What else do you want me to do on July 14? <\/p>\n
We\u2019ll have a lot of preseason football content coming over the next six weeks, but how about for the next 300ish words we just have some fun, and I spitball some reactions to new video of Illinois transfer Andrej Stojakovic. <\/p>\n
First, here\u2019s the tweet. <\/p>\n
The Illini posted the three clips on their official X account Monday night, and they called it a \u201cnewcomer first look.\u201d <\/p>\n
All three videos show Stojakovic attacking the basket, especially in traffic. <\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with that first clip. We don\u2019t know what happened before the dunk, but look at him get that elevation! And let\u2019s assume it was a breakaway steal or something \u2014 the separation between him and the rest of the defense is unreal! (Right?) <\/p>\n
But don\u2019t you worry \u2014 the second video (on the top right) proves he has the ability to work in traffic as he\u2019s able to weave through the Twin Towers en route to a snazzy layup. Not many teams will have guys like Big T and Big Z out on the court at the same time this season, so his ability to work through them should bode well for smaller teams. <\/p>\n
Finally, that third video is just a nice-looking finish. <\/p>\n
Again, there\u2019s not too much to glean from all of this, but you have to like what you see. The ability to get to the hoop was missing at times last season, and it may make you reminisce of a guy like Terrence Shannon Jr. from two years ago. (Things are working out for him pretty well right now…) <\/p>\n
We\u2019d like to see Stojakovic get some shots up in Ubben, but those clips weren\u2019t included in the post. <\/p>\n
So, for now, we\u2019ll just have to assume he\u2019s an \u201celite\u201d finisher at the rim. <\/p>\n
Good enough for me! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What else do you want me to do on July 14? We\u2019ll have a lot of preseason football…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[47216,1339,26980,204,2487,1818,47218,47214,1317,1337,1338,635,1539,47215,9099,196,62,47217,448,447,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-66629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-andrej","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-champaign","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-highlights","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-illinois-fighting-illini-basketball-news","15":"tag-let","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-ncaabasketball","19":"tag-new","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-overreact","22":"tag-room","23":"tag-s","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-stojakovic","26":"tag-the","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114855383260141891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}