Illini Basketball 2024-2025

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New Creation
skyIdub said:
I hear you. I did Palm Springs for a year...and it's stupid hot. The ramp agents at the airports could only work 10 minutes at a time and then they had to go stand under misters.
At least it's dry. This swamp a$$ is ridiculous.

I'm changing boxers 2 or 3 times a day. The "cooling" ones. You jump in the pool to dry off. I'm only slightly joking.
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lol isn’t that the truth. I keep my wife updated on how many times I have changed that day lol
 
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Lee
IllGuardU said:
Cringing as I say this, but he reminds me of Hunter Dick🤮
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PepeSilvia
Combo said:
If he ends up as good as Hunter, that would be amazing.
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I would hope he is better defensively than Hunter.

This is going to sound like I'm just hating on the guy because I know he scores and puts up a ton of rebounds but Dickinson is truly atrocious defensively and his best year was when he had Diabate out there to cover up for him defensively.

If you don't believe go find the Gonzaga game from this year's tournament. Few's entire gameplan was attacking Dickinson and it created a wide open shot nearly every time down the court. Huff and Gregg ate him alive on offense and he looked so spent that he couldn't do anything offensively.
 
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Homecoming 2019
PepeSilvia said:
I would hope he is better defensively than Hunter.

This is going to sound like I'm just hating on the guy because I know he scores and puts up a ton of rebounds but Dickinson is truly atrocious defensively and his best year was when he had Diabate out there to cover up for him defensively.

If you don't believe go find the Gonzaga game from this year's tournament. Few's entire gameplan was attacking Dickinson and it created a wide open shot nearly every time down the court. Huff and Gregg ate him alive on offense and he looked so spent that he couldn't do anything offensively.
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Crazy how quickly his defensive perception has flipped over the course of his career. I swear he was poised to be a defensive all-american after his freshmen year.
 
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ptgrd23
unapalmerclassic said:
Kylan Boswell was on saturday morning sportstalk yesterday. He said Morez has been the biggest surprise of the summer. He said nobody can stop him.
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Kofi really spoiled us. He owned the paint - scoring, rebouding, and post defense. Our Achilles heel last year was we could not stop All Americans - Edey and Clingan. I am so excited about Morez. Thinking Shawn Kemp, Charles Barkley
 
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Combo
ptgrd23 said:
Kofi really spoiled us. He owned the paint - scoring, rebouding, and post defense. Our Achilles heel last year was we could not stop All Americans - Edey and Clingan. I am so excited about Morez. Thinking Shawn Kemp, Charles Barkley
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Not many teams could stop those two. It's rare to have two big men so dominant in college basketball (more Edey than Clingan).
 
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Illinifrank67
CrazyIlliniLady said:
Hunter has been the player we loved to hate all these years because he never managed to beat us, but he loved to talk s**t about Illini fans. However, he endeared himself to me a bit after he testified for TJ. If Tomislav is as good as Hunter, I think we'll all be pretty happy.
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He was called to testify by the state of Kansas I believe… thus Illini nation technically dealt him yet another L.
 
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HensonHall71
jjv0004 said:
Does that mean he plays no defense?
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New Creation said:

Greg just compared KJ to Luka… thoughts?
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It’s not a bad analogy for the role and type of player Kasparas will be for us- offense runs through him, great in pick and roll, crafty offensive player that will score in multiple ways, great vision, high turnover guy trying to make the great pass or teammates not seeing what he sees- limited defensively one on one

I mean he’s not as good as Luka nor as big but he can be that type of role for us for sure
 
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