Ep. 816 - LaTulip on Will Riley, Kasparas Jakucionis and Brad Underwood's vision
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Illini Inquirer basketball analyst Mike LaTulip joins Jeremy Werner to discuss the latest with Illinois basketball. The guys discuss 2025 five-star wing Will Riley's visit and how he'd fit the 2024-25 Illinois roster if he reclassifies. The LaTulip breaks down what Lithuanian guard Kasparas Jakucionis brings to the team and expectations for his freshman season. Then LaTulip discusses Brad Underwood's offseason vision and the reasons for excitement and concern about this team.
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| 0:34.4 | Welcome into the online inquire podcast. Time to catch up with our guy, Michael Tup, because we still got a lot of Illinois basketball to talk about, haven't talked to him about the latest European |
| 0:40.9 | edition. We've got to talk about a five-star prospect who could be on the 2024 roster, |
| 0:46.4 | who is currently visiting Illinois, recording this on Monday evening, June 3rd. And we can start |
| 0:52.5 | talking about this roster in totality. |
| 0:54.9 | So I'm excited to dive into this. |
| 0:56.5 | Mike, how are you, man? |
| 0:57.8 | We're not done yet. |
| 1:00.2 | Still got some time here before the offseason truly ends and these guys get on campus |
| 1:05.1 | and you can kind of start to hear slash see what the actual finished product looks like. So it's exciting, man. It's |
| 1:14.0 | exciting time of the summer. Yeah, we kind of started this talk. We wanted to talk about |
| 1:18.0 | Gasparis Yacoucheonis. And I want to talk about Brad Underwood and what he's building here. But it's |
| 1:24.6 | hard not to talk about a five-star prospect who's currently on campus, |
| 1:28.3 | because this doesn't happen all that often. I mean, think of the recruiting rankings era. |
| 1:33.7 | You know, Will Riley, should he be in Illinois at his current ranking, would be the highest ranked |
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