Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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He is not a fit … Period …

Guys like him do not play on Big Ten Championship and National Championship caliber teams …
That's why I qualified the statement with regards to acquiring national championship level talent at any position. We don't have one player, YET, that puts us anywhere outside of the middle of the pack in the conference. Let me revise. Boswell is that caliber of a player.

What's the point of singling him out when we have MUCH bigger issues right now, which is getting players that can lead a team to those levels? No sense in worrying about role players until we have a starting five that makes those additions matter to that extent.
 
#205      
From speculation, seems north of 5mil, but I would be ecstatic.

IJ - ~3 mil
DS - ~2.5 mil
AM - ~1 mil

Rumor is we have around 6 mil to spend, so not out of the question. Need to close on someone sooner than later.
I would rather have 1 very good player vs. 2 average. You can only play 5 people on floor. We saw that last year when Brad had to choose at end of season for starters

KJ, Kylan, Tomas, Tre, Will and Morez. Even though we need rebounding Morez was odd man out.

Next year

Kylan Tomas Ty -- then choose Big Z (intriguing), Mircovic (seems very mature and ready) , Portal Miller, Sarr if you get him, Portal 2G, Jake, Ben if you keep him
 
#206      
Critiquing Ben's play, even if humorously exaggerated for fun message board laughs, is not trashing the kid.

It's absolutely laughable that we continued to trot him out with an unlimited green light over Morez and Riley...and hell even DGL.

If you say so.

Some people might laugh at the 1,874,327th "hum brick house" but I personally don't think its much fun to come here every single day and have to read the same discussion over and over again. It's tiresome to me.

I know you guys really enjoy it, but dang...
 
#209      
imo if you can go get jackson, you do it and then go back to the boosters and ask for more money to lock up sarr.
I feel like it would be a lot more acceptable to ask for more money for sarr with Jackson in tow. You can try to sell boosters a top 10 team if you add sarr

(and I'm sure it doesn't work this way/is more complicated)

Perhaps. Not sure the numbers would add up for them, though. They’re already looking at much more than originally projected.
 
#210      
Carey was worst defender on team.
Our walkon who gave up 3 pointer to 5'9" Duke manager is the 2nd.
 
#211      
If you say so.

Some people might laugh at the 1,874,327th "hum brick house" but I personally don't think its much fun to come here every single day and have to have the same discussion over and over again. It's tiresome to me.

I know you guys really enjoy it, but dang...

It's definitely a dead horse....and we as a board are elite dead horse kickers.
 
#212      
tfw GIF
 
#217      
Yaxel is better than tomi
Mara and Z are really pretty close production wise.
Morez is better than merk
And cadeua and Boswell are very similar.

Hard to tell what merk ends up being, he could prove me wrong.
It's close but I'd take Michigan 7.5/10 times ATM
Thought Yaxel was going to end up NBA anyway.
 
#223      
Is Brad paying for Ben out of pocket? I can’t imagine any donor watching last year and being excited to bring him back
 
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