Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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I-L-L 1318
mhuml32 said:
He's a high risk/reward guy. He can take insane volume and his FG% is poor. He's played 18 games since the January 1 and he's shot better than 37% in just 4 of those games. Doesn't provide much offensively outside of scoring, too. That said, he also dropped 50 last week. Can he raise his FG% as his scoring burden will go down on a better team? That's the (expensive) question.
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If it were up to me building a team I would pass for that price...but I am curious to see how he does.
 
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the juiceman cometh
Indy Illini Fan said:
That number is going to be above $1 million …
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Man, that 51-point game is impressive, as is the game against Bama, but I really don't know how you justify paying that much to a guy that St. Thomas-Minnesota put the absolute clamps on twice in the last two weeks. 6 points and 8 turnovers (7 of them from the most recent game) in 56 minutes on 2-12 shooting (0-6 from 3).
 
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the juiceman cometh
IMPE Legend said:
If that guy gets a million then NIL has officially ruined the sport. No coming back from it
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I don't think the guy is worth a million but I also don't understand this take.

A guy getting paid RUINS the sport, while we reminisce about the good ol days when a coach making 5x that amount coordinated for a player to get $50k in cash from boosters, at the risk of permanent ineligibility? You know, when everything was pure and for the love of the sport?
 
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grue2
mhuml32 said:
Why do we care about this but not coaches getting $5+ million annually?
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I don't like it because of the amount of churn it generates within rosters. That is separate from any ethics/fairness questions.
 
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jacekpardol
IMPE Legend said:
If that guy gets a million then NIL has officially ruined the sport. No coming back from it
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Yeah let’s go back to a time when every top program beside Illinois was paying players under the table and we were a perennial bubble team as a result. That was much better 🙃
 
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Heisenbobble
JBfor3 said:
Braden Huff going portaling..?
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Solid backup big for a top program, anyway. He's not much of a rebounder. Not a particularly good shooter. But he could provide good minutes off the bench if he's happy enough with that role.
 
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PleaseMakeABowlGame
Heisenbobble said:
Solid backup big for a top program, anyway. He's not much of a rebounder. Not a particularly good shooter. But he could provide good minutes off the bench if he's happy enough with that role.
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Frustrated Skip Bayless GIF
 
#314      
forbesfrosh
PepeSilvia said:
6'7 wing with real good length is the exact type of developmental player you want to take to fill out those spots. He would definitely need to be bought into the idea though like Jakstys though and come in expecting to redshirt and develop.

I think you could basically fill out roster spots 11-15 with guys like this with no real loss(even 10 guys aren't going to get serious minutes). Just bring in a in-state developmental kid that's bought in every year and redshirt so you would basically just grab one in every class for 5 years and always have 3 upper classman at a time that are bought into the culture(could just use it for spots 12-15 if you wanted to save a scholarship).

Worst case they transfer out, best case one or two develops into a role player.
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Hasn't Brad made offer to Brooks? He had monster game in Monday's Class 4A supersectional win over top-ranked Chicago Kenwood, 27 points and 15 rebounds
 
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Illini IndyCar Fan
Combo said:
Only 50%? I would think close to 100%.
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Hurley's shtick only really works if you're winning games and dominating your conference. He's an actual example of the "too much stick and not enough carrot" that people here were complaining about Brad doing a couple years back.
 
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PepeSilvia
Heisenbobble said:
Solid backup big for a top program, anyway. He's not much of a rebounder. Not a particularly good shooter. But he could provide good minutes off the bench if he's happy enough with that role.
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You're underestimating him a bit.

The kid can flat out score and is averaging nearly 11 pts in only 15 minutes per game. He hasn't shot the ball very much or very well this year but he is a good shooter or at least above average.

I haven't really followed Gonzaga very much since conference play started but I wonder if he had been banged up or just not needed very much due to the weak opponents but his minutes have been pretty sporadic lately.

He's not a great rebounder but his per 40 numbers aren't that different from Tomi. He still needs to get stronger which he should have made more progress on that by year 3 but I would take Huff in a heartbeat.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
Watching FSU-SYR .... Watkins is built like a brick. Could see the scoring prowess translating. Would hope they'd look into him.
 
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Heisenbobble
PepeSilvia said:
You're underestimating him a bit.

The kid can flat out score and is averaging nearly 11 pts in only 15 minutes per game. He hasn't shot the ball very much or very well this year but he is a good shooter or at least above average.

I haven't really followed Gonzaga very much since conference play started but I wonder if he had been banged up or just not needed very much due to the weak opponents but his minutes have been pretty sporadic lately.

He's not a great rebounder but his per 40 numbers aren't that different from Tomi. He still needs to get stronger which he should have made more progress on that by year 3 but I would take Huff in a heartbeat.
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If he were to transfer to Illinois, he ain't starting unless Tomi doesn't return. He'd be a valuable, solid bench piece.
 
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The Dying Illini
Indy Illini Fan said:
Me personally ... Only pick 2 ... Haggerty and Martinelli ..
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Would be at the top of my list too. Two boafied scoring options, Martinelli has so much old man game similar to Marcus.

Haggerty is shooting like 39% from 3 for the year on 90 attempts. Throw in a PG and we are cooking assuming Tomi, Kylan, Morez return
 
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