Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Mr. Tibbs
"Depth piece" was a little generous on this one... 😜
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yea ,

Toni , we hardly knew ye

I hope our deal with him was one way air fare , 3 hots & a cot
 
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OB positive
Yet we have fared as well or better than 95% of the other schools during the portal era.
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We got lucky nobody foresaw the rise of Keaton or the steady contributions of Mirk. Let's not kid ourselves into everything went as planned.
 
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RabidDawgClassic
Altuve27 said:
Painter could field a rotation of 8 circus clowns and win games.
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Could even pull one or two of em out if the crowd.

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RimPressure
DeeIL89 said:
Take with a grain of salt because it came from Sleepers Media and I really don't hold much validity when it comes to their "sources" but in their recap of UConn-Illinois Final Four game, Greg Waddell said he heard from an Illini source that Z is all in on entering the NBA draft. My hope is that Illinois retains as much of the important core as can be and go from there filling in the rest of the pieces to get back to the Final Four next year.
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Well you can enter and withdraw once and since Z only has 1 year left, it might make sense to him to enter and get feedback. Seems kind of like a use it or lose it opportunity on the 1 draft withdrawal, as I understand it. (Maybe same for Dre and Tomi)
 
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RimPressure
idoc13 said:
Seems strange for Bilic to not play at all and then leave. Why come mid season?
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My uninformed guess is that the favor we did for Misko was give Bilic the roster spot so that he could get all his NCAA and visa stuff sorted in the winter instead of coming late this summer like many euros have done. Might make him more attractive to teams if he’s already here and can join his new team for the whole summer.
 
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Illini2010-11
pcvIllini said:
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Assuming this is Andrej's actual account, he posted this today.
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I saw this in my Facebook feed this morning. Very doubtful that is verified to be his, except for some fanboy having fun. The account popped up after the Final 4.

Amazing how much misinformation is on FB (and social media in general) and how easily it is to collectively fall for it.
 
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HensonHall71
RichieRebel said:
Lee?
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Lee would surprise me, just because we need developmental guys for depth and his role of ball handling/defense is a gap right now. Unless he wants to go somewhere and play more - but he could have done that out of HS and chose to come here instead. I would think he would have been eyes wide open that it would likely require a couple of years of not playing before his time would come
 
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