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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Yuck. We need Andre to be our best on-ball defender next season, and Momcilovic would battle Vaaks for being our worst defender.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Time sure have changed. I remember the days of panic recruiting Sam Maniscalco to be the starting point guard. Now we freak out about the 4th guy off the bench.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Are we still freaking out about who is getting the Bosmans-Verdonk minutes during mop-up time? o_O
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I've been away for a while. Are we still arguing about the 4th guy off the bench, when Brad only uses an 8 man rotation?
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I see many have reached the "We never wanted that guy anyway" IL Loyalty stage for Blackwell. It's the same every year. I'd very much like him in the starting lineup. With all the money that has been spent on the roster so far, why not go all the way and put together what could be an all-time...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    We should use the Blackwell money to go grab Alex Wilkins from Furman, who the blue bloods are supposedly after.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Speaking of usage %, has Blackwell’s agent not shown him the gif game here? I don’t think any other school is near the same level.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Next level thinking for tracking IL basketball recruiting news is speculating upon possible wardrobe malfunctions and which players’ wardrobe choices are limited on a particular day by the day of the week that is their laundry day.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Mirk's Twitch stream has been uploaded to YouTube
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    We better get Andre back so we have a player that can guard quick opponents, or the defense could be very ugly with that starting guard combo.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    We got killed by small, quick guards game after game during the past season. If we roll with the speculated lineup of Vaaks, Blackwell, Andre, Mirk, and Tomi next season, we’ll get torched even more by quick guards. I don’t see how that’s a viable lineup defensively. Vaaks would need to guard...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I’d think Vaaks would be taking Andre’s spot in the lineup, so we’d only sign Vaaks if Andre leaves. Vaaks and Jake would split minutes at the 3 like Andre and Jake did, with Vaaks getting the bulk of the minutes. Vaaks is a better shooter than Andre, but Andre is a better driver and defender...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    This seems ideal to me. I’m of the opinion that we don’t need a true point guard, since all of our bigs can handle and pass the ball, so I’d rather keep the positional size advantage while also having 3 point shooting at every position. 1. Coleman 2. Blackwood 3. Stojakovic 4. Mirkovic 5...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Give me 2 portal guards that can defend and shoot the 3, a Balkan backup 4 for Mirk, and return the twins, Mirk, Stojakovic, and Davis; and I promise I won’t troll-post about RayJ Dennis and Bryce Hopkins all off-season.
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