He didn’t play well….. and he went 11 and 13. Just sayin’.
Kofi Cockburn enters NBA Draft
- Status
against some pretty talent players all trying to impress NBA brass
texillwek
🔶🔹🔸🔷
Trigger warning 
writingillini.com
Illinois Basketball: Kofi Cockburn on display at the NBA Combine
Kofi Cockburn was one of the most legendary big men to ever come through the Illinois basketball program. Career averages of 17.2 points, 9.6 rebounds, and...
writingillini.com
-21 doesn't look great but plus/minus from a one game sample is pretty irrelevant. It's the 5/14 shooting that concerns me. That'd be bad for a guard chucking up 3s, but it's atrocious for a big who's biggest selling point is his track record of consistently efficient scoring in college.
illini80
- Forgottonia
I’m not arguing with you and yours and my opinion doesn’t count anyway. Just the NBA scouts. But the talk was he needed to get lighter to improve his quickness and ability to defend the perimeter. I assume that opinion came from the NBA guys. Or maybe not.
Is it really surprising or good that he's measuring up well with two guys either showing up at the tail end of mock drafts, or not showing up at all?
He went 5 of 14 shooting and had 7 offensive rebounds. How many of those rebounds were off his own misses?
Anyone else see Trayce Jackson-Davis go back to Indiana and get green with envy about Kofi not returning?
Joel Goodson
- respect my decision™
sacraig
- The desert
As long Dain Dainja continues the tradition of taking TJD's lunch money when we play them then I don't really care how he feels about Kofi.
I’m thinking what they lack is what Kofi has naturally. What Kofi lacks is sometimes learnable.
1. That's a much better performance from Kofi, glad to see it.
2. I think it's just a joke about how many reporters are interested in him. Like, if he were doing something especially newsworthy (like withdrawing from the draft) that would explain the interest level.
Kofi Cockburn is the 8th wonder of the world!
That's a much better box score line for Kofi. Also note that he was an EVEN in a scrimmage his team lost by six.
IlliniLiveOn
Sierra Nevada
Keon has no memory of this play.
IlliniLiveOn
Sierra Nevada
IF my understanding of the rule changes of 2019 are correct ... a player that has college eligibility remaining and declares for the NBA draft, participates in the NBA Combine, and withdraws from the NBA draft before June 1st - IS allowed to return to college to play the upcoming season. Is that correct? Does he lose his scholarship as has been mentioned in a previous post?
I'm pretty sure the rule is that a player can do that (declare for draft and then withdraw and return to school) twice. After he used those two freebies, if he declares a third time he's no longer eligible to return to NCAA basketball. Kofi has already declared and returned after both his freshman and sophomore seasons, so he is done.
Can someone please photoshop Dickerson, Bohannon or Davidson's face on this for old time sakes
- Status