Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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FrankNitty30

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HensonHall71 said:
I honestly don't understand this take - on the surface you can say we haven't had tourny success the last two years so let's completely revamp the roster, but that is not really analyzing the issues we had. To say we don't want the most dominant center in college basketball because it makes us too one dimensional is crazy talk - we are a much worse team without him and it's not even close

Yes - we got completely shut down offensively in the 2nd round two years in a row - maybe Porter Moser and Kelvin Sampson are defensive geniuses who figured out how to stop us with just a couple of days to prepare - or we just played horribly offensively two years in a row - I think it's more the latter. Kofi was 6-11 and 7-7 on FT's for 19 points and 8 rebounds against a Houston team that completely collapsed on him and doubled him on every pick and roll leaving our shooters wide open. He was are only bright spot outside of RJ. Plummer was 2-10 and Frazier 2-7 (granted he could only see out of one eye), Jake wasn't healthy enough to play, so we really became one dimensional, but Kofi was that dimension and the only reason we were still in the game in the second half.

To suggest Kofi was holding back the success of this team is insanity - we would have been a much, much worse team without Kofi the last 2 years and we will be a much worse team without him next year - it's as simple as that

We will move on and others will step up and we'll have a lot of young talent on the team - the future is bright indeed, but it's not because Kofi is leaving
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It is dumb to say we will be better losing Kofi. A close second is saying we will be a “much worse” team. Top teams reload ALL THE TIME. We will need to do the same thing. We will be different. Not better or not worse on 4/20/22. Different.

The season will play out and give us our verdict on how we adjusted.
 
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MoCoMdIllini

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Are we looking at Kenneth Lofton, Jr at all? Top big man in the portal (so far) according to 247.

This part was interesting: "...backed up a great summer of 2021 run with USA Basketball with an incredibly productive season in 2021-22."

I hadn't realized he'd been part of those summer workouts.
 
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sacraig said:
It's a technical conference. Most of the value is in the networking between sessions anyway, but I stepped out early due to a desperate need for coffee and Illinois basketball transfer clues.
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Your dedication to the Illini is quite impressive, to your job, not so much. Glad I'm not the only one!
 
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Illiniguy13

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Bryce Hopkins is not an option

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FrankNitty30

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I would be interested in Malachi Branham, Justin Lewis, Patrick Baldwin Jr, and Isaiah Mobley when they pull out of the draft.
 
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KingWolf11

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MoCoMdIllini said:
Are we looking at Kenneth Lofton, Jr at all? Top big man in the portal (so far) according to 247.

This part was interesting: "...backed up a great summer of 2021 run with USA Basketball with an incredibly productive season in 2021-22."

I hadn't realized he'd been part of those summer workouts.
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Played a lot with Adam Miller on the U19 USA team FWIW
 
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