Taj79

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Discussing Cincinnati and Memphis coming to the A10 is ludicrous, what is happening in the landscape of college sports is all predicated by football and these two schools fancy themselves as main players in getting a slice of that economic pie. The Big East is where it is today due to the football migration and associated after shocks --- "big" football teams or wannabees Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College moving to the ACC; West Virginia moving to the Big 12; Rutgers to the Big Ten and so on. The A10 does NOT play football at the right level. Georegetown has a football team. Nova won a national championship two or threee years ago. Umass. Rhode Island. Fordham. Duquesne. Dayton. Butler. All play lower echelon football. For those two schools to go to the A10 would be seen as a defeat in my book. This BE7 and it's rumored "Catholic Conference" is the dream most of us have lived with, toyed with, and pleaded for for some time. We get left on the outs, and I'm with Box on this one .. disband it. Let me ask again, especially of 05 -- we get left out? More bad luck? Still no curse? I think we are in. My buddy and Nova grad says they are saying we are in at that end. Obviously, the TV markets have been discussed and it is quite apparent we are tops there. IF that is their focus. You are already coming to Milwaukee and Chicago, throwing St. Louis, Cincinnati and Dayton into the mix makes sense as does Indianapolis. I do not believe that short of charter air, you can get to Omaha from any of the East Coast airports. You have to stop somewhere. I could also go for bundling the trips and saving on time out of the classroom. You go to DePaul and Marquette on one trip; Dayton and Cincy on another; or us and Indy/Creighton on another. If St. Loo is too far west, same goes in spades for Creighton. The other real reason for some over others seems to be current success. In that scenario, we drop to the bottom fo the five potentials but our trend for now is upward and even teams left in the BE7 (Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, DePaul) are in worse shape than us. I prefer 12 and a break up into divisions ..... Providence, Seton Hall, St. John's, Georgetown, Nova seem naturals for an eastern division while Creighton, Marquette, DePaul, Butler and Saint Louis seem natural for a west. The dilemma then becomes battleground Ohio --- I would think splitting up Xavier and Dayton would be a bad thing for Dayton who sees X as a rival. Not so much for X as they don't seem to hold Dayton in the same regard. Bottom line: we have wished so hard for this to happen and if we are left out when it comes down, I see a proverbial gun placed to our ahtletic department head. We will never be as attractive as we are now.

Rammer said something about a redshirt for KC even though he played some games.medical redshirt application maybe? Two walk onsget in and no KC? Something has to be up. Someone ask someone the hard question. Twenty point win.

No Carter. Hmmm.............

If it weren't for Taylor having15, the Skyhawks would pretty much be squab or cornish hens at best.

Carter dressed and warming up. Ditto Glaze. So is Jared Drew. Thought he was redshirting,no? Or can he dress and warm up just the same?

If he sees no court time tonight, count me in the conspiracy theory group ......

If Butler plays they they did today for the rest of the year, they are indeed the team to beat in the A10. I though they had no chance in the overtime w/o Jones and Smith.

I am concerned about breaking down .. JJ is limping. KC is out. Km is out. GG is out. With such a cupcake schedule, this was the time if there ever was any to get GG, KC and JM all feet wet in terms of playing time and experience. MM also appears to be dragging at 35+ minutes a game. It was no real surprise his defense suffered on Chris Jones considering he was the main point guard for 34 minutes and also a scoring option to boot. Something had to give somewhere and it appeared to be his defense. I think this aspect of his game will improve when KM and KC return.

Right now he is a 6'11" Drew Deiner.

Just watched the tape on Fox Sports Midwest this morning. As long as JJ can catch-n-shoot, his jumper will be better. Once he begins to move, the shot moves south as well. Watch the tape ACE ---- other than the late layup, JJ caught and shot. Again, he had to --- defense was seven feet off him. No better way to make them pay. W/o him, we lose last night. I appreciate the update on stats from bizz. Decent work for sure. And it proves nothing. How many guys did we have in these categories last year? And how did we do? Ask Chris Gaston how stats feel. Evaluating this team on those stats says "all is well." Who thinks it really is? Long way to go ..... lots of room for improvement.

These aren't grades but what I've seen so far: JJ: as I've said defensively and rebounding-wise he is a warrior. I admit to being frustrated with him once again first half last night but he redeemed it in the second half. It became very evident as the second half progressed that his shot is dependent on the rhythm of a catch-n-shoot mentality. Otherwise, his defender sloughs so far off that on-ball picks for him are compromised. I think the team will benefit a lot from him going to sixth or seventh man when Mitchell returns. He still need to refind his foul shooting touch because he will be in there late and he will be target #1 on fouls. I believe that's why he was inbounding to Cody and Mike late last night and not on the floor receiving the pass. Him not starting will add a dynamic that I see as a positive for this team. MM: he is better suited as a two guard in my book. He can and does create with the ball but it is usually more for himself, which is okay on one hand but not so good on the point guard hand. I think he will be better able to spot up and drop open jumpers accepting the pass from Mitchell and Jett. He is explosive and I have yet to see anyone really stop his first step but he is more the jump shooter type than the drive type in my book. Plus, 6-foot guys should usually stay out of the trees under the basket. DE: has to let the game come to him. He is making mistakes by commission rather than omission as the old saying goes. I think he's trying too, too hard and thereby getting into dumb foul situations. When we lose him, not only do we lose about our only interior scoring threat, but we lose tremendously on the boards at both ends as well. He needed to flash to the middle of the key and receive the ball last night. That North Texas defense zone would have caved quickly. CE: has been a nice surprise. I am curious however as to when the flopping will be ignored. Does that happen in the conference play? I am certain this is coming based on some of the things I've been hearing on national broadcasts --- league instructions and all that. I have been impressed with his leadership and his willingness to get into the paint and mix it up on the defensive end. He takes the tough shots and wants the ball in his hands at the end which is great given his foul shooting effectiveness. Will never dominate on the defensive boards but if he blocks out as Conk did, Evans will clean up. CR: better than any other version of CR. Offers the defensive shot swatter we haven't had since the late Willie Reed. Needs to be more of anoption on the offensive end. Just not there yet and is still an offensive project in the works. JB: Has had some moments but is unpredictable as to being an asset or a liability. Made a nice run with a three and a drive/goaltending last night. Seems hard nosed and tough when fighting on the defensive end but is always fighting which is both good and bad. Good that he doesn't quit but bad in that he seems to be fighting to catch up to his man. Likely candidate for Cassity-like minutes but seems at least a little better in that he's an offensive option whereas Kyle was not. JM: yep, a work in progress but with some hope. From what little I've seen of him, he seems to be better able to provide something more than RL in terms of a low post presence whereas RL is an outside shooter no doubt. RL is no center; JM might be. RL: see above. He is purely dictated by matchups. You get a running mobile team, not him. You get a beast of a team on the interior, not him. He is what he is, a mobile, outside shooting soft Euro big. Next year, he becomes CE. Guys expecting him to go inside even a little, looks like it won't happen just yet. GG: so far, the second coming of JJ ---- as in Justin Johnson. Having had three shoulder seperations myself, I doubt we see much of him for the rest of this year. If we do, he will likely get hurt again and then have to succumb to surgery ala CE his second year. Tension and torque in athletics is amazing. And fighting for rebounds the major cause of it in basketball. There will not been enough to grade GG the rest of this year so he will be next year as he is this year, a complete unknown. KC: on one hand, we made it. Ten days off allows JJ to heal, KM to get better, GG to heal and especially here, KC to get over the leg problems. JJ and MM are dragging. I think that led to MM's careless misstep at the end of the half last night. We need bodies and help and the calvary can't come too soon. Crews: because of his location close to Rammer and Earl, I heard a lot of him yelling out instructions at least last night. So far, he's an interim and acting like one. Nothing more, nothing less. I really don't get the warm and fuzzy that he wants anything more either. If he did, I think he'd act somewhat differently. And I don't really want him with the program moving to the next level, whatever it may be. Overall, I thought we would lose the same two larry72 did. So we are one down. Cannot afford to lose any more in this OOC schedule. I still don't see an inside presence developing yet and our outside shooting is flirtatious at best, inconsistent for sure. Our defense does not seem as intense as last year and our offense appears to be searching itself out just yet. Mitchell and Carter's returns will help but are not the answer as far as the interior is concerned. Lots of teams in this year's A10 are good ---- VCU, Butler, Umass, St. Joe's, Temple --- so it wil be another lunch-pail year for our squad. Going to be fun yes but not anything easy given what I've seen so far. But there is still time and it is still illegal to use "easy" and"Billiken basketball" in the same sentence. I'd offer we are C+ right now with up the only way to go.

Dodged one tonight my friends. Game ball to JJ and Cody with a nice assist to Cory.

Of all the shots to bury JJ that was it.

RL should take a seat for the duration. How come we shoot and four guys all run the other way?

This second half JJ I really like.

Okay --- I am self-correcting. JJ DOEs have a shoit, it must just come in rhythm. As long as he catches and shoots, I'm impressed. A simple solution.

As long as JJ can catch and shoot a jumper in rhythm, he has a shot. But his defender is so far off him thta when Remekun went to screen JJ with the ball, there was no one to pick because he's seven feet away.

Our last field goal was a three by Cody at the 7:58 mark.

UNT = 52% from the floor, 80% from three and 100% from the line. Does this happen every game or is it just me?

You can say all you want and argue the other way but does anyone see how far off JJ his defender is playing him??? They are begging him to shoot and he ain't there. Then when he does make his break to the rim, he misses a layup. This guy is a tremendous defender and rebounder and freaky athletic but skills will come into play eventually. We are not good enough to take any team or our talent for granted. We didn't score a field goal in over 8 minutes. Evans scored one bucket. This is exactly what is missing from last year and tht tis everyone having a role and understanding what it is. That is the missing Majerus factor.

For as good as we looked going up ten, we look just the oipposite as lead is cut to four. We need to get the ball to the center to DE and let him operate. We cannot live off the three with these guys. Make them pay for a zone.

How come our guys can't shoot to open the game? UNT 5 of 6 from the field.

Jeez ----- there is like no one in the Fetz. Bonowicjh? You there?