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Zink reacted to a post in a topic: Schertz on Monday's Lineup and Rotation
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It helps that the Pacers/Fever play in the 6th smallest arena.
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2024-2025 Season Prediction Thread
thetorch replied to TheA_Bomb's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
Adama is a late round pick at best. He doesn't have nearly the accolades Avila has. Tyron Grant Foster with Grand Canyon is better than him. Avila is a once in a generation player. -
2024-2025 Season Prediction Thread
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What goalposts did I move? I named several players who were better than Hughes that year. Hughes wasn't CUSA poty. He wasn't even 2nd. What position he was drafted in the Nba draft means nothing. Those players I named were better than him. You do a disservice to the rest of that team also. That was a good team. Larry didn't score 40 every night. Some games he didn't have ten or scored 14 on 30 shots. We beat some good teams when Larry stunk. Luck, Baniak, Walker, Cobbin were all solid players, far from scrubs. In Larry's year we were a 10 seed, barely made the tourney. You say that group wouldn't have been .500 without him? They were 1 game under next season with multiple starters injured, no real replacement for Hughes and a much tougher conference. Cincy was not loaded. They were top ten ranked 1 week the entire season. They returned 1 starter from the previous years team. Their leading scorer was Bobby Brannen. It was as close to a rebuilding year as Hughins came to. CUSA was way down that year. Only reason we were able to squeeze in as at large. -
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If its only about the college money then yes. If a 4 star wants to showcase his skills at a high major without competing for time with highly paid transfers that his coach recruited over him a few months after he signs than SLU becomes the right choice every time.
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Schertz Categories of Players by StuonSLU
thetorch replied to HoosierPal's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
Real jerkoff move to post things from a subscriber only chat. -
No. He can contribute. He gets too much attention because of his name but having him play on the team adds other things to the program. I hated seeing Monroe Douglas Jr get rebuffed by us and walk on at Dayton and contribute. Now he has an awesome daughter at Burroughs who if he went to SLU would be a no brainer for the womens program. She has tons of BCS offers and is not considering SLU.
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Schertz on Monday's Lineup and Rotation
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I really don't see Hughes playing more than spot minutes this season. Don't know why the board clings to him so much. -
Agree with this but... Outside of last season most years only have one team averaging over 10,000 in attendance. The worst franchises average less than 5k. No Wnba team has come close to selling out an nba arena in the regular season.
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2024-2025 Season Prediction Thread
thetorch replied to TheA_Bomb's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
Yeah, maybe. We played a lot of guys who were great college players but not NBA guys that year who did manage to outplay Hughes. Toby Bailey, Baron Davis, Marcus Fizer, Demarco Johnson and especially Ruben Patterson out played Hughes that year. Patterson single handedly took Hughes out of the CUSA poty conversation. Louisville as a team also locked up Larry pretty effectively. -
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2024-2025 Season Prediction Thread
thetorch replied to TheA_Bomb's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
Avila will be by far the best player on the floor in every game we play until the NCAAs. When was the last time we could say that? Macauley? I've made some dour predictions the last couple years (they came true), but that ends this year. Non Con 12-1 Conference 14-4 A10 Tournament 3-0 NCAAs 2-1 31-6 -
G league rosters are typically 13 players. 2-3 2 way guys, 2-3 exhibit 10 affiliate players. So there are between 8-10 spots for actual g league players. Regular season rosters are set by Nov 7th. G League will cut borderline guys on the first or 2nd day typically so should know soon if Perkins has a chance at catching on.
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Creighton really hated losing Dotzler. Having gone to a couple practices and talking with people around the program the majority opinion is Dotzler will be in the rotation and most likely starting sooner rather than later. Hughes ultimately is just a one dimensional player and not built for Schertz's system. Him being on the outside of the rotation is a good sign, we'll have a very good team. He's a spot up shooter, a decent defender, not a great ballhandler, and doesn't move well away from the ball at least as good as our other options.
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Men's Basketball Exhibition Game Tomorrow, Monday 7pm
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This isn't happening. -
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Jordan Goodwin signs camp deal with Lakers
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Hard for me to root for him affiliated with Lakers. I'd rather him be with almost any other organization. -
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OT: SLU Lays Off 23 to Address Budget Deficit.
thetorch replied to HoosierPal's topic in Billikens.com Main Board
The state dept doesn't release all their numbers so even if visa rejections are at an all time high it is almost impossible to tell why. The highest proportionate number of rejections is from African nations. The whole process is a bureaucratic nightmare. There is now a push to streamline the process and remove most of the historically required background investigation and interview process. So the bureaucracy in the past year has slowed down the process so much so the only alternative is to remove all the safeguards in place. Hmmmm Why?