Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Kendall Gill’s Uncle said:
No Dan’s post is #1. It says so on the thread. Its official. You’ve let these people who like to make up their own rules to make themselves feel better weaken you. S/
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Deacon05
Kendall Gill’s Uncle said:
Those are artificial rules. Dan’s post is always #1 on the thread so the next person is always #2. The people who post #1 as #2 are probably also staunch supporters of participation trophies and have contributed to the weakness of our current culture. S/ or whatever you are supposed to do to indicate sarcasm.
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Fantastic week at the Euroleague ANGT for 6'9 Russian guard Egor Demin capped off with Real Madrid's overtime win in the championship game. 26 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks for the projected 2025 top-10 pick.
 
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Fan Since '70 said:
Kasparas would be a high utilization guy with focus on him, and always has been. He will be a 1st round or at most 2nd round draft pick when he leaves Illinois after 1-2 years. How many draft picks has Illinois had? You'd be looking at one in Kasparas or Demin. Kasparas stats will show him to be the all-around great player he is, as both a go-to guy and excellent facilitator, right out of the gate. Makes those around him better.
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He hasn't committed to us.
 
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Kendall Gill’s Uncle said:
Those are artificial rules. Dan’s post is always #1 on the thread so the next person is always #2. The people who post #1 as #2 are probably also staunch supporters of participation trophies and have contributed to the weakness of our current culture. S/ or whatever you are supposed to do to indicate sarcasm.
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Participation trophies!!?? But it takes dedication, some quick typing fingers, punctuality, and a steadfast devotion to childish frivolity to prevail! And under your supposed rules, the best anyone could ever do is second!! @Second place is 1st loser back me up here!
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LvilleILL said:
Booth isn't being talked about enough. Yes he had his ups and downs as a freshman, but his upside is very high
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Based on his film, I think Booth will probably have some struggles in his first year with us, much like Coleman did as an underclassman. When Carey puts his head down and decides to take it to the hoop, he really pops off the screen and looks fantastic and highly efficient doing it, but he just doesn't do that often enough, instead really falling in love with and settling for far less efficient 3pt shots. The key for Booth in my opinion is similar to Coleman, which is to be more aggressive driving, and putting himself into position to take better quality threes. I think it's probably going to take at least a year of coaching to get him to take those steps to possibly find that very high ceiling. So while I'm not as high on Booth this upcoming year, I really like the idea of him in year 2 with us if he starts putting it together like senior year Coleman did.
 
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BashCtIllini said:
An honest, in my opinion, evaluation of his game. He is an average athlete. He is not an above the rim guy, he's not going to blow by anyone, but he also doesn't appear to be a liability athletically.

His defense looked like it could use some help in the games I saw. He wasn't fighting through screens, a guy with a good first step could get past him.

He is an elite FT shooter, and he gets to the line a lot.

He is a good shooter, don't think I'd call it great. Given his FT shooting, one would assume he could be a great shooter eventually.

When I watch this kid, what stands out to me the most is feel for the game/bball IQ. He knows how to cross people up, he knows how to exploit the flow of the defense, he can see where his teammate is going and put the pass there.

His body is ready to play right now. I think overall he can step in and be a capable Big Ten starter, but I do not expect him to be a star right out of the gates. He is not going to have the ball in his hands as much on our team.
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Sounds a little like the take on Domask before last season. Sign me up for Domask part Deax.
 
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CoalCity said:
You think that was MEAN? It was honest and sincere. How are you going to take someone's opinion on something that important when it's possible to see for yourself?
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"That important"? Seriously? I'm going to be a team player and give you a life lesson. In the grand scheme of things, college basketball recruiting is that important. We love it, we love our team, we want to have a fantastic team, but in the end....no, it's not truly important. Getting infants up at 4:30AM to feed them or tend to then when they're sick is important. If you have a job that puts food on the table and you have to be at 5AM, that's important.

I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on in your life, where you're from, what you do, etc....its moot.

We have really cool people in here that are fans and they can get us, who can't live and die with every boom, some updated info...that's great, but it's not so important that you need to call someone out.

I'm sure that you're a good guy/girl, but be better. I'm saying that positively. Now, I got from others that he's a phenomenal player that is capable of being "that guy". That's all I needed.
 
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