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That's what I assume playmaking means

Posted by Blazer

on August 12, 2026, 00:25:38, in reply to "Gotcha..."Not a single bit of playmaking" has changed to "playmaking for others"."

And what I meant in the original post. Apologies if that wasn't clear.

And I don't think it's out of bounds to look for clips of a lead guard dropping dimes in a summer workout, and it might tell us something about his role that there weren't any. Which is not necessarily a bad thing!

Or it could also be reading way too much into an 80 second clip of pick up games. Either way, as you can tell, it's August and I'm dying for basketball to get here.

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Maybe next video they can show some passes and maybe some boxing out and screen highlights for us.

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August College Sports thread - assassin August 3, 2026, 11:34:22

Hey Chuck! - Blazer August 14, 2026, 13:54:30
Our video board made the New York Times - ATL August 14, 2026, 06:20:23
- They’d better wrap that shit up, south area of the stadium is a hot mess* - Jackie August 14, 2026, 12:34:58
- Complete with Darren Rovell being a shithead about it on X. He ended up re-tweeting - voiceofreason August 14, 2026, 07:30:21
  - Link?* - ATL August 14, 2026, 07:40:52
    - This must be it - ATL August 14, 2026, 07:44:09
      - ooo - jdl August 14, 2026, 07:48:35
        
        I feel bad for Darren, but this is tremendous content* - Sammich August 14, 2026, 09:56:35
        
        LOL, Roughly definitely got his ass.* - Warrin'_Illini August 14, 2026, 08:35:45
        
        I would have also accepted "there are dozens of suburban Dallas high schools taking notes."* - ATL August 14, 2026, 08:37:06
  - that was a fun read. gotta love all the NU fans talking shit thanks to their new HS stadium - IlliniSax05 August 14, 2026, 07:37:15
    - I think their new stadium is going to be bad ass, actually.* - Carl Spackler August 14, 2026, 07:38:26
      - it looks like a great stadium for them - IlliniSax05 August 14, 2026, 07:40:44
        
        It’s just a nicer place for opposing fans to go - bjl63 August 14, 2026, 07:44:22
        
        "Oooh, look at us: our students are so dam enthusiastic they'll stand for the entire game ! " - osklister August 14, 2026, 11:26:26
ooo - biclops August 13, 2026, 18:05:14
Illini football injury news - jdl August 13, 2026, 15:37:35
- Apparently we added a WR in the portal this week - ATL August 14, 2026, 07:18:46
- Shit* - illini21 August 13, 2026, 18:14:06
- Kinda surprised we haven’t yet had our annual camp ACL casualty* - opossum jenkins August 13, 2026, 17:34:13
  - I quietly had the same thought yesterday and we just lost a rotation TE and WR* - ijustkrushalot August 13, 2026, 17:43:45
    - Indeed 7.5 looks likelier every day, unfortunately* - bjl63 August 13, 2026, 18:16:22
      - Hey, I refuse to be a Debbie Downer two weeks before Labor Day. - osklister August 14, 2026, 11:28:58
  - And... tomorrow we're going to point at your post and say NWTFITWTF* - uofi1998 August 13, 2026, 17:41:05
- ugh, Perry was the tall Bowick replacement* - assassin August 13, 2026, 16:18:35
Skyy Clark to LSU - biclops August 12, 2026, 20:15:57
- The world is a better place now that he's picked his new spot.* - uofi1998 August 13, 2026, 10:35:18
hey Tiki/Carl, sweet new Tulane unis! - assassin August 12, 2026, 19:01:05
- Love the attempt but their regular unis are some of the best. C+* - Warrin'_Illini August 13, 2026, 16:32:58
- ok, those are pretty awesome and i don't even like new orleans or mardi gras* - VIV August 13, 2026, 09:14:50
- A+++++++++ * - uofi1998 August 13, 2026, 07:44:01
- Decent chance they'll wear these at the game I'm going down to this season.* - Carl Spackler August 12, 2026, 22:08:44
- Holleee crap those are great.* - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2026, 20:45:54
  - This* - TarheelIllini August 13, 2026, 09:08:52
Vaaks - biclops August 11, 2026, 19:36:04
- not exactly a defensive stopper based on highlights, but he looks good* - bbonb August 13, 2026, 17:50:33
- Vaaks Populi!!* - VIV August 13, 2026, 09:15:29
- Interesting. Almost entirely off the bounce/pull-up threes - Blazer August 11, 2026, 22:01:41
  - Vaaks better be the primary ball handler as the whole "Mirk is our PG" seems wishful thinking.* - gullit August 12, 2026, 21:26:42
  - Are you sure you watched the right clip?* - Chuck Woodaby August 11, 2026, 22:07:49
    - Yes? - Blazer August 11, 2026, 23:36:29
      - Gotcha..."Not a single bit of playmaking" has changed to "playmaking for others". - Chuck Woodaby August 12, 2026, 00:02:30
        
        Wonder if we have any chairs or cones we could set up?* - Illiniphil August 12, 2026, 11:46:25
        
        That's what I assume playmaking means - Blazer August 12, 2026, 00:25:38
        
        They've released 4 newcomer videos which have featured 100% made shots by the featured player. - Chuck Woodaby August 12, 2026, 00:34:06
        
        Point taken* - Blazer August 12, 2026, 00:47:26
College football 2026: How much does each position cost? - biclops August 11, 2026, 19:02:50
Sean Payton talking Pat Bryant - biclops August 11, 2026, 18:46:59
- I will listen to that ending Illinois on repeat* - snipes824 August 11, 2026, 18:53:30
Uihleins donate $35M to Northwestern football* - ECEIllinois August 11, 2026, 12:03:01
- As if I didn't have enough reason to hate Northwestern.... - KingTalkyTiki August 12, 2026, 10:49:11
I hope this is true - illiniranger August 10, 2026, 14:47:22
- how drunk do you have to be to think [direction] [state name] is a high school?* - Sammich August 10, 2026, 14:55:58
  - “Of course I won because I had the MAC on my back” is a great line * - illiniranger August 10, 2026, 17:46:49
  - how drunk do you have to be to be in Manhattan, KS?* - ATL August 10, 2026, 15:46:04
What was your favorite memory of Northwestern football? - Tortillini August 8, 2026, 10:31:56
Andre Curbelo. Professional wrestler. He and Luke Ford would be a great tag team… - LeatherneckIllini August 7, 2026, 11:35:19
- Seems to be a lot of skepticism that it is Curbelo * - jdl August 7, 2026, 12:48:24
  - Side note: it isn’t* - Stu August 11, 2026, 20:31:04
    - The guy’s name is Jermaine Marbury - Stu August 11, 2026, 20:46:29
- Maybe the most fun ILL basketball season ever before the Loyola debacle. This is sad.* - Warrin'_Illini August 7, 2026, 12:34:00
  - I think you may be romanticizing that season too much. - OB25 August 7, 2026, 15:46:02
    - There was the brief January slide where we lost home games to Ohio State and Maryland - Blazer August 10, 2026, 17:21:37
    - 1 seed after being irrelevant for so long. Legit BBMDL. I said what I said!* - Warrin'_Illini August 7, 2026, 15:57:05
  - That Michigan game was absolute porn* - ATL August 7, 2026, 15:33:25
- Interesting response about his time at Illinois - Jersey August 7, 2026, 12:27:53
  - Reads like someone who should be under the care of a licensed professional * - biclops August 7, 2026, 14:56:43
    - Kinda reads like someone who should be in prison* - illinilosch August 7, 2026, 16:13:16
  - shoulda never agreed to meet Brad in the Pizza Hut parking lot* - ATL August 7, 2026, 12:30:28
- I wish I could say this is a surprising career move. - DocWalk20 August 7, 2026, 11:49:44
- That should certainly help the head injury situation* - ATL August 7, 2026, 11:49:34
Trivia. Name the three active college basketball coaches with 500 wins, 20 years and a natty… - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:19:05
- Please tell me you’re not counting Billy Donovan * - TarheelIllini August 6, 2026, 21:58:10
  - Probably not division 1* - TarheelIllini August 6, 2026, 21:58:54
    - I was correct, division 2* - TarheelIllini August 9, 2026, 10:18:20
- Scott drew?* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:28:34
  - nope. all have to be at their current school.* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:29:29
    - apparently he will be on the list next year (assuming they win 17 games)* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:42:19
- self* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:27:06
  - Yup. Hint on the third. As a freshman at Iowa State Johnny Orr benched him for hitting a 3… - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:29:01
    - This was rigged - Matt Margenthaler * - Jersey August 6, 2026, 19:38:30
      - Yup!* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:43:47
      - dumb * - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:41:39
    - Is it D-II or D-III?* - bjl63 August 6, 2026, 19:33:58
- izzo, painter * - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:21:24
  - Izzo is correct.* - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:22:13
    - I answered before your edit. What do you mean “500 wins, 20 wins”?* - biclops August 6, 2026, 19:23:00
      - oops 20 years. - LeatherneckIllini August 6, 2026, 19:25:22
Golf schedule has dropped - jdl August 6, 2026, 19:15:37
Mirkovic in a boot - biclops August 6, 2026, 14:59:24
- Guy standing at the top left of that "H" in the pic: obviously about a 15th-year senior.... * - osklister August 6, 2026, 17:49:06
  - Can't get anything past a superfan like you.* - Chuck Woodaby August 6, 2026, 18:52:32
    - Ah, that little farce you played with the hoops team: you think that could fool an Illini? - osklister August 7, 2026, 13:40:59
- QC, do you even lift bro? * - jdl August 6, 2026, 15:10:57
- Better than one of those knee scooters or crutches. - tvillini August 6, 2026, 15:01:43
  - Uhhh, he's sitting on his 'scooter'. * - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 15:10:30
new Purdue AD is fired up - assassin August 6, 2026, 12:30:18
- Can you imagine Whitman doing this?* - opossum jenkins August 6, 2026, 19:44:13
- It's always fun to see other schools stepping on their own (insert plural phallus here) - uofi1998 August 6, 2026, 13:36:26
- What's the opposite of saying something with your whole chest?* - Warrin'_Illini August 6, 2026, 13:11:59
- Not a great time for that message - Sammich August 6, 2026, 13:10:51
  - horse school - RVA August 6, 2026, 14:01:20
  - Even if he is only talking about basketball...at least IU has some banners* - Desert August 6, 2026, 13:48:42
- That’s a Beckman level “you have to be out on this guy solely based on the intro presser” - OB25 August 6, 2026, 12:43:03
Does anyone still listen to The Drive on 93.5 in CU? - biclops August 5, 2026, 16:20:44
- they did...it's now kurtis and evan. it's....not very good, imo* - lcubed August 6, 2026, 08:21:19
  - so Kurtis....Blows? * - Jersey August 6, 2026, 13:30:21
    - You're giving him a bad rap.* - MojoJojo August 6, 2026, 13:33:08
  - That I knew about, but when I listened the other day there was no Kurtis - biclops August 6, 2026, 08:50:14
    - gotcha. i think i heard both kurtis and evan when i tried listening sometime this week* - lcubed August 6, 2026, 09:01:22
- You mean in Philo. :) * - Philo August 6, 2026, 07:21:50
Reports that WKU has been added to our BB non-con schedule - biclops August 5, 2026, 12:21:23
Izzo sticking to his guns, says he recruited guys to fill his roster and won’t take Kohler back now* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 21:06:24
- Typically Izzo’s holier than thou shit is exhausting but I respect this stance* - CWR10 August 6, 2026, 13:07:13
- Would Kohler sign a 6 week contract? - Blazer August 5, 2026, 13:06:33
- *Will Wade pops out of dumpster** - assassin August 4, 2026, 21:52:57
mirk had surgery for a foot injury - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 14:52:57
- You’re not helping, Sam. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 20:25:33
  - meh* - ATL August 5, 2026, 13:08:29
  - The season is over 3 months away. Let’s all chill* - bjl63 August 5, 2026, 12:23:15
    - I get nervous around girls and cameras. So if I do something bad, you know, just be chill* - LWillhite August 6, 2026, 08:00:57
    - No kidding. It's not like Mirk blew out his knee. - illinilosch August 6, 2026, 07:52:30
- What'd you name the dog, Effin?* - RVA August 4, 2026, 19:33:54
- Rando on Reddit saying they heard “Jones fracture”… - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 17:30:33
  - If that's what it its, I had the same break in a bone in my foot. Took about 12 weeks to heal - IlliniRunner August 6, 2026, 13:21:25
    - And you don't say whether you had surgery or not. - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 13:58:32
      - No surgery. The bone was not displaced that much. A Jones fracture is in the metatarsal at the end - IlliniRunner August 6, 2026, 16:59:59
  - I got a basketball jones* - biclops August 4, 2026, 17:32:31
- Goodman sources say 6-8 weeks - jdl August 4, 2026, 17:03:50
  - He'll almost be ready for UAB. We're fine.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 17:30:18
  - Yes please* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 17:26:06
  - As good a guess as any at this point.* - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 17:10:23
- I doubt we’d do it, but do we have a scholarship open for these new 5th year guys? - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:50:43
  - We have 1 open scholarship* - illini222 August 4, 2026, 16:54:25
- So the plan was to design the offense to run through him and now he’s going to be unable to - biclops August 4, 2026, 16:28:57
  - Yup. Not great, Bob.* - JFG August 4, 2026, 17:05:30
- Every offseason some main player gets injured* - snipes824 August 4, 2026, 16:12:50
- Be back by mid January please * - MC August 4, 2026, 16:07:13
  - That seems pretty far out to be the “please” scenario. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:12:36
    - Yes that would be a bad timeline but idc I just want a healthy team for FEB/MAR and a title - MC August 4, 2026, 16:36:03
    - Yeah, Werner is saying a few months - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:18:58
      - ~3 months (90 days) from today is the first game of the season* - CanHartlebHireSnider August 4, 2026, 16:32:27
        
        Yep, but Werner is just guessing based on what he's heard - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:48:24
        
        My wife broke her 5th Metatarsal 10 weeks before her first full Ironman. - tvillini August 4, 2026, 17:20:35
        
        Re: "We didn’t think it would speed up or impact her recovery than just normal immobilization." - illinijohn August 6, 2026, 15:20:11
        
        How is your wife on the boards? - biclops August 4, 2026, 17:31:40
    - Would be nice to follow the Tomi timeline from last year - jdl August 4, 2026, 16:18:57
- God dammit* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 16:00:55
- Gotta wear that protective foot gear man - jdl August 4, 2026, 15:59:19
  - Yup, there is definitely a much greater than 0 chance he did this doing something dumb* - OrangeSox August 4, 2026, 16:04:41
    - Maybe this injury will prevent him from doing something stupid in the near future which - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 16:12:03
    - ooo? - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 16:10:58
      - You're implying he fell whilst trying to climb this tree? Definitely plausible* - OrangeSox August 4, 2026, 16:14:40
- cool, cool, coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool, coolcool, cool, cool - IlliniSax05 August 4, 2026, 15:40:24
- Will he still be able to participate in the autograph session before famILLy movie night at Gies - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:39:49
- t's August and not October. Not worried one bit* - bjl63 August 4, 2026, 15:23:02
- Werner saying "probably a few months."* - illini21 August 4, 2026, 15:22:04
  - Seems alright then, we have good depth. Take your time and come back healthy.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 15:27:49
    - He said this is what they’re hoping for, so I wouldn’t be too confident in it. - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:02:54
    - I’m ultimately most worried about his conditioning. All indications were he’d amped up the fitness - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:42:26
- Quick surgery, “full recovery” and minimal detail portend badness. * - uofi1998 August 4, 2026, 15:19:49
  - My initial read of 247 is that this could be bad bad* - ijustkrushalot August 4, 2026, 15:22:34
- Bears and Illini's pets having some head-attachment-to-body problems.* - Warrin'_Illini August 4, 2026, 15:15:06
  - LMFCO* - Jackie August 4, 2026, 15:43:07
- I hate everyone and everything. All at once.* - Chuck Woodaby August 4, 2026, 15:11:12
  - ^^^^^^This^^^^^^^* - ilinni11 August 4, 2026, 15:20:10
- God dammit, every fucking year. 90/10 rule rumor out there that he’ll miss all of non-conference* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 15:10:46
  - i mean we were pretty healthy last year really* - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 15:20:23
    - Except for Ty, Tomi, Dre and Kylan * - jdl August 4, 2026, 16:19:52
      - That’s relatively good. No season enders (Ty i guess but whatever). No even half season miss - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 20:12:09
      - Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?* - Blazer August 4, 2026, 17:00:05
      - I’m not convinced Wagler was ever fully the same after the UCLA shoulder injury either* - OB25 August 4, 2026, 16:49:34
  - Jesus. A 16 week recovery would be fucking brutal* - Mrap24 August 4, 2026, 15:19:29
- full recovery when? * - ijustkrushalot August 4, 2026, 14:53:44
  - Exactly. Kind of a key piece of info they left out there* - DocWalk20 August 4, 2026, 15:11:48
  - indeed* - John Coctostan August 4, 2026, 14:56:02
- uh oh? * - aimlessillini August 4, 2026, 14:53:20
Bielema says Davon Grant is gawn - jfinsocal August 3, 2026, 21:01:35
- Medical issue that will keep him from playing, but BB thinks he will still enroll. - Illiniphil August 3, 2026, 21:16:02
Unless there’s more to this story, terrible look for both Luke Murray and the BC AD - OB25 August 3, 2026, 20:37:38
- Yeah, that's a priority. How bad does your program have to be for THAT spit to fly? - osklister August 4, 2026, 17:31:45
- Imagine the level of scab that takes the job - assassin August 3, 2026, 21:35:40
- Hadn't realized Bill Murray's kid got that job. Sounds like a real prick.* - Carl Spackler August 3, 2026, 21:19:21
  - Just like his daddy* - bjl63 August 3, 2026, 23:15:23
Looks like Ayo got engaged. - tvillini August 3, 2026, 18:35:05
OL concerns me more than the DL at this point... - uofi1998 August 3, 2026, 11:50:00
- One good thing: Houser was #1 or 2 in time to release last year. So maybe that’ll help the situation - ATL August 4, 2026, 01:54:05

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