Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Boomauer
Jayden Epps really screwed up by spending 2 seasons at Georgetown...he could have joined the "5 teams in 5 years Club" with AJ Storr!
 
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lstewart53x3
BretMyBeachHouse said:
I'm not sure about fascination. I see it as rabid optimism. It's also seen in greatly overrating our talent, especially freshmen.

Hope springs eternal.
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Honestly, who’s been greatly overrated this offseason?

— We’re a projected top 5 team by every metric.

— Mirk is a projected 1st Team All American by Vegas. He’s 4th in player of the year odds.

— Vaaks, Andrej, and Tomi are projected top 100 players in college basketball.

— The only freshman in the projected starting lineup is a consensus 5 star, top 15 recruit who was possibly the best player on Team USA this summer and all we need is from him is to be our 5th(?) best player.

— So if by “overrating our freshman”, you mean, we hope one of our freshman can come off the bench as our *9th* man and provide 5-10 minutes and 1-2 points each game, then yes, we’re overrating our freshman.

Half the time, I see more belief in this team by national media than I do on this board.
 
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Fly Illini Fly!
BretMyBeachHouse said:
I'm not sure about fascination. I see it as rabid optimism. It's also seen in greatly overrating our talent, especially freshmen.

Hope springs eternal.
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Guys -- there's been WAY, WAY more posts expressing concern about our depth rather than optimism.

The post that started this conversation is LITERALLY the first of that kind, in the entire offseason. (I'm honestly not ruling it out from being a troll comment, because they probably knew everyone is so ready to oppose the "deepest team ever" argument at all times)
 
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dwpittman
hooraybeer said:
he was HS class of 2022 so would meet criteria if he had not already signed his NBA contract. that being said, it seems it wouldn’t be outside the realm of possibility that he could argue he didn’t have the NCAA option available to him at the time he signed the contract..
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Seems like just about every eligibility case is winnable at this point.
 
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