It did. Richard Keene only scored 7 points on me.
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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I totally accept this. I played against Marcus Liberty at IMPE one time, and he didn't score a SINGLE POINT against me. ZERO.
Coach K Basketball?
I remember Frankie Williams getting shut down by Mike Wilder at Stephen Decatur High School. Love Frankie but he did not show up that day.
Played a possession of one on one against Deron Williams and stole the ball from him.
That's a true story.
I was 14 and he was just messing around. Dribbling circles around me. Doing And1 Mixtape stuff. Then dribbled it off his foot and I picked it up.
That's a true story.
I was 14 and he was just messing around. Dribbling circles around me. Doing And1 Mixtape stuff. Then dribbled it off his foot and I picked it up.
My brother beat Derek Harper in a game of one-on-one in our driveway. Harper never showed up, so it was a forfeit. But that still counts as a win.
I once defended on a 3 on 2 break with Kurt Rambis and when I switched off the ball handler to take the faster guy coming down the wing Kurt gave me the "what are you doing?" look followed by a "My bad" reaction when he realized I made the correct play. Playground ball. Kurt was in his 40s and we were running against his high school aged boys.I shook Larry Birds hand once...and told him to keep his elbow under the ball on his jumper
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Richard Keene's Cousin
I took a charge against Brian Cook one time.
Seems to me that he is closer to a Hawk than a Lieb. Dainja, Hansberry, and Johnson should cover next year which gives him two years of development. Trust BU more than journalists and he is in a completely different place than when he took Lieb. Hope he has a chip on his shoulder.
I'm waiting for who kicked your teams butt while you rode the bench thread. I've got Isaiah Thomas, Quinn Richardson, Rod Higgins, and a few others for that one.
I played with Mike Price a number of times on campus and he'd take the 4 worst guys (usually included me) and smoke the other team even if they had several scholarship players. He was a stud!
Drafted high but never made it big in the pros.
Great guy and personality...and from Indiana too! Not sure why he's never mentioned among the best Illini...
Drafted high but never made it big in the pros.
Great guy and personality...and from Indiana too! Not sure why he's never mentioned among the best Illini...
One of the all time great games. That Illinois team was sneaky good. Garris, Keene and Hester were good. Then Jerry Gee was a freak.
Were you playing shorts vs. skins?
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Jerrod.
This is the wrong board. You're thinking of Northwestern
I thought of a young Sikma comparison, was afraid to bring it up.
Was also thinking a more athletic BC. (ducks)
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I mention him. I think he and Randy Crews were in Combes last recruiting class.
Cole was top 75 on rivals when he committed.
Rennie Clemmons and I were playing 2 on 2 vs Shaquille O'Neal and Cheryl Miller. Rennie dunked over Shaq.
Not even close.
Cole's dad played football here at something like 6-7 270. He had weighed around 205 in high school. He grandfather was an Illini too. Cole was 6-9 215 with decent skills. He was an obvious legacy take, and you take Hummel too. No reason you can't take both. Yet, after Cole committed, Bruce Weber inexplicably stopped recruiting Hummel. Cole gets heat for Weber's poor decisions.
There is some more back story there, but probably best to let it be. I will say an insider who gets paid for his opinion said Cole probably should have gone to Wisconsin.
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