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- Pittsburgh, PA
lots of discussion so far.. no results. hope that changes this weekTime for the portal to giveth.
lots of discussion so far.. no results. hope that changes this weekTime for the portal to giveth.
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 $$$.I really doubt Underwood is selling recruits on Malcolm Hill who he never coached. I'm sure recruits hear about what guys we have in the league, but not sure why people think coaches sell recruits on guys they never coached.
Lucky for us Illini fans, Coach Underwood doesn't strike me as a guy that likes to "assume" things all that much.Given that Kofi is out of the picture, do we have any concept of how well Dainja will stack up among other bigs in the B1G? Wondering if we think he'll be middle of the road starting big, or better/worse
Assuming we don't have a good idea yet, since he hasn't really played much in college yet.
I woke up like this
We don't need Hopkins, we'll do bigger and betterHopkins goes elsewhere?
If that happens, I feel we would win the Pete Nance, Donny Navarro tradeNow here is a name that is rumored to be heading into the portal after his NBA feelers are over and that is Pete Nance. Speak about a perfect fit.!!!!
What's your center square?At the current rate...."Hopkins?" will be added to the Loyalty Bingo card very soon.
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.Is TSJ still a legitimate option?
At the current rate...."Hopkins?" will be added to the Loyalty Bingo card very soon.
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.At the current rate...."Hopkins?" will be added to the Loyalty Bingo card very soon.
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.
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 closeI’m strangely OK with this. We seem like we peaked with him and it wasn’t quite good enough. More how his game got refereed than anything, but the fact remains he was unable to get us to the F4 or even S16 by himself, and teams could scheme to stop him, and stop Illinois with him.
I would’ve loved seeing him again next but games were pretty one dimensional with him. Not his fault. But we didn’t make the S16 with him. Nor with Ayo for that matter. And that must remain the goal, take the step to being one of those regular tourney teams.
But if he were thinking about coming here, would Luther be paying his way?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.
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 IlliniIs TSJ still a legitimate option?
Probably because everyone was waiting to see what Kofi decided.lots of discussion so far.. no results. hope that changes this week
A wing and two bigs? Or maybe a wing, a big, and a backup point guard?I would expect three incoming transfers now