Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Say Illinois gets Dix, Sarr, big Z, and Jaylin Sellers. Where does this get us preseason? Top 25?
 
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Agreed @sacraig …Morez was touted to be the future by many of us. It’s a shame he is now a villain.

At the same time, if he and his circle were going to cause drama and beg for to be molded into a (likely very inefficient) perimeter player…it may be for the best in the end. Fans will cope how fans will cope. Especially here on this board (myself included)
Likely if May intends to play Morez much on offensive perimeter he or Morez will not be at Michigan for 26-27. MJ is too talented near the hoop in college, Spending time learning to shoot jumpers is something he should have done on the playground and in the gym since age 8 or 10 and easily proven in practice at Ubben. Tomi did it and Brain Cook extended his career as a 3 pt. specialist, but not without thousands of hours of shooting practice. I would bet my beach house Brad did not tell Morez he had a red light from over 6 ft. while telling Tomi his was green without some proof of their skill.

But in defense of Morez, if he can become a plus shooter from the arc and mid-range, there is not a coach in the land that will not give him a green light. But we have seen no evidence of that and it will not come without tremendous work.
 
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everyone here knows how I feel about scUM , so the betrayers going to scUMland are dead to me.......they really really are.........
i am with you Pru. I don't hate any athlete or school as I have always respected fellow competitors, especially the ones who work hard to get better and compete to win within the rules.

Except for Michigan, Their athletic leadership has been cheating for more than 125 years and that is documented. My respect meter makes no movement when Michigan is measured.
 
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Hummer....and I think Ty also...could get that 8 ft. fade-away virtually any time they wanted. Problem is Hummer could never get the ball over the front of the rim. Made me wonder if he ever practiced the shot, but cannot imagine he would work so hard to get it if he didn't. It is not difficult, but the speed and jump on the fade has to be consistent because the eye perception is changing constantly and rapidly. Ty could be effective too if he worked at that shot....and it would be a good mismatch strategy when he gets switched to a shorter guard....but only if he can hit the fader at a 60%+ clip. Domask certainly spent some time learning that shot. BH shot about a dozen that I recall and maybe hit one...possibly two.
I think Hummers biggest problem is his base isn't strong enough. He just can really move anyone with his lower body. Kinda suffers from the same chicken legs thing that Goode did.

He tries but he's just not very athletic or explosive for this level and he's not strong enough to offset it.

Domask was smaller than Hum but he was functionally way stronger. Also, Domask had phenomal footwork and a variety of post moves so the short fadeaway wasnt the only thing he could do in the post.
 
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Bifocals make it worse. Something else you have to look forward to.
 
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Dame Sarr climbing up 2025 NBA Draft boards.
Have you seen any recent ones where he’s projected first round? I just haven’t seen any- it’s a loaded class at the wings- I would think it would be very hard for him to crack the top 12-15 wing players not to mention PG’s and big men
 
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