willie
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Doesn't appear to me that Brad is a rim protector. French was. Brad appears to be a better offensive player. All of this is a very short window.
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My memory says he did it frequently. Someone should go back and look at some games and see if I have killed too many cells.
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
sure, all good coaches never put rebounders on the lane for free throws. all good coaches on every inbounds plays always just hoist the ball all the way down to the other end of the floor and start over. we could go on.
we could also review his temper activity at other schools before he came to slu. he got in a fight and fired from army. when still at evansville he directed his player on an inbounds pass to throw the ball in the face of the defender (broke his nose). his player walked off the floor and quit. he had 9 consecutive losing record seasons before his two great seasons with the rickma players (he only won the first two seasons because rickma's players were so well coached they were on autopilot.). he then finished off his last two seasons at slu well under 500. my understanding he then coached a group of 5th and 6th graders in Indiana before the parents revolted and fired him as well for losing every game.
You do know that Rick quite often did not put rebounders in on throws.
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9 minutes ago, Franchise_08 said:
8% from 3? Only 12 attempts? Did the team miss the strategy sessions?
Of the 12 how many were truly open. NC scouted us well. If I coached against us I would try to take away our 3’s and try to make us take it inside and we’re not athletic enough to score enough.
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16 minutes ago, wgstl said:
No worries. Parker comes back for next game. I’m thinking top 3? Maybe top 2 for a10?!?! No stopping us when fully healthy and young guys get more minutes !!!
You should have been in blue but getting Parker back will help this team. We desperately need someone who can create a shot. That said this game was lost on defense.
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3 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
a waste of time.
I don’t know how much college basketball you watch besides the Billikens but I see it almost every night including the top teams. It is an effective way of getting people moving instead of just standing.
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14 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
We did but I really wonder if calling that timeout with 20 seconds or so left was necessary - that time out would have been big at the end of the game. Fortunately La Tech called a couple of time outs that helped Ford out. Somehow, I can't help but to think we couldn't have scored without calling the time out. Ford often wastes in my opinion time outs doing that in lots of games.
I agree with you but it turned out to be a good thing. If he had a timeout TJ never would have gotten the ball.
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TJ is probably our 3rd best scoring option behind Jimmer and Parker. He is now playing the 4. I believe he only took 2 shots while playing the 4. His heroics all came at the 5. Ford needs to figure out how to get him involved at the 4 spot. Seemed to me he basically just stood in the corner.
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I have never seen a game when a team had zero turnovers. Almost seems if you are playing against nobody someone would throw a ball away.
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1 hour ago, Cowboy II said:
-I wonder what changed? thanks for your contributions as a Billiken, Caroline
I am sure Courtside will give us the inside but maybe she didn’t like being downgraded from being the number one option.
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1 hour ago, wgstl said:
I still want Bruce to keep increasing PT. Brad should be used as a fun backup, regardless if he's better than Bruce or not.
At least untill the 27th
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5 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Direct quote from radio interview of the BVF Chairman stating that verbatim. Pretty solid source.
I am not questioning this but it was reported that May was part of the lobbying . Seems like somewhat of a contradiction.
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17 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
0% chance SLU suits up Ez. We won't even try to take advantage of state NIL laws.
Going to talk out of both sides of my mouth here. If they do, is it showing some new found cajones? Or desperation?
What makes you say we haven't tried to take advantage of the state NIL laws?
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3 minutes ago, RUBillsFan said:
This was Beal's 1st game back & he only played 27 minutes, but pretty huge that JGood got 30 minutes of run in a game where both Beal & Booker were both healthy. Grayson Allen was out, so it still remains to be seen how much PT JGood gets when the Suns are fully healthy. I'm optimistic he's shown enough & is really the only option at backup PG that he'll continue to be in the rotation.
No KD didn't hurt his minutes. Some wierd +- numbers in that game.
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51 minutes ago, stmdragons said:
Settle down, Spiro Agnew.
I was trying to remember who said that. Thanks
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1 hour ago, billiken_roy said:
The dreaded oblique strain. That can be long
For what its worth I walked out with Larry senior,asked him about Junior. He said he will be fine. Not sure what else he could say but he didn’t seem concerned.
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4 hours ago, brianstl said:
May had a choice. He made the wrong one. You don’t get a pass because you were unwilling to make an unpopular decision with the local media. That is why you hire an AD in the first place. There were plenty on here who were not happy with the decision at the time.
And there were plenty who were happy with it at the time. I believe it is revisionist history that there was an outcry at the time. May had no choice. Not all our choices in life turn out to be correct. If you want to go back and show me your posts to the contrary I will at least concede to you.
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1 hour ago, billikenfan05 said:
I'm not restricting player movement. Maybe I didn't give the full explanation. A player can transfer anywhere, anytime he wants for any reason. 1st time transfer he can play immediately, coaching change he can transfer and play immediately, grad transfer he can play immediately, any other transfer has to sit a year.
While I agree with your criteria it’s all arbitrary. What’s the justification for limiting multiple transfers. The grad transfer rule is also a con job. If someone has true statistics on how many grad transfers are getting legit grad degrees I would like to see it. Either you can legally restrict transfers or you can’t. While I don’t like it a player has the freedom of free transfers or they can be restricted. My guess is the courts would say free transfers
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7 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
LOL if you don't believe Ford was paying players here, I've got a condo in Florida to sell you.
Where is your condo and how much?
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Everytime I ran into George and it was fairly frequently all he wanted to do was talk about Billiken Basketball.
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7 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Ever hear of plausible deniability? They can ignore it until they can't ignore it. Then they must act. Happens all the time. Then it becomes who knew what and when. The cover up is often worse than the offense.
It was all over the place. I beleive it made the paper.
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Don't you think if this was a causeable reason for firing it would have to have been after the 20-21 season?
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31 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
He would not have been fired. His contract was up so it would have been just two sides moving on. There were plenty of reasons to not hire him and there is no reason to rehash them. I heard the Biondi thing and that was 11 or so years ago so you can believe it or not. The NC of the year thing was a tip of the hat to RM in my opinion and coaches who win those awards often get fired a year or two later.
Not rehiring someone is the same as firing. Semantics. Biondi fired Rich Grawer and took a lot of crap for it so No I don’t think he was or wanted to be involved with Crews. And no I don’t believe naming Crews was somehow paying homage to Rick. Rick was well respected but we’re not talking John Wooden here. Someone with better skills then me should go back and see what this board was saying. My memory says the board was saying what’s taking May so long.
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21 hours ago, slu72 said:
Yeah we were short handed. But, I think he mismanaged the rotation in the final 20. For some reason he went with the small line up during Drake’s run. Made no sense to me. Both Zhang and Bussel should get the 40 minutes at the 5. Curcic needs more minutes.
1 hour ago, cheeseman said:I am not sure if it was May's idea to hire Crews. I think it was Biondi who wanted him hired because he would be cheaper than RM. Now I do blame him for not putting together a power point to change Biondi's mind. I am sure May was OK with Crews simply because it was easy.
I think you could simply put a bag over your head with eye holes cut out.
I am not sure where you got the Biondi story. Never heard anything like this. Crews was national coach of the year. How do you not hire him? May had no choice. You don’t essentially fire the national coach of the year.
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You certainly have elevated Ezewiro after 2 games. Maybe we should see a few more.