Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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NarrowJ
MDchicago said:
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Love the tracker. Above is look at the BPM column of the Roster Tracker by tiers as things stand as of now. (Chose to focus on the BPM since it incorporates offensive and defensive efficiency as well as strength of schedule; WS is interesting history but less useful as a predictive metric since it isn't strength of schedule adjusted, and with all the transfers between the different D1 levels, a player on a good team in a bottom feeder conference with an easy schedule can accumulate more WS simply because the team won more games.)

Just one metric regarding the level of experienced talent on the rosters (and a work in progress, as Michigan and others likely have some significant moves yet to make), but gotta love where the Illini sit as of now. Also does not measure contributions from freshmen, so also tiered the RSCI data in the tracker to see how the incoming freshman talent breaks down.

Ohio State has quietly put together some experienced talent via the Portal; interested to see if Diebler can make the pieces fit. Probably the biggest surprise to me from this exercise,
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Nice! Thats a really cool adapted view.

I should note though that team BPM is kind of messed up on my sheet though. It’s giving equal weight to each players WS & BPM (I should fix and weight by minutes to get an aggregate value per team, but haven’t got around to it just yet)
 
#153      
HouTexIllini
Combo said:
"Positionless basketball" is a misleading/misused term as it's not 100% positionless. It's a phrase. Last year's team was billed as positionless, yet there was no doubt who the guards were and no doubt who the (primary) PG was. You want all 5 players to be able to shoot and to be able to find the open guy, but certain guys are going to handle the ball a lot more than others. You also know certain guys can't defend a quick guard while other guys can't defend a 6'9 240 lb PF.
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So, you’re telling me Mirk won’t be our back up PG and Morillo isn’t the next Dennis Rodman or Ron Artest who can guard the 4 bc he is 6’7?
 
#154      
Ga65
Was curious of the emphasis on smaller quicker guards shredding our defense. Looked at some stats and found 18 +20 pt scoring against us. 4 were by players 6’-6’2”, 6 by 6’4”-6’5”, and 8 by players >6’6”. Did not look at assists and this would be another factor as getting into the lane and feeding the big for a slam would be part of the narrative. However seven of these scores were put up by Fears, Thornton, Smith, Boyd and Blackwell and they did it against everyone. Not sure there was any guard that kept those guys out of the paint. Our length helps against three pointers but the rest is all about rim protection which we did much better in the tournament. Maybe we need to make Tyler our defensive coach for a couple of years.
 
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Noblesville Illini
Joel Goodson said:
pretty good:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2047851173898485998
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#158      
Illin618
Insiders… are the Illini interested in Danilo Dovic at all? Seems to be a great fit for the front court
 
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Mr. Tibbs
Rhea Seahorn is really more of a backup 4. 😎

Edit: I take that back. She’s backup to NOBODY!
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I just signed up for Apple TV.
is Pluribus really that good ? first 30 minutes were slow & tough to get into
 
#175      
wncillini
So we are pursuing Nasir Anderson. Is the thought that his shooting can be improved since it looks like he starting playing basketball seriously recently. Very high ceiling in the paint. Draws a lot of attention and dishes well. 3s and FTs need a lot of work. Isn't the type of guy we've gone after recently.
 
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