hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
lots of discussion so far.. no results. hope that changes this week
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Brad, of course, would not sell Malcom. I am just using him as an example that a fringe NBA guy, which is what I see Kofi but I hope I am wrong, is not your best sales pitch for top 50 recruits. You hear more and more guys saying I want to become Ayo but will you hear that for Malcolm? But Kofi is a two-time All American so maybe that will sell for itself. However, I suspect good NBA salary and good NIL are what sells because of $$$.
TheFameProtector
- Champaign
Lucky for us Illini fans, Coach Underwood doesn't strike me as a guy that likes to "assume" things all that much.
LETS GO ILLINI!
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
We don't need Hopkins, we'll do bigger and better
Can someone upload the Dainja workout video again?
I found it, need to talk someone off the ledge and I figured that video could help.
I found it, need to talk someone off the ledge and I figured that video could help.
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If that happens, I feel we would win the Pete Nance, Donny Navarro trade
What's your center square?
sounds like he's less interested without Kofi. I'd imagine Ramey sees a lot more opportunity now with a 20 ppg scorer gone though.
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
I Don't Know Who That Is
Illini in OC
In. The. Alley.
Hopkins is moving into my beach house to check the condition of the growth plates in his neck so he can approach Larry Bird's athleticism. IDKWTI, maybe he's Satan.
You just got let these things play out.
KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
I honestly don't understand this take - on the surface you can say we haven't had tourny success the last two years so let's completely revamp the roster, but that is not really analyzing the issues we had. To say we don't want the most dominant center in college basketball because it makes us too one dimensional is crazy talk - we are a much worse team without him and it's not even close
Yes - we got completely shut down offensively in the 2nd round two years in a row - maybe Porter Moser and Kelvin Sampson are defensive geniuses who figured out how to stop us with just a couple of days to prepare - or we just played horribly offensively two years in a row - I think it's more the latter. Kofi was 6-11 and 7-7 on FT's for 19 points and 8 rebounds against a Houston team that completely collapsed on him and doubled him on every pick and roll leaving our shooters wide open. He was are only bright spot outside of RJ. Plummer was 2-10 and Frazier 2-7 (granted he could only see out of one eye), Jake wasn't healthy enough to play, so we really became one dimensional, but Kofi was that dimension and the only reason we were still in the game in the second half.
To suggest Kofi was holding back the success of this team is insanity - we would have been a much, much worse team without Kofi the last 2 years and we will be a much worse team without him next year - it's as simple as that
We will move on and others will step up and we'll have a lot of young talent on the team - the future is bright indeed, but it's not because Kofi is leaving
But if he were thinking about coming here, would Luther be paying his way?
I thought that the ship had totally sailed to Michigan but am hearing now that Illinois is back in the mix. I am sure this one will have pretty intense NIL$$ negotiations. There is concern with regards to Manny Bates and his shooting shoulder injury and recovery. We will end up with a big time portal center.Go Illini
sacraig
- The desert
Probably because everyone was waiting to see what Kofi decided.
Where can I find a list of which names are likely to withdraw from the draft?
Question for insiders. Is the likeliest or top candidate for transfer big already in the portal, or not yet?
A wing and two bigs? Or maybe a wing, a big, and a backup point guard?
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