#Illini assistant Paris Parham will visit 2017 targets Theo John, McKinley Wright & Jericho Sims in Minnesota today.
https://twitter.com/DPiperScout/status/722838557484683264
Parham likes to visit MN, he has a son that lives there.
#Illini assistant Paris Parham will visit 2017 targets Theo John, McKinley Wright & Jericho Sims in Minnesota today.
https://twitter.com/DPiperScout/status/722838557484683264
There are a lot of players in the NBA who don't defend anyone.
You might want to take some vacation and come back on April 21st. That should be an interesting day.
That was referring to the court dates for Nunn and Tate, which we received info on earlier today.
Simmons may not have the "killer instinct" but he's far from selfish. If anyting he needed to be, or show more, selfishness. To often he'd look for the open teammate vs looking for his own shot. If you watched any LSU games this year you could tell Simmons was BY FAR the best basketball player on the floor. His outside shooting needs to improve, but his IQ/ballhandling/passing/rebounding/positioning/etc are all elite.
Ingram can shoot, but I wouldn't say he's a better pure shooter than KD. Ingram isn't a great athlete, avg at best on D, & a big ? if he'll be able to physically handle the NBA(not very strong or big).
To me Simmons jumpshot(solid form tho) and being to unselfish are the main knocks on Simmons.
Does this include the loan money?Yet Cliff is still making 1.4 million over this year and next. Would it have worked out here, probably. But when you point to Self's biggest failure on why a kid should come to Illinois and you look and see he is still earning an NBA paycheck it's a tough sell.
This statement assumes that defense is actually played in the league.Offense doesn't matter, Hill cannot guard an NBA 2 or 3. He's not an NBA player. Not to mention you could argue that he wasn't even a Groce recruit.
Putting aside the slim chances of this even happening, but would Illinois take the trio of wings in Frazier, Goodwin, and Lewis on top of already having two wings Williams and Pickett?
Didn't take long into the April evaluation period to get into the "Does Illinois have enough scholarships?" conversation.
It never gets old. Makes me chuckle everytime.
Putting aside the slim chances of this even happening, but would Illinois take the trio of wings in Frazier, Goodwin, and Lewis on top of already having two wings Williams and Pickett?
I could be wrong but I believe they have 4 more open scholarships after Williams and Pickett. I'm not sure how smart it is to take six freshmen in one class though. Not to mention the effect it could have on Tim Finke's recruitment.
Yes, but Frazier is a combo PG not a wing. And we would find room for Tilmon. IMO, to be consistently good you must have a C and PG. Then fill the rest in with a variety of talent shooting/driving/athleticism/length etc.
Some people might say no because we need a PF. A true PF is nice if you can get one, but not a necessity. In other words I would much rather take another wing like Lewis instead of taking a raw PF who might need a lot of improvement.
I get it. Groce can count. I surely deserved that. I'm more concerned with the allocation of time and resources than scholarship numbers. I've argued many times that us being the bridesmaid has been a positive thing since we've been closer to landing some of these kids than maybe we should have under the recent circumstances of the program but maybe narrowing the focus a bit could be beneficial? Maybe we lost Evans because of Brunson, maybe it had literally nothing to with it. Maybe you get Frazier if you tell him and show him he's actually the priority like you probably said in the in home visit. Who really knows but cmon, let's stop offering some random SF and an undersized PF from Ohio when you've got somewhere near 15 other guys you've keyed in on for, at the least, two years. Sorry for the rant, i'm changing my user name to ILLafterDark shortly
I get it. Groce can count. I surely deserved that. I'm more concerned with the allocation of time and resources than scholarship numbers. I've argued many times that us being the bridesmaid has been a positive thing since we've been closer to landing some of these kids than maybe we should have under the recent circumstances of the program but maybe narrowing the focus a bit could be beneficial? Maybe we lost Evans because of Brunson, maybe it had literally nothing to with it. Maybe you get Frazier if you tell him and show him he's actually the priority like you probably said in the in home visit. Who really knows but cmon, let's stop offering some random SF and an undersized PF from Ohio when you've got somewhere near 15 other guys you've keyed in on for, at the least, two years. Sorry for the rant, i'm changing my user name to ILLafterDark shortly
Didn't take long into the April evaluation period to get into the "Does Illinois have enough scholarships?" conversation.