Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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BryceHopkins
NarrowJ said:
Had to do a double take with this one

6'5" guard Zi White Woman commits to NAIA Haskell University


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where the white women at GIF
 
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Bigtex
Double Secret Probation said:
Agreed - mostly though I was wondering why the staff did not think he fit in terms of getting more playing time. One thing that I'm wondering about is whether he's actually 6'4. He seems shorter than that
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maybe because he was a SG that doesn't have a good outside shot!!!
 
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Bigtex
Double Secret Probation said:
Didn't know that. He didn't play much, and that's why I stated that I was wondering what the staff had seen. We're not privy to practice
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agree didn't see enough of him to see his strengths but when Boswell and Andrej were out - the staff didn't give him many (any) minutes which likely indicated his future with Illinois was limited unless he was willing to ride the bench during games and improve during practice.
 
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Double Secret Probation
Bigtex said:
agree didn't see enough of him to see his strengths but when Boswell and Andrej were out - the staff didn't give him many (any) minutes which likely indicated his future with Illinois was limited unless he was willing to ride the bench during games and improve during practice
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Yah, that game made it really clear that he was not in the plans. If I recall correctly, Keaton was the only guard who played in that game.
 
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iLL 89ers
Combo said:
Often quoted but quite misleading. He was rated #1 by one publication (Streeet & Smith) after his Junior year of H.S. By the time he finished his SR year of H.S., he had dropped quite a bit (to around the teens which is still very high). In the state of IL alone, Ed Horton was ranked ahead of him (Ben Wilson would have been had he not been murdered).

Liberty OTOH was rated #1 by a few publications when his finished H.S.

What matters to the school getting you is your ranking when you finish play H.S. If you want to cherry pick rankings, Rich McBride was ranked #2 after his FR year of H.S. by one publication (Lebron was #1).
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Yes and I think "Benji" Wilson would have ended up committing to Illinois with his "squad" from Simeon Nick Anderson...I know Indiana was in the mix and Mark Aquirre's school....RIP Ben Wilson...gone but never forgotten !
 
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March2TheArch
HailtotheChief said:
I see the Serbian Danilo Donic has yet to commit anywhere. I wonder if we are stillin on him.or someone else for the Ben role?
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I think we’re good on wings with Dre, Jake, and Morillo. We’re also good on 3 ball shooters with Vaaks, Coleman, Jake, Mirk, and Tomi. I expect Z and Dre to hit some open ones too. So we’ve plugged the Ben absence sufficiently.

What we are missing is a backup 4.

Morillo is not a great shooter so difficult to play him alongside Dre. That means he can’t backup Mirk. He probably also lacks the build to be guarding the Koa Peats and Morezs of the world.

We could use an athletic, physical, and defense-oriented PF to backup Mirk and be a secondary lob threat besides our center. Essentially a Morez, Awaka, Chinyelu type player.

Danilo would need to buy into being a rebounding and defensive menace.
 
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HailtotheChief
March2TheArch said:
I think we’re good on wings with Dre, Jake, and Morillo. We’re also good on 3 ball shooters with Vaaks, Coleman, Jake, Mirk, and Tomi. I expect Z and Dre to hit some open ones too. So we’ve plugged the Ben absence sufficiently.

What we are missing is a backup 4.

Morillo is not a great shooter so difficult to play him alongside Dre. That means he can’t backup Mirk. He probably also lacks the build to be guarding the Koa Peats and Morezs of the world.

We could use an athletic, physical, and defense-oriented PF to backup Mirk and be a secondary lob threat besides our center. Essentially a Morez, Awaka, Chinyelu type player.

Danilo would need to buy into being a rebounding and defensive menace.
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Danillo is a 6'10 plus 4 man. He needs more muscle but he isnt a wing. If its just rebounding we need if Jaktys can play he can rebound and has length too. Going into his 3rd season as still a redshirt/ med reshirt guy on the cheap he can still do those things a few minutes if thats what we need. I want more if we can get it. It will be interesting to see what happens. I wonder if we dont have Danillo on hold right now or if he is waiting on a committable offer from us.
 
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