Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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OurMottoisOskeeWowWow
ptgrd23 said:
Say hello to Mr Dainja 6'9" 270 lbs

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Dainja...Danger....DANGER ZONE.
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#156      
WyattEarp
UncleBob said:
The original mountain man Jeremiah Johnson was known as Liver Eating Johnson because he ate the livers of the Crow Indians he killed. That sounds like Brad’s kind of guy.
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Hair of the bear he was…Except in this case I hope THIS Jeremiah wouldn’t develop a cannibalistic taste for the Illiniwek Indians or their fans for that matter.
 
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TheFameProtector
Emerson Bigguns said:
Johnson & Johnson? The medical jokes are endless... not to mention the anatomy jokes... If they started calling Morez "Big", I don't think Jeremiah would like his nickname...
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Something that still makes me laugh to this day is a sign for an insurance agent in Michigan by the name of Harry Johnson. Props to him for not sticking with Harold.
 
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TheFameProtector
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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Kofi's size has been critical b/c we've lacked size elsewhere on our roster, but the college game is still a guard's game and more and more a wing's game. The Big Ten is something of an exception to this, but the trend in both college b-ball and NBA is moving away from mammoths in the middle being the fulcrum to having a slew of 6'6"-6'8" guys across multiple positions. Just look at what Justin Smith did playing as Arkansas' center last year, after playing SF/PF at Indiana. We need some big guys to survive the Big Ten schedule, but more and more of the teams that go the distance in March/April aren't relying on a traditional big. There were only two people over 6'9" that got meaningful minutes out of all the Final Four teams (Houston didn't even have one player over 6'8"!), and even those two are not traditional centers (Drew Timme and Matthew Mayer, both 6'10"). Long and fast is the new name of the game. I'm not suggesting this could or should be our starting lineup, but I like, for example, the thought of an untraditional front court pairing of Coleman and Rodgers -- those two with guys like Goode and RJ + PG of choice could be super skilled, switchable, and a menace in passing lanes and in transition.
 
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robjilla
Im looking for underwood!
 

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Joel Goodson
Glenbard West 53-29 at the end of 3, Warden has 12, looks good.
 
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