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  1. Lewis is not a point guard. The last two seasons he averaged less than assist per game and he has a negative assist to turnover ratio. He isn't a point guard and it isn't fair to him to paint him as one.
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  2. This is more of Travis playing the long game with St Louis recruiting. You bring mike Lewis home and you further align yourself with Jayson Tatum and the St Louis community. Staying home to play Billiken basketball is now a first thought for local talent instead of a second choice.
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  3. Just listened to Lewis with Frank. Started off asking how it feels that he wasn't initially recruited by Crews. Lewis said he always played with a chip on his shoulder but reiterated that "it's all love now". In regard to his eligibility, he said he played over the minimum amount of games to redshirt last year, and even though he didn't play this semester the whole year kind of counts as a wash. He said they're fighting to get a waiver for him, should get more news on it this week, and would be happy having one year left and playing this upcoming season. Last they kinda talked about Tatum and Lewis said he talks to him almost everyday and is hoping to go see him in the playoffs this year.
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  4. I don’t think that’s the play here. I think it’s “one of St. Louis finest products has been left stranded by a coaching change and were here for him. Take note St. Louis we care about our local kids”
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  5. We usually agree but if a local shooter wants to come home and shoot... i don’t question it. I’ll take it
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  6. Just stop, you can never have too much talent! I want the best players on the court. Our coach should always be trying to bring in the best talent possible. I’m not worrying about minutes, I’m concerned about winning. It’s impossible to please all 13 players on a basketball roster.
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  7. Every kid that does well at another school is not a miss. After his junior season at Chaminade, Lewis was a 6-1 guard who was an average defender, didn't rebound and lacked point guard skills. Those are a lot of flaws and it's why so many mid-major programs passed on him. Duquesne gave him a chance to play anyway. He put up good stats on a bad team where defense was optional. To a large degree, Lewis has the same holes in his game that he had in high school. But because he got a chance to play, he now has valuable experience that he likely would not have had if he played at a better program. That is a good thing.
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  8. To those blaming Crews for missing him the first time around, I don't really think this case is a poor reflection on him - and I'm no Crews apologist. Granted, he was still better than most of the guys Crews brought in, but to me he looked like a limited recruit out of HS, basically an undersized shooter without a ton of all-around guard skills. He bulked up immediately at Duquesne and was the leading returning scorer when Dambrot took over. He announced his intent to transfer when Ferry left, but stayed for Dambrot - and then left at the semester break when he wasn't a fit for him. I wish he had been able to transfer when he first wanted to, for his sake. Seems like Dambrot wasn't straight with him about his role there, or just didn't understand him. Then he was the victim of another coaching change when Musselman left Nevada. He was a walk-on for this semester and apparently planned to sit 2019-2020 to play a full year in 2020-2021. So the same plan will hold here at SLU - unless he's granted a waiver. My guess is that there's some confidence within the staff that he can get one, given that he's been screwed over by two coaching changes. That would make him an immediately eligible senior, basically a grad transfer, in which case he makes more sense for us. We need shooters and we need scholarships for 2020. If he has to sit this coming season, it's a bit more of a stretch because we have young guards to develop along with the need for 2020 scholarships. He was better at Duquesne than I expected. I knew he was a good shooter but his production was greater than I expected. He's still not an all-around guard and could develop some more defensively, but he's got the strength to be an effective two-way player for us if he clicks with Ford and his system.
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  9. Lewis is a great addition to a team with no proven returning perimeter scorers. He'll have to improve defensively to fit in with our group, but we REALLY need some offensive output, so he should help solve that glaring need right away; he had a 114.8 ORtg as a sophomore, and Bess led our team at 115.4 this past season. Honestly the most similar player to him that we already had coming in next year would be Jimerson, and I kind of hope that the two of them split a good amount of time next year so that we always have a shooter on the floor. Love the amount of competition that there will be for playing time next year, and that some of those guys will be contributors offensively.
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  10. I think with one and done rule eventually going out the window and players eventually being able to transfer at least once without sitting out I think local recruiting is going to be the best way for small programs to get players who will stick with a program all four years.
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  11. Mickey Pearson to TCU: Before all the comments about how much you don't care, I'm just closing the loop. TCU had been involved for the past several months.
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  12. It was in Saturdays paper edition
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  13. It was posted over in the House That Rick Built thread but I wanted to make sure @Pistolgot the recognition from this thread too: https://www.bigredworld.org/post/mike-lewis-ii-transfers-to-slu
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  14. Seems like every year since Ford has been coach we wring our hands and talk about too many players, not enough minutes, etc. then, unfortunately, something happens and we end up with 7 or so players that can be trusted in big games. I'm not worried about lack of playing time... Sounds to me like we'll have Lewis from mid-December on at worst and hopefully all year if the Nevada coaching change gets him the waiver. Good stuff!
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  15. -if CFord thinks Lewis is good enough to play for us, I'm for it -for those thinking getting a waiver from the NCAA is a guarantee you have way more faith in the corrupt and inept organization than I do; also there is the deal about does Duq still have some control or say over where or when he can play, watching this one will be interesting
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  16. Lewis was enrolled in school and on the roster. He was practicing with the team and on the bench for home games. He did not count against the scholarship limit since he was paying his own way. He was technically a walk-on last semester, but the same eligibility rules apply to walk-ons.
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  17. I, for one, see no problem with having too many good guards. A few years ago, Illinois put a team on the floor with three college point guards - and no one had an answer for the flexibility, shooting, and passing that level of talent provided. Deron Williams, Luther Head, and Dee Brown were all NBA level talent, and they were coached up as well. Ford can scheme and coach well enough to integrate this situation over the course of a season - heck, he coached them well enough that he got them into the top quarter of the league with one shooter and no point guard last year, and now he has a pg and multiple shooters. Watch out, A10.
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  18. To negotiate broadcast rights for the semi-pro teams housed on college campuses.
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  19. If the NCAA allows LSU to skate free from this then you have to ask why they even exist. It was bad enough when they let UNC off scott free, but here they have a coach on tape negotiating a payoff.
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  20. I hope you’re right, and the offers to Kern and Kalkbrenner are another sign that we are trying to be in play for all local talent. However, it already seems like Fletcher and Love (the two biggest names in the 2020 class) are getting distracted by the bright lights of the blue bloods. Kasubke and Bradford are still in play, but they’re not quite as highly rated nationally. Fingers crossed, but I don’t think we will ever have the top-30 local guys on lockdown (might get one on occasion), barring a looong run of prominence and/or a move to the Big East.
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  21. Man is this further proof that Jim Crews was terribly awful at his job.
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  22. It will be nice to have a 82% freethrow shooter in at the end of games.
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  23. This is great news! No more pitbull around here? We need shooters to space the floor for French. Lewis Jimerson, potentially Perkins and Fred. More shooters the better. Quick release from deep.
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  24. Don’t compare him to McBroom...he went to Chaminade.
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  25. You’re missing the part where we still have 2 scholarships to go and as of right now no seniors next year.
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  26. If the staff was going to use a scholarship on a grad transfer guard, I'm glad they chose Lewis. He wanted to come home and and understands how to play off the ball. Can impact the game as a three point specialist even in limited minutes. If he's not a grad transfer I don't understand the pickup.
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  27. Just from watching him dribble and move in the video, you can tell he’s already 10x the player Gillman was
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  28. Hold the f*%} on. All those people are there to watch dudes play video games? Seriously? Why the F would I want to watch some zit faced teen play Golden eye? Why would I pay money to watch this when I can just plug in the Nintendo and play some Mario Kart? People really fill up arenas to watch this stuff? I knew it was on TV, which is bad enough, but 8000 people want to watch it live? Crazy.
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  29. Wiz, I have to agree with 3star: For teams average shooting percentages are meaningful, but for individuals it should take position into account.
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  30. Perhaps Coach Ford and Dr. Chaifetz got the message that cheating now is fine and they can now go about buying the best basketball team in SLU hoops history.
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  31. I'm upset at part of the problem. Stu having no interest in Billiken athletics at a basic level contributes.
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  32. Four and five-star guys are going straight to the pros shortly. Give that dream up. In our entire history, we've had two of those and they each lasted one year or less. To keep the local kids Travis has to win big and make every game an event. Somewhere you get seen and where you want to be seen. A high-flying, entertaining circus that goes to the dance 7 out of ten times every decade. A circus with 12,000 spectators game-in and game-out. You want to make leaps like that where the Cooks, Liddell's and whomever no longer look past us? Just remember this --- we said that with Johnnie Parker. With Douglass and Gray. With Highmark, Claggett and Winfield. With Hughes. With the Miracle in Memphis. With Rick. Now with Goodwin, Thatch and Hargrove. Winning, being on TV, and being in the Dance --- build it, then they will come. Lewis signed with a coach who got canned. Then he signed with a coach that went elsewhere. Lewis is really nobody when compared to a Beal, a McLemore, a Lee, a White, a Tatum. Lewis is lucky we had a landing spot for him and a need for shooters -- real and/or perceived. And we need to get lucky and hope they grant him a waiver to play his last year with us starting this coming year. But we are SLU so two things will happen .... we won't get that waiver and like all other jump shots, Mike Lewis' will die once it gets here too. Gonzaga, Villanova and Xavier all follow my example above ---- they win, they are entertaining before sell out crowds, and they go to the Dance. Every. Strinking. Year. Just like .......... Cincinnait. Cincinnati? Yep, p[retty amazing to think Mick Cronin had them in the Dance for each fo the last nine years. N-I-N-E years. That is pretty damn good for anybody, let alone Mick Cronin and Cincinnati. Looooooooooooooomg way to go.
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  33. Get on your bicycle, ride to the library, read the paper. It will 1) get you some exercise, and 2) let you see what is being printed. You are really hard to please. There is no issue.
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