Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread :illinois:

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IL Returnees
Ty Rodgers
Kylan Boswell
Jake Davis
Tomislav Ivisic

IL Signees
Zvonimir Ivisic

New IL Commits
David Mirkovic


Unofficial IllinoisLoyalty List of Illinois Basketball Potential Targets by soupy17
B1G Roster Tracker by NarrowJ


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IL players who declared for NBA Draft
Kasparas Jakucionis
Will Riley

April 26: NBA Early Entry Deadline (11:59 p.m. ET)
May 11-18: NBA Draft Combine
June 15: NBA Early Entry Withdrawal Deadline (5 p.m. ET)


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Players who transferred
Morez Johnson to Michigan
Carey Booth to Colorado State
Tre White to Kansas
Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn to UNLV


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2025 IL Recruiting
1) Keaton Wagler (2025 G) committed on September 18th, 2024, signed on November 14th, 2024.
2) Brandon Lee (2025 G) committed on September 25th, 2024, signed on November 19th, 2024.
 
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Big Jack
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IllinoisssssssVarsity
Really like Stojakovic (fun fact, my nickname back in the day used to be Peja), he’s got some height, and the good news is he would immediately become one our of or most athletic players. The bad news is, he would immediately become one of our most athletic players.

He’s skilled and has enough juice to create a good shot 1 on 1, he's got a good first step, and he’ll go up to try to dunk. But again, look at all those final 4 teams and tell me where he would rank on any of their rosters if you listed them out from most athletic to least athletic. He’s top 2 for us. Houston and auburn, he might be bottom 2?
 
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Rich
You people will never be satisfied lol
 
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NJB Illini
IllinoisssssssVarsity said:
Really like Stojakovic (fun fact, my nickname back in the day used to be Peja), he’s got some height, and the good news is he would immediately become one our of or most athletic players. The bad news is, he would immediately become one of our most athletic players.

He’s skilled and has enough juice to create a good shot 1 on 1, he's got a good first step, and he’ll go up to try to dunk. But again, look at all those final 4 teams and tell me where he would rank on any of their rosters if you listed them out from most athletic to least athletic. He’s top 2 for us. Houston and auburn, he might be bottom 2?
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For sure. I will say, Big Z is a pretty damn good athlete. He was a shot-block machine at Arkansas and he can really move for a 7’. If Brad can tap in and get him more engaged he can use that more than he did last year.

Also think Ty is a pretty good athlete. He may not be jaw-dropping but he impacts the game with his length, strength, speed, and rebounding.
 
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ChiefGritty
NJB Illini said:
For sure. I will say, Big Z is a pretty damn good athlete. He was a shot-block machine at Arkansas and he can really move for a 7’. If Brad can tap in and get him more engaged he can use that more than he did last year.

Also think Ty is a pretty good athlete. He may not be jaw-dropping but he impacts the game with his length, strength, speed, and rebounding.
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Well and we're kind of looking through the wrong end of the telescope on all this.

We weren't very good defensively last season. It was a persistent problem and made the team not as good as we wanted. One major contributor to that (not the only one) was not being a super athletic team up and down the lineup. And we got a little better with the explosive Morez in the lineup, who we've now lost.

So I can understand the desire to frame everything in terms of "get more athletic".

But regardless of their athletic measurables (which are considerable, but that's not the point), what both Z and Ty are is impact defenders. And THAT'S what we need in order to be a better defensive team, that's hitting the problem directly.

Ty is awesome so long as he's not unplayably killing you on offense, which this team seems well-constructed to avoid (in addition to strides we hope he's taken).
 
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NJB Illini
ChiefGritty said:
Well and we're kind of looking through the wrong end of the telescope on all this.

We weren't very good defensively last season. It was a persistent problem and made the team not as good as we wanted. One major contributor to that (not the only one) was not being a super athletic team up and down the lineup. And we got a little better with the explosive Morez in the lineup, who we've now lost.

So I can understand the desire to frame everything in terms of "get more athletic".

But regardless of their athletic measurables (which are considerable, but that's not the point), what both Z and Ty are is impact defenders. And THAT'S what we need in order to be a better defensive team, that's hitting the problem directly.

Ty is awesome so long as he's not unplayably killing you on offense, which this team seems well-constructed to avoid (in addition to strides we hope he's taken).
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Very well said, and I agree đź‘Ť
 
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tatupu70
ChiefGritty said:
Well and we're kind of looking through the wrong end of the telescope on all this.

We weren't very good defensively last season. It was a persistent problem and made the team not as good as we wanted. One major contributor to that (not the only one) was not being a super athletic team up and down the lineup. And we got a little better with the explosive Morez in the lineup, who we've now lost.

So I can understand the desire to frame everything in terms of "get more athletic".

But regardless of their athletic measurables (which are considerable, but that's not the point), what both Z and Ty are is impact defenders. And THAT'S what we need in order to be a better defensive team, that's hitting the problem directly.

Ty is awesome so long as he's not unplayably killing you on offense, which this team seems well-constructed to avoid (in addition to strides we hope he's taken).
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The narrative seems to be that Ty is a great defender, but are we sure about that? The advanced metrics are meh and I don't remember the eye test being much better. He was playing out of position, so that definitely could have been a lot of the issue, but I don't think it's a given that he's a lock down defender.
 
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Oldskoolkoach
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Iowa got a nice commitment yesterday from the big guy from RMU. Certainly feels like everyone around us is finishing building their roster except us. Hopefully this is the week we add a couple good ones!
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Lot of time, we didn't finish until the summer last year. Even if we don't get everything we want now, sooner all the guys that were border NBA will be looking for homes, too.

Reminder that TAMU only has 2 players the last I saw
 
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JBfor3
Any reliable sources out there to see how much players are getting? Would be very interesting to see a list across schools.
 
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illiniguy24
tatupu70 said:
The narrative seems to be that Ty is a great defender, but are we sure about that? The advanced metrics are meh and I don't remember the eye test being much better. He was playing out of position, so that definitely could have been a lot of the issue, but I don't think it's a given that he's a lock down defender.
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To me, he’s a player that does the small things well and can make game changing plays. But if he is targeted and singled out he can get exposed at times
 
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