The title for Frazier is lead guard. In my eyes that's a combo leaning towards the 1. He's got plenty of pg qualities and I wouldn't call him a project at the 1 at all.
Didn't say he was a project. He just has been used more as a scorer than distributor in high school. Same with Willuams. Lucas has been a point guard from the beginning.
Dee didn't play the point in high school, either. I think Frazier will be a really good player at Illinois whether runs the point full time or not.
I think people are too stuck on what used to be the role of a PG. Way too many folks think about players like Jason Kidd, John Stockton or Magic when they think about what a "true" PG is but forget that in this new age of basketball the PGs coming out look more like Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard and Steph Curry. Just because a PG is score first doesn't mean he's a combo guard.
I believe it was Groce and many others who have said that "players play". So we may have two combo guards on the court with strong PG skills and another combo guard who is more pure shooter. I like that we have Tejon Lucas, he reminds me of Kiwane Garris. We have Damonte, who is very athletic and long for the PG position, and now possibly TF. We can likely play 2/3 on the court at the same time along with another type of G/WF.
I think people are too stuck on what used to be the role of a PG. Way too many folks think about players like Jason Kidd, John Stockton or Magic when they think about what a "true" PG is but forget that in this new age of basketball the PGs coming out look more like Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard and Steph Curry. Just because a PG is score first doesn't mean he's a combo guard.
I'm not stuck on that at all. Derek Harper is my favorite Illini and he was truly a scoring point guard. His junior year, he was moved to the two and Bruce Douglas, a more traditional point, ran the team.
The more ball handlers, the better.
Hearing that the coaches were told by Fazier that he is going to Illinois. Expect a tweet from Fazier this evening.
This from a poster on illinoishighschoolsports.com....He/she has been pretty spot on the last several weeks!!
Hearing that the coaches were told by Fazier that he is going to Illinois. Expect a tweet from Fazier this evening.
For those who haven't seen or need a refresher course, this is the video that fully got me on board with Trent. He's just so smooth:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SklxKqUhzXE
A high(ish) profile recruit from another state expressed interest, called us his leader throughout, and then actually follows through and commits? Hopefully it all works out.
For those who haven't seen or need a refresher course, this is the video that fully got me on board with Trent. He's just so smooth:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SklxKqUhzXE
I heard (from a few posts up) that frazier is going to commit today via twitter.
My source (the post below that) is saying the same.
Evening Dinner PB&J?????