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Jeremiah Tilmon (2017 C) commits to Illinois
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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1227403" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>You become a championship contender IF and only IF those guys develop and gel together as a team and fill all of the needs a basketball team has, not just when they roll out on the floor together. It takes time, great coaching, and luck.</p><p></p><p>Teams amass more rivals stars and RSCI rankings than that all the time, multiple, multiple teams per year.</p><p></p><p>The only time you get just-add-water NCAA title contenders is when you're going 7-8 deep with guys who were top 10 recruits in the nation (which is true of none of these hypothetical Illinois players), and even then, look at a couple of UK's down seasons under Calipari to see that it isn't foolproof.</p><p></p><p>People underestimate both how much better we should be with the talent we already have and also the distance between that and true title contention.</p><p></p><p>We're not getting Scruggs or Wilkes, but let's say we did, and add them to Black, JCL, Finke, etc. That should be an easy tournament team and a player in the Big Ten title race, but it's a whole 'nother mountain to climb from there to the National Championship.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1227403, member: 527609"] You become a championship contender IF and only IF those guys develop and gel together as a team and fill all of the needs a basketball team has, not just when they roll out on the floor together. It takes time, great coaching, and luck. Teams amass more rivals stars and RSCI rankings than that all the time, multiple, multiple teams per year. The only time you get just-add-water NCAA title contenders is when you're going 7-8 deep with guys who were top 10 recruits in the nation (which is true of none of these hypothetical Illinois players), and even then, look at a couple of UK's down seasons under Calipari to see that it isn't foolproof. People underestimate both how much better we should be with the talent we already have and also the distance between that and true title contention. We're not getting Scruggs or Wilkes, but let's say we did, and add them to Black, JCL, Finke, etc. That should be an easy tournament team and a player in the Big Ten title race, but it's a whole 'nother mountain to climb from there to the National Championship. [/QUOTE]
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