I'm not an insider, but I will say that if you are getting many minutes we are in trouble.
Edit: "With all due respect".
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
Edit: "With all due respect".
Joel Goodson
- it's all ball bearings, nowadays
Awesome.
Ready made Jake Davis replacement. Love it.
I’m also excited about Pettigrew and Kelly. But one thing you notice about UConn 2024, Michigan/Zona 2026, and Florida 2027 is the FRONTCOURT.
I hope we can find a Clingan, Mara, Condon, Krivas type mountain of a low post player! Any thoughts there?
Brady Pettigrew up to 13 in ESPN’s updated ‘28 rankings (strangely, they don’t have Cole Kelly ranked, which goes top 60).
9th man problem solved...
This probably isn’t the hottest of takes these days, and I’m not saying Coleman is going to be a consensus AA/Lottery pick, but we’ve found the next one. Skilled, shooter, processor, maybe not quite as big as Keaton but clearly better athlete, and most important/intriguing to me, clearly a competitor/gives a ****.
Would not shock me at all if he is our best player next year. And assuming Andrej is back and just a little more luck in the injury department, we could be even better than last year.
And remains to be seen obviously but next year looks to be more wide open/fewer super teams than years past.
I am as exited for next year as I’ve been since we got Ayo and Kofi back for their Junior and Sophomore years.
Would not shock me at all if he is our best player next year. And assuming Andrej is back and just a little more luck in the injury department, we could be even better than last year.
And remains to be seen obviously but next year looks to be more wide open/fewer super teams than years past.
I am as exited for next year as I’ve been since we got Ayo and Kofi back for their Junior and Sophomore years.
I'm with you. It's hard to watch his highlights and not get excited. In the context of this team, he won't be forced to do much, but he will have opportunities to do a LOT if he buys in, listens to his coaches, learns from the veterans, and pays attention to detail. Great talent & great basketball situation hopefully leads to great results.
It's nice to see his quickness and anticipation on defense. It shows he is engaged on that end, though he may not get as much runway to gamble here.
He is perhaps the biggest big X-Factor between us being really good, or elite. If he's not the 5th best player on the team, we will be in the running for the B1G, but not likely the favorite. If he is the 5th best player on the team, we might be the favorite in the B1G. If he's anything above the 5th best player on the team... the entire country better watch out.
pruman91
- interviewing new NL's daily....I really really am
but what about 10th man ???....................so many questions to ponder....................................
I think its awesome to have so many quality players that we wouldnt be surprised if a number of them may be our best player or that its debatable because so many are likely to perform well. I expect Mirk to be a double double machine and thus our best player but it could also be T , Vaaks, Dre or even Coleman. Mirk and T are very valubale as scorers, rebounders and passers. It is really tough to predict our leading scorer on the season but many will have great games as individuals, and thats awesome. I wouldnt be shocked at all if Vaaks, Andre, and Mirk all avg over 13 a game and T and Coleman over 10. It would be cool if all 5 starters avg double digits and it wouldnt shock me at all. I have a gut feeling our top two scorers will end up being Vaaks and Dre but with this talented group it could end up being someone else.
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PizzaHutParkingLot
- Vodice, Croatia
Does this group think QC will have a better season than Freshman Adam Miller?
For reference -- 8.3 PPG | 2.8 RPG | 0.8 APG | .391 FG% | .340 3P% | .684 FT%
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
His offensive stats don't tell the full story, his defensive impact was huge.
QC will be more efficient and get more assists, but it remains to be seen what his overall impact will be and his volume may be more limited with the other mouths to feed.
Yes.
Miller averaged 0.183 points per possession. We've only had 1 starter over the last 3 seasons with less than a 0.2 (Ty Rodgers). Our lowest last season was Boswell at 0.249. Our second lowest over the last 3 years is 2024 Coleman Hawkins at 0.218.
Miller played 25.5 minutes per game, so basically what that means is he would've averaged 7.7 points per game if he played the same amount on last year's team (65.7 poss per 40 last year compared to 71.0 in 2021). I don't think he would've started on next year's team, quite possibly may have been the #9thMan.
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Bigtex
- DFW
Tend to agree to determine who has a better season is more than offensive stats. If QC is a good defender and delivers Miller type offense then 26/27 Illinois team could be special or some might say ELITE
1) QC offensive numbers - QC offense stats should be similar to freshman Miller
2) QC defensively - Miller was a good defender for me QC defense is an unknown
3) how about team success - seems like 26/27 team will be better
4) if QC delivers on offense but not on defense does that indicate QC had a better season? We know coach expects defense = playing time
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Does defense actually equal playing time?
If that were true, wouldn’t Ty still be on the team? And how well did KJ and Will play defense?
Miller would've played over Morillo.
I certainly think QC will have better shooting %s acroos the board (FG, 3P, FT).
If QC can be as good defensively as Miller is the question. We will need D from him, because from what I've seen, Vaaks is not great at that.
A more interesting question would be does Coleman get to 26mpg? The #5thMan has never surpassed the 25 mark (pre decimals) in Brad's career here.
Full team:
- Bruce Branch (BYU)
- Quentin Coleman (Illinois)
- Adan Diggs (Class of '27)
- Caleb Gaskins (Miami)
- Demarcus Henry (Class of '27)
- Jasiah Jervis (Michigan St)
- Malachi Jordan (Class of '27)
- Taylen Kinney (Kansas)
- Coleb Landrew (UConn)
- Ethan Taylor (Michigan St)
- Davion Thompson (Class of '27)
- Darrius Wabbington (Class of '27)
Offseason kool-aid always creates delusional expectations, but between the Vaaks teaser video and Coleman making the U18 USA team (and winning Iverson game MVP), I'm not sure I can recall being more excited about two guys coming in. Add in Morillo (his performance in that all-star game was pretty damn impressive) and I feel like we are adding three guys with the potential to eventually be NBA first round picks. And that's being added to five core guys from a Final Four team. Good time to be an Illini fan.