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Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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foby
- Bonnaroo Land
soupy17
- MI
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A little more arc on his shot and he's gonna be really good from outside too.
@LvilleILL there was a UK article that claimed we were the favorite, along with DePaul and Providence. I’m guessing there might not be much validity to that, merely speculation.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
New thread .....................................Hopefully new recruiting news................................
Waiting .............................anticipating................................
Heard any recruiting news about fired coaches in the portal ???????????????..................job opening's for a nomadic coach down on his luck ...........misery !!
He isn’t a priority for Illinois
Name checks out...lolKeep an eye on Louisville and Indiana
Dee_4_Three_83
- Mahomet, IL
So this has always been a question for me. How do college basketball recruiters keep all these plates spinning? I'm guessing they have targets and backup targets, but what if a backup target says sign me up while you are waiting for the target you really want.
P.S.- Asking for a friend named John G.
P.S.S.- Seriously though, I'm really curious how it is done.
Bigtex
- DFW
maybe we can have 10 page discussion on the pro's/con's of Hawkins game
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
If we didn't have Rodgers, things would be different. FWLIW, I'm ecstatic Rodgers is an Illini.
I think it's simple. You roll the dice and try to finely calibrate your BS detector.So this has always been a question for me. How do college basketball recruiters keep all these plates spinning? I'm guessing they have targets and backup targets, but what if a backup target says sign me up while you are waiting for the target you really want.
P.S.- Asking for a friend named John G.
P.S.S.- Seriously though, I'm really curious how it is done.
We just saw it happen to us. We passed on Jeremy Fears to pursue Boswell. Then missed on Boswell. Now that staff could have been viewing it like me, I prefer Darrin Ames to Fears, so we actually had 2 guys we could wait on. Then we got lucky with Skyy almost falling into our lap, but that's the risk you have to take.
To me, I'd put Hopkins at the top of my list. He still looks soft at Kentucky. I'm wondering what his natural abilities could be after he got whipped into shape. However, to your point, if Shannon wants to commit now and Hopkins is telling us it's between you Louisville and Indiana, I'm accepting that Shannon commitment and not thinking twice about it.
Guessing he comes home to mizzery
probably a good thing
Shannon and Murray are shooting guards. Hopkins is a PF, could possibly be considered a "combo forward." I don't see them redundant at all. I think Shannon or Murray is what we need.
illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
Apparently we’re the current leader according to Mr. Wright lol
Dee_4_Three_83
- Mahomet, IL
That makes sense. I suppose that if you are willing to make an offer on a kid, that means that anyone you offer you are prepared to have on your team. It's an incredibly complex puzzle and I appreciate the skills our recruiters are exhibiting.
He has 2 last names as first names
Dee_4_Three_83
- Mahomet, IL
If this turns out to be true, along with the Skyy talk, I'm thinking OA and Chin may be double agents.
With Bryce leaving, is this back-to-back Illinois guys to go there and kinda wash out? I’ve already forgot the other guy’s name, but he was another SF we heavily recruited.
Khalil Whitney, declared for the draft after a disappointing freshman season, now in the G League.
I think they're all 2/3/4s in the style we want to play. That said, I think you are right Hopkins probably doesn't have the quickness to have the 2 on his card and would be more of a 3/4.
We can't let the fact that he didn't get much time at Kentucky erase the fact that he averaged 24.4 and 12.5 as a high school Sr, was a top 50 recruit, and someone we all really wanted 12 months ago. The roster has changed in those 12 months, and we've got new guys coming in, but Hopkins was rated pretty significantly higher than both Murray and Shannon as a prospect. That is not absolute, of course, but it shows you he is certainly viewed as a very talented player. There are plenty of guys that left a blue blood because they couldn't get on the court in front of the constant parade of one and done guys to become stars at their next school.
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