Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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hangdog
RabidDawgClassic said:
This is gonna make a few of you here very happy.
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#129      
Scoregasm
skyIdub said:
Rhea Seehorn walked onto my flight out of LAX one day and I got to fan boy and basically told her the same! BCS>BB
Kim Wexler is hot.
I invited her up to the flight deck and she came up and chatted with me for 5-10 minutes!
Fun BCS talk and got the Pluribus scoop.
She’s a gem.
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You're so lucky!!!
 
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Combo
IllinitripleJ said:
He's a better shot blocker than Mara but has skills. Tough loss for Cincinnati but I assume it was all about NIL. Morez's spot looks to taken by 5* freshman Quinn Costello, a Burger Boy and top 20 recruit. Costello is skilled and 6'10'. If they get the forward from Wake Forest they might be even better next year. Just a hunch though I think the Wake Forest forward signs with North Carolina.
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My God they're going to be loaded. Didn't realize they were bringing in so much H.S. talent. Have to be the favorites in the Big Ten with us next.
 
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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)
 
#133      
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?
 
#134      
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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