Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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#205      
Second place is 1st loser
Fly Illini Fly! said:
Yep. Perfect place for him to shoot 4 threes a game.
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I think he's a good kid that's getting terrible direction. If it's 100% money driven, cool. Nobody is going to leave a million bucks on the table. Over a three year stretch, he'll be set up well.

All things (money) being equal, if he's truly bent on being on a team that's going to give him that type of role and the keys to the car to shoot freely and he can't come through..... he'll have painted himself into a corner.

Again, all things being equal, he should have stick around and grown naturally in an environment he knew. He would have started next year and he would have had a bigger role and one of the more senior/seasoned guys.

All things not being equal and if he's banking an additional cool, crisp mil a year.....take the money and set yourself up in a better spot financially. Can't blame a guy for that. We all would have done the same thing..

It'll be interesting!
 
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DevILLDawg
DB11Headband said:
My favorite thing we do every year is project out lineups based on guys available as of the first week or two of the offseason.

There are names nowhere near anyone's radars yet that will be available in the coming weeks/NBA draft dropouts that work is already being done on. We sit well with multiple current targets, but staff has much more in the pipeline. Stay tuned.
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If you would oblige us to who work is being done on, we would happily include them into our roster projections. 🤣🤣
 
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RabidDawgClassic
ChiefGritty said:
Well, to get ahead of the next wave of this.

Kylan Boswell was the highest ranked transfer we got last year on 247's list, at #36, and Carey Booth at #92 was the only other top 100 transfer we got.

The insiders blew significant smoke about our chances with (including a couple that were very publicly declared to be done deals)

#1 Kadary Richmond
#4 AJ Storr
#9 Javon Small
#20 Brandon Garrison
#21 Coleman Hawkins
#30 Desmond Claude
#31 Otega Oweh
#74 Trey Townsend
#75 Saint Thomas
#86 Ryan Conwell
#98 Marcus Hill

It will all follow the same patterns, with the same claims of our overwhelming NIL prowess, and lots of these guys are going to commit elsewhere.

And at the end of the day, BU will have amassed a ton of talent, with mysteries about how it's all supposed to fit together.

It's just how the cycle goes.


Oh yeah, this too. Guys who are considered locks for the portal will stay in the draft or at their current school. Jamir Watkins is a Seminole and Max Christie is a Laker.
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The only two transfers I recall there was significant hype from the insiders for was Storr and Dante Maddox. The rest were just names of interest tossed out that had no real traction. The previous year, RayJay Dennis was the lone hype train player.
 
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Umit9
LvilleILL1 said:
I would say Michigan is the favorite for Morez right now.
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Should Morez commit to Michigan, I fear they’d utilize him as an interior presence almost exclusively. Don’t get me wrong, I won’t be cheering for him. But, I also won’t be hoping to see him fail.

I’d be curious to see his role there especially if Danny Wolf returns for 1 more season. I get the sense there’s empty promises from Michigan here.

Go Illini
 
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Indy Illini Fan
DB11Headband said:
My favorite thing we do every year is project out lineups based on guys available as of the first week or two of the offseason.

There are names nowhere near anyone's radars yet that will be available in the coming weeks/NBA draft dropouts that work is already being done on. We sit well with multiple current targets, but staff has much more in the pipeline. Stay tuned.
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This …

Wait till some of these kids that think they’re going to the league realize they ain’t going to the league …
 
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Indy Illini Fan
Second place is 1st loser said:
Why? You didn't like a guy who was brought in to play the role of being a spot up shooter, but ended up being the backup 5, which he wasn't the least bit prepared to do?

A 34% three point shooter, which is one of the better percentages, on a team that shot the team like trash was one of your big issues?

I don't think that people(don't think that I'm calling just you out), understand what was happening last year. Ben was put in a horrific spot. Some was due to injury and some was due to the roster having absolutely zero depth in the frontcourt.

If Ben came back as the second or third guy off the bench, he'd be phenomenal in that role. Not tooany teams have 6'9" coming off the bench that is a threat from the perimeter and in a pinch, he can old his own and give you some minutes in the paint.

That's a good kid that did everything that he was asked to do and I'm sure he didn't sign up for a lot of it. Not sure why you're feeling the need to stab him in the back?
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Pass … Don’t want him back …
 
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