RedRocksIllini
- Morrison, CO
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Still trying to use my powers of deduction to figure out your identity. This doesn't really help. I know lots of people who fit this description in a 10 mile radius of Moonshine.
And this is their 8th transfer this off-season for those of you who think it’s Illinois/Brad problem.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Well the players have to be good in any event at any position.
Payne and Dainja were two highly touted recruits who hadn't caught on at their initial schools. Batting .500 on that pair of transfers is a good result.
The point is that we're a better basketball team with a back to the basket anchor than playing "positionless". Having seen a lot of both in BU's tenure I just don't see how you could draw any other conclusion.
I don't think the position-less experiment looks as bad with a competent PG & a team shooting their career averages from 3. Running plays does wonders for an offense.
That said, they play in the B10, not having a competent defensive big man will kill next year's team.
Lots of schools did, but we offered Udeh out of high school, FWIW
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
hate to see you go but I hope you enjoy your time there with the 3-4 other posters that post there.........................../s
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Rim protection on defense, certainly (Hawkins brings a lot of that despite wing-ier parts of his game), and having a focal point down low also draws defenders away from your shooters around the arc.
The best offense we have played under BU was the period when Curbelo was out in 2021-22 and it was just four shooters around Kofi a la the Dwight Howard and Stan Van Gundy Magic. No one could stop it.
Dainja's threat brought some of that this year. Those players are hard to find, my concern is we aren't even trying and don't seem to value that skillset.
Bigtex
- DFW
is the date published or public?
Is that just a feeling or numbers based? I thought our offense was way better the year before when we could still spot up around Kofi post ups, but also had the threat of the Ayo pick and roll with Kofi. I thought we got more easy shots that year, especially Kofi with all of the lob dunks. Plus Ayo gave us a midrange option making it that much harder to take away everything that we were good at.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
A feeling. Obviously our results were very good in that period, and I mostly mean "best offense" in terms of its ability to generate open shots in ways defenses couldn't challenge.
I'm sure our efficiency or whatever was higher overall the year before, but as that year wore on our offense became shamelessly Ayo hero-ball, because why do anything else when you've got the best player in the country going Beast Mode? Brad is not the kind of coach who out-thinks himself on that sort of thing, nor should he be.
(We should also recruit any and all Ayo Dosunmu's who happen to become available, that is my hot take)
@LvilleILL Is that date today?? Rumors about seeing RayJ on campus now starting to surface.
My only issue with that 21-22 offense was that our shooters just stood around the 3 point line and I would've liked to see some screening or cutting to make the defense work harder when they doubled the post and rotated in help.
Also, with hot takes like that we're going to have to start calling you Stephen A Smith
Under 30 minutes from Inquirer to here, impressive
texillwek
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I've heard Bash's parents are way too involved in his posting. He wanted to stay.We only want posters here that want to be here
To many students on campus who know their Illini basketball. There have been Ray J sightings by some of these Illini fans/students on campus today. We’ll see.
We love Jack here in Seattle. Bumped into him a few times here and there over the years.
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