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My pessimistic/optimistic take is that maybe everybody else will be so focused on Ohtani that the Cubs can sign Julio Urias for under market value.
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As an Illini fan, I’m not sorry to his backside heading out the door. He’s a really, really good offensive coach.
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Two absolutely epic at bats. Schwarber’s 12 pitch masterpiece versus Yu. Ohtani dominating Trout. 102 outside to set up that utterly filthy slider.
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i'd rather have the entirety of Purdue's season, without a second thought, because this of course includes those 2 accomplishments you listed and banners that are hung forever this thread is having a real atypical hot take fest re Purdue, sometimes stylistic bad matchups occur, that's part of the beauty of March Madness If Painter and Underwood keep getting their teams invited, one of these years, the match up dominoes will fall and they'll get a breakthrough win(s). Look at Izzo last year lost in the second round, the year before in the first four, this year MSU is in the Sweet Sixteen with a legit chance to make the Final Four. Purdue got to the Final Four as a 6 seed way back in 1980. Since then Purdue and Illinois have both consistently made the NCAAT and never had that Final Four run as a lower seed. Purdue got to an Elite 8 in 2000 as a #6 only to get knocked out by #8 Wisconsin on the way to the Final Four. Illinois just plain never seems to outplay its seed, only making deep runs when they’re a #1. Purdue’s amazingly only had two coaches during that time. Perhaps coaching is an issue there, but Illinois has been through several coaches, 4 of whom made deep runs as lower seeded teams in places other than Illinois. So I tend to chalk it up to fluky bad luck.
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If Randy Arozarena does some Randy Arozarena-style horsefeathers anything can happen.
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This is my take as well. Some of the post game comments from Hawkins, Shannon and RJ were telling. I think a lot were directed towards Mayer. Without a doubt, if Underwood was given another chance, I'm fairly certain he'd pass on both Clark and Mayer. Clark is already gone. Mayers is now out of eligibility. The entire rest of the team could theoretically be back. Shannon and Hawkins will both test the draft waters and there will probably be 2/3 transfers out/in. They really need a point guard. I don’t think they’re expecting a lot from the Italian kid and the other two recruits are both highly rated, but not pgs.
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On script so far. I hate them. They can jettison Mayer to the Moon right now, if I were Underwood I'd bury him on the bench. I'll bet if you asked Underwood if he's done with this team, you'd get a horsefeathers yeah! He didn’t play the last 12 minutes or so.
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Maybe he got drunk one night in Santo Domingo while playing Winter Ball.
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Sal Perez looking like an early favorite for tourney MVP. He’s knocking the ball all over the place.
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Watching Puerto Rico beat Nicaragua in the WBC at a road side shack while tossing back Medallas in Rincon, PR will go down as one of my favorite baseball memories.
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Is there a point where a Spring Training win streak becomes something to take any note of?
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Well Illinois is going to the NCAA tournament and because of the last 2 painful OT losses Michigan almost certainly isnt, so yes. But I have noticed that a ton from Illinois. Gotta be frustrating. 1st half # 103 Home +6.6 [glow=red]Away -3.2[/glow] 2nd Half # 11 Home +8.6 Away +2.1 Thanks for the links! That was from before the Purdue game. It’s even more stark now. It’s now -4.5 in the first half and +3.1 in the second half for away games. They have the #119 first half road differential and #8 second half.
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Would you trade Michigan’s end game collapses for Illinois’ seeming need to be punched in the face (almost literally) before they wake up and realize that there’s a game going on? They turned the ball over in their first 4 possessions and allowed Purdue to score in their first 5 to go down 11 points three minutes into the game, had to play catch up the rest of the way and end up losing by 5. I’m looking around the Internet to find Illinois’ first half vs second half point differentials. It’s got to be substantial.
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Well, the Illini are never boring.
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Reading between the lines on what’s been made public in the case: The accuser was intoxicated at a party. Patrick Kane was also at that party. Someone had sex with the accuser at the party. The accuser was probably not conscious enough to have given consent. Based on the DNA, Patrick Kane was probably not the person who had sex with her. Kane definitely lived a frat boy life during the first few years of his career. From what I’ve read, he started straightening out his off-ice habits after this incident.
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A contemporary story: https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2584179-patrick-kane-under-investigation-for-rape-latest-details-comments-reaction.amp.html The key quotes: “"The totality of the credible evidence—the proof—does not sufficiently substantiate the complainant’s allegation that she was raped by Patrick Kane and this so-called 'case' is rife with reasonable doubt," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said in a statement.” And “DNA testing later called into question the veracity of the woman's claims. In addition, an allegation of tampering led to her initial attorney dropping her as a client.”
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I know almost nothing about how that site puts together their metrics, but I'd put Keith right up there with him, especially if you discount just like, the cumulative stats Kane has put up after Keith left. They base it on their “Goal Shares” metric. They have Keith at #6 behind Hull and Hall, which puts him one spot ahead of Wilson as the best D-man in ‘Hawks history. I don’t know how they calculate goal shares, but at least in the case of ranking the all-time Hawks, it doesn’t result in an absurd outcome.
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3rd best Blackhawk ever (behind only Esposito and Mikita) if you trust Hockey Reference’s rankings. Easily the best Blackhawk of the last 30 years, without any real competition. 40 if you think he was better than Doug Wilson and Denis Savard (which I do).
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How the hell did that happen in the 80s?? The early to mid 80s were an offensive feast in the NBA. That Nuggets team averaged 123 a game and I remember going to a Bulls game when Jordan was out with his broken ankle and there was some sort of giveaway if they got to 120 pts. It was the Bad Boy Pistons starting about 83-84 when Daley took over that brought in the era of low-scoring late-80s/90s basketball. The League per game scoring average had stayed pretty set at 110 a game until 87 when the Pistons made their first Conference Championship game and then plunged to bottom out 91 a game by 1999.
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The inconsistency is infuriating. See my comment above about freshman guards. It’s been the inconsistency with the upperclassmen that’s been so maddening. The freshmen you expect, but you just don’t know what you’re going to get from game to game from Hawkins, Shannon and Mayer. Those are supposed to be three future NBA guys, but they just disappear from time to time, or worse go through stretches of a complete loss of basketball I.Q.
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This Illinois team is going to put Brad Underwood into the loony bin. (Us fans were already nuts.)
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What does Bote need to do to make the team?
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Wisdom’s low WAR last year was largely due to his defense that graded very poorly and swung pretty wildly away from his previous relatively decent grades, as defensive metrics sometimes do. I think he’s a better defensive player than what the metrics showed last year, and is probably closer to a 2 to 2.5 WAR player. -
I don’t know how this Illinois-Indiana game is going to turn out, but if Illinois game out with this intensity every game, they’d be ranked in the top 5 and looking at a 1 or 2 seed in the Tourney.
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Kind of looks like a left-handed hitting Wisdom. Not awful for your 25th or 26th guy on the roster.
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Now, there’s a point we can agree on. Sign Machado and Urias, extend Hoerner and call it an off-season.