Doesn't sound like he's gone to me. Ayo is his big brother and he knows Ayo will get him the ball regularly. Think he knows he'll get the ball all the time at UK? Not even close.
Remember when Ayo was choosing between us and Wake Forest...and all of our insiders as well as national experts were picking Ayo to Illinois.
Then Wake Forest posters came over here and started trying to explain away very obvious signs while holding true to their hopeful, yet loose, narrative that Ayo might still choose them?
This feels like that. Except we are WF.
(But I’ll always hold out hope!)
WE WILL BE OK.
Uhh... Like any top 25 player, KW is confident that his skills will get him the ball and that there will be someone on UK that is able to facilitate as good as Ayo.Doesn't sound like he's gone to me. Ayo is his big brother and he knows Ayo will get him the ball regularly. Think he knows he'll get the ball all the time at UK? Not even close.
What has hurt Illinois is not so much losing the "one and dones" but losing on a great option B player who will stick around for 3-4 years. If Shannon is as good as the recent reports he might be our best option at the SG/Wing position for 2019. Just look at the great college players we lost out on pursuing Cliff Alexander and PGs that we didn't land. I'm not saying not to go after the McAA players in our backyard, just have that realistic "cut bait" timeline to pursue the Malcolm Hills, Damonte Williams, Trent Frazier top players.
Illini in final 4 with Kentucky, Georgetown and Oregon for Whitney.
Well, if he actually waits a couple weeks, I'd say all bets are off. So I kinda agree with you about sleeping on it.
Illini in final 4 with Kentucky, Georgetown and Oregon for Whitney.
Decision date given (no twitter access)?
Hold the vision, trust the process.
Losing Okoro and now Whitney already in 2019 is just ... yuck. I had much higher hopes for this staff.
Losing Okoro and now Whitney already in 2019 is just ... yuck. I had much higher hopes for this staff.
Every 5 star ever will come to the beloved.Exactly what kind of expectations could you possibly have?
Alexander was a different scenario. he was just an extra in a class that looked full.
As to PGs we didn't get because we were chasing others, that seems to be revisionist. We just flat out lost guys like Perrantes and Shamet to other schools that most of us felt we should have beaten for that talent. I believe it was less about not having a plan B and more about not landing the guys in plan B.
Remind me of who from Wake was a real close friend to Ayo, like Ayo is to Whitney, since you are saying the situations sound similar to you.
Losing Okoro and now Whitney already in 2019 is just ... yuck. I had much higher hopes for this staff.
Announcing a final 4 suggests to me that he's working to wrap this thing up in the next few weeks. Have to get an official with Whitney to have a shot. I know he visited unofficially over the summer, but it just doesn't seem likely that we'll be able to beat out UK without an official.
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For some reason I feel like UK put him on the clock. “Commit soon or your spot will be gone” sort of thing.