Bigtex
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Other than morez - each of the guys listed below should get zero playing time for current roster.
The guys above 34% would be some level of contributors.
Former Illini in College Basketball '25-26
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The guys above 34% would be some level of contributors.
What did Booth prove at Illinois that he could get minutes on this team? Everyone seemed happy he left
Tre White 7 schools in 7 seasons going back to HS
Skyy Clark... you think he should be here? Yes/no?
Jayden Epps... I have nothing to say here
Adam Miller was offered an NIL package here and chose Gonzaga
I was down on the Illini Booth signing because his game from the stats was oriented around the perimeter. He's definitely adopted a different and more balanced attitude this year.
Hard to compare stats to a guy on a loaded team.
Bigtex
- DFW
Your ability to comprehend is mind rattling. Why do so many players after leaving Illinois becomes better shooters from distance? I don't have the answer.
from previous posts
Let it be clear other than Morez, it was best for each player and Illinois team to move on.
The guys above 34% would be some level of contributors.
To keep any previous players means someone on current roster isn't on team. I am not for trading any of these guys for anyone on current roster.
Booth would be 10th man
White would be solid contributor
Clark would be a solid backup guard
Epps is a bucket but don't want him anywhere near the team
Miller solid back up guard.
And I didn't even include Podz the best/worst example.
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I'd take Tre. Not sure where he fits with Andrej, but he could take minutes from Ben if Mirk played better defense.
blackdog
- Champaign
Regardless of the way they left or the bad feelings we might have in a vacuum Clark, White, and Miller at least would add on the court value for this current team.
Tre: 7 teams in 7 seasons... realistic chance that he is here on this team right now?
Clark: quit the team mid-season... then transferred 2x subsequent to that.... realistic chance he is here on this team right now?
Miller: we offered him an NIL package, he chose to play at Gonzaga
"Regardless of the way they left" <-- that's the entire point... "they would get minutes on this team" is utterly futile/moot/useless/meaningless/pointless... whatever term you choose to use
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I comprehend... my rebuttal was it doesn't matter because they would never be on this team anyway
Why is it that when I make a counterpoint, your go-to is to imply I'm stupid? Come on, man...
blackdog
- Champaign
I'm only talking about pure on the court fit and talent when compared to the current roster. Completely hypothetical because obviously there's no way we would take any of them back besides Miller based on the circumstances.
band camp
- STL City
You should take it as a compliment.
I don't care if he switched teams in park district. He's a great player and we could use his ability to get to the basket and be another guy that brings scoring from all levels.
Carey Booth makes .462 of his 3 point attempts for Colorado State? When he played for us, only .462 of his 3 point attempts made it as high as the rim!
DReq
Always Illini
- Central Illinois
It would make sense to me that any player who works on his skills as a shooter would improve efficiency year over year. Thus, it makes sense that any shooter who works on his game after leaving Illinois would shoot at a higher percentage for threes or whatever shots he works on. It is not strange that those percentages climb when analyzing any group of players year over year.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Tre & Morez for Andrej and Mirk. Who you taking?
Tre White:
- PTS
14.3
- REB
6.9
- AST
2.4
- PTS
12.9
- REB
6.6
- AST
1.1
- PTS
15.5
- REB
4.1
- AST
1.1
- PTS
13.6
- REB
8.8
- AST
2.4
Easy choice for me. Give me the dudes that wanna be here.
Just an interesting point on Morez. For all the complaints about how playing BH and not playing Morez enough drove him away, he's really not playing that much more for Michigan. In the second half of the season (Penn St through tourney) he averaged 20.9 mpg. For UM he's currently averaging 22.6. I kinda feel like he'd have played more than that if he'd stayed here.
How is he doing with fouls? Is that limiting his playing time?
A bit naive in the NIL world. Stojakovic is on the same trajectory of playing at a different school each year of his college career as White and Johnson are. He just happens to be playing well for Illinois at the present moment.
I think Andy Mara is limiting his minutes!
It did in their last game against Maryland. 4 fouls, played just 18 minutes. But in prior game against Villanova, 0 fouls and still just 22 minutes.He's only gotten 25+ min. 3/10 games. In our last 11 games of the season he hit that number 5 times in 11 games and hit 30+ twice (which he hasn't done for UM once).
Important part is bolded
If rooting for the players on the team is naive, then just call me Mr. Naive McNaiverton
EDIT: I feel like you guys tricked me into posting the stats so we could spend the rest of the day talking about how much we would rather have them than the guys currently on our roster lol
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ptgrd23
- orange county CA
White and Johnson chose to leave. Stojakovic chose to come here.
I personally think Andrej has more upside then Tre White since he can create on offense and has not been focused on defense and rebounding. He can really improve both!
Johnson is a physical specimen but had zero post moves, no jump shot, could not handle the ball, was terrible free throw shooter and was a foul machine. Is he really any better this year.
Mirkovic has had 20 point and 20 rebound games - can hit the three, dribble the ball up court and pass. I think he has more upside.
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By end of year Andrej and David may take us much further than Tre and Morez. Reality is Tre and Morez left immediately so its not like we intentionally traded them for Andrej and David. It was Andrej and David or nobody.
I personally think Andrej has more upside then Tre White since he can create on offense and has not been focused on defense and rebounding. He can really improve both!
Johnson is a physical specimen but had zero post moves, no jump shot, could not handle the ball, was terrible free throw shooter and was a foul machine. Is he really any better this year.
Mirkovic has had 20 point and 20 rebound games - can hit the three, dribble the ball up court and pass. I think he has more upside.
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By end of year Andrej and David may take us much further than Tre and Morez. Reality is Tre and Morez left immediately so its not like we intentionally traded them for Andrej and David. It was Andrej and David or nobody.
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I liked his post because it made me realize that he was right, I thought those guys were in a group that was somehow inferior. And I didn't really consider Stojakovic in that group. That's what fans do, I guess.
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