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Sorry. Got busy at work. I don't have an announcement but after chatting with Javonte today I am more positive about his chances of returning than I was after talking to him a couple months ago.

I agree. Our use of screens was high schoolish. We were as bad using screens as we were defending screens.

That is not a picture of Javon Bess on that chart lol, pretty disrespectful for the team's leading scorer.

IMO totally unfair to put Nesbitt in the same sentence as Gordon. #1 - while you can read into his message that he probably isn't coming back, we don't know that for sure. #2 - Gordon quit on the team mid-year & floated around various other schools for a while while Nesbitt put in his 1 year and has seemingly decided to go pro. School isn't for everyone & that's fine. It remains to be seen what happens with Nesbitt, but as far as his SLU career goes the Gordon comparison isn't fair.

The thread you're posting in is about Lisa Stone, her firing and potential replacements. You posted the name of a coach, it's fair to assume posting any name is suggesting a replacement.

Ja Morant was a zero star

It's not a track meet or how high you can jump. If it was Sekue would win . Sorry but I think Nesbitt has been oversold on this board from day one.

Uhhh we just fired our coach for this reason. There's no reason she should be a candidate as a replacement.

Very true. But what’s frustrating is watching our guys use screens. Especially Yuri. He leaves enough room for the defender to stay on him a lot. It doesn’t seem like our guys brush their defenders off very well.

JNezz to NBA- What do I need to work on? NBA to Nesbitt 1. Ball Handling, shot both midrange and 3, decision making … ahhhh wtf. Everything The guy is t even close to being an NBA player. This is really kind of silly

I still get confused why so many people are asking this question. What answer are people looking for? What are some of the types of offenses that people would expect us to run? Do people actually think that we do not have an offense, or are they just unhappy with the offense we do have? Travis Ford's offense has always been a pro-style approach, in which we run a high number of set plays (look at Michigan or Purdue for another example of this type of approach). This means that on most offensive possessions Travis is calling a set play. We do also sometimes run a "flow", but the frequency has diminished over the years. Our sets tend to be very ball screen heavy, which has become increasingly common as more NCAA teams have taken schemes from the NBA. In the last two years, Travis has adjusted that offense to be more "4-out" and we less frequently play high-low or have someone in the dunker spot. Examples of offenses we don't really run include: the Princeton offense, triangle offense, dribble-drive offense, read-and-react offense, blocker-mover, traditional "Bobby Knight motion".

Unpopular Opinion - Jon Smith was a better dunker than Willie. More Unpopular Opinion - Ian was more fun to watch than Willie. Most Unpopular Opinion - Cory was a more exciting shot blocker than Willie. Posters look at Willie's post SLU playing career and think he was that player at SLU. He wasn't. He was a pogo stick. That's it. He caught lobs and got some weakside blocks. His post moves were non existent, not a great defender, no shooting outside of 2 feet, couldn't pass and was a subpar rebounder. Hats off to him, post SLU he got 5 times better as a player, gained about 40 lbs, became a good rebounder, PnR rim runnner. He was never that player at SLU. Most Entertaining/Charismatic/Good players of the post Larry era 1. Jett 2. J Good 3. Mitchell 4. Lisch 5. Has

which part? or all of the above? At what point was Willie above Kwamain? Willie's had a SLU career high 21 points with 8 rebounds in a win La Salle. Kwam had 25 points 4 assists 2 steals and 0 turnovers in that game. Willie had 20 and 15 in a 12 point loss to Notre Dame when Kwam only had 14 points 3 assists w 4 turnovers....or perhaps you can cherry pick games from the lame duck CBI run when Willie was better than Kwam... but overall from the moment Kwamain entered the fold through Willie's last game...Kwamain was always Batman to Willie's (at best) Robin

Don’t agree.

Absolutely…or just check in with the announcers…”se la vendio” must have been repeated ten times

I'm in agreement. The thought that Nesbitt is in the same ballpark as Larry was is laughable.

Except this is the Feast of the Annunciation and abstinence from meat is not required on solemnities that fall on a Friday per Can. 1251 in the Code of Canon Law.

It makes sense. Lenten Friday means eating more cheese and extra cheese means constipation. That’s obviously what it means.

What does posting the constipated emoji mean?

Please just announce it, I need it like I need water

games are short and coaches want there best players on the floor as much as possible, i will not take the time to look it up but i bet you will find most schools do not go past 8 players with meaningful minutes. the coaches watch and chart every practice, they know who can play and who cant and with transfer portal players dont want to sit and develop and work on skills. cant put all of this transfer stuff on the coach. players have little patience

I'm sure Tate will reach out to him.

So what is your recommendation? Get a Grad Transfer in who wants to sit 35 minutes a game? Get a combo guard who will take minutes away from Perkins (maybe), Jimerson and Parker? Tell Yuri he will only get 20 to 25 minutes per game? You got to consider, Ford will play 8 +2. He isn't going to change, no matter who is on the bench. I don't have an answer. I'm sitting back and will see who laces them up this fall.

Here’s that meme:

U left out Archie. I respect McKillop. He gets a lot out of his teams that don’t pass the eye test these days.

Agreed. I think some people are really over-thinking it or using it to advance their anti-Ford agenda. Nesbitt has a young kid, wanted to come back home, Ford gladly took on an athletic, yet unpolished player. I don't blame him for doing that. Nesbitt made us a better team, but he was not a huge difference maker that I think some fans were expecting. And fans should not be surprised or disappointed that he only played for one year. Nesbitt never seemed like the kind of kid who was going to have a long career. Just be glad we had him for one year and move on.

But can Thames + Thatch do it in crunch time when Auburn is pressing? We need real depth on the team, so if Yuri tweaks an ankle, folks aren't running for the exits. mhg

as long as ford is willing to admit he f'd up and he will either 1. adjust his style of play to match his players or 2. only recruit players that match his style of play. otherwise we will just have the same result. strickland and nesbitt leaving begs for his coach adjustment. we cant let players of that athletic ability walk away. if they had holes it was ford's job to fix them. he did not.

imo hard to compare. different coaching philosophies make a huge difference. while i dont want to replace ford, imo the only aspect of running a team he exceeds spoon on is recruiting. spoon beats him at every other aspect and thus hughes would have undoubtedly been used better, assisted better and developed better by having spoon as his coach over nesbitt having ford. dont get me wrong, larry ended up with a fantastic nba career so he was indeed a likely better player but i would not try to say "he's nowhere near the talent". nesbitt had some instances of passes, dunks and big moments that we havent seen since hughes. consistentcy? not close. but who's fault is that?

I am not sure I buy this most talented since Hughes story. He had a lot of holes in his game. Being able to run and jump is not necessarily a definition of a great player. See Strickland. Did he have a few spectacular plays? Sure ,but they were few and far between. In my opinion Evans gets that title .

Doesn't matter, he was/is a 4 star. [To me all these rankings aren't worth the ink to print them.] Obi Toppin was a 2 star. I'll take four of those type of 2 stars over our four recent 4 stars. Our 'I'm not a 4 star' bunch of Conklin, Evans, McCall, Jett and Mitchell was pretty darn good.

Nesbitt was recruited by SLU. He was only at Memphis one semester. I would term him at least a hybrid type case.

Okoro was a 4-star recruit out of high school and ranked #42 by Rivals.

I just had to google Javon Bess to confirm I wasn't suffering from Prosopagnosia

Serious question ---- why wouldn't we want to groom Thames for those five or ten minutes per game as Yuri's eventual replacement? We keep talking about a transfer guard but as Rammer points out, he's being generous saying ten minutes a game and who would want to transfer in to such a situation. DeAndre Jones was one thing and he transferred up from Central Arkansas but what if you are like Brayon Freeman from Geedubya, and you just played 27.2 mpg over 30 games, why are you even bothering to look at our situation? Personally, I think Freeman will look to transfer up as well but you get the point. Thames is an award-winning high school guard. So is Nick Kramer. They are the eventual future. Why not? The power forward/backup center situation is more problematic. I don't recall any of us turning our heads when we found out we were getting a guy from Valpo/UNC Wilmington but that is the kind of guy we are likely looking for. My reaction at the time was 'great another Rashed Anthony.' But Martin was much better than that. I'd like to see Traore progress and play but it would be a large hole in the roster if he did not. Somewhere along the Nesbitt news line, someone asked if he was still in school. Anybody know? Not that it matter much to me --- I'm moving on.

Billiken talk up to 15 min. Interesting comments on Nesbitt, Rocc said maybe a 40% chance of getting drafted as the NBA looks heavily on potential. They also discussed the NBA pipeline has expanded to just about every league in the world. Rocc said his announcement was written properly-not saying anything about a return, as Nesbitt didn't want a potential employer to ask, "Are you serious about this"? While we all have said, yeah we need a backup PG and a stretch, perhaps the coaching staff has other thoughts. First, what veteran PG will come to SLU to play 5 minutes? None that we want. He would need to be a combo guard at a minimum capable of taking minutes from whomever returns on the wings. Second, perhaps the staff is thinking that the future is 4 out players, and that Traore can fill the gap left by Linssen's departure. Interesting.

Probably have to go Paige’s homework too.

I know what he is thinking is a lot more fun than

Yuri wouldn't give himself an A+.

-I got sucked in by an ad for the Shamrock Shake and from my experience you are not missing anything

The shake machine is not working is usually BS. I actually watched a show explaining why fast food restaurants say that and it is because it needs to be cleaned or refilled. Google, “the shake machine is broken lie” and you can read about it, never believe them. On topic I hope Jordan finds out what he needs to work on and applies that to next season to become a first round draft pick next season.

With regard to trimming the fat, I thought something similar to this before the season ended. Ford seemed more frustrated than normal with certain members of this group and certain members of the group showed more dissent than I ever remember seeing. With the passing of Coach Stuen, I think that Coach Ford might have just decided that life it too short to baby sit college kids not interested in being all in on a team concept. Please don't read this statement as being about any particular player, because it is not. I'm just saying that part of me expected Coach Ford to clean house after this season and to have a different approach to recruiting in the future.

I consider this site to be a trust tree. Well, on Friday I saw an advertisement for the Shamrock Shake, so being an incredibly healthy middle aged man with full control over my impulses, I jumped in my car and went straight to the McDs near my house. They did not have the Shamrock Shake! I think the lady said the machine wasn't on/working or something of that nature. I was emotionally crying, so i didn't hear the full explanations and somehow cried out just a Filet-O-Fish meal. I guess to keep it on topic, it will be interesting to see what happens with Nesbitt over the next few months.

Ugh that scenario makes me want to hurl.

I hope Hargrove sees the amount of minutes that just opened up in midtown.

We've always rooted for the uniforms but I agree the days of 4 year guys are loooong gone. Kind of sucks as college basketball was more fun when causal fans knew who would be on a team year over year. The idea that every season nearly every team will have 50% or more turnover is definitely a turn-off to many fans.

Walk the ball up and have Yuri dribble for 30 seconds. Traore is really good at standing and watching.

I think Traore has the athleticism, plus defense and rebounding to be a solid 2nd big. Defense is what this roster is currently lacking, so Traore is a good fit. We have enough scorers. For the 3rd big, rather than a Jimmy Bell type low-post player, I'd rather see a stretch big who could provide some minutes at the 5, but could also get some minutes at the 4 alongside Okoro.