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Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
No way...
wettsten
- Chicago
Ivisic and Holst?
May win a conference game with Kalkbrenner at center.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
Are they both 5's?
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
He's playing actual productive minutes for a pro team with grown men in a league stronger than college basketball, so that would be a pretty exciting prospect.
Not sure why BU would go to Belgrade to meet with a Croatian player who plays for a team in Montenegro, but who knows.
My other question though, there are some vagaries in how European youth vs. senior teams work in terms of payment, but is Tomislav not a professional player at this point and ineligible for the NCAA? Kind of a ridiculous question in the modern era but those rules still apply.
Zvonimir had played for the senior team as well before coming over, but on a very limited basis.
Given the connection with Antigua this does make some sense.
Hopefully Egor Demin
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
I read somewhere earlier that Tomislav was there when BU was in Belgrade.
I don't think Brad is flying to Belgrade in the heart of portal season for another Matic Vesel...
Hopefully not another euro bust
Would anyone happen to have any broad timeline estimate on when us plebs might hypothetically hear more concrete info on any potential, ah, overseas kid closings?
sacraig
- The desert
Probably also meeting with a Serbian player. And tomislav’s team was playing in Serbia last week
I love efficient players, and this guy has been very efficient. Granted, the competition in the BIG is higher. Totally sold on the pick-up.
I also love players who can force the action (Ayo, TSJ) and get to the line, but those are hard to come by.
I also love great passers/facilitators. There wasn't a singular player on the roster last season that fit that type, but the passing overall was there. Great coaching combined with mature team-first players.
We have to be one of those 4!
Maybe but the second one is iffy, IMO.
Nah we’re talking about the new-age Big Z
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
I thought Big Z was Zydrunas Savickas, former world's strongest man (and also Lithuanian)?
robertgoulet
IL Board Resident Crooner
- Austin, TX
I think there's also a misconception about how much you make being a pro overseas. Unless you're on one of the main clubs you're not making a heck of a lot. Not like he'd be turning down millions to come here for a scholarship and free school.
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
Iffy as in not likely coming to Illinois or iffy as in not that good?
robertgoulet
IL Board Resident Crooner
- Austin, TX
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I said none of the things you listed so you may be confusing me with someone else. I was definitely upset, though I don't get nearly as upset about this kind of thing as I used to. Dunigan and Humphrey to Oregon, now that was a meltdown.
What I thought and said was that we had a wonderfully talented and experienced and deep roster and we'd misplayed our hand and left ourselves fatally flawed and incapable of playing offense in a fluent way. That last piece was wrong, it was analytically incorrect. I thought there was a hard and low ceiling on our offense that wasn't there.
The replies to that notion from posters at the time was that it was fine and Ty Rodgers was going to thrive at point guard because he's a great passer. That was also wrong! There was some notion that Justin Harmon might fill in there. Wrong!
Domask as a PG was not anybody's consideration (there was one guy who linked a summer post where he suggested it, shoutout to him), but that was the key to everything, probably BETTER than getting RayJ, and organically over the course of the season our staff unearthed that.
I'm just fundamentally uninterested in the like mystical value of faith and positivity. I want to know how the machine works, that's what's interesting to me, that's why I'm here.
I get it, the discourse of being a college sports fan is always centrally, at bottom "is the coach good?". Running on a scale from Literal Deity In Human Form to Must Be Fired Today.
I'm a BU guy, unwaveringly so since the Covid season (with last offseason no exception), and if we blow it over the next few weeks, I will say we're going to be terrible next year, I will be right, and I will STILL be a BU guy while the rest of you are tracking flights from Cincinnati. I take the long view. We are in the right hands. In the meantime I am just trying to think through how next year's team is going to play.
Only in Grittyworld . . .
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So the dream scenario I can think of is: Kalk, Coleman, star wing, and a kid from Europe with great potential if developed properly. That's it right?
Where would this rank preseason? Def. top 10 imo...
Where would this rank preseason? Def. top 10 imo...
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