Coach is going to have to play 10 next year. This team is 10 deep. That’s not a bad thing, but he has 10 great players.
There is Kylan, DGL, Morez, Tomislav, Carey Booth, Tre, Ty, Jake, Ben and hopefully Demin or the other wing the insiders have discussed if Demin doesn’t pan out.
No one knows the starters. Nobody will know until the team is together, practicing and evaluated. It’s whoever wants it bad enough.
This is the deepest and finest group of basketball players that I would say is in the history of Illini basketball, which is quite a statement.
We had great players leaving, and in my opinion, it was somewhat due to Chester leaving but I feel that it was primarily the intimidation of the incoming group of players. I can’t say that I blame them, but that’s how deep this team is.
Chemistry is so important with any sports team. You could have the most talented group of athletes, but if they’re chemistry is off, they won’t succeed and on the other hand, you can take a group of scrapping fighters like last year‘s team with great chemistry and have the sixth best team in the nation when the smoke clears. So that’s what will be interesting to me is to see how the chemistry evolves; this great group will go as their chemistry goes.