Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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It's pretty cool that when recruits are being offered by the Illini, they are no longer writing, "Thanks for the offer from the University of Illinois." They're posting images of Ayo, Kofi, and today, I saw one of CoHawk.
B-ILL
- Working From Home
I don't miss the days of recruits receiving offers from "Illinois University." Although I do miss people on this board complaining about recruits using the outdated logo. That was always fun.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
Why are those Tweets about new offers giving a warning about sensitive content…? Lol.
blackdog
- Champaign
Because Illinois Basketball is hardcore!
I don’t know. I kind of enjoyed the laughs I would get when I would see “Thankful for the offer from Illinois University”. I can’t believe we didn’t land any of those guys!
Joel Goodson
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Looks like our Fears decision worked out.
What is the better tandem, Jeremy and Jeremiah Fears or Skyy and ZZ Clark?
Skyy and ZZ all day
UCF Guard Darin Green in the portal. 6'4. Averaged around 13 ppg. I say go full-court press on him and TSJ and that's one heck of a roster.
Might be a tad premature, lol. Hope you're right!
Fears will definitely have a 20+ point day against us someday, after which there will be posters saying we never should have let him get away…. completely ignoring the fact that he’s maybe 6’1”, and we’re trying to get longer at guard.
Joel Goodson
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Not to mention that Clark >> Fears.
Yes thank goodness for the board!
Never Fears.
Watching that short clip of Kaden Cooper, I like his bounce and defensive tenacity for sure!! I trust Chester's eye even more than the clip. "Stars don't matter!"
I think some on here may be overstating the goal to get bigger at guard. Yes, we clearly need to get bigger but I don’t think we necessarily need to just ignore all guards that are in the 5-11 to 6-1 range. The issue with last year’s team was that our 3 best guards were ALL basically 6-1. I think it’s fine having a smaller guard as long as we surround them with bigger players.
I wouldn't worry about stars. The summer circuit is just beginning. Kids will change their rankings starting now. Now they're the leaders on the teams and have more opportunity to have the ball and be seen.
Not necessarily directed toward you, but this new obsession with height and length is just an overreaction to last year's roster. Having one or two players under 6'2" isn't a problem. Especially when those players are quick. It's when your primary guard rotation is 6'3", 6'2", 6'1", 6'1", that it becomes an issue.
But I agree that Skyy is the better get than Fears at the moment. Just trying to get ahead of the, "We don't want [insert player] because they're short.", narrative that is emerging. More to it than height. This ain't Tinder.
Did something happen besides us getting skyy?
217sports
- Springfield
Let's wait for either to play a game before declaring anything. Illini fans would be drooling if he committed and we saw this video
Soulberries
- University of Illinois
Show me some videos of him draining consecutive threes, then maybe I'll start second-guessing.
Beat me to it. You have a great mind.
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