Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

[Illini4Christ]

Drop coverage = Drop games.

I hope we get Houston Cougars defensive coach. Now they play D.

 

[TentakilRex]

My college team got a kid from the former Yugoslavia to replace a Chicagoan who left.

My idiot pro team traded a phenom from the former Yugoslavia to get past his prime Chicagoan.

Additional million dollar question: but is it wise to ignore Chicagoans when you are a college in the same state?

 

[TampaToo]

This kid might be skilled, but our front court is going to be extremely unathletic on defense. Another year of 5 out offense and drop coverage (terrible defense). Yay

Gonna need a defensive coaching savant. If it ain’t Hamer, finding one better be a priority. I might be wrong, but defensively the bigs look charmin soft. Offensively they will be hard to handle.

 

[Rap47]

If Fletch can add 30 lbs. Of muscle each on the the twins the possibilities can be very positive.

 

[RollChief]

Who’s the SG? That’ll be important.. wish we could’ve gotten a rebounding 4… we are going to get killed on the glass next year

Not sure how you’re arriving at a bad rebounding team from two 7+ footers, a 6’9” 250 lb player, and Kylan Boswell and Ty Rodgers at G/SF. Heck Bos and Ty are probably going to average 13-14 between the two, which is already 1/3 of the way to being the best rebounding team in the country…

 

[goNOGSgo]

how many years is the staff expecting to get out of Mirk?

You can never plan for anything more than one anymore, brother…

 

[CoachHooleyHoo]

Look at FL & Houston…both hedge and recover. Hate hate hate drop coverage.

 

[TheodoreRex]

I cannot state how freaking bad i hate the drop coverage.

Funny enough, when I used to coach, we would use drop coverage, but our post players would drop maybe 4 feet off the offensive post player. We wanted them to be close enough that if the post player got the ball, they could pressure them (force them to dribble or make a contested pass). I HATE HATE HATE that we drop our guys 15 feet away, under the basket and leave the offensive post player completely unguarded (especially genius gameplan by Hamer against Maryland with an unbelievable player like Queen just obliterating that coverage). Drop has it's place, but why would you drop when you had a guy like Morez?

 

[One Man Fast Break]

7/8 guys that Houston uses regularly in competitive games were there last year. This is what needs to change for Illinois going forward.

 

[HereSoIDontGetFined]

It is time to start trade marking the #EasternBlock

How about #EasternBlocI?

 

[Thompson1]

You can never plan for anything more than one anymore, brother…

Ik ik, but can atleast see what the expectation is

 

[AyoDos11]

Don't get me wrong, I love this pick up, but it's not exactly a "get old, stay old" type pick up.

 

[RollChief]

I cannot state how freaking bad i hate the drop coverage.

What if Brad hired Greg Kampe as an AC to teach our team “amoebic zone defense”…

 

[ginabackes00]

Don't get me wrong, I love this pick up, but it's not exactly a "get old, stay old" type pick up.

Having 4 returning players and Z helps.

 

[logjam]

Is he likely the starter at power forward?

Ben's backup.../s

 

[InDaAZ]

Fun fact: The Croatian and Montenegrin Languages are very mutually intelligible, and are considered by non-locals as two dialects of the same language. (They're qualified as different languages because of politics and the history of the region.) We could have three players on the court all communicating in a language other than English.

 

[BlueLeader]

Go hunting for another TSJ that's super athletic, plays both ways and has the right character. I feel like we are getting away from that.

 

[AyoDos11]

Having 4 returning players and Z helps.

For sure. I would still like to add at least one more senior/grad transfer for additional experience.

 

[TheodoreRex]

Is Underwood allergic to a 6'8 freak athlete that can rebound, block shots, defend? I swear, every year I'm watching tourney teams that are chalk full of amazing athletes.. And we are over here loading up with the slowest front court-with 0 lateral quickness..

 

[ginabackes00]

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We need to know Muck Fichigan in Croatian

 

[Ryllini]

6'9 booty ball? Ok.

 

[IlliniCaboose]

Imagine how well we'd be doing in that region if we were an Adidas school! Better make sure these guys know it's a smoke free campus.

 

[NashvILLe05]

Sorry for all the questions…just excited.

Would Mirk and (hopefully) Sarr come in as a “sophomores” like Tomi due to their professional experience? Also, is Mirk considered a likely one and done like Sarr?

Also, I hope there’s a plan to Fletch the Balkan Express hard and work on their lateral quickness. Would like to see them look more like Morez than Nick Smith come next season.

 

[Knee brace]

Similar player to Vakidis from the Flint Tropics

 

[kyillinifan]

Find some big time donors from the Balkans.