Recent content by ChiefGritty

If Booth had been the apple of our recruiting eye for a year+ on the trail (and he would have been if we'd pursued him, he was rated higher than Hansberry), and he'd had the exact same freshman year in an Illini uniform, we'd be falling all over ourselves projecting him to explode into...

It is quite a funny exploration of human psychology the way everybody perceives this board to be a non-stop cavalcade of the opposite viewpoint. Which I also find completely plausible, for the record. It's the hardest season to project of all time. I don't think you could reasonably have...

We have been in the top 4 of the preseason B1G media poll each of the last 5 years. I think we're on a path toward something capable of proving doubters wrong this offseason, but there has developed a firm consensus belief around here that we HAVE been regularly and systemically proving...

And it's incredibly easy to pitch to a team where there's a "Madrigal-Mastrobuoni-Amaya" rest area built into every trip through the lineup. One problem compounds the other.

Hilarious if true. Can our donors stump up the money for him to sell that golden ticket to Domask? No disrespect to anyone's sourcing but I'm going to believe this when I see official confirmation of it. It's an open-and-shut denial on paper, just like Domask, just like Chris Ledlum, just like...

As I said a number of pages ago, if you want to convict on rape, you need to show the jury a rapist. There will be no Illinois Basketball fans on the jury, but no Twitter keyboard warrior radical feminists either.

Chris Ledlum entered the transfer portal too, but he's not eligible either. Besides the aggregator accounts mentioning him entering there is like zero chatter about Lathon's recruitment on Twitter. This is not a college basketball player anymore unless someone can show me clear evidence to the...

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Oh crap you're right I totally missed that. (That's why he's so old, duh) He's played 4 full non-Covid years. He's done. That's why he's not on the 247 list. Whoops! Insiders, better alert Brad 😬

Because Watkins is being considered as someone who fits into the frame of the star player that would justify the rhetoric of the past few months where Storr was an insider-confirmed done deal, Kalkbrenner, Kadary Richmond, Boogie Fland, Demin, that level of elite, game changing, look-at-us...

Weirdly Lathon is not included in the 247 transfer rankings, and his transfer recruitment in general has been basically silent on Twitter. Lathon isn't a big fish, but he's a good player, fits like a glove, and would really raise the team's floor imho (similar to Humdinger in all respects)...

Totally spitballing, but I think someone mentioned the idea that the cost savings would be redistributed among the existing roster? That sounds like a "waste" in player acquisition terms, but if that leaves us with a cast of returnees more willing to come to back next March, that could be the...

There's an element of bluffing to it, sure, but I do think there's something to what Underwood says every time there's a microphone in front of him. "You can have too many". I say choose the one guy you want for that spot.

IMHO you guys are being overly seduced by that one year where Monsanto's 3PT% started with a 4

A couple things I like about Lathon is that he's super old (will turn 25 next February) and he's very much a shooting guard (as opposed to a lot of the bigger wings we've been looking at in that spot). I don't think he's the best or most talented player of our current options, but I do think...