FLA gonna be loaded
Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread
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Florida clearly has no issue loaded up on talent. This dude definitely wont start but will be a valuable bench piece.
With our overseas success, not sure why we can’t do the same. Would help to fill out a realistic 9 deep.
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And better coaching.
1. Florida's roster looks a lot like ours right now - a lot of really great pieces up top, but really only 8 players that nobody is worried about being a rotation piece (Aberdeen needs a waiver and that's not looking great for them)
2. Its been said 999999999 times that we will likely add another player
How I see it:
them and Duke are the clear top 2 (preseason).
Then it’s splitting hairs between Michigan / Tennessee / Illinois / UCONN.
If I had to rank it: Florida, Duke, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee, UCONN. (off of the assumption that Morez is gone)
I’m just not sure Michigan has that number 1 scorer (which Yaxel was). They’ll likely still be great defensively… but it’s unrealistic to think Yaxel / Morez / Mara —> McCoy / Estrella / Thiam isn’t somewhat of a downgrade.
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Would love one more deep at the 4/5 spot!
Seems like almost every highly-regard IL High school player ends up at a prep school out of state.
Wouldn't expect Florida to say anything different while they're waiting for the NCAA, really...
"Todd Golden not expecting Denzel Aberdeen to be cleared at Florida'
Doesn't sound like something he'd want to say out loud.
ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
Freshmen are a little different, but still, yeah.
For the record, his team doesn't even play in the second division of the Adriatic League, they only play in the local Slovenian league, so that's at a relatively low level, albeit an older experienced pro.
All of our guys were relatively experienced in the Adriatic League top division (Petro the most experienced, so take it all with a grain of salt, but it's a higher level of play).
I believe the argument with him is that he came back and played through injury which limited him during his freshman year, and I believe I've read that everybody has been losing those cases. No question he played too much and too late for a medical redshirt by the normal rules.
Michigan state is better than UConn, imo.
Tennessee - I think they should be 3. You know they’re gonna rebound and play defense. Pretty much guarantees when it comes to their coach. They are a bit smaller, but athleticism wise there’s no drop off.
Then you add in as much offensive firepower as they’ve added, it’s hard to think they aren’t title contenders. Not great retention, but that’s pretty much meaningless if you can get the newcomers to buy in (see: Michigan).
Yeah, but Barnes has earned trust that he will get guys in the right position.
I'm not so sure about Kelsey
I don't think I can put Illinois higher than UConn until we actually beat Hurley.
Ignoring that the idea is the staff will see Brown play this summer and consider a Euro based on it...Who do you think is taking that spot before then?
We just had 2 former top 100 recruits & 2 semi-pros enter the portal rather than compete for that role.
If you want names, the truth is I don’t know. I’m too ignorant, and anybody who isn’t on the staff likely is as well.
But I do know that “who” exists. If Florida can convince the guy listed to come play that role from overseas (despite being an even more loaded team than us), then I’m not sure why Illinois won’t be able to do the same.
Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
Brad also said it’s invaluable to have everyone here for the summer for multiple reasons yet here we are with said player missing. Why? What are we waiting on?
My bet would be this likely doesn’t happen. Brad’s main focus is to have everybody here for the summer.
goodness, goodness, goodness. Let's go ahead and stand pat
So you're posting we need a 9th over and over yet acknowledge the staff is aware of the market and our roster?
Its the number 1 team vs the number 4 team and you're posting this all because FL just signed a 22 yr old forward who landed 2 spots down the Slovenian league leaderboard behind a guy that averaged 10 ppg at central Connecticut State 2 years ago & 7 spots behind a frmr NC A&T player in rebounds?
How certain are you that's a upgrade from Zens, Brown or Jakstys? How certain are you that the staff hasn't thought through this all?
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This is 100% just a gut feeling on my part, but I wonder if the player we add later winds up being Ty Rogers?
I can’t imagine there is another P5 willing to offer him a bigger role and more pay than we would be. And while I don’t know for certain my impression is that we could probably offer him more to be our 9th/10th guy (with a chance to earn a bigger role) than he could get as a starter at a mid major.
I can’t imagine there is another P5 willing to offer him a bigger role and more pay than we would be. And while I don’t know for certain my impression is that we could probably offer him more to be our 9th/10th guy (with a chance to earn a bigger role) than he could get as a starter at a mid major.
Competition levels are pretty awful if you watch the games. Prep schools definitely better tune-up for college ball.
Illinicpa14
- Chicago
But besides Yaxel on pure offense those other guys just played as better versions of their game. It’s not like morez went from scoring 20 a game and same with Mara. They were underutilized players.
Also think everyone wants to assume Juke is Yaxel 2.0 but he was projected an early second round pick, Yaxel was a top 20 guy last year coming back. I hated Yaxel but he was a really special player.
100% title contenders I just think they are 1 of 8 not this juggernaut.
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I think we need to let this ship sail. He's an undersized 4 who has no jump shot for B1G speed/closeouts. And unless Andrej drastically improves his perimeter shot we'll struggle to play them concurrently ala the issue with Andrej/Kylan combo this year (post-the fracture).
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