Was off of a Piper twitter feed in the comments section by a poster. That's why I put "reported".
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (April 2018)
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Was off of a Piper twitter feed in the comments section by a poster. That's why I put "reported".
Assume you mean "Univ of Illinois recruit"?
BananaShampoo
Captain 'Paign
- Phoenix, AZ
Wasn't Dee ranked right around 20?
Yeah....paired with KN and they should have fun. but they must always leave Kams by 10.
I believe that Dee was #19
For some reason, even though 247 went back to 2000, there was no ranking on Dee and yes RSCI had him at #19 so technically even though no 247, he would be the higher rated recruit.
Here's the link, JR is #2 and ML is #3.
https://247sports.com/college/illinois/Sport/Basketball/AllTimeRecruits
That list is by composite *rating* instead of national rank.
However, he's still tied for #2 with Leonard at #30 national rank (1 spot ahead of McBride) and has the highest position ranking of #3.
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Going to be a battle to land him. I expect his stock to sky-rocket.
Chin better lock it down.
Chin has been kicking butt so far on the recruiting circuit I must say. I am very impressed. :thumb:
I think Jones is a steal as well. Long, athletic and can score from all 3 levels. Displays a knack for anticipating passes for breakaway dunks. Shows a lot of competitiveness too. I think we’ll see sooner than later that our best lineup will be Trent, Ayo, Tevian, Kipper and a big.
Think the big will be Ebo initially and Kane by the end of season. Tevian may not be opening day starter (probably AJ) but soon after.
illini80
- Forgottonia
Great job Illini Nation! Already over 3 times the number of likes on Golden's mothers tweet about the visit vs her nearly identical tweet after Syracuse. Certainly can't hurt our chances. According to Kedric, they didn't expect to be so impressed and he thinks if mom can be won over it would be big.
They must not have had to pee in a cup in those days.
Tevo
- Wilmette, IL
I was trying to decide how many of those guys met, exceeded or failed to meet their expectations based on rating. My natural Illini pessimism is that man you did not meet their expectations, and few really exceeded them.
But seeing Mike Davis down at a rank in the 400's and then remembering what a double double machine he was, he has to be among the leaders in exceeding his rating.
haasi
- New York
That’s the key- you’ve got to have a staff that can either recruit 5 star talent regularly or will get more out of recruits than their ranking- that means identifying underrated players, developing players, and developing team chemistry. Even with a guy like Golden- who is borderline 4 stars- to me he looks like he could be in the range of Tyler Griffey 2.0 (which is not bad, significantly better than where Giorgi projects) but whether he ends up being a really exciting piece, and whether Giorgi significantly outperforms his ranking, is yet undetermined and dependent in no small part on the staff. We’ll see.
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Yes it would be an interesting study. Not sure why that 2002 group is not included. Mike Davis certainly wins the exceeds award along with Trent. Failed list has to have Darius Paul near the top.
Meyers Leonard at 7’0 240 with that athleticism to not be rated a FiveStar is a straight up crime.
haasi
- New York
I’d say Mike Shaw? Darius Paul didn’t fail as a basketball player. He failed as a citizen- who knows how good he would have been for us.
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Golden ended up with a 247 composite score of .8894. This is right around DMW and just below Griffin.
GortTheRobot
- North Bethesda, Maryland
That's the dude...Thanks!
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