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  1. grawer saved billiken basketball, little support from the admin.
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  2. Liking Gibby becoming a slasher. TJ a sniper? Gibby a slasher? Bizzaro BB?
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  3. Fred must have been reading the board.
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  4. Jalen Johnson finally decided to live up to his recruiting ranking tonight
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  5. ready to pinball back to the sweet sixteen talk after the win........
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  6. Another Podcast from Rammer. 39 minutes. Dropped yesterday. These aren't showing up on the Billiken.com homepage. Criticised the first half of the Memphis game, questioned the plan of attack with the players on the court in the first half. Second half was better. Billikens were 'freaked out' to start the game per Rammer. Circled Nesbitt and Linssen in this category. Linssen was frustrated with his own performance. Six TO's from Collins, he was trying to do too much on his own. A lot of this was corrected at halftime. Is there a middle ground somewhere between Memphis and the first three games we saw this season. Can they run their offense and get their shots off against a solid mid-level team. Next three games may define this season. Hargrove showed he is not just an athlete but a basketball player that can play with anyone in the country. He was running with Duran and Bates. 23 offensive rebounds. The #1 question going this season was how to replace Goodwin's and French's rebounding. Maybe this isn't a concern. Okoro has a 'funky' FT shot. He starts his hand on top of the ball but it comes off and moves to the side. Wouldn't surprise if the lineup changes (Okoro starting) but they don't see the minutes changing between Linssen and Okoro, until Traore is ready. As Majerus said "starting is for high school". Jimerson's game, he only got three shots off. Disappointment but not a worry. Clear to Rammer that Penny took Jimerson out of the game. That will happen. The key is for the rest of the team to step up so they have to play Jimerson straight up. Mercer game. They have nearly five players in double figures. (One is at 9+). They will run the pick and roll. Rammer is confident the Billikens will handle Mercer's pick and roll. Stopping dribble penetration needs to be paramount against Mercer. Mercer is not a little team, but they aren't Memphis. They believe the Billikens can impose their will inside with Okoro/Linssen, Hargrove and Nesbitt. Ford values deflections. Steals come and go. They expect deflections to continue. Rammer, 3 point shooters will be fine. Numbers are a little low now, but they will improve. FT shooting has been good. Jimerson needs to get to the line more. Collins has shown a dramatic improvement from the FT line (.909 to date). After 20 minutes they talked college BB and the NBA.
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  7. Seems like everyone is doing podcasts these days. Here is a new podcast with Rammer and Rocchio. Not sure when this dropped (maybe last Thursday). It's a tight 48 minutes but the last 15 minutes are on the NBA. So half an hour on the Bills. Some good points brought up on Collins and Jimerson. After the H-S game, Williams came out with a Student Manager and worked on his shot. They were the last one's to leave the arena. Nesbitt - "mean-mugging" guys. Ford emphasizing talking on defense. He showed the team an NBA video that shows how much the players talk on D. Traore - he can really shoot. He hit's the three in practice. He will develop into a Rob Loe type of player. Hargrove, we take for granted his energy. Strickland, his H-S dunk was top 5 Billiken dunk of all time per Rammer. Surprised everyone playing point guard. Rammer states that Ford's recruiting is top notch, but his on floor game management and teaching have improved dramatically. We are getting a lot of different looks in each possession. Not a lot of wasted motion, killing time, on offense. We are playing faster, but that doesn't mean a higher tempo. There are more options on each set that we progress through. You are seeing multiple screens, including double screens and back screens on each set. (Interesting) Ford's play book is huge. He adds to it to make the team difficult to scout. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lPKqmQRvNlKb
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  9. I don’t think he’s in the doghouse, just Fred and Thatch are having great games
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  10. Thatch has an excellent game, and I’m just nitpicking, he’s a really bad ball handler.
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  11. Haase looks like an NBA player. That big and can shoot like that!
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  12. Man, if Yuri could get some of those mid range jumpers to fall he’d be really really good!! I enjoy stating the obvious
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  13. All that bashing of Thatch from last game has held up really well, hasn’t it?
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  14. I don’t think they should have a big guarding him. Put Hargrove on him all his damage is from outside anyway.
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  15. Memphis: Bad Fred Mercer: Good Fred
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  16. Got beat like 3 times off the dribble in the first 4 minutes. Travis was pissed
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  17. It would be nice to have an offense, other than high ball screens. Just saying
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  18. It is Final Four talk. Pull yourself together.
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  19. Yep. I liked that SLU gave it a go with what they do. It didn’t work out. It happens. Credit to Rutgers. Some of those finishes were highlight reel worthy from distance. And this is still just scratching the surface for SLU for where they are going as a program. It’s pretty fun.
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  20. Where was Kevin Footes in that game? He did not play everyone. Footes was always in the Grawer dog house. 1-11 3 point shooting versus 10-24 for Loyola is hard to beat. I don’t remember that game but in the first round NIT game Footes did not play and I sat near the bench and yelled at coach Grawer where is Footes. I liked coach Grawer, he got me interested in SLU basketball. I was a big Norm Stewart fan but SLU and Grawer changed me for the better. For those of us that remember SLU before Grawer can appreciate that coach Grawer brought back interest in the program.
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  21. Georgetown is a very prestigious university with a lot of politically connected alumni. Just surprised they have done a better job of raising money.
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  22. That is a crappie situation to be in
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