Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Loyalillini10
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Johnny Lawrence
illini92024 said:
I'm sure I spend way more time on this board than I should. I say keep on asking questions it's a message board, and there's no obligation to respond if we don't want to. Sometimes this stuff gets protected like it's national secrets.
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The issue I have is the questions are mostly loaded to corner our insiders into definitive answers to “fluid 😝” situations and then taken as gospel when positive. “Are we the leader?” If yes then it’s “When can we expect the commitment?” and “Which of our players already on the roster will be leaving because they’re soft?” They give their best guesses based on what they feel in that exact moment and then get crucified when it doesn’t play out exactly in that manner. The information has been shared. No need to narrow it down to absolutes as we all know there’s no such thing until the ink is dry.
 
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PizzaHutParkingLot
Dan said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1798764611992473800
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(Couldn't find any GIFs of DGL, creative team needs to give us the hook up)
 
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jamarvelous31
ThePortalMadeMeDoIt said:
Alright I get it. My fault for being skeptical. Let's petition the NCAA to not play this year and automatically award the National Championship to the University of Illinois
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Nah, it was just an interesting thought the first 40 times someone said it on here.

We all know the team will be young and have a huge variance in possible outcomes, even game to game. It's still okay for people to get excited about the team.
 
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Loyalillini10
Johnny Lawrence said:
The issue I have is the questions are mostly loaded to corner our insiders into definitive answers to “fluid 😝” situations and then taken as gospel when positive. “Are we the leader?” If yes then it’s “When can we expect the commitment?” and “Which of our players already on the roster will be leaving because they’re soft?” They give their best guesses based on what they feel in that exact moment and then get crucified when it doesn’t play out exactly in that manner. The information has been shared. No need to narrow it down to absolutes as we all know there’s no such thing until the ink is dry.
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Bingo bango bongo.
 
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Mobi
BWA said:
All the talk about someone decommitting if we get Riley. Aren’t all the transfers like fully locked in? Like they aren’t allowed to enter the transfer portal at this point.

Same for Rodgers and DGL.

I guess maybe the international guys/freshman would be at risk, but they aren’t really they guys at risk of losing PT to Riley.
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Ty and DGL can't go anywhere else. The incoming transfers, since the transfer period is not close yet, I guess they can still change their minds.
 
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The Galloping Ghost
Fan Since '70 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1798791984796012619

A lot of speculation as to what conversation occurred on the call between Catchings and Painter.
Some say Painter anticipated and planned this, so he could get Coleman Hawkins signed instead.
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That tweet is unhinged. They wrote a literal fan fiction novel (it's 613 words long from where they say "how I think the call went down"...not characters, words) about something they have no actual information about. Woof. Keep it on the boards, my guy.
 
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PasadenaIllini
Fan Since '70 said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1798791984796012619

A lot of speculation as to what conversation occurred on the call between Catchings and Painter.
Some say Painter anticipated and planned this, so he could get Coleman Hawkins signed instead.
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"But there’s MUCH more to basketball than the physical side. Especially at Purdue, where MP and Thompson have hundreds - if not thousands - of plays in the offensive playbook. Do I think KC would’ve had trouble learning the plays? Not at all. "

This sounds like it came from the same bag of excuses that the Bruce Weber apologists used to use when Bruce lost a recruiting battle or a recruit decommitted.
 
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