Significantly less interesting than Myke-watch, but yeah. Banquet night is a weird micro drama.
Tate and family skipped out too.
Significantly less interesting than Myke-watch, but yeah. Banquet night is a weird micro drama.
no way. 8 or 9 at the most. We'll have a lot more talent at the top next year.
Tate and family skipped out too.
I believed DJ and family attended but made cryptic comments about his time at Illinois
We only have one proven talent, Trent, and one expected talent, Ayo. The rest are frosh or role players.
Calloo reminds me a little bit of Robey from Nebraska. Not overly impressed at first but he has good size and is agile. For those keeping score on "athletic", scores lower but makes up some with his agility. Like all freshmen, how hard is he willing to work on his game and body. Looks like he could improve on both.
no way. 8 or 9 at the most. We'll have a lot more talent at the top next year.
I'm not a big comps guy, but your Robey comp is good. Not so much as they're the same, but they're both fairly unsung, same height, similar builds, agility, athleticism. If Calloo can follow a similar development trajectory...
Can basketbll get in on #Littyville? Should that stay just football? Drop the wewillwin for everyone rolling with #Littyville?
Trent, Ayo, AJ, Kipper and Ebo likely starters as we see it today.
First off the bench will be Feliz, Da'Monte and Samba. Both Griffin and Jones will get some time as well. That's 10. That's not including another big who will almost certainly play if that's another freshman or a transfer. That's 11.
Some names could change but that's how it's going to shake out unless some of these guys are unplayable.
Trent, Ayo, AJ, Kipper and Ebo likely starters as we see it today.
First off the bench will be Feliz, Da'Monte and Samba. Both Griffin and Jones will get some time as well. That's 10. That's not including another big who will almost certainly play if that's another freshman or a transfer. That's 11.
Some names could change but that's how it's going to shake out unless some of these guys are unplayable.
Illinois will host 2018 Oak Hill forward Maurice Calloo for an official visit next Friday, per source
@IllinoisRivals
https://t.co/L9Ew7lXpZC
https://twitter.com/coreyevans_10/status/982275648478564352
So we're going to be out of official visits for a year in about a month at this rate unless Underwood knows something we dont.
Out of curiosity, do players who are transferring typically attend this?
Can basketbll get in on #Littyville? Should that stay just football? Drop the wewillwin for everyone rolling with #Littyville?
We only have one proven talent, Trent, and one expected talent, Ayo. The rest are frosh or role players.
At this point Calloo is a project. The question may be is it better to have him developed and ready to contribute more as a soph in 2019 or do you still have holes to fill trying for bigger fish down the road.
Hinson is a four star on rivals whereas Calloo is a three star. Calloo is the 313 ranked prospect on 247. I'm sure the staff would love to get Hinson.
You can see the potential with Calloo but Hinson is more developed. It seems like they have been targeting coaches sons and I believe Hinson is one as well. He had a very developed shot and was outplaying his competition as a freshman in HS. Calloo can put some of the same pressure on defenses with shooting and some physicality. Players just develop at different rates and for a shorter rebuild ideally you would get the players that can contribute right away. Unfortunately we are not Duke.
Not sure what the roster would look like in 2019 or if we would get the big physical center like Okoro that everyone wants, but the staff will be trying hard for Aidan Igiehon. Will be interesting to see how well the team does next season and what pieces can be added for 2019.
I think a lot of people are selling Da'Monte short. He is extremely talented...just needs a little more experience and to get healthy!! Always easy to elevate the new blood before their time.
Meh... every year during the off-season people rave on deep rotations. As evident from all teams in the final four (they went 7 max), when the going gets tough, rotations shrink.
When we get into the B1G, our main rotation will be 7-8 players max. It is a numbers game, there will be winners and losers and some players will emerge as winners in their positions. The rest will either have to accept their (limited role) or move on. These moves are actually more frequent in teams that have struggled (e.g., Illinois) where turnover is higher with coaching staffs taking more chances with lower ranked players/prospects, hoping a few of them will emerge as contributors. The more chances we take, the better the chances of future turnover. We are far from a steady state right now as a program.
Agree with starters at start of season but believe it could change a lot by the start of conference games:
Trent and Ayo are solid but Jones/Griffin could replace AJ, or Hinson/GBez replace Kipper and/or Kipper move to AJ's spot and SK replace Ebo. Believe this class has a huge upside but next year's results will depend on time to develop. Lots of teams win with frosh, just not a history for us.
The rotations get cut down in the tightest games but that is not indicative of a season and is a different argument then the one I was stating.
The Final Four teams had this many players averaging 8 or more minutes per game for the year (20% of the game):
Michigan - 10
Villanova - 8
Loyola (CHI) - 10
Kansas - 8
Illini - 10 (with guys we couldn't play on the bench and 2 scholarships not filled)
Huggy Bear & Martin for reference:
West Virginia - 11
South Carolina - 10
Underwood historically:
SFA '14 - 9
SFA '15 - 11
SFA '16 - 10
OkST '17 - 11
I'm still confident we will have a 10-11 person rotation this year unless there are injuries.
No matter who plays &’how many are in the rotation. We have to guard WITHOUT fouling every 5 seconds. Also we need rebounding, so hopefully some of these new guys want
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