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The following page will provide game recaps, highlights, and photos from each game in the Bahamas for this "Summer of Thunder" event:

http://10thyearseniors.com/tag/summer-of-thunder/

This article gives some details about the annual event, in which 14 D1 teams will be taking part in:

http://10thyearseniors.com/2015/06/03/summer-of-thunder-teams-announced/

From the looks of the action so far, it appears the quality of the teams that SLU will play will step up each game. Results so far:

Atlantis All-Stars: vs. Georgia Tech - L 101-60

Bahamas All-Stars: vs. North Florida - L 102-84

PJ Stingers: vs. Southern Utah - W 79-77

Full game video (broken up by quarter) is available on Youtube at the "10th Year Seniors" page:

https://www.youtube.com/user/10thyearseniors1/videos

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As we prepare for the Bahama's tour, I thought I would dust off the computer and give things a whirl. I did manage to attend a couple of practices and my overall impression is that we are a better team than last year....bigger, stronger, faster, more experienced. We "should" do better.

As for the Bahamas, anything I try to enter at this point comes back S3....small sample size (or no sample size) . But , hey , it's preseason...let's do it anyway. First, the teams that have been down there already....Ga Tech ( B ) a decent team that played a vicious schedule last year. and wound up with a losing record....did well against the Bahamian teams. N Fla ( C+ ) . A pretty good team that made it to the NCAAs last year...lost to Rob Morris by 4 on the play-in....also did well in the Bahamas. So. Utah ( F ) a bad team that eeked out a win against one of the better Bahama teams.

The Bahama teams are weak...their main problem is they can't shoot. If we play traditional Bills D we could be a nightmare for them. Did I say they can't shoot? There 3pt % has generally been single digits. We should win the first game easily (double digits) . We should also win the 2nd game easily (double digits...though by less than the first game). The 3rd game will be the test...I am showing (with sketchy data) Bills by 7. If we are off ...or they get hot...or we don't try to win (because we need to work on things) this could turn into a loss.. On the flip side, a win by more than 7 means things are going well at this early stage of the season.

As some here will point out...this all means nothing. I don't believe that This will be a measuring stick to see where we start the season....particularly the 3rd game....How much potential we have...how much work we have left to do.

I believe at this point, we are a better team than last year. This will be our first glimpse to see if that is true.

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At first glance, it seems surprising that the PJ Stingers would be better than the Atlantis All-Stars and the Bahamas All-Stars. Can't sleep on the Stingers though.

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Halftime Slu 43 - cabana boys, bellhops, fishing guides, and yacht tenders 37.

The "tenders" closed the half on a 19-5 run. 43 possessions in the first half, 13 ending in turnovers.

Too early to panic yet?

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Bills continue to pile up turnovers at an alarming rate. Up to 22 now on 59 possessions for a whopping rate of 37.2%.

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End of 3 Bills up 5, 65-60. The upside is 24-29 from the stripe, the downside is everything else. Oh and our FT defense is quite good as they've missed 16 of 38 from the stripe.

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Bills win 81-73. MR 10-10 from the stripe. Box score here: http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches/17554/16/02/10/81j84tOYKjCWg/

Surprised that Aaron Hines played 32 mins. while Ash played only 6.

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From the brief write up, we got beat on the boards by a smaller team. Looks like Rick's mantra, to win defense and rebound, is pretty much out the window with Crews crew. The article also said the Cabana boys scored a lot of second chance points. Now, wasn't the whole point of recruiting really tall inside guys to dominate the boards and prevent put backs? Sorry, it is not encouraging when we get out rebounded by a team of fishing guides.

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Is starting Hines some kind of motivational tool or something...

I don't understand why Crews would play someone who, presumably won't play, 32 mins in this limited opportunity to increase team cohesion.

It makes zero sense to me.

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Reading JC's comment in the post-game write-up, I suggest that they need at least a short practice after the awful showing in the first game. Can't they have fun while fitting in a hour practice to correct errors-isn't that what coaches are supposed to be doing? The rebounding and turnovers which should have caused us to lose to poor team need to be addressed immediately. If Atlantis could have shot FTs and if MR had made 80% of his FTs instead of 100% we would have had an embarrassing loss to the busboys!

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It's hard for me to take the results of a game seriously where Hines and Reynolds play 32 min each, Ash plays 7 min, Milik plays 12 min and your best big plays 14 min.

If the objective was to win the game by 20, then Ash, Milik, Neufeld and Crawford would have played a lot more. Now what was the objective? Hell if I know.

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It's hard for me to take the results of a game seriously where Hines and Reynolds play 32 min each, Ash plays 7 min, Milik plays 12 min and your best big plays 14 min.

If the objective was to win the game by 20, then Ash, Milik, Neufeld and Crawford would have played a lot more. Now what was the objective? Hell if I know.

I'd guess he's trying to separate the wheat from the chaff on the back end of the rotation. See who sticks. Plus there are a few games in a short period of time, probably trying to keep everyone fresh.
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