Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Fly Illini Fly!
Scoregasm said:
I'm hoping for Jalen Cox if Blackwell doesn't come here.
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Probably in the minority -- this wouldn't exactly make sense to me. Vaaks is a primary ball handler; so is Cox. In that case, would rather give those starting reps to Coleman and look for somebody off the bench.

Of all the names brought up here, I think McNeil is the only Blackwell consolation that truly makes sense.
 
#509      
Mr. Tibbs
HailtotheChief said:
He is a third year freshman at 6'10.5 and likely 250lbs thats cheap and i pray wants to be here. Why do you want him to leave as a 12th man? Given our roster and depth at the 1-2 Why not Blake? Sometimes i dont get people. Jason has played fine and has sometimg we may need. Jason doesnt need to play this year unless Mirk.gets hurt or Tomi or Z go down or a team with a true power 4. Sometimes i wonder if anyone tried to guard a 6'10.5" 250lb big guy. Jason was ranked 127th by 247 2 years ago and has done just fine when he has played but you guys want him to leave with 3 years in the system. But want Zaens, Femdemi or Jake trying to cover Pherrell Payne if Mirk gets 3 or 4 fouls? I just dont get the hate Ben or the one guy over 6'8" besides Z we have that you want to go! I certainly dont want Jason to need to.play this year but nor do i want him to leave. Hell no, he has shot 80% and rebounded , not turned the ball over and a 3rd year freshman! He is a value and given our current roster if any 4/5 gets hurt we need his !!! way more than Blake or even Lee!
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you are misunderstanding me

i have no issues with him wanting to stay . but he isn’t going to play much , jf at all

for his sake , he should transfer down , if he wants to play in games .

see Leib , Brandon
 
#516      
the juiceman cometh
I love that on this board you can see portents of doom over not recruiting an all-conference level veteran transfer to play 12 mpg off the bench, right along side recriminations and blame when the freshman we played 25 mpg in the back half of the season transfers because we didn't play him enough. In LoyaltyLand, minutes are irrelevant to recruitment, the sole factor effecting retention, and an inexhaustible resource!
 
#520      
Turn N’ Burn
the juiceman cometh said:
I love that on this board you can see portents of doom over not recruiting an all-conference level veteran transfer to play 12 mpg off the bench, right along side recriminations and blame when the freshman we played 25 mpg in the back half of the season transfers because we didn't play him enough. In LoyaltyLand, minutes are irrelevant to recruitment, the sole factor effecting retention, and an inexhaustible resource!
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#521      
Fly Illini Fly!
Indy Illini Fan said:
Just to try and clear things up …

I think it’s Andrej …

Or Andrej and Blackwell …

And that’s it …

Staff really doesn’t seem to be showing any interest in anyone else right now …

Brad is not interested in pivoting or settling …
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FI_8905 said:
Illinois is still actively looking at backup types in the portal - a guard and a developmental big.
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#524      
Illinicpa14
Can we finish Andre already so we can have a bunch of booms for the night and stop arguing about whether JJ is gonna play minutes or why we aren’t trying to convince a good athletic big that he should come here for 5 minutes a game when our bigs foul out twice next year

…then we can pickup the Blackwell stuff in the AM
 
#525      
Krombopulos_Michael
Illinicpa14 said:
Can we finish Andre already so we can have a bunch of booms for the night and stop arguing about whether JJ is gonna play minutes or why we aren’t trying to convince a good athletic big that he should come here for 5 minutes a game when our bigs foul out twice next year

…then we can pickup the Blackwell stuff in the AM
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