Cowboy Mirk Ivic

Christian. Illini. Engineer. Father. Drummer. Never sleeps.

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

Welcome home!

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@rforan23 I don’t blame the refs. I don’t blame the players. I blame baseball rims and weird bounces.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@CardIllini We don’t have a PG by design. It’s the underwood offensive way. Toss traditional positions away. :)

[Illinois Men's Basketball @IlliniMBB]

Your heart always leads you back to Illinois.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@KShermanSports #theretention I’ll see you in lot 31. Beers on me.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@IlliniGoonhq

[Ryan Hammer🔨 @ryanhammer09]

The NCAA essentially wants to go back to having NO international pros in CBB.

All they need to do is set a strict age cap & make staying in the draft sacrifice your college eligibility.

The timing is awful post recruiting cycle first off but revoking eligibility for ALL overseas pros across the board is dumb. Sounds nice but the kids that are 18-20 are college age underclassmen - they should be allowed to play CBB coming from overseas.

Sure - the 23+ year old players coming over for the first time need fixing. AND any international guys who go through draft process and don’t withdraw by the deadline should immediately be ineligible just like Bediako & RJ Luis here.

It’s just wild after letting EVERYONE come play CBB to now flip mid offseason & say now no one can come play. We’ll see how this goes…

[Kellen “KellDawg” Sherman @KShermanSports]

It only makes sense. Come home, Andrej! #Illini

[The Champaign Room @Champaign_Room]

🏀 @GoodmanHoops with the latest intel on Andrej Stojakovic 👀 #illini

[Carson Gourdie @GourdieReport]

ESPN's Jeff Borzello placed #illini Andrej Stojakovic in "Trending toward returning to college" over NBA Draft category.

He could be a 2nd round pick if he stayed.

Other players in that category: MSU's Jeremy Fears, Duke's John Blackwell & Louisville's Flory Bidunga

[Jacob Myers @League_Him]

Our in-depth film session with Keaton Wagler is now live on the League Him YT channel. Enjoyed learning more about his evolution and instinctual style of attack. Clearly sharp and capable of rapid learning + experimentation. Problem-solver. https://t.co/dQSl5Vyr8m

[Coaching U @Coaching_U]

🏀 Tyler Underwood teaches this “Ball to Screen” concept used by Illinois.

Instead of sprinting into every ball screen, the screener holds position and reads the defender’s feet and reacts accordingly.

[Jeremy Werner @JWerner247]

Notable that #illini Andrej Stojakovic is not participating in 5-on-5.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@ChiefIlliniVic Grandison injury the following year hurt the team in the tourney more than people realize. I bet we make a sweet sixteen that year and put the Brad haters to bed.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@LaTulip_Mike Learned from the best

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

My Illini roster thoughts a thread…

First things first you gotta understand Illinois offensive philosophy, at its core it’s about creating advantages and playing out of those advantages. An advantage could be many things, a mis-match, rotation, spacing, etc.

[Daddy Bradovic @DaddyBalkanBrad]

Sweet 16 polling is over! Tomi over Kylan was the biggest surprise/upset here, with all the 1 seeds (as expected), moving on.

Elite 8 matchups are filled with program builders vs program raisers and will be interesting to see how strong recency bias is. Vote below!

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@LaTulip_Mike thoughts on the thoughts in the thread? Listened to your pod with @JWerner247 and enjoyed the point guard monologue

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

Starting lineup of:
Vaaks
Colemam
Andrej
Mrik
T

Bench
Morillo (for vaaks/coleman)
Jake (for Andrej/mirk)
Z (for T)

Brad liked andrej on the bench since it gave him a true guard sub, this is why I think we will role as noted below, gives a true sub at any spot.

[Cowboy Mirk Ivic @CowboyMirk]

@JWerner247 It’s like people think we need a traditional point guard because we run traditional offense. This is not how Brad and Tyler operate offense

[Daddy Bradovic @DaddyBalkanBrad]

Round of 32 polling is finished! No surprises here

- Marcus Domask takes down fan-favorite Giorgi
-Executive power used to break Jake/Leron tie, siding with Jake for the viewers and new fans
- Kylan vs Tomi in the Sweet 16🍿🍿

Sweet 16 polls in the thread below. VOTE NOW!