Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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I agree for sure. I do love an occasional "stuemke." They're all great, but when "stuemke" chimes in, I feel it's offical.
With a legitimate PG, isn't that what we become?
yep....thanks for making my point more distinctly
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
a miscalculation? if anything, be pleased that the gambling thing provides great cover to cut ties without the taint of Creaning someone
please note, I'm not absolving staff for taking Williams. they made a mistake.
As if "gambling" isn't the staff's entire M-O anyway.
I know this is probably unlikely but if Brad and the staff truly believes in Ty bringing the ball up and the combo of secondary ball handlers like Shannon, Harmon, Domask, etc. Is there any chance that Illinois goes after Raequan Battle?
Battle is a big guard that can score at every level and is a very bouncy athlete. If there was interest in Reeves id assume there would be some interest in battle who is not as good of a shooter but a better overall player imo. Seriously just look up his highlight reel of dunks and imagine him and Shannon running in transition.
Shannon, Battle, Domask, Rodgers ,Hawkins would have a ton of length(5 guys at 6'5+), shooting ability, and athleticism. It would also have 3 proven scorers that averaged 15+ last year in Shannon, Battle, and Domask.
On the other hand you could also theoretically pursue Jesse Edwards and build the best interior defense in college basketball.
Battle is a big guard that can score at every level and is a very bouncy athlete. If there was interest in Reeves id assume there would be some interest in battle who is not as good of a shooter but a better overall player imo. Seriously just look up his highlight reel of dunks and imagine him and Shannon running in transition.
Shannon, Battle, Domask, Rodgers ,Hawkins would have a ton of length(5 guys at 6'5+), shooting ability, and athleticism. It would also have 3 proven scorers that averaged 15+ last year in Shannon, Battle, and Domask.
On the other hand you could also theoretically pursue Jesse Edwards and build the best interior defense in college basketball.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
Please BU, get Kerr so you can shut me up until the season. Screwups will be (at least temporarily) forgiven. I want to see what this team can do this year. Please go out there and shut the haters up. But you need a PG to do so...
elaborate?
my thoughts are this is why you balance your classes.
This is the last go for Shannon and Hawkins. This is the last go for Domask and Guerrier as well, same for Harmon if he makes it. So given your best players are in their final year, you want a good cast around them, and you sure as hell want a PG.
So now we're looking at a guy who could potentially be a team cancer, but is highly talented in Kriisa. Toussaint is a mediocre player at best. So do you bring in an experienced guy with limited ability, or do you say, we're better off as a program down the road developing a younger player, but with so many final year players, there's no time to develop anyone, you need to win now.
So you're kinda screwed either way. We break someone in and develop them and live with the mistakes, or bring in a mediocre final year guy, and lose that development. What is the lesser of two evils?
Joel Goodson
- dawgville
2 freshmen just bolted. They played a ton.
@FI_8905 is pretty new here but it seems like he has inside information
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Iowa, Iowa St announce investigations into athlete gambling
The University of Iowa says 26 athletes across five sports are suspected of wagering on sports in violation of NCAA rules and more than 100 people have been linked to an investigation. Iowa State acknowledged about 15 of its athletes across three sports also are suspected of violating gambling...
apnews.com
This is what is being alleged. This information has been around for quite some time, and some have pieced together names based off of court records, etc. This makes the initial commitment frustrating, especially since the staff had to know of the allegations.
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Tevo
- Wilmette, IL
Bringing the damn ball up is not really an issue, with good coaching. If the press, you pass the ball. If they don't, you dribble it. It's only rare occasions that a guy suddenly goes Sencire-ballistic and catches a ball handler unaware. But yes, it does require coaching to avoid excessive turnovers.
More important is having a whole team that will pass, move, read defenses and be in synch. Plenty of teams do quite well with passable point guards. My concern is that the rest of the team will look like last year's and won't have any idea how to run an offense.
A throw down heading into the weekend.
MadtownIllin
- Madison, WI
It's maybe not so much the recruiting aspect (unless you want to say that there has not been proper vetting);
1. Miller (1 yr--transfer)
2. Smith (1 yr--transfer)
3. Curbelo (1 yr--transfer)
4. Clarke (10 games--transfer)
5. Epps ( 1 yr--transfer)
6. Williams (didn't even make it to campus)
7. Harmon (??)
It looks like the recruiting has not necessarily been the problem ( although this will surely be used against us in the future) so is it the coaching once they get here? or is it a lack of developing them for the point guard role? BU is ultimately responsible, but who is the assistant responsible for the guards?
Read about his latest media day. I should have put that in quotations those are whitmans words.
I have been SO busy the past week or so . . . The Ignore function is getting a workout!
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. . . . the one thing everyone has in common. Everyone, even the most successful people in the world have failed at one thing or another. Every Single One.
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