Jason Green

@BigGlennNetwork Nebraska basketball is 2024 Northern Illinois football. Congrats!

Illinois’ best season in 20+ years and they: - Lost to Nebraska at home - Were a worse seed than the Huskers in the Big Ten Tournament To say that I am #Noticing is an understatement.

@RaphealDavis3 Given your habitual underrating of Illinois all season - you had them power ranked as the 6th best B1G team (lol) - consider whether you are massively underrating the talent around him.

No freshman has had Keaton’s numbers, his impact, and his team’s success with less around him. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@rock4par @RMFifthCircuit If an illegal commits a crime in the US, can he be prosecuted?

@JasonJGreen33 @RMFifthCircuit Explain what the jurisdiction thereof means genius , you can’t so STFU if it means you are subject to the laws of the US then it doesn’t apply to illegals you moron

I’m in New York visiting some clients, but I’ve finally caught up on the news and transcript, and I think the conventional wisdom on the birthright case is correct. Trump will lose 8-1 or 7-2 or some such. My bias is that I thought it was a very easy case /1

@rock4par @RMFifthCircuit “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Let me know if you need help reading it

@JasonJGreen33 @RMFifthCircuit The text does not say it ! You are making shit up

@rock4par @RMFifthCircuit The text says what it says and it is not ambiguous. If you want to change it, amend the Constitution. There’s a procedure for that and it doesn’t start and stop with an Executive Order.

@RMFifthCircuit There is no way on earth you can say the framers intended for someone from a foreign country can fly in have a baby and fly out and they kid is a citizen , if you believe that you are lying to yourself

@Paintspainter @EvanMiya Agreed

@JasonJGreen33 @EvanMiya So did you, Jason.

Final Illinois 88, Purdue 82. The Keaton Wagler game. I can't believe what I just witnessed. This kid is so special. 46 points... on 17 shot attempts! Zach Edey never scored that many in this arena, or in any game, period.

@Paintspainter @EvanMiya This aged well

@JasonJGreen33 @EvanMiya Enjoy never making a final four lol

@ALionEye Done

2024 Elite Eight vs UConn? In Boston, an hour and a half from Gampel Pavilion. 2026 Final Four vs UConn? In Indy, an hour and 45 minutes from the State Farm Center. Break the piggy bank and get there.

@TheConnorPils @RaphealDavis3

Isn’t it shocking that the KenPom top 4 for the entire season are likely gonna be the Final 4?!? If you seriously mental-gynmastics-ed yourself into believing Illinois “had the metrics fooled” congratulations lol you don’t know ball

@jupo1182 @RegionalTVCat Houston was 355th in the country in free throw rate. Illinois was 1st in the country in preventing free throws. Anyone expecting Houston to shoot a bunch of free throws doesn’t know ball.

@JasonJGreen33 @RegionalTVCat Yeah Houston was worse though. They shot under 35% from the court and somehow only got to the the free throw line twice all game.

Illinois rolling over a really good team. Impressive.

For me, it was when the institutional decision-makers decided blanket compliance mattered more than data-driven nuance. It was clear early on—I remember looking at the numbers from Italy—that the elderly were at the highest risk by far. Yet, in the U.S., restrictions were overly focused on kids. I’ll never get over, for example, the masking of toddlers. Diapered near-babies in what, after two minutes, turn into snot rags, in many cases ALL DAY. Two-year old kids. When they’re just learning to form full sentences. And this was THE LAW in a wide swath of the country, in some places for years. Then there was the gaslighting that came with it, like the American Academy of Pediatrics downplaying constant masking around infants, teachers unions doing everything in their power to keep kids out of school and then masked (not to mention the ridiculous claims from some “education experts” that children don’t need to see faces to learn phonics or how to read, that kindergartners can learn via screens, etc). The degree to which children were treated as an afterthought due to the panic of adults will always stick with me. And the public heath tie-in was always “we’re following the CDC’s guidance,” which was in some ways a cop out on the part of local decision makers, but public health “experts” crafted and promoted the permission structure. The public health institutions also fumbled when many of their representatives made extraordinary claims about the covid vaccine stopping transmission, but then, instead of allowing that to be the end point for masking, continued with that as well. They should have been honest: the vaccines provide individual protection, and now mask mandates aren’t necessary (not that I personally believed the mandates really achieved anything, human nature being what it is, but public health leaders would’ve been better off dropping the idea once vaccines were available). Instead, the institutions continued down an overly restrictive and also dishonest path. By the summer of 2021, it really felt like public health bureaucrats were drunk on power they were unwilling to give up. I think much of the public sensed that and it contributed to the animosity and distrust many still feel. And I believe a lot of this has contributed to a growing distrust in vaccines overall, which is, objectively, a public health crisis (and one of said bureaucrats’ making, in my opinion).

@jupo1182 @RegionalTVCat Houston was bad, but the team that really beat itself tonight was Nebraska.

@RegionalTVCat It helps when said team shoots 35% from the court, and has 29 points with a little over 11 minutes left in the game.

@HBreak8898 @EvanMiya Making a top 5 KenPom team look like “an absolute embarrassment”

@EvanMiya What made them look like a “1 seed” tonight? Houston was an absolute embarrassment

Illinois is playing like a 1-seed. They've been the most impressive team on the entire left side of the bracket.

@AriA1exander Rebounds were 43-34 in favor of Illinois. I guess this was the rare case

Houston is arguably the toughest matchup in all of college basketball. Almost every time they lose it’s because they go cold from the field…

@MedcalfByESPN He can address it all he wants. Maybe they should attack the rim?

I'm going to assume that Houston not having any free throw attempts nearly 17 minutes into this game will be something Kelvin Sampson will address in the press conference.

@Bracketologist3 Illinois is better. Can’t wait for more Jonathon B1G fade picks that go wrong.

Illinois is heading back to Elite Eight as they beat Houston 65-55. David Mirkovic led the Illini with 14 points and 10 rebounds, Keaton Wagler had 13 points and 12 rebounds.

@Bracketologist3 Illinois is better

When Chris Cenac is locked in, Houston becomes really hard to beat. Luckily for Illinois, Cenac is actively shooting Houston in their own foot.

@Bracketologist3 I’m with you on Nebraska. I’ll take the other side of the three other games.

Picks 3/26 Texas +7.5 Nebraska -1.5 Arkansas +7.5 Houston -2.5 YTD: 384-399-3

Make it 7 out of our last 8! Bison shut out Penn State for the fourth time in program history (1944, 1964, 2014). Great effort by Frankie Bilecki, Dante Pavone and Mikey Myro who allowed five hits and stranded 12 runners in the game! #rayBucknell🔶🔷🦬

@BuriedTreys Great analysis but you’re going to need to explain the “very soft road schedule” comment. They played at 6 of the top 8 possible opponents. Did anyone play more?

Houston / Illinois (Houston) The undisputed King of the S16 games with the 4th and 6th best teams in KenPom facing off in a quasi-home game for the Cougs in Houston. Also the most fascinating schematic matchup of the Thurs/Fri games As I alluded to in a previous post, I can make a decent argument that Illinois may be the single worst matchup, especially offensively, for a Houston defense that has played exceptionally poor for their standards against top competition (3rd best defense falls to 45th vs T25 teams). If your team possesses any of the following, you are pretty much DOA against the Cougs: Rim reliance, transition reliance, dribble-heavy shot diet, lack of perimeter shooting, poor defensive rebounding, and don't protect the ball offensively Illinois doesn’t fall into ANY of those categories, and actually, they tend to excel in most of them. This iteration of Illinois plays much slower and is happy to entertain a half court, execution-based game. They’re 15th nationally in 3PRate, Top 10 in allowing turnovers offensively, and are even shooting 35% from the arc (which was their issue last year). They also have 3 different guys who can lead/initiate offense to alleviate some of that up-the-line pressure concerns, as well as being the biggest team in the country and an elite 2-way rebounding frontcourt. If you can keep Houston off the offensive glass, prevent them from creating live ball turnovers, and force them to play in the half court, you have as good a chance as anybody to beat that physical juggernaut. Illinois has the best 5-out spacing in the country to stress that Houston no-middle overload, in addition to having highly skilled bigs who are above average passers playing out of the short roll, while also having 3 ball handlers Go back and look at the way Illinois picked apart Nebraska's aggressive post doubles. While obviously a different caliber of athlete b/w Corn and the Cougs, Mirk was slowly backing down with his head swiveled like a Serbian Owl and MAX-baiting the double team in order to spray it crosscourt to an open weakside shooter. Can implement the same gameplan here with the auto Houston Monster double team on post-ups. The Illini don’t possess as many advantages defensively as Houston is more than willing to jack a ton of the contested, midrange jumpers that Illinois’ drop coverage will inevitably funnel them into. Which means A LOT of Houston’s offense will come down to Flemings/Uzan/Sharp midrange shotmaking. The efficiency fall-off for Flemings down the stretch of the season wasn’t as stark as I was expecting (only a couple % difference in true shooting), and if you look at his KP page, you’ll actually see the usage tick up against Tier A/B competition and again vs Tier A. Which means he's probably the single most important piece of Houston's offense in this game and could have the upside to score upwards of 25+. He just has to hit his shots. One of my issues with Illinois comes down to Underwood himself. While I certainly commend his adaptable scheme changes year-to-year, he has also not been a very good in-game manager at times, so what happens if they come out with the wrong gameplan akin to 'let's challenge Clingan early' (we saw how that went). That lack of in-game X's & O's management means Houston has the potential to jump on them early and never let up. I think Houston is also much more capable to mount a comeback with their style of play should Illinois get up early. Illinois is also 348th in Paper Tiger and both teams are outside the T300 in results consistency per Haslam, so that makes things a bit tougher to gauge. There aren't any drastic fall-offs with Illinois' analytics against top tiers but the rebounding numbers aren't quiteee as elite. In 13 games vs T25 teams, opponents shot 34.4% from 3 compared to 31% (35th nationally) Best guess is the venue location means Cougs take money for the majority of the next couple days, which is when I'll probably look to play back on Illinois. This won't be as hostile of an environment as Mackey or Breslin were, but Illinois did have a very soft road schedule in B10 play. Columbus was the toughest place they played at other than those 2 as well as Pinnacle Bank in Lincoln. FWIW, Houston is also the type of team where even the greatest schematic advantages can be tossed to the wind if that defense comes out connected & locked in, so it could all be for naught. I RARELY find myself in the business of stepping in front of Kelvin Sampson, but this does feel like the single best offense left in the tourney to matchup against that vaunted Houston defensive pressure. One last thing. Yes, Torvik's 'close games' stat can be used as a way to identify late game luck/variance for SOME teams. But when programs consistently win a high % of close games, that is something I tend to buy. Prior to this year, Houston was 21-10 S/U in games decided by 2 possessions or less. This year, what's been our worry with Houston? Amongst other nitpicky stuff is the fact that this is the youngest Cougs team under Sampson I can remember in a while. Houston this year is 3-4 in close games. While obviously a small sample, I also think there is something to Houston being slightly less bulletproof in close games this year. Looking at betting: >Illinois +points at better number later in week. Points will be worth a lot in this low possession game >Mirk assists over (likely have to wait til day of) >Flemings o17.5 points (think alts somewhat in play as well). Wish there was a littleee better scoring floor from the FT line, but Illinois just doesn't foul so you'll need him to get hot on tough shots & likely against Boswell. Not my favorite but his pull-up game is definitely Houston's best path to offense >Tomi/Mirk over 3Pointers, probably Sharp as well >Initially thought about an 'efficiency-based' over as both offenses can take advantage of the types of shots the other defenses allow. I'm also not really a totals guy fwiw and if there isn't good shotmaking in this one, we could be staring at a 64-62 game in the low 60's possessions so I'll probably pass on that