Ep. 610 - Melendez enters portal; Big-name possibilities for Illini?
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Illini Inquirer's Derek Piper and Jeremy Werner weigh in on Illinois guard RJ Melendez entering the transfer portal and some new big names entering the transfer portal, including Hunter Dickinson, LJ Cryer and Max Abmas. Piper breaks down some potential transfer possibilities for Illinois and the timing of it, and the guys go over how Big Ten teams have been impacted by the portal so far this offseason.
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| 1:08.1 | We appreciate all you guys and we got plenty of talk about because the portal is wild and another O'Ini enters RJ Melendez. |
| 1:10.3 | Not a huge shocker, but we'll dive into that. |
| 1:28.4 | It's Jeremy Warner, Derek Piper. If you are watching on the live YouTube, give us a like. Hit subscribe with that, and you'll get notified when we go live. We did the football show yesterday, Joy Wagner and I, breaking down what we've learned so far during the spring scrimmage. But Derek, this portal is crazy. This is madness, man. |
| 1:30.5 | Like, this is the real madness in college basketball, |
| 1:32.4 | more so than the NCAA tournament we just saw. |
| 1:33.4 | Hmm. |
| 1:35.2 | The names, Jeremy, the names. |
| 1:38.2 | Hunter Dickinson, L.J. Cryer yesterday. |
| 1:39.4 | Max A. Smith. |
| 1:41.3 | A familiar one, David Jones, |
| 1:42.5 | and he sent that in the group message right before we hopped on this pod. |
| 2:01.8 | It's crazy. What's that? I said, hello, old friend. See a couple guys enter for the second or third time here. There's quite a bit of that. I know that he would be a grad, but you're going to have some guys that are in the portal now that are trying to move for a second time. We'll how the waiver process goes for them there's buzz of some others that can continue to enter the portal those that have NBA |
| 2:07.0 | draft decisions those that if you want to seek bigger NIL or whatever the motivation is I don't think |
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