Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Heisenbobble

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westcoastillini said:
Oh yeah Ed Horton. He was good
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Horton was First Team All-Big Ten his senior season at Iowa, averaging 18.3 and 10.6. He certainly struggled until his junior year, but he and Gamble were a great Lanphier tandem for the Hawkeyes. Gamble surprisingly had a pretty solid NBA career, too, peaking with the Celtics in 1990-91, averaging 15.6 PPG. He had an 11-year NBA career. Great guy, too.
 
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ptgrd23

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Ed came to Lou Henson basketball camp his junior summer. Got into trouble for stealing some stuff from another campers room. They covered it up but all the campers heard the story. I think that put a damper on his recruitment.
 
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Johnny Lawrence

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Illini-Rule said:
We weren't going to get both Payne and Douglas if I remember correctly. They didn't want to play together in college and we chose Bruce Douglas
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The four decades retro "We didn't want him anyway." I love it!
 
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Rocky

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Johnny Lawrence said:
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The four decades retro "We didn't want him anyway." I love it!
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Michael Payne is still to this day widely regarded by Quincy High School and an inductee into the Basketball Museum of Illinois. He played 3 years of varsity at Quincy, and the team went 91-4. Along with leading scorer, Bruce Douglas, in one of the most lopsided victories ever, Quincy defeated Proviso East 68-39 in the championship game of the 1981 Illinois State High School Tournament to go 33-0. In a Quincy review, it is stated the team also captured that year the national title.

Michael was good at Iowa, but his scoring average dropped each of his 4 years there as Greg Stokes was more and more the go to guy. Illini still got the more impactful player in Bruce Douglas.
 
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Illini-Rule said:
We weren't going to get both Payne and Douglas if I remember correctly. They didn't want to play together in college and we chose Bruce Douglas
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One or both of Payne's parents were Iowa grads.
 
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Illinirog70 said:
Size, size, SIZE! What these three great years have in common is KOFI--getting better and better. I love the talk of these guards and 6'6" power forwards but we need big and tall. We've shown we can recruit wings and guards, but what performing big man have we gotten in the past five years besides Kofi? Morez and Thomas are on the cusp of being bigs, but I feel that there have to be 6'11'-7'0+ in our future or wis, mich, MSU, Pur et al will pound us.
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Well when you have Kofi it’s pretty hard to recruit a top tier 5 because they know they only have 10 minutes a game
 
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ptgrd23

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Quincy is on Illinois western border. It is same distance ~ 2 hour drive to Champaign and Iowa City.
 
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ptgrd23

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Looks Like University Of Illinois - Ty Rodgers

Even typing the title makes me laugh out loud. Let me go see when Ty Rodgers committed to Illinois. It was... November 17th. Nearly seven weeks ago. The football LLUOI backlog at least makes a little sense. We added six high school recruits and two transfers after the season ended. I was behind...
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Brad compared him to Draymond Green

Videos show 6'7" 210 lbs of muscle but good athleticism. If he was 6'9" he would be a McDonalds AA
 
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westcoastillini said:
The one I can think of was Harrison Barnes. I only remember this because at that time i was comparing him to Jereme Richmond…(who I thought was going to save our program 😕)
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I think Marcus Paige was an Iowa kid....ended up at UNC. Not sure if we ever bothered?
 
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Bigtex

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ptgrd23 said:
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Looks Like University Of Illinois - Ty Rodgers

Even typing the title makes me laugh out loud. Let me go see when Ty Rodgers committed to Illinois. It was... November 17th. Nearly seven weeks ago. The football LLUOI backlog at least makes a little sense. We added six high school recruits and two transfers after the season ended. I was behind...
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Brad compared him to Draymond Green

Videos show 6'7" 210 lbs of muscle but good athleticism. If he was 6'9" he would be a McDonalds AA
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Love the direction of the program

all 3 2021 on RSCI top 100
all 4 (including Dianja) 2022 on RSCI top 100
 
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Illiniguy13

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Chieeeeffffff said:
I’m in the camp that thinks Rodgers would start on the current team we have. He’s awesome and exactly the type of guy we’ve missed on in that 6’6” dawg mold in the past (e.g., Goodwin). Those types of wings are program changers.
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Been a long time since we’ve had a strong defender on the wing that isn’t undersized. Probably since Malcolm?
 
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