Morez - 8PPG, Ty - 8 PPG, Tre - 8PPG, Booth - 5PPG, DGL - 5PPG
This would make it about 90PPG as a team so probably not a very realistic scenario...but this is probably outlines the best case scoring wise...
This would make it about 90PPG as a team so probably not a very realistic scenario...but this is probably outlines the best case scoring wise...
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Pardon my french, but Kasparas looks really f***in good here.
LarryGotFouled
- Plano, TX
KJ looks freaking unbelievable.
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