Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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agreed. It's certainly possible that with more experience, Amani doesn't have major issues with fouls this year, but I'd hate to be in a position where it turns out it IS still a problem and now it's too late to do anything with the roster to address it. I think there's a decent chance Amani makes a significant jump this year and is a major contributer, but I'm not confident in that to the point that I wouldn't appreciate a little more depth and experience in the front court. That's my main concern with the speculated rosters that have been tossed around with Booth as a potential transfer big. (And I really like Booth, but he doesn't help with the experience concern)
Those were mostly intentional.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Freshman bigs foul. Next year Amani won't be a freshman big any more, and Morez one of his chief competitors will be.
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
And we may have lost 2-3 others with him. There is just no telling. That is why these statements just don't make any sense.
Loyalillini10
- Urbana, IL
oh no...that is terrible, lol. It is one of my pet peeves: expresso and expecially. Especially expecially...
Are we even trying to get this guy?
I didn't want to get into this argument either but this is the post stuck with me. Of course you can say that not having a veteran PG may have cost us 3-4 hand picked close losses but you can't also assume everything else plays out the same. It's more likely than not that PG X has a bad game here or an off shooting night there and we lose other games that we won. And that's not even taking into account culture impact or defined roles. There's no way of knowing if Domask booty ball is as pronounced during the second half of season if we have a primary ball handler running the show.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
You can't just have all the apex NIL guys, nobody can.
Storr is the big ticket item we're focused on.
The overestimate on the depth of our roster by this board is extreme. Players are not transferring here to not play nor are players staying here to not play.
I’ll assume 10 players who expect at least some playing time. Any transfer over 2 more will either be a 1 in 1 out scenario or a transfer who isn’t in the rotation (project). For example, if we get Boswell and Storr then any transfer after than would cause a transfer out.
TRANSFER 1
TRANSFER 2
DGL
Harris
White
Goode
Davis
Ty
Amani
Rez
I’ll assume 10 players who expect at least some playing time. Any transfer over 2 more will either be a 1 in 1 out scenario or a transfer who isn’t in the rotation (project). For example, if we get Boswell and Storr then any transfer after than would cause a transfer out.
TRANSFER 1
TRANSFER 2
DGL
Harris
White
Goode
Davis
Ty
Amani
Rez
George Montgomery, Jarod Gee, Robert Archibald, Marcus Griffin, Shaun Pruitt, Kofi - old school defense and rebounding
seriously! it gives me panic attacks just to watch this
. i thought id had watched the entire segment but its much more painful than i rememberedI'd love that!
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Pope is a nice player but I would much rather bring a Champaign native home than grave rob Oregon State with the wealth we stole from them.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but we absolutely don't HAVE them.. I would bet good money we don't get all of Storr, Maddux, and Booth.
pruman91
- Paducah, Ky
Really ??.........................It's about time...............I'm tired of seeing dead peeps...................I really really am................
Anyone think there's a chance Davis redshirts his sophomore year like Harris did?
We wanted him to foul. We wanted Purdue in the bonus, so that if we needed to turn it into a FT shooting contest in the last 30 seconds, we could. We didn't want our regulars to pick up fouls for that purpose. It was Amani's job. At least that's what Brad said post-game... (around 11:30 in his post-game presser)
agree on Boswell, athleticism to break down defender, create and score at basket are the only things that give me a concern. We need someone that can create in the half court. That being said he is a big upgrade at primary ballhandler that we have had for some time.
I hope so- don’t want to have to deal with Ballo at Indiana- just when we think we’re done being dominated by 7 footers…
That's what happens to freshmen bigs in the B10 before they put on the extra 15-20lbs of muscle their first offseason and start learning better footwork and how to defend and challenge opponents just as big or bigger than them. Happens every single year to pretty much every single B10 freshman big, especially when they go up against juniors and seniors. As for judging Amani based on how he played Edey when Underwood said he told Amani to go out there and be extremely physical with him. I mean, even if you take the Brad gameplan out of it, you have a freshman going up against a generational two-time player of the year upperclassman. What are you expecting? Kofi struggled with Sophomore Edey. Senior Edey>>>>>>>Sophomore Edey. Thinking a freshman Amani is going to do anything but lose that 1 on 1 matchup badly is just not reasonable and would mean Amani is probably a guaranteed lottery pick.
loose and lose, see the first when the second was meant all the time
Not directed at you. I actually think you are one of the more thoughtful posters on the board. Meant no disrespect.
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