hooraybeer
- Peoria, IL
yea, love boswell but i can’t take another year of smith/loyer/TKR
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
appx 55 servings (1/2 oz 4% whole) or roughly 14 cartons (16 oz) per day.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
Of course, that would also apply to Braden Smith/Loyer/TKR as well as Yaxel… correct?
Dear god, hopefully not Yaxel. I think this was his 6th year.
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
With everything we’re returning and what’s currently in the portal and what other teams currently look like, we should not want 5th year free agency to help 2-4 other teams get to our level.
Purdue an example but there’s others (just look at the fringe top 100 NBA players).
Without that, we’re likely 1 of 4-6 teams that enters the year as true favorites…we don’t want that number to be 10 teams.
Purdue an example but there’s others (just look at the fringe top 100 NBA players).
Without that, we’re likely 1 of 4-6 teams that enters the year as true favorites…we don’t want that number to be 10 teams.
Spoke to Kylan yesterday, first of all a class act! and great rep of the uiversity. It was his 21st bday yesterday and he had a nice PIT tourny. Sounds like he will be transitioning to pro ball work outs as much as we wished he had one more year.
I doubt that any of our freshmen will be as good as Blackwell who will be a senior. They may be as good or better than him when they are seniors.
Wagler may have been our best freshman ever. If any of this year's freshmen are that good it will be awesome and shocking.
Yaxel is a 1st round pick. Probably lottery.
Please go look at other rosters. We have eight guys that are really good. A couple more that can be serviceable behind them. What do you expect? You aren't going to have 12 guys that are all top level in this day and age.
Sounds like another trip to The Balkans is in order...
We'll book it in now but realize it once the season starts.
Only guys who are capable of playing a minute of hotly contested big ten basketball: Vaaks, Coleman, Stojakovic, Mirkovic, Tomi, Z, Jake, and Morillo.
An injury somewhere which we always have, or someone may not pan out as good as we originally thought....and we'd be in trouble.
Guard depth is zero.
It felt like we had an opportunity to build a true championship contender. There's just no room for error with the way the roster's constructed.
Hate to praise scUM in any way (but they did win it all, we should strive for that)… but what are your thoughts on our depth compared to them or 23-24 UConn?
I feel like scUM going 9 deep may have been their greatest strength, esp bc they were able to stay fresh all year and weather the loss from Cason’s ACL tear.
Why an overseas add and why not until mid-summer. Brad said it was important to have everyone there this summer. A summer international guy might not arrive until end of summer. Is it to save money vs pulling someone from the portal?
Maybe I just need to see the freshmen and Vaaks after this summer. And also maybe last years Michigan team cast a big shadow is all I’ll say.
Never the less I love this team and can’t wait to watch them gel and play together!
Other rosters: we GO INTO the year with 10 players who COULD play at any given time. This year it's 8. That's the difference.
We'll be ranked highly preseason because the pollsters favorite stat is returning production.
Well, the staff would disagree with you here.
We arguably have more depth at the guard spot this currently than last season…Petro was almost unplayable, and other teams did not bother guarding Lee.
Hunks of fresh tomatoare a fine addition
I would personally. But Brad seems to not want anyone under 6’5”
could be misremembering, but didn’t one of the insiders share that the staff is very high on Brown when he committed?
We're sliding Ethan Brown into the Petro spot. That's the only difference. Neither could exactly be counted on for realistic minutes.
Lee wasn't any different.
Don't forget Cluff.