Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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He plays at Warren. He’s not a Chicago kid. He’s a nice player but if Davion and Devin Cleveland didn’t transfer out of state they would be the top players.
Howard Williams and Jaylin Mitchell also left the state. He’s obviously a stud but literally all the top talent has left the state
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Vaaks / Coleman / Stoj / Mirk / Ivisic with bench Jake / Morillo / Z
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does sound a man short after the staring unit.
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does sound a man short after the staring unit.
Are we really arguing whether Blackwell would've been... the 5th guard?!?
CrazedUIFan
UI Fan in QC Land
NO...we are arguing that Blackwell would have been the 1st guard
RichardKeenesCousin
Richard Keene's Cousin
I just did Mrs Dash in cottage cheese for the first time. Thank you Loyalty. You are the best!!!!
Blackwell is a senior and played a LOT as a freshman, B10 freshman of the week more than once as I recall.
jmwillini
- Tolono, IL
Yes, the add ins are the only thing that can make it anywhere above awful.
Wow this is such a bad post. Where do these people come from?
Names 5 b10 caliber guards and claims 0 guard depth..
they're obviously not reading the board often enough.
LOL...there are some things you can always guarantee will be seen here. Like adding Michael Jordan and Larry Bird. Someone will post that it weakens our overall defense...and they will be serious.
I'm trying to not to put too much pressure on the kid, but Brown has the potential to shock a lot of people in here next year. All I will say for now.
What? Well why not? Bunch of dummies getting paid millions....oh wait...that is our government.
You don’t need depth when you play 8 guys. Not fouling helps with that too
Would still love to see us get another 4 like Robbie Avila. Great basketball IQ, passer, three point shooter, teammate, and experience, and think he would be a trip seeing how his personality would gel on this team.
A lot of people only go by the rankings and not actually watching the player’s tapes….we have been pleasantly surprised before….
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
At this point, I'm not gonna doubt this staff's talent evaluation or ability to go out and get someone in the summer if they feel like they need someone. They've proven they know what they're doing.
??? I named two: Vaaks and Coleman.
This is incorrect. Eye test and metrics both suggest otherwise. When Vaaks was on the court, Providence gave up 1.20ppp. Their team average was giving up 1.14ppp. When adjusted for level of competition, Vaaks still performed about .01ppp worse than would be expected from an average NCAA defender. As well relative to his teammates, he would be considered the second worst defender on the team based on Providence performance when any given player was on the floor.
For reference, Illinois gave up only 1.06ppp on average last season. No individual defender in Illinois' rotation resulted in worse Illinois defensive performance than Providence with Vaaks on the court. And as for Big Z, Illinois' best defender by the metrics, when he was on the court, Illinois only gave up 0.96ppp and when adjusted for level of competition he's considered .04ppp better than the average NCAA player, making him a Top 25 defender in the country based on individual defensive win share.
Now this isn't saying Vaaks is going to be a horrible defender here or that he can't improve, just that his performance last season certainly isn't commensurate with an elite defender.
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