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Posted
1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

The timing of the dead period sort of sucks. When does it end again, a week? After the April 7 date where deals then need to be evaluated? Do we know of any other visitors today? While early in the cycle, we don’t have much of anything to actually discuss / analyze yet so of course people worry about the worst. No idea how feasible this is but… Add Tyrone Riley, Bidunga, Dix to Tucker DeVries and Trent. Add Trent’s HS teammate Dante Allen and the WVU decommits not tied to Frazier (Odih and Maclean). You need some more high end talent but that’s a decent starting point with a lot of youth. Of course we probably will be lucky to add 2 or 3 of those names. Which is fine… I won’t be freaking out over bringing in players not highly rated… as long as it makes sense after watching tape.

Dead period for the NCAA championship, it's the right thing to do as coaches migrate to the final four / enjoy a weekend off from visits.

 

 

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Posted
16 minutes ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Guy another site (an ILL fan) says Dix to ILL soon 

That would be frustrating.  Creighton would make sense with being close to home, etc.  Illinois less so, they would just have beaten us like Louisville did for Conwell.  

Posted
1 minute ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Tbf it’s just a random dude on there saying that, no one reputable 

tbf it's the only actual ILL fan on there and he is a solid poster 

tbf I have yet to see a lot of reputable coming from anyone on these two sites

Posted
3 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

That would be frustrating.  Creighton would make sense with being close to home, etc.  Illinois less so, they would just have beaten us like Louisville did for Conwell.  

But not surprising. 1 yr left for Conwell and Dix, who are good, not great players. 

Posted
1 minute ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

tbf it's the only actual ILL fan on there and he is a solid poster 

tbf I have yet to see a lot of reputable coming from anyone on these two sites

Nothing on there indicates he’s an insider or else they would’ve been spewing happiness 

Posted
1 minute ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

Nothing on there indicates he’s an insider or else they would’ve been spewing happiness 

I never mentioned he was an "insider" 

Posted
1 minute ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

But not surprising. 1 yr left for Conwell and Dix, who are good, not great players. 

Idk.  Both closer to great than good. Depending on your measurement of those words, we likely won't get a "great" player then. 

We will get to see a team.  Might be fun.  Offense will try to look like Creighton's.  We will be capped by athleticism and size.   

Posted
Just now, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Idk.  Both closer to great than good. Depending on your measurement of those words, we likely won't get a "great" player then. 

We will get to see a team.  Might be fun.  Offense will try to look like Creighton's.  We will be capped by athleticism and size.   

 Nahh. Neither are Javon Small or Tucker. 

Posted

Derek Piper of our Illinois site is reporting that the Illini staff expects to hear about Josh Dix in the next 24 hours or so. 

I do know that Iowa has been in regular communication with Dix. 

One source said that Josh is getting some pretty big-time numbers thrown at him, so they'd lean him going elsewhere. 

Some are saying Illinois, some are saying Indiana. I'd bet it's one of those programs right now, but we'll see. 

I don't think Iowa has heard officially yet
 

from iowas 247 staff member 

Posted
5 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

Neither Flory or Payne are 30+ mpg guys so taking both would solve the 5 spot in a hurry

@Certified Sunshine Pumperwhat's confusing about this? Flory isn't good enough offensively to play 30+ mpg on top of foul issues and Payne has never physically been able to play 30 mpg or really even come close to it.

A 22/18 minute split with Payne + Flory at the 5 with Flory playing a 4-5 minutes at the 4 when a bigger lineup is needed would be a good sell for DeVries. With multiple years of eligibility left, a good development year would potentially allow Flory to push 30+ mpg as an upperclassmen.

Posted
2 minutes ago, AH1971 said:

@Certified Sunshine Pumperwhat's confusing about this? Flory isn't good enough offensively to play 30+ mpg on top of foul issues and Payne has never physically been able to play 30 mpg or really even come close to it.

A 22/18 minute split with Payne + Flory at the 5 with Flory playing a 4-5 minutes at the 4 when a bigger lineup is needed would be a good sell for DeVries. With multiple years of eligibility left, a good development year would potentially allow Flory to push 30+ mpg as an upperclassmen.

I like it, I love it, i want some more of it.   I don’t see either of them listening to that sales pitch unfortunately but from a winning basketball perspective it adds up.  

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