RUBillsFan

I highly doubt Josh Schertz is going to encourage guys to shoot mid-range jumpers. For reference, this is Indiana State's shot shart vs Utah in the NIT semi-finals:

This is small time thinking. TheOne was on here saying 3-4 Indiana State starters plus Jimerson. We only landed 2 Indiana State guys, so I take that as meaning we'd still have potential NIL funds for the right starting caliber players that the big fish are on board with.

Check out Ryan Conwell's stats and South Florida or Jayson's Kent's stats at Bradley. We'd have been very underwhelmed to add those type of guys.

Technically this was a separate tweet. Not a re-tweet of the one from 4/13. As far as I know there wasn’t any news about that one / who it was. I’d assume this is a different player altogether, but who knows

Robbie led Indiana State in assist percentage last season. I'm not super worried about a traditional PG in the Yuri or Medley mold. Just need a guard or guard(s) who can shoot well and pass well. Schertz isn't going to have one guy initiating the offense every time down.

The best part is that you don’t have to pick just one nickname! Cream is the best one, but the dude is famous for having a bunch of nicknames. Adding the St Louis and SLU specific ones is great.

Yeah. I'd agree with this. Crews final 2 season and Ford 1st season were objectively worse. They all had fewer wins and lower KenPom raings. 2014-15 - 11 wins, 289 KenPom 2015-16 - 11 wins, 226 KenPom 2016-17 - 12 wins, 273 KenPom 2023-24 - 13 wins, 199 KenPom However, this past season was devoid of 2 things those other awful years had going for them. #1 we were still in the afterglow of the best 3 year run in program history (or at least recent history) and #2 we had more hope that better results were coming. 2014-15 we all knew would be a massive step back after Loe, Evans, Jett & McCall graduated. We expected the young team to take some lumps, but could hope they'd improve. 2015-16 was still a young team & by the end we pretty much knew Crews was going to get canned & his replacement would be better. 2016-17 we had new optimism that Ford would bring in talent & win and we had a bunch of promising transfers sitting out (Bess, Henriquez, Foreman) plus our highest rated recruit in decades coming in (Goodwin). This past season was 5 years removed from our most recent NCAA appearance, coming off one of the most disappointing years in recent memory in terms of expectations vs results, and there was substantial doubt about whether or not Ford would be fired / how much hope there could be for better results the following season. It was an awful experience all around. No afterglow, no hope of being competitive from the start and little/no hope that we were building toward anything for the future.

FIFY

This just needs to move to players signing contracts with schools and donors donating money to schools instead of NIL directly to players. I'm not sure how that works with Title IX, but it is likely than / can't be worst than the current system. Schools can sign guys for 1 - 4 year deals. You can have any number of team / player options & opt outs or whatever. A kid can buy out his deal or bigger schools can buy out contracts if they want a guy to transfer.

I haven't "seen the kids play" in person, but have read about antics & heard about them from people who have seen Walsh play. We know Travis Ford had no issues taking guys who had baggage on some level and/or maybe weren't great chemistry guys (Situation 2 guys, Santos, Gordon, Nesbitt, Russell, Parker, Dalger, Ezewiro). The fact that Ford & staff seemed to cool on Walsh and this stuff is out there gives me pause. I'm not necessarily lumping Walsh with those guys. Everyone has their own stuff going on to some degree. I have zero inside info and we're talking about a kid here, so I feel bad even speculating about it. I also wonder with a kid like that how well they'd transition to being "just" a role player in college instead of the star of the team. He is no doubt talented, but is he is the talent worth it?

Best part about this line is that it wasn’t at all under fluky last week of the season circumstances that @thetorch described. The Lakers are desperately trying to better position themselves for the play-in tournament. LeBron and AD each played over 40 minutes and it was all their normal rotation guys playing. Goodwin is shorter than all but 2 of the 9 guys that played for the Lakers and he grabbed 17 rebounds. A good NBA team doesn’t want Goodwin shooting the ball 23 times in a game ever, but if he’s gobbling up rebounds like Rodman and playing great defense I don’t see why he can’t latch on somewhere.

I wonder if that figure is Avila’s overall value and not just has on the court value? Wasn’t it rumored that Daron Holmes made was like $400k or so. Avila isn’t more valuable or at least that much more valuable than Holmes on the court, but he’s way more marketable off it. Avila has legit ability to earn in the actual “name image likeness” sense and not just pay to play. Example: there’s talk of eyewear companies offering him deals and he can get those regardless of where he plays. It’s actually better for his brand & non-pay for play NIL opportunities if he goes somewhere he will get to play a lot, be a star / fit well in a system, win, and be in a large market. Biased opinion: SLU with Schertz checks all those boxes better than anywhere else can. If he chases extra power 5 pay to play money, he risks not fitting / losing playing time and compromising his maybe much higher non-pay to play earnings potential.

It looks like no one else got this, but kudos on the grade A quality Dad joke.

I get where you are coming from, but that + is doing a LOT of work. Avila is much much better than Ellis & honestly the only things similar about their games are that both are bigs who could stretch the floor & aren't super athletic. Ellis was a career 42.7% from 2 and 33.4% from 3. Avila is at 63.4%/37.2% Ellis averaged 6.3 rebs, 1.5 assists, 1.2 steals, and 0.5 blks per 40 mins. Avila's are 8.1 rebs, 4.4 ast, 1.0 stls, 0.8 blks.

I may have dipped into the History & Record Book player listing for an assist.