Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
- Status
I don't know, after my seizure this seemed like a sign.
Holy crap thats annoying. Your problem now, suckers.
I'm sure I'm dating myself, but I'm enjoying the Mitchell Wiggens/IMPE memories more than the Samba Kane ones.
Tacomallini
- Washington State
Care to share your nickname?
Well I was white, pretty slow, hustled, hated losing, could pass ok to him and could shoot pretty well from deep so I bet you can guess lol. "Larry" He thought it was funny. No one else called me that.
Last edited:
Tacomallini
- Washington State
We’ll, this is the appropriate thread then. Please let us know if you ever find a more athletic version of yourself.
Lol headed the wrong direction I'm afraid!
I do wish we could find someone even close to Mitchell Wiggins in the transfer portal though that is for sure! He was very long and he shoot it. Hopefully Shannon is that guy.
Last edited:
We will see the number first and I don't think Kofi has to announce he is coming back for two years. It is clearly a year to year decision.
Do you see a lot of final 4 teams that play that press D? NBA?
No, because it's value is as a bum slayer or change of pace. IL has had top 35 D's the last 3 years and has recruited to their defense...why fix the aspect of the program that's not broken?
I totally understand that. However, he's just not going to get the green light to shoot threes in college. If he worked on it on the sidelines, he potentially could show enough in workous possibly to make scouts think he could bang one down if left alone. I think that's all we're talking about with most seven footers. Robin Lopez isn't doing crossovers and step backs from three.
I don't think anyone is arguing he's going to be Joel Embiid, just be able to stick around in the league.
Tacomallini
- Washington State
Next Domino:
So what is it you are trying to say? I said nothing about changing the defensive philosophy. I must have misunderstood the point you were making in your first post, my fault. I agree the pressure defense he tried to install the first 2 years didn't help us 1 bit. I thought you were saying we would struggle because we have a lot of underclassmen. My point was we were pretty young when Trent/Damonte/Tev were freshmen/ sophs when we weren't getting wins yet but our younger players this go around are much better. I think we may be young next year but we have the talent to still be a 20+ win team. Especially if we land Shannon and Kofi stays.
It was such a shame the offense never gelled enough to do proper pick and rolls with Kofi rolling to the basket. If Kofi had softer hands, that play would be 100% undefensible with Plummer and Grandison stretching the floor
Kofi did just fine -- or rather, great -- on the pick and roll last year. But that was running with a certain Chicago Bull's guard, Mr. Freakin' Ayo Dosunmu. That single set was the foundation of the entire offense last year. And those two fellas ran it brilliantly.
By the end of the season last year, Belo was also (but differently from Ayo) absolutely outstanding at feeding Kofi (and Ayo and ...). It's not Kofi's hands that were the problem this year, it was the guard play. For various reasons, they just couldn't bang it out with Kofi this year in the way that we saw over and over again last year.
Bottom line is Ayo could knock down the mid-range jumper coming off the pick. His junior year he was basically automatic from that spot.
Belo pretty much was an automatic miss from mid-range late in the year. That prevents any sort of action to get Kofi the ball on the roll.
Homecoming 2019
- Chicago
Too many newbies on the board recently doubting your sources. Can we just appreciate the insider information and not run you off the board again? This place is a lot more fun with you in it!
How do we know all of this about players meeting down in Chicago like Kofi?
Haha we’re all good!
You mean Murray?
What’s the interest level on Williams from Temple? Hearing anything on that.
It seems Illinois is very confident with Skyy Clark now, but do we have any sense how receptive he is to all the other schools reaching out now?
Trying to understand his open mindedness to other schools... between "just a matter of time before Illinois" and "Illinois is leading but he's open to shopping around". The latter has bit us before.
Trying to understand his open mindedness to other schools... between "just a matter of time before Illinois" and "Illinois is leading but he's open to shopping around". The latter has bit us before.
He did not have the personnel to run that system. We will next year.
- Status