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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Hilarious if true. Can our donors stump up the money for him to sell that golden ticket to Domask? No disrespect to anyone's sourcing but I'm going to believe this when I see official confirmation of it. It's an open-and-shut denial on paper, just like Domask, just like Chris Ledlum, just like...
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    TSJ Thread

    As I said a number of pages ago, if you want to convict on rape, you need to show the jury a rapist. There will be no Illinois Basketball fans on the jury, but no Twitter keyboard warrior radical feminists either.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Chris Ledlum entered the transfer portal too, but he's not eligible either. Besides the aggregator accounts mentioning him entering there is like zero chatter about Lathon's recruitment on Twitter. This is not a college basketball player anymore unless someone can show me clear evidence to the...
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    TSJ Thread

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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Oh crap you're right I totally missed that. (That's why he's so old, duh) He's played 4 full non-Covid years. He's done. That's why he's not on the 247 list. Whoops! Insiders, better alert Brad šŸ˜¬
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Because Watkins is being considered as someone who fits into the frame of the star player that would justify the rhetoric of the past few months where Storr was an insider-confirmed done deal, Kalkbrenner, Kadary Richmond, Boogie Fland, Demin, that level of elite, game changing, look-at-us...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Weirdly Lathon is not included in the 247 transfer rankings, and his transfer recruitment in general has been basically silent on Twitter. Lathon isn't a big fish, but he's a good player, fits like a glove, and would really raise the team's floor imho (similar to Humdinger in all respects)...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    Totally spitballing, but I think someone mentioned the idea that the cost savings would be redistributed among the existing roster? That sounds like a "waste" in player acquisition terms, but if that leaves us with a cast of returnees more willing to come to back next March, that could be the...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    There's an element of bluffing to it, sure, but I do think there's something to what Underwood says every time there's a microphone in front of him. "You can have too many". I say choose the one guy you want for that spot.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    IMHO you guys are being overly seduced by that one year where Monsanto's 3PT% started with a 4
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    A couple things I like about Lathon is that he's super old (will turn 25 next February) and he's very much a shooting guard (as opposed to a lot of the bigger wings we've been looking at in that spot). I don't think he's the best or most talented player of our current options, but I do think...
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

    I like Lathon (and he played awesome against us) but still...
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    Chicago Cubs 2024

    Wow, I was at Wrigley for his last win, when it looked like his Cy Young campaign was on. That was a long time ago.
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    Illini Basketball

    "Both" is a distinct possibility.
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    Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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