Taj79

Jocius is not what I would call good ...... however, given our lack of any inside presence on the defensive end, he may make me eat my words and evaluation. If the matchups play out as I see it then medley gets Brickus, Hughes gets Brantley, Hargrove gets Shepherd, Jimerson gets Gill and Ezewiro gets Jocius. Straight up, I give the advantage to La Salle for Brickus and brantley with maybe a push in the Hargrove matchup if Shepherd is off his game. Ezewiro is better than Jocius and the Jimerson/Gill matchup becomes one of speed and quickness --- Gill might be the better athlete but Jimerson is the better basketball player. La Salle has Marrero on the bench and he is a streaky gunner. A cold Wednesday night at the Gola Mausoleum.

@Soderball: could not agree more. Some talking head over at ESPN said a few years ago that the college game is a guard's game and our weaknesses there are getting more and more obvious with each passing game. One thing I notice is our PGs get pushed out to nearly half court to initiate anything on offense. of course, i still don;t know what our offense does but that's a different discussion.

I have watched La Salle enough this year to know Jocius is nothing but a weak Euro four. The only way you can say he is their inside game is that is because they have no one else able to go inside except Ryan Zan who is a 6'7" light sophomore. La Salle remains the B&B boys ---- Brickus and Khalil Brantley. Both average around 15 ppg with Brickus as the 1 and Brantley the two. Dashon Sheperd is a nice player but at 6'5" usually too smalel to battle inside with any consistency. Anwar Gill is the same as he was four years ago --- a slasher to the basket with little else going for him. Andres Marrero is their sixth man and isn't too bad but that is as far as they go. I will say that this year, they are all allowing Frannie Dunphy to coach them better and it is working out better. If we get beat by Rokas Jocius, we really suck.

The in-game commentary has been disturbing. Alexa Datt, Scott Highmark, Troy Robertson and now John Giannini have all said poor CTF and poor SLU with all the injuries. Again, to me it is roster assembly and role player talent. Parker I get but the rest must be coming from pre-game interviews with CTF and the SLU staff. Since this team can't seem to fathom defense, what about offense? Meadows, Hughes, Thames and Medley all average about 5 ppg. Zhang is at just under 3. That's 23 ppg from 5 guys. Jimerson can't get open. Parker is going on-against-the-world. Ezewiro is limited and Hargrove is inconsistent.

Sorry I'm lazy. Who is Heiar with?

Coast-to-coast super conferences of 20 teams each. The Big Ten, the SEC, the Big Twelve and the ACC. That will be 80 teams controlling all of college sports. These will be the new minor leagues for the NFL and NBA and schools currently in conferences below that will be the new minor leagues for them. I watch some FCS football now. I'll likely do the same for the new D2 in college basketball.

The genie is out of the bottle. No one getting money now (the biggees like Isiah Pack, Armando Bacot, Caleb Williams, et.al.) are going to let you replace all things into the bottle where they perceive they will suffer. Congress enacting a law is like a restraining order ---- most will walk right through it. In hindsight, the monthly stipend would have been a good idea. For a while. Until Phil Knight decided to fun all thew Oregon athletes. Or T. Boone Pickens. Or someone else. We ae where we are because the NCAA was slow on the uptake. Can't fix it now. broy has some good to great points but it just won't happen. Video did kill the radio star, y'know.

Longest losing streak since 2010-11.

Good try though.

So hard ——- while I want to root for the guys does a win just prolong the CTF tenure? Am I more content to accept the CTF mediocrity knowing CTF is out the door?

Medley off the Schneid; one behind Curcic.

Tied. Wow.

Fordham has better players than us. Chew on that one for a while.

Curcic in.

Sincere going to Jack it up. He ain’t passing to anyone.

Meadows hurt. What else is new? How did he survive four years at two other schools? Was he dropping body parts all that time as well?

John Gianinni today.

This is one hellova read. I didn't post way back when but if I did choose, I'd probably have been in the wait-n-see crowd. But the Oklahoma State fan was dead right on. Amazing.

I’ve said all year it’s a roster of role players with no leading men. Why are we surprised at losses? Undisciplined. No offensive scheme. No defense. Poor fundamentals. Out of shape. This is where we are ate with CTF at the helm. Down double digits he gave up —- sat in a zone. He QUIT.

Medley was also disruptive on defense. Problem is he is not a viable offensive threat. Short of Jimerson, no one on the floor scores if its Medley, Jimerson, Zhang, Hughes and Thames.

Loyola guys clutch and grab everyone.

Curcic may not be the answer (who is) but ZERO minutes. After the Umass game? WTF Ford?

Meadows, Hughes, Thames ——- 5 total points. Again role players outmatched in real games.

Ford content to sit in zone and lose by less.

Meadows is overmatched and useless.