Alex Legion
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2017)
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Alex Legion
Tevo
- Wilmette, IL
Alex is a strong choice, indeed.
This will be like a breath of fresh air. Air conditioned State Farm Center fresh air.
Too late. I also saw Tigerboard.
Flyin Illini
- Arlington Heights, IL
Bryant Notree. Too bad he didn't pan out, but through his recruitment Kevin Turner exceeded expectations with us.
Stan Simpson and Richard Semrau were also both guys who got a lot of hype and did absolutely nothing.
At least Richmond played a decent amount in his one year.
At least Richmond played a decent amount in his one year.
Marcus Liberty, Shelly Clark, Bryant Notree.
I don't know about that. Both were "over-ranked" early in their recruitments, but by the time they were on campus, they were both unranked 3-star players.
I'd say Brian Randle was probably over-hyped somewhat. He was a very good player, but his size and athleticism left people wanting more production.
Jeff Johnson @therealJeffJ97 12h12 hours ago
Mr. Basketball's? 1 in the 'bag', 50 50 on the other while another 'doubt it' at this time
I don't have my twitter translator on me today. Can someone help me?
peace davids
- Colorado
McBride was huge in high school, a Springfield legend. He was a good college player, but was never the superstar that followed his early hype.
I would have a hard time saying Marcus, the guy did play all 5 spots for us as our 6th man in 89
An arc that Illini Internet Nation is world-renowned for its ability to ignore and deny, as it did in both of those cases.
But those two weren't as hyped as Legion, to be sure.
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Just Jeff trying to pretend he knows something.
Extenuating circumstances :tsk:
ChazzReinhold
Mom! The Meatloaf!
Nunn doesn't belong on that list.
IlliniFace
- Chicago, IL
Randle, McBride, Carwell, and Henry
I agree on Notree, but one of the biggest myths that has been proliferated over the years on message boards was that Notree and Turner were a package deal. I knew both, and while friendly, they were never that close.
While Notree was offered early and committed to Illinois with much expectation, Turner was only offered late in the Spring/Summer after Illinois pretty much struck out with a lot of higher ranked prospects. Turner was not part of a package deal, and Illinois only offered very late more out of courtesy to Simeon coaches (yet very late) after we had exhausted other options.
Kevin ended up a great player and he also had to overcome many things in his life.
He was pretty limited by injuries, not sure he had a single off season where he wasn't spending as much time rehabilitating as he was developing his game.
He was not very good and overrated even before the accident.
icengineer
- Southern Illinois
I see we are having our annual 'UI MBB player who didn't meet our lofty expectations' discussion.....
Marcus was not a bad player, actually a fairly good player, but there was a big gap considering the hype and expectations. I think the question was more on that gap and no so much on whether a player was a bust.
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