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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 28, 2013 -> 01:10 PM) You throw a silly Bills Simmons quote at me stating that Kevin Johnson would average 30/15 in today's game and you want to talk about substance? Rightttttt. And these one or two game outliers you reference mean nothing. I've seen Dana Barros score 50 in a game. I've seen Tony Delk score 50 in a game. I've seen Muhammad Abdul Rauf, or whatever his name was, go on insane scoring binges. These guys weren't even borderline all-stars. it's quite simple: Bulls fans won't admit this, and I sure didn't at the time, but the 90's was watered down as s***. You don't add 6 new teams in 8 years, as the league did from '87 through '94, and not see the league take a big hit overall. That's basically a new team a year. The drafts from '94 through '2002 were ugly. I'm talking Kirstie Alley ugly. Just f***ing Awful. The 2000/2001 particularly were the worst ever. It's taken a while, but the league has finally caught up to all that expansion from the late 80's, early 90's. Look at the drafts from '03 through last year and compare them to '94 through '02. it's like comparing Joyce Dewitt to Snookie. The talent is simply better now. Nothing to do with a few rule changes 8 years ago. The 94 through 2002 drafts would have almost no impact on the Bulls dynasty. Not to mention that a lot of those drafts except from 2000-2002 (which impacts the current era, not the 90s) were pretty damn solid. The 96 draft produced Kobe, Iverson, Ray Allen, Marcus Camby, Nash, Jermaine O'Neal, Peja Stojakovic, plus other solid players like Abdur-Rahim, Walker, Marbury (before his head got in the way of what should have been a great career) and Ilgauskas. I'd put that draft up against any draft from 03-present including the James, Wade, Anthony and Bosh draft. I'm not seeing this great talent gap in the 03-present drafts against the 90s drafts. The 2010 draft looks f***ing awful by the way. Paul George and Greg Monroe as the best players from a draft? Gross. And while its early, aside from Kyrie Irving, there are no true impact players in the 2011 draft class (although I do love Faried) and this years class isn't setting the world on fire.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Feb 27, 2013 -> 11:53 PM) Even better than the show Harden put on against The Thunder last week. The PG position is just too much now. I remember back in the day Mookie Blalock was considered an all-star caliber PG. lol. Rajon Rondo is a 4 time all star and isn't any better than 1 time all star Mookie Blaylock was at his peak. I agree that the depth of the PG position now is better than it has ever been but that wasn't a great example.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 28, 2013 -> 10:26 AM) Average...? Paul and Parker are both insanely fast players. Chris Paul is not insanely fast and I have never heard a single person describe him as such. His athleticism is nothing special at all by NBA standards. He is a phenomenal ball handler, a great passer and he understands how to create space but he doesn't do it with athleticism. In fact, not that they are a perfect representation of his athleticism but his lane agility and 3/4 court sprint times were nothing special at all at the NBA pre draft camp. Chris Paul's 3/4 court sprint time was the same as Kevin Love's and slower than a number of players that nobody would consider as insanely fast and his agility test was worse than guys like Jon Diebler, Draymond Green and Shane Battier (amongst many others) who I am pretty certain nobody would describe as particularly fast or quick.

Steph Curry putting on an unbelievably show on ESPN.

More proof that the top teams around college basketball just aren't that strong this year.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 27, 2013 -> 09:40 AM) The Bulls also made it clear that they weren't going to baby him, that he was going to have to work just as hard as anyone else on the roster. The Bruce Weber approach to recruiting, worked beautifully for Illinois.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 26, 2013 -> 12:12 AM) I turned it off at 79-72. How did Kansas pull it out? Kansas hit a couple of ridiculous 3s and then the refs decided to screw over Iowa St. by not calling a clear charge against Kansas with about 5 seconds left and then compounding that no call by calling a ridiculously weak call against Iowa St. when the ball was loose. KU steps up and makes both free throws and then Elijah Johnson went nuts in OT. Absolutely shameful officiating. What really annoyed me about the no call is that in almost all circumstances, college refs love calling players for charges even though players slide over too late the vast majority of the time and yet in this case, you have a play where Johnson is legitimately out of control and Iowa St.'s player was in position and they don't call it. College refs are truly atrocious at their jobs.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Feb 25, 2013 -> 10:18 AM) We are truly at the point where there's no reason for him not to be playing for the team paying him on a $95 million contract. In fact, I'd be pretty shocked if he doesn't play tomorrow night. That may be true but that video does nothing to prove that. Dunking at half speed is nothing like the stress that cutting at full speed puts on his body and the confidence he has to move laterally at full speed is the most important part of his recovery.

How do you let Aaron Craft get 4 layups in the half court, he can't shoot at all and isn't particularly quick with the ball, he also can't finish in traffic, just a brutal 2nd half by MSU.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Feb 24, 2013 -> 03:03 PM) I'd be shocked if less than 6 teams make it from the Big Ten. Illinois is in, I'm not remotely worried about it. Dakich and the play by play by guy were clueless as to what it takes to make it in.

Lol at the announcers discussing whether Illinois is in. They are closer to a 5 seed then out of the tourney.

DJ and Paul lost this game for Illinois today. Brutal efforts from both of them.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 22, 2013 -> 02:34 AM) I'm going to the last game against Nebraska (day after Unofficial). Hopefully they go 2-1 before then. Illinois only plays Michigan before the Nebraska game so going 2-1 will be kind of difficult.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 21, 2013 -> 03:20 PM) This is awesome. I own very few dvds, and own both sets (Pacific/BOB) Same. I have the blu-ray set for The Pacific and BOB and they both get watched more than any other DVDs I have.

Was it discussed in here that Hanks and Spielberg are going to be producing a 3rd series for HBO set in WWII? This one is going to be focused on the air war against Germany. I'm looking forward to this already as Band of Brothers is probably my favorite series/show that has ever been on TV and The Pacific was also fantastic.

It is too bad that the NCAA doesn't have the NBA's penalties for flopping.

Illinois on a 26-0 run against NW.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Feb 17, 2013 -> 08:51 PM) I dont know if it was clearly a defensive foul bc you can be moving and still get the charge call but it was funny to hear Jay Williams cry about it since he comes from a program that gets 75% of those calls. He wasn't close to being in position and slid under the offensive player.

College refs are remarkably bad at their jobs. Clemson just got called for a charge with about 13 seconds left down 1 on what was clearly a foul on the defense. Just a note to college refs out there but if you call that a block every time you will get the call right the vast majority of the time. I really wish they would stop rewarding players for sliding over at the last second, it is terrible defense.

Ohio State looks terrible. All those highly ranked players and only Thomas has any offensive ability.

That was definitely not a charge against Minnesota. Awful call.

Well the Purdue monkey is off of Illinois' back, and they did it in style.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 13, 2013 -> 03:33 PM) The bold is where I disagree. If you look at the game logs from last year, many times after he played around 40 minutes, he would then miss a week or a few weeks. When you play through injuries and you dont let them heal 100%, there is a potential that you do permanent damage or that you slow down the recovery time. Players are humans, humans break down if you overwork them. Playing through injury to one part of the body can also lead to you getting hurt somewhere else because you may end up moving and playing in a manner that is not natural and puts extra strain on your body.

QUOTE (sircaffey @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 04:46 PM) The C has gone the way of the dodo bird. You have 6'10" forwards that move like '90 guards now. Players are bigger, stronger, and faster. I don't think the athleticism is even close. Who are these 6'10 forwards that move like guards? Kevin Durant and? The players are stronger now (although the average size of an NBA player hasn't really changed since the 90s) and the league as a whole is probably a little faster but I don't think that has changed all that much.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Feb 11, 2013 -> 01:10 PM) Hard to punish Ohio State for a week where they took Michigan to OT in Ann Arbor, and lost to Indiana at home. Big week ahead for the Illini. The roadmap to the tournament is (1) hold serve at home the rest of the way (Purdue, Penn State, Nebraska) and (2) win 1 of 4 on the road (Iowa, Northwestern, Michigan, Ohio State). Purdue and @ Northwestern this week. Finally, I was looking at Iowa's schedule today. They only play Ohio State, Michigan, Illinois, and Michigan State once each. With their schedule, how many B1G wins does Iowa need to get into the tournament? If they have 10 wins in conference and Illinois and Minnesota both have 8, do all 3 get in? Iowa has a ton of work to do. They really screwed themselves with their non-conference schedule. They will need at least 10 wins to even be considered.