Ep. 872 - Mike LaTulip on Illini hoops preseason buzz, B1G preseason poll
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to discuss what Brad Underwood said at Big Ten Media Days, including the departure of Tim Anderson, the wait on Tomislav Ivisic, his talented freshman class, the defense and national-title expectations. LaTulip then weighs in on the Big Ten preseason poll and which teams he'd have higher or lower in the poll.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Lion & Inquirer podcast, and we are happy to have back. |
| 0:16.8 | Mike Latuip, our line inquire basketball analyst. |
| 0:19.6 | You see him on the field of 68 sometimes this year. He's got some Big Ten network stuff he does every once in a while. But I know everyone's happy to have you back on the pot. And Mike, we're going to talk about Big Ten Media Days, what Brad Underwood said, the Big Ten preseason poll. But man, basketball season's right around the corner. How are you, man? I'm happy to be back. You know, this is, |
| 0:38.3 | this feels like home to be, man. No, it's, it's crazy. I mean, I talk about every year it feels like you're just, you're entrenched in football. For you, it's covering it. For me, it's watching it. And all of a sudden, basketball just kind of sneaks up on you. So, um, Big Ten Media Day feels like, you know there's official practices and stuff |
| 0:55.3 | but Big Ten Media Day feels like the clear |
| 0:57.5 | delay on you so um big 10 media day feels like you know there's official practices and stuff but big 10 |
| 0:55.8 | media day feels like the clear delineation of like all right we're getting started yeah uh there's a |
| 1:01.8 | four minute highlight clip the one i put out there which is smart you know put out some stuff |
| 1:05.8 | feed the people um but we always read too much into it and uh i didn't have a lot of takeaways because it's highly selected |
| 1:13.2 | clips here but the one thing I will say is like when I see these guys when I see them moving |
| 1:18.9 | when I see how tall they are when I see how skilled they are and we just know on paper how talented |
| 1:23.0 | they are like I watched the Michigan state teams come in during your day Mike and I'm like |
| 1:27.4 | that looks different Illinois just looks different than a lot of Big Ten teams anymore. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. I mean, you talk about the Michigan State teams. I mean, when I was there, it was like, |
| 1:38.2 | you know, Gary Harris is running up and down the floor. You got Miles Bridges. You got, I mean, |
| 1:42.3 | there's just, there's so many different guys, |
| 1:45.1 | and there's just a different type of speed, |
| 1:47.3 | a different type of athleticism, |
| 1:49.8 | verticality at the rim, Brandon Dawson, |
| 1:52.0 | like all those types of guys. |
| 1:54.9 | But yeah, as far as like what you can discern |
| 1:57.0 | from three minute and 36 second clip, |
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