Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread

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Welcome to the Illinois Hoops Recruiting Thread :illinois:

IL Returnees
1) Ty Rodgers
2) Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn

IL Signees
1) Morez Johnson (2024 PF) committed on November 4th, 2021.
2) Jason Jakstys (2024 F) committed on July 23rd, 2023.
3) Jake Davis (Mercer guard) committed on April 1st.
4) Tre White (Louisville wing) committed on April 9th.
5) Kylan Boswell (Arizona guard) committed on April 14th.
6) Carey Booth (Notre Dame forward) committed on April 16th.
7) Ben Humrichous (Evansville forward) committed on April 30th.
8) Tomislav Ivisic (Croatian center) committed on May 6th.
9) Kasparas Jakucionis (Lithuanian guard) committed on May 28th.


IL players who left or decommitted from the program
1) Dain Dainja entered transfer portal on April 1st, committed to Memphis on April 5th.
2) Jase Butler decommitted on April 8th, committed to Washington on April 23rd.
3) Sencire Harris entered transfer portal on April 15th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
4) Amani Hansberry entered transfer portal on April 16th, committed to West Virginia on April 21st.
5) Luke Goode entered transfer portal on April 22nd, committed to Indiana on April 26th.
6) Marcus Domask announced he's out of eligibility & declared for NBA Draft on April 25th.
7) Niccolo Moretti entered transfer portal on April 29th, committed to FAU on May 21st.
8) Coleman Hawkins withdrew from NBA Draft & announced intention to transfer to new program on May 29th.


2025 Recruiting
1) Jeremiah Fears (2025 PG) committed on January 22nd, 2024.
 
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Saving that last spot for Fears to enroll early makes the most sense, IMO.

He would get an extra 5 months to adapt to college, get fletched, and develop chemistry. All while not needing to worry about performing in actual games.
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As long as he doesn’t expect playing time like Perrin did
 
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On the topic of Fears, should we be as hopeful as we are about him? Obviously he wants to play at ILL and Rez will certainly help, but are there caveats that we haven’t really considered such as his idea of how much play time he thinks he should get? I think everyone here thinks he’s a solid lock myself included. I just don’t want to be overly optimistic on him and he end up somewhere else.
 
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If by some chance we got Will Riley

Kasparas Jakuciononis + Will Riley > Egor Demin
Heck, KJ may be better than Egor all by himself
 
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Ty is not a traditional 3, but I think he fits pretty well alongside KJ and Humrichous. Humrichous seems pretty perimeter oriented so Ty wouldn't need to function as a true wing on offense. Ty should live off of back cuts, pick and rolls (as screener) and booty ball.
 
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ugottabjoshinme said:
Ty is not a traditional 3, but I think he fits pretty well alongside KJ and Humrichous. Humrichous seems pretty perimeter oriented so Ty wouldn't need to function as a true wing on offense. Ty should live off of back cuts, pick and rolls (as screener) and booty ball.
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The other key to that formula is Ivisic. If we had ended up with someone like Onyenso at the 5, that would have really hurt Ty. But the fact that you have to guard Ivisic out at the 3 pt line (and you must put a 5 man on him, too, because if you don’t he will feast in the post) will really help Ty.

Last year teams got away with guarding Ty with their 5 because Coleman could be effectively guarded by a 4. That shouldn’t be the case this year.
 
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ugottabjoshinme said:
Ty is not a traditional 3, but I think he fits pretty well alongside KJ and Humrichous. Humrichous seems pretty perimeter oriented so Ty wouldn't need to function as a true wing on offense. Ty should live off of back cuts, pick and rolls (as screener) and booty ball.
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Ty was actually pretty efficient IMO considering he's not a shooter. He managed to improve his FT % to 58%, which still needs work but was a big jump. With all the other things he does on the floor, plus the leadership, toughness and program guy qualities, he's a luxury to have. Tend to agree he's going to be better with good perimeter players.
 
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