TheFameProtector
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Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread (Week of April 19th, 2021)
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Nowadays there is no scholarship pulling. They are guaranteed for 4 years unless you violate school policies or rules. Kids leave now semi-voluntarily if they want to play and don't see it in their future they move on.
And for '22 it's not like we got two no bodies, either. Storr and Bass could both be pushing Top 50 by the time the summer circuit is done.
Hopefully the days of getting strung along and left with nothing are over.
alamocityillini
- San Antonio
I respect the time it took to put together that list, but it’s terrible.
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not in the g league
3 point girl
- texas
Not that many good big men in the G League games I have went to in the past.
If I'm Kofi ill work on a mid range game this year. Try to be a Vuc type nba player. Vuc isn't the fastest player but he's strong and he can shoot mostly anywhere on the floor. Luckily for Kofi he's faster than Vuc but has no where near the offensive game.
I'm excited to see what he's does next year, hopefully improved his free throw shooting
I'm excited to see what he's does next year, hopefully improved his free throw shooting
I’m sorry to do this to ya, but that is a terrible comp for Kofi.
Kofi will make the NBA by vast improvement in perimeter defense, and becoming a shot blocking presence. He doesn’t have the foot speed or shooting stroke like Vuc. I doubt he ever will either.
Working on passing out of double teams and at least having to be guarded 15’ from the rim would be huge as well.
He is one of those players that doesn’t translate to the NBA, as many others have said. I could be wrong, and I hope he finds a niche. He’s an absolute monster at this level though.
He is also the same age as the big Kid from Kansas a year or two ago right now.
I predict that he will ultimately be disappointed in that decision, too.
I’ve seen him play against my son’s team a few times. Definitely doesn’t fit the Spartan mold. Extremely smooth and athletic. Sneaky fast. Awesome in the open court. Not a clogged, half court banger by any stretch.
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pretty sure you make more money there than at college
Will Wade and Rick Stansbury have entered the chat.
Don't know if anyone posted it, but TyTy Washington announced his top six - Kentucky, Arizona, Oregon, Kansas, Baylor, and LSU.
www.si.com
SI All-American Point Guard TyTy Washington Breaks Down His Top Six
Washington said the recruitment process is even more stressful the second time around.
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Tacomallini
- Washington State
I'm pretty sure, for like a split second, Jermaine was rocking the finest mutton-chop sideburns I've ever seen (or at least in decades) on an Illini basketball player. Best of luck, Mr. Hamlin. Thanks for your Illini years. Seems like a quality teammate and human being.
EDIT: this is not a shot of his sideburns at their peak...no luck with the google machines
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"You think Shaq made all his money in Orlando?"
"No! He made his money in college, everybody knows that."
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Staying another year and going in the NBA first round would be equal to about 6 years of pay in the G league.
My first Illini basketball game at Assembly Hall must have been 1st or 2nd year it opened. I was maybe 8 at the time - Skip Thoren, Bogie Redmon, Don Freeman, Bill Small IIRC. - my dad saw Dave Downey and he got me is autograph so it must have been the year after he graduated. Either ‘64-‘64 or ‘64-‘65. I thought I died and gone to heaven. Those mimeographed programs and keeping point totals for each player...
Is the G League meant to develop a bball player or is ir just the NBA version of a taxi squad?
I worked with Preston Pearson's son when I lived in Dallas.
Come on the man’s a living legend
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