Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

I like seeing a Tar Heel at the top of the Illini thread. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Now go out and come back against those dookies.

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

Weber's offense of just pointlessly passing it around the perimeter worked fine when we had three phenonemal college gaurds, but it just falls flat now. It seems lke we go stretches of just doing nothing at all, nobody cutting, nobody looking to penetrate, no screen. Just pass it around and settle for a crappy shot or turn it over.

Every possession needs to be inside to Pruit or Randle. Duke is playing a bunch of skinny ass white guys. Just pound it in there.

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

Geral Henderson "so smoooooth again"

Duke pwns Illinois

go to hell Carolina, go to hell

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

Duke looks pretty bad honestly, if they play this well all year they can't possibly be #10 in the country. We just suck.

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

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Duke looks pretty bad honestly, if they play this well all year they can't possibly be #10 in the country. We just suck.

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I think you're underestimating both clubs.

-McGee

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

The problem is that our guys are getting open in the post and our guards aren't good enough to either read it on time, or deliver it on time. It's kind of sad.

Re: 2007-2008 Fighting Illini Basketball Thread
 

I think we will be OK this year, but I don't know about the NCAA tourney. Rodney Alexander has impressed me in the first two games, and Randle is actually showing up to play this year as long as he stays out of his chronic foul trouble.

Holdren can't pass and is struggling to make his own shot. Meachum can't do anything but occasionally shoot the 3. I think McCarney will develop nicely, but he is still a little inexperienced. Pruitt/Frazier/Brock will be solid.

IMO this team can do a little damage in the Big Ten simply because of their defense, but I can't see them winning any barn-burners.

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but I don't know about the NCAA tourney

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Assuming you mean "I don't know if we'll make the tourney", I agree.

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my boy Trent is hot tonight.

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"Randle, a 6-foot-8 senior who averaged 14.8 points over the first three games of the season, was injured seven minutes into the game when he was defending Oklahoma State's Marcus Dove on a drive to the basket. An Illinois spokesman said he suffered a left leg contusion and he never returned to the game, finishing without a point."

So much for Randle being injury free this season.