Will Riley watch for Illini basketball | Illini Inquirer Podcast
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner discuss Illinois basketball's pursuit of five-star wing Will Riley, which is entering its final days. The guys discuss where the Illini stand with the Canadian wing, how he'd fit with the 2024-25 roster and what adding him would mean for the program. The guys then discuss top storylines of the start of Illini basketball summer workouts and Illini recruits Morez Johnson and Jeremiah Fears winning gold medals with USA Basketball at the FIBA U18 AmeriCup in Argentina.
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1 Boz, Kasparas
2 Ty, Lawhorn
3 Riley, White, Davis
4 Humrichous, Booth
5 Morez, Big T, Jakstys
Amazing roster if they get Riley.
Kasparas might knock Ty down a notch. Good problem to have. I'd be surprised if Jakstys doesn't redshirt. My hope for Ty is that he shoots 20,000 3-pts during the summer. There is little room for a 6-6 player who can't get to the arc.
Great roster on paper. Lots of versatility and complementary pieces.
I just wanna see how these guys mesh.
The thumbnail had me thinking we were getting Curbelo back for a split moment.
A Crystal Ball to ILLINI for Riley.
Bit of a difference between Chester recruits and Antigua recruits
And Chester’s were pretty good
yes but Kentucky did not do much in the tourney...one and dones and could not work together as a team
I have just one word.. ELITE 🧡💙
Are we going to cover illini women's recruitment soon?
no?
Was Bruce Weber the worst recruiter Illinois has ever had?!?! I mean come on how do you go from national title game runner-up and still not be able to get any top kids from that run?!?!?! And don't even get me started on Groce!!!! Those 2 put Illinois in the dark ages of Illini basketball.
I'm not sure if he was worse than Groce but his misses might seem worse because of the level of talent that was coming outta the state for the majority of his time in charge. I think all things being equal, Groce was worse when you consider how hard he made getting elite talent for the next guy.
Groce is #1
I get the impression Weber wasn’t willing to do some the unseemly things necessary to bring in top talent. In other words he was ethical to a fault. Not that i have any inside knowledge, that’s just the impression i have of him.
@@rbeberman5296 I get the impression that literally nobody ever thought he had any swagger because he didn't. Bruce and his "Aw shucks" persons just didnt play in Chicagoland and it killed Illinois during the greatest purple patch the state ever had
@@rbeberman5296 that is spot on.
It took Bruce Weber a few years but he eventually did bring in top 100 players. Jeremy Richmond,Meyers Leonard,Brandon Paul, and DJ Richardson.
Pushing Riley as a one & done is desperation and not going to work. He's a bigtime prospect but is going to struggle as a reclassify HSer going up against 22 & 23 yr old super seniors.
He is already 18 years old so he is actually the age of most high school freshman already. The re-class means nothing actually. He could struggle as all freshman do but not because he is a re-class.
If this doesn't go our way. We need to pivot to Coleman.
Bruh that train has left the station
Pay Coleman to comeback and play him at the 3