Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Dan

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Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread :illinois:

IL Returnees
1) Ty Rodgers
2) Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

IL Signees
1) Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021.
2) Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023.
3) Jake Davis (Mercer guard) committed on April 1st.
4) Tre White (Louisville wing) committed on April 9th.
5) Kylan Boswell (Arizona guard) committed on April 14th.
6) Carey Booth (Notre Dame forward) committed on April 16th.
7) Ben Humrichous (Evansville forward) committed on April 30th.
8) Tomislav Ivisic (Croatian center) committed on May 6th.


Unofficial IllinoisLoyalty List of Illinois Basketball Potential Targets by soupy17


IL players in transfer portal
1) Niccolo Moretti entered transfer portal on April 29th.
2) Coleman Hawkins entered transfer portal on May 1st.


Transfers/decommits from the program
1) Dain Dainja entered transfer portal on April 1st, committed to Memphis on April 5th.
2) Jase Butler decommitted on April 8th, committed to Washington on April 23rd.
3) Sencire Harris entered transfer portal on April 15th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
4) Amani Hansberry entered transfer portal on April 16th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
5) Luke Goode entered transfer portal on April 22nd, committed to Indiana on April 26th.


2025 Recruiting
1) Jeremiah Fears (2025 PG) committed on January 22nd, 2024.
 
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alexander58 said:
With the new additions, it looks like we’ll have a lot of talented pieces next year. It’s always interesting to see how they all fit. Not many would have predicted the elite 8 run in the fall last year. I’m looking forward to 2024- 2025.
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Order I have learned to trust and put faith in:
1. God
2. Brad
3. My family
 
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People need to trust Brad and Company. They know best. We are just spectators a d they are the experts. Never doubt an expert if you are a fan! Brad knows best! We should just shut up and listen!
 
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illinifan1971 said:
People need to trust Brad and Company. They know best. We are just spectators a d they are the experts. Never doubt an expert if you are a fan! Brad knows best! We should just shut up and listen!
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I'm sure this won't be popular, but I remember people saying the same about Weber. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying Brad is anything like Bruce. I'm just saying blind loyalty is never correct. It's okay to have some level of healthy skepticism.
 
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BoiseBaller said:
I'm sure this won't be popular, but I remember people saying the same about Weber. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying Brad is anything like Bruce. I'm just saying blind loyalty is never correct. It's okay to have some level of healthy skepticism.
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What good does that do and why is skepticism 'healthy'? Are you just going to stroke out if we don't get a 3 seed or better?

I mean, I have faith in the people running the program because of the results. No need to be 'skeptical' because at the end of the day it is just a favorite sports team of mine. I'm not going to go lose my mind if they fall short of expectations... it happens.

So, I guess the 'healthy skepticism' is for people who are going to overreact if things don't go as well as they'd hoped?

This is just how I look at things, so thought I'd share my perspective. If we have to guard ourselves with skepticism over something like this, then it may be time to reevaluate if it is the optimism that is unhealthy or if it is the tying your own happiness to the results of a sports team that is unhealthy.

Just my 2 cents.
 
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BlueLeader said:
We won't have any benefit of team chemistry, I expect a lot of matchup iso ball.
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?? Last year was a lot of matchup iso ball, that's what booty ball is. But I suppose you're correct in expecting matchup iso stuff to continue. Brad has said as much in a recent presser - we will continue to look to exploit favorable matchups, and then if defenses double or rotate to compensate, we will look for open 3s off of that.
BoiseBaller said:
I'm sure this won't be popular, but I remember people saying the same about Weber. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying Brad is anything like Bruce. I'm just saying blind loyalty is never correct. It's okay to have some level of healthy skepticism.
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It's not blind loyalty to look at past results in order to predict future results. Now, you're right that some healthy skepticism is fine - there's plenty of room in the middle there were it seems reasonably logical to land - but there's a huge gap between that and blind loyalty. If someone wants to point to Brad's recent successes as reason for optimism, that seems like a fairly reasonable take to me.
 
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