majerus mojo Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 On 8/22/2017 at 9:15 PM, JMM28 said: It’s the basketball equivalent of being in the friend zone! Great success. On a Tatum note - his situation just got better long term but probably a little less opportunity for him short term. Kyrie is a wiener but that Boston team looks like the best team in the east at this point. More opportunity with Crowder now gone. Kyrie running with Tatum, Brown, Hayward is going to be fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted August 25, 2017 Share Posted August 25, 2017 CLE is still the better team if Thomas is healthy, imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUAILMAN Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Tatum looking great in the first game of the season. Going to get quite a bit of playing time now that Hayward is out for at least a few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlarry Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 The Hayward injury was gruesome. Shades of Louisville a few years back on Easter Sunday of the final 4. Legs aren't suppose to make 90 degree angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quality Is Job 1 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 1 hour ago, dlarry said: Legs aren't suppose to make 90 degree angles. I know what you mean, but don't legs make a 90° angle (approximately) anytime a person sits or kneels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJumpUp Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 39 minutes ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: I know what you mean, but don't legs make a 90° angle (approximately) anytime a person sits or kneels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlarry Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 11 hours ago, Quality Is Job 1 said: I know what you mean, but don't legs make a 90° angle (approximately) anytime a person sits or kneels? Lol Very true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 nice IMO's commercial running featuring tatum. wonder what he got paid for that? Free pizza for life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 42 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: nice IMO's commercial running featuring tatum. wonder what he got paid for that? Free pizza for life? As much as it sucks that the young Tatum wasn't a Billiken (in hindsight can any of us blame him for not wanting him to dive into the Jim Crews dumpster fire). I absolutely love that Imo's commercial / Tatum for doing the commercial. It does not seem like something he would have been paid much for. The Imo's commercials have a low budget feel to them and the athletes in them (Freese and now Tatum) always seem kind of awkward / un-coached / like they're doing it in one take. Seems to me that Tatum said, "I don't care about carefully crafting my brand or getting paid, I love Imo's pizza and just want to do a commercial for them". I think that is pretty awesome on his part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 1 hour ago, RUBillsFan said: As much as it sucks that the young Tatum wasn't a Billiken (in hindsight can any of us blame him for not wanting him to dive into the Jim Crews dumpster fire). I absolutely love that Imo's commercial / Tatum for doing the commercial. It does not seem like something he would have been paid much for. The Imo's commercials have a low budget feel to them and the athletes in them (Freese and now Tatum) always seem kind of awkward / un-coached / like they're doing it in one take. Seems to me that Tatum said, "I don't care about carefully crafting my brand or getting paid, I love Imo's pizza and just want to do a commercial for them". I think that is pretty awesome on his part. exactly. everytime i see it it makes me smile. and honestly he seems so geniune yet. hopefully he keeps his feet on the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiseAndGrind Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I’m glad Tatum didn’t make a mistake and come to SLU. i like that kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prebilliken Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 As a Bills fan who grew up in Boston, I have already 100% sold out on Tatum... He looked smooth last night. A little shell shocked when the game began and LBJ blocked his layup into the third row but grew up quickly. Going to be a great player. Might buy a jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 43 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: exactly. everytime i see it it makes me smile. and honestly he seems so geniune yet. hopefully he keeps his feet on the ground. -he didn't go to SLU, your reaction to him is surprising given your 'if they don't go to SLU they are dead to me' mantra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 11 minutes ago, Cowboy said: -he didn't go to SLU, your reaction to him is surprising given your 'if they don't go to SLU they are dead to me' mantra legacy. dad was a billiken. gives him a semi pass especially out of college plus i blame crewsplatt it never happened. they could f up anything Tonka, NextYearBill and Littlebill like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 15 minutes ago, billiken_roy said: legacy. dad was a billiken. gives him a semi pass especially out of college plus i blame crewsplatt it never happened. they could f up anything I'm in the same boat. Definitely don't hate him and have no ill will given how bad we were with Crews recruiting him. Ford would have landed him; I have no doubt. Tonka likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUBillsFan Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 17 minutes ago, kshoe said: I'm in the same boat. Definitely don't hate him and have no ill will given how bad we were with Crews recruiting him. Ford would have landed him; I have no doubt. Yep. This is why the timing of Tatum's college year is tragic for Billiken fans. The kid genuinely seems to love St. Louis and (I believe) wanted to stay home, but couldn't justify playing for such an awful coach on such a bad team. A couple of years earlier and he's helping SLU's NCAA tournament teams reach historic levels of success or a couple of years later and he's surrounded by Ford recruited talent. Very "typical Billikens" type of situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 i also cant blame tatum for not being able to stand up to the coach k full court press when recruited. think about it, tatum was playing on the usa team that k was coaching and everyday for over a month, k was likely telling him how horrible slu was the great history of duke blah blah blah. also all tatum's peers on that team were likely telling him the same thing, making fun of crewsplatt, etc. peer pressure is tough. and standing up to a legend like coach k is tough. now that all said, once he signed with coach k my enthusiasm for tatum went out the window. i definitely didnt go watch him as much his last year at chaminade i would have, but still as i said in the previous post, he was still a legacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I was in the Jayson is dead to me camp. He is so damn likable and so pro St. Louis that is was impossible to stay in that camp. Plus, he did us a favor by not prolonging the Crews Era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 If Ford was the coach 2 years ago, we still were not getting Tatum. We didn't have a talent on the team to make his one year in college in worthwhile. Unlike Michael Porter, he didn't have a top 25 kid brother who could have made us a power in the A10. But let's say we did get him. It would have been like Davidson last year -- gaudy numbers for Peyton Aldridge but the team was only above average. And that's assuming Coach Ford would have been able to bring in a transfer that was as talented as Jack Gibbs. Jayson Tatum is a great talent but unlike Larry Hughes he lacks the playmaking skills to make the players around him better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoon-Balls Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 8 minutes ago, brianstl said: Plus, he did us a favor by not prolonging the Crews Era. This is key Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, 3star_recruit said: If Ford was the coach 2 years ago, we still were not getting Tatum. We didn't have a talent on the team to make his one year in college in worthwhile. Unlike Michael Porter, he didn't have a top 25 kid brother who could have made us a power in the A10. But let's say we did get him. It would have been like Davidson last year -- gaudy numbers for Peyton Aldridge but the team was only above average. And that's assuming Coach Ford would have been able to bring in a transfer that was as talented as Jack Gibbs. Jayson Tatum is a great talent but unlike Larry Hughes he lacks the playmaking skills to make the players around him better. When I say if we had Ford we would have had him I wasn't assuming Ford was starting on day 1 with a sh!t roster (like he was last year). Rather I was assuming he was mid-stream in his coaching here. Put differently, if Tatum was in the 2018 class and everything else was the same, I feel pretty comfortable saying ford could convince him to join next year's team and take us to the Final 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I like Tatum a lot and think we will see the breadth of his love for St. Louis, and possibly for SLU as well, in time. He is a fine kid, a fine player, there is nothing not to like about him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slu let the dogs out? Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 On 8/21/2017 at 12:22 PM, bonwich said: Wow. How's that for a big endorsement? (I think it has more to do with personal affinity than financial reward. ) Imo's inks hoops hotshot Tatum for pizza plugs http://bit.ly/2x6fxUG Agreed. Although if he inked a similar deal to Freese, he should be getting about $10-15k in Imo's gift certificates. Which should be just enough for one extra large pizza. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 pepperoni, bacon and green pepper - Fine choice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Jim Crews’s Blake Ahearn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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