Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Man! The kid behind them in the 1st photo looks like a BU clone ar 12 years old!!!
I don't see any orange and/or blue in the photo
GrayGhost77
- Centennial, CO
It's Brad's Mini-Me.
sacraig
- The desert
Chin and another UK guy at 17 & 18 don't see Orlando, did I just miss him?
Joel Goodson
- ties will be resolved
45 in a game? Clearly the next Pistol Pete.
Are we, though?
Eh, I take these rankings with a big grain of salt. It's based on who 247 attributes as the lead to a recruit, and based on just one cycle. This ranking is based only on 2022 recruits, and UK only has 2 in this class. One is attributed to Chin, the other to Jai Lucas, so OA is absent from the rankings. They have one 2023 commit, and it's a five-star with OA listed as the lead, so he'll be in those rankings.
Edit: you can see the 2023 rankings, and at the moment they have OA as #3 https://247sports.com/Season/2023-Basketball/CompositeCoachRankings/
Chin being top 20 and Antigua being absent from the list makes it very hard to take seriously
Seems like they need to make some kind of 3 to 5 year running score or something to give a clearer picture
I'm curious....did they have breakfast at the pancake house?
chrisRunner7
- Spokane, WA
IMHO, the first post that you referenced was open to several different lines of interpretation, and people misunderstood you.
I initially read your post as a criticism of the Illinois program... as in, we might bring in good freshman recruits but we can't develop them or they don't live up to the billing.
I know you later clarified to say that you had confidence in the incoming freshmen, and I pretty much agree with you. I think Epps and Clark could hold down the PG spot just fine, though Clark's ACL situation gives me the tiniest bit of doubt. For that reason, I would have no issue if Underwood brought in an experienced guard who can handle and play adequate defense as an insurance policy. There's no guarantee Epps and Clark will be healthy all year, either.
Very quite on here today. Just a shade over 2 pages on the Recruiting Thread.
It'll probably remain that way until Kofi decides what he's going to do.
Isn't Murray supposed to announce tomorrow?
Podz can play PG and with his size and having to defend Trent all last year in practice, I have no issues with the PG spot. But I would not mind a defensive specialist at PG so Podz can play the 2 exclusively as scoring from whomever we bring in to play backup minutes at the 1 won't be a priority. We, as fans still do not know where the next domino falls but we will know Kofi's fate by no later than the 24th. Will TSJ wait that long if he wants to play with Kofi? Will Murray commit and allow us to finish with the 2/3 spot? We should know more this week I am guessing.
I was more commenting on players Illinois WILL get. Sorry.
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
Very quite what?
skyIdub
Winged Warrior
It so silly how some fans just suddenly dismiss these two great AC's just because they defect to UK. If they were still here they'd be singing their praises like a Southern Baptist choir.
Nothing worse in this world than hypocrites. Okay liars and cheaters. And I guess Will Smith.
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