Illini Nation finally has something to be happy about.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

There has been some measure of satisfaction in this situation ever since he was suspended from the Kansas squad. That probably makes me a
bad person but so be it.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

this guy legit can't play a lick?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Don't think talent is the issue, just his heart.

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and size and mid range shot and conditioning and post defense

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

with talent, not to get picked in the second round, you'd have to have executed your family and eaten them.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I never understood why people made such a big deal out of the guy. I wasn't impressed with him coming out of hs, he just was bigger and stronger than anybody.

this is why I love the one and done. I wish it were two and done. So many of these players are not very good, and NBA teams are forced to pick based on potential. At least with one year of school things get exposed. He did have a knee injury too but he's 6'7".

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

what made this cat a top-10 national recruit if he can't do anything?

ltg enlighten us?

I have never seen the full width image before. I didn't know De Paul was on that table...makes me hate him even more.

I hope that pittance his mom took will help to pay for his foreign language lessons

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

the bitterness of the Illini subdivision is awesome

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

He played well against Okafor.

He wouldn't be leaving after one if he wasn't being shown the door.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That's what gets me. Coming out of HS everybody was listing him at 6'9". I'm pretty sure I saw a couple 6'10"s like he was the next Dwight Howard. But, he's probably shorter than Jimmy Butler.

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You know me like that.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

He was bigger and stronger than just about everyone in the public league. He aggressively tried to dunk everything. He was kind of Kenneth Faried like. I know the people that handled his situation and they had him pegged as a one and done. Why wouldn't they? He was #2 out of high school. He should have started at Kansas also. The guys in front of him are not pros.

There were some who thought he was better than Okafor. Cliff Alexander doesn't have a game and he turned out not to be as athletic as first thought. I think he should have still been drafted though. Maybe late second round.

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I disagree. The mom goes and gets the loan in the first place because he's leaving after one.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

They all thought he was can't miss. It wasn't totally out of line either. He was top five on every mock draft board at this time last yr. It didn't pan out for him. They figured that he would be gone by the time the NCAA caught up with them.

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I can remember watching him play in high school. His father rolled in with an entourage of about 10 guys. It was kind of odd for a high school game. They all wanted a piece of the kid. By all accounts he is a good kid. His dad took over after being released from the penitentiary and immediately began making demands.

That may not have been completely out of line because his dad knows basketball. His father was a hell of a player back in the day. His thirstiness turned a number of people off and everything began to go downhill from there. I feel bad for the kid because like a number of people from impoverished background s he was viewed as the family's meal ticket. They had him ticketed to be a millionaire by this point.

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Those screeching wheels you hear are his dads car pulling out of the family drive way never to be heard from again.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I am sure his Otis Wilson looking dad didn't have the same reaction as the gif when the second round ended.

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Elections have consequences.

Whoever gave Cliff's mom that loan back in August has to be pissed about all of this.

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So, obviously the Bulls pick him up...right?

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@audioidkid

I don't think playing in Chicago would help his development.

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I agree...

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signing with the Nets

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Going to training camp with Portland.

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...and he will be a fine Euro player for 7 years

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

There are worse fates but this is not what he wanted

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This time last year he was a top five draft pick on just about every mock draft board that I viewed. There were a number of guys that I know whose opinion that I respect that believe he was better than Okafor. I never believed that, but there were some who bought into it.

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