Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Despite never playing college ball Tommy Hamilton had 3 brief stints with NBA teams. The size 7'2" and talent were there. Part of the twin towers at King HS.
Lou had a nice pipeline from King HS
Reggie, Efrem and Marcus made it thru class at Illinois. Efrem and Marcus were very good players for the Illini albeit did not live up to #1 player in the country ratings.
Tommy and Jamie Brandon never made it thru non qualifiers U of I summer program. Both would have been huge help to Illini program.
Lou had a nice pipeline from King HS
Reggie, Efrem and Marcus made it thru class at Illinois. Efrem and Marcus were very good players for the Illini albeit did not live up to #1 player in the country ratings.
Tommy and Jamie Brandon never made it thru non qualifiers U of I summer program. Both would have been huge help to Illini program.
Joel Goodson
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man, that was insightful. thanks
I reiterate how impressed I am that he chose a harder road, potentially much harder, than he could have. Kid could be a 4 year player for us, due to his smaller stature. I'm sure I'll get flak for this, but I think he could end up better than Trent. Maybe not numbers wise, but talent wise. Obviously. loooong way to go there. But no denying the talent.
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BillyBob1
- Champaign
Tommy would have been a success because his mother had big thighs!
Joel Goodson
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On the Trent comp: DGL is gonna have to work like a dog to be in the same league defensively. But the raw material is there.
blackdog
- Champaign
Trent was very much not a defender when he got here and was all raw material too so there's definitely a model for DGL to do it.
Goillinikobd
- Southeastern US
Great video, some of his moves in traffic remind me of the guy whose name shall not be spoken here.
i am a buyer on this kid‘s future as an Illini
Speaking of Trent, I was having a conversation with another high school coach from the Austin area yesterday. He did some AAU coaching in the summers, and his team which featured Armoni Brooks (U-Houston, now Toronto Raptors) played Trent’s AAU team in Dallas one year.
He said they couldn’t guard Trent at all. He was too quick and going wherever he wanted, and then he was hitting some of those crazy Trent 3s when he got hot.
He said Trent capped the game when he got a fast break and dunked on Armoni Brooks. Apparently it was nasty. He said he was gonna look back for that film and send it to me if he has it.
If I get it, it’s going on loyalty. What a highlight that would be.
Big Jack
- Decatur
Dan needs to setup a thread with all poster dunk videos so when we get bored we can go watch Rennie dunk on Shaq!!!
texillwek
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You know, you can create that thread yourself - as long as you've accumulated enough posts in the forums. Do it!
Big Jack
- Decatur
I would except I an technically challenged when posting videos on here...
Trae Young?
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
IDKWEGI.............................??
I still don't post new threads --I usually post to the closest match I can find, and give Dan a heads-up that I think it needs one or mucks up the existing one. I feel like he does a lot of work to keep things organized, but it's a form of black magic [cue the gifs].
Goillinikobd
- Southeastern US
No comment, I don’t want to get banned, again
Pru I knew who he meant, but Gordon was 3 inches and 50 lbs bigger coming out of HS. And the #1 overall prospect by 247.
Trae has a similar build and style.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
ok,,,,,,,,,,,i was going off the name not to mentioned......everything is fine , goodnight............................
I am trying to recall if Trent ever dunked in a game while here. I remember some practice video of him dunking but I can't recall an instance of an in-game dunk. Did I miss that?
Can't specifically name the game, but I seem to remember Trent dunking a time or two.
Joel Goodson
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Anyone know who is in town tonight on visits? Both unofficial and official?
I don’t really recall it either, but probably not a good use of his energy and not worth the injury risk.
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