Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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wc_illini
NarrowJ said:
Correct, and I'm hoping we can shoot a tad higher than 3rd team MVC players.

But for the 100th time, if it gets Brady here, you take him.
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I'd also prefer to see Brad bring in higher rated talent (he's done well finding diamonds in the rough, but I assume he could find even more/bigger diamonds in the fairway), but I was surprised that Torvik rated him a highly as it did last year. The avg of his PRPG! and DPRPG, which I'm pretty sure are adjusted for opponent rating, would've been just behind Z for 9th on our team.

Aside from his rebounding rates, I think it's because Torvik assumes shooting efficiency scales down with high usage. I'm not personally convinced it always works that way, or at least it can be hard to change a chucker, but it must be true on average.
 
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mysterio2525
PasadenaIllini said:
Post season success will get coaches into living rooms, but as we saw after 2004-5, coaches still need the salesmanship and savvy to close deals. Brad, Orlando, and company undoubtedly have these ingredients in spades.
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this is such an underrated aspect of being a good well rounded coach. building momentum is one thing... keeping that momentum is another. webber did the first not the latter. Brad and company are much better suited for both
 
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Fish1960
DICKnaggie said:
Not much talk about the shift from Europe. Obviously there are some (ongoing) legal conversations but our pivot this years seems notable and a topic of conversation. What are folks thinking?
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I just think we have never had this much interest from 5 stars so we are going to take some swings. We are still heavily in Europe. I heard one recruiting guy in the last couple of days say he saw a list of top European players and Illinois was at the top for numbers 1,2,10and 11th ranked players. I heard underwood on radio what 7 weeks ago. Everyone was out recruiting except him. He said Orlando and Alexander were in Istanbul. I’d be surprised if we don’t have a couple overseas guys on next years roster.
 
#204      
EmeraldCityIllini
the juiceman cometh said:
Not even kinda. He straight up is, we just didn't get him year 1 but I don't think that makes him less of a Euro.

And in the current atmosphere retention = recruitment so we re-recruited Mirk, Tomi, and Z which means we kept up our good relationship with their agent, which has been one of the key drivers of our Euro recruiting.
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Oh I totally agree. It’s clear our overseas contacts translated to Vaaks too - insiders like DB were all over his interest well before the season ended.

I just took the question to mean euros who hadn’t been seen in college ball yet. My guess is the going price for Vaaks was akin to other portal players instead of Euor’s who haven’t played yet - non superstars like the UCLA kid whose lighting his career on fire

Which even then, I have no idea how close the correlation lol.
 
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blackdog
mysterio2525 said:
is he more of 3 or just a big 2? I know Brad loves big guards
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A wing. Thats all the distinction you get in this offense. He doesn't bring the ball up the court, besides that everything is interchangeable and based on the players skill set. Looks like he could be used on the perimeter, in the post, or even as the screener since he looks like he can either roll or pop. They LOVE having perimeter players as screener since the guys guarding them don't know how to defend it as well.

On D I bet he is guarding 3s and small ball 4s. He looks like he is going to be a brick wall when Fletch gets him.
 
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RML
PleaseMakeABowlGame said:
It’s rare, but Z fits that criteria perfectly IF his shot gets back to normal.

(Assuming “deep threat 5” means stretch 5? Have never heard that term before)
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( Yeh, I probably should have said "stretch 5")
 
#222      
mysterio2525
Illinilosch said:
Here's a possible player comparison for QK.....

Roger Powell Jr???

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#223      
mysterio2525
goillini30 said:
I was thinking Malcolm Hill, but I haven't watched a ton of Kitt
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Malcolm vs Roger is a little different but I think I get it. we all know that brad loves big guys who can do it all, in whatever manner that arrives. the thing I noticed is this dude is thicc, lol. so I can see a little Sergio mclain as well

booty ball may be back on the menu boys. if he can shoot from the outside then he definitely is in the hill, Powell mold. love that
 
#225      
SescIllini
goillini30 said:
I was thinking Malcolm Hill, but I haven't watched a ton of Kitt
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See less Roger Powell, see a hybrid between Malcolm Hill and Quintin Richardson. Saw Roger Powell practice skills when he first arrived at Champaign. He was very mechanical was surprised to see how fluid he became by junior and senior year.
 
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