Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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illini0440 said:
Yes, Staff has an in there...they knew he was entering long before he actually did.
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Do you have any insight to who the staff pursues more between him and Nance? Nance's offensive skillset is better, but Mayer's defensive versatility is pretty, pretty good. Plus, he has a championship background and has seen firsthand what it takes to win in March.
 
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illini0440

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Question more generally about transferring: With the 1 free transfer rule taking effect, do players still get a free transfer if they have graduated as well?

By way of example: Jimmy's freshman year is at school 1. Transfers after to school 2. This is his free transfer, no sit out year. He plays 2 and redshirts one (let's say an injury). He graduates and wants to transfer. Is he eligible to play immediately as a grad transfer? Or is his one free transfer done and the grad transfer rule is now irrelevant? Thanks!
 
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illini0440

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Butters said:
Question more generally about transferring: With the 1 free transfer rule taking effect, do players still get a free transfer if they have graduated as well?

By way of example: Jimmy's freshman year is at school 1. Transfers after to school 2. This is his free transfer, no sit out year. He plays 2 and redshirts one (let's say an injury). He graduates and wants to transfer. Is he eligible to play immediately as a grad transfer? Or is his one free transfer done and the grad transfer rule is now irrelevant? Thanks!
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zentrails said:
Starters for our 1st exhibition game if a bunch of guys miss curfew LOL
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I know it would never happen at the college level. But when I coached summer baseball and I could feel the kids weren’t all into it. Long weekend or midweek game. I’d throw all the kids name into a hat and pull random positions along with batting order. Really fired the whole team up. Just saying if we were killing a team in an exhibition I’d love to see Coleman/dain run the point and Epps posting dudes up. Or harris going for rebounds.
 
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Efrem Winters fan said:
It's nice that Illinois basketball has finally reached the level of recruiting that we are having conversations about how we can get enough tick for talented players as opposed to figuring out how we can have serviceable players to give starters a rest, deal with injuries or have solid backups to players who get into foul trouble.
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Yep and its refreshing our head coach is the definition of an Alpha (haven't had that in quite some time with our bball program) Ditto on our pretty awesome assistant coaches. I really like this staff and am confident that Coach Underwood & co will take us far.
GO ILLINI!
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illini0440 said:
Option A:Skyy, RJ, TSJ,Hawkins, Dain
Option B:Skyy, RJ, TSJ, Hawkins, Nance
Option C:Skyy,RJ, TSJ, Mayer, Dain
Option D:Skyy,RJ, TSJ, Nance, Dain
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So are you suggesting that the only person we are after that could end up here that is a capable 5 is Nance other than Dain? I hope not. I hope we are considering others as well.
 
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I know it would never happen at the college level. But when I coached summer baseball and I could feel the kids weren’t all into it. Long weekend or midweek game. I’d throw all the kids name into a hat and pull random positions along with batting order. Really fired the whole team up. Just saying if we were killing a team in an exhibition I’d love to see Coleman/dain run the point and Epps posting dudes up. Or harris going for rebounds.
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This isn't little league man
 
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BashCtIllini

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warhog6g said:
The NUrds meltdown puts Nance over the top, between the two, for me
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Just by the stats Nance looks better in every way, he's taller:

Pts, Rbs, Asts, Blks, FG, 3pt, FT
Nance: 14.6, 6.5, 2.7, 1.1, 49.7%, 45.2%, 76.8%
Maher: 9.8, 5.0, 1.0, 0.8, 40.9%, 32.4%, 70.0%

Now Maher had a much better team, so you could say he would have scored more, rebounded more, etc on a weaker team. Probably true, but the shooting percentages wouldn't necessarily change. If anything they could be worse because you'd get more defensive focus. Side note, Nance averaged 4 more minutes per game.

I'm definitely on team Nance.
 
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illini0440 said:
They are comfortable playing Dain, Nance, and Coleman at the 5
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Dain must have shown them a lot more in practice than Omar did inspire of the rave reviews of Omar heading into last season. That's what us concerning about Dain to me us that we haven't seen it and we heard awesome comments before about Omar that just didn't actually happen in games. I am concerned because only Dain is strong enough to deal with some of the B10s 5s. Hawk and Nance can't match up vs some of those big guys. That's why BBV was in there against them and not Hawkins
 
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