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Your right. Nevermind the honest evaluation of Yuri's talent. I was hard on him because i'm a racist.

Some posters just aren't smart enough to make a cogent argument so they play the race card. I was hard on Yuri. In retrospect too hard. He walked away from HIS team and HIS city. Then came crawling back. His defense his Sr season took a massive drop. I thought he dominated the ball too much. He played too slow even though we were built to run, so he could run his two man game. I blamed him too much because had to be the alpha dog on that team and he wasn't built for that. His point production just couldn't hold up for that. He needed another star to play off and his final two years he didn't have it. He's a better player than Jimerson though so I expect more but he was a victim of Ford's lack of recruiting and Perkins injury. On the other hand if you are going to dominate the ball as much as Yuri did you can't expect many 1 on 1 players who can get their own shot to want to play with you. You have to score then and Yuri tried and couldn't. Jimerson's shooting has stunk lately. His defense has sank to freshman levels. He is a real weapon on offense though. On almost any other team that we've had I would have begged for him to be the 3rd option. Imagine Jimerson replacing Barnett on the Majerus teams. Jimerson's strengths are playing off ball, vs Yuri's playing on ball so its comparing apples to oranges. Jimerson can't get his own shot, he's never tried to be that guy. If the scheme can't get him looks than he either doesn't take any shots or he takes really bad shots. For Jimerson to be a #1 guy the rest of the team has to buy all in on getting him open. His teammates don't care and his coaches don't either. One of the few things they have in common is lack of postseason play and really high, ultimately useless counting stats. Collins is in the conversation for best Billikens PG. Jimerson is not in the conversation for best Billikens anything.

7 minutes and counting. Getting run off our by a bad Davidson team. I hate to say it but I told you so.

Well over 6 minutes without a FG.

Parker is hot!!! Get him the ball.

We always make great halftime adjustments.

Will we have more steals or 3 pointers at the end of the game? Currently 1-0.

Pretty bad announcer.

13-18 from 2. 0-12 from 3. Regular story, high TOs for us, we cause no TOs.

Have you seen their locker rooms? Prisons have better facilities.

Nice putback by Sincere. Back on top.

Last 3 game 12-50 from 3 point range. Not good.

Great sequence from Zhang. Headed to the line. Ends the scoring drought at 5:30.

Davidson on an 8-0 run. No Billiken points in 4 minutes.

EZ already out. Refs out to get him.

EZ is really an elite performer at the opening tip. Should win a conference award for this, perfect 7-7 on opening tips.

Team is ready to turn the corner. Dalger was a team cancer. Everyone on the team loves Ford. They think he's a great guy. If they let Ford have more control over NIL he wouldn't have to recruit guys like Dalger.

Melvin Robinson also left the team that year.

Hearing DePaul is going to throw an unseemly amount of money at Wade.

Once Ford said EZ was basically a freshman I tuned out.

Does BVF get a refund?

Looks like he needs to go pro. Best of luck to him.

Ruh Roh

SLU has over 94% chance of playing in the PIG. The good thing is by that time we will be fully healthy, in shape, and trending towards a B+ team. I big blowout win in the PIG can propel us to an A10 tourney title.

https://x.com/jakelieberman2/status/1749104520628421097?s=20 Showing interest in another JUCO. 6'2 combo guard out of Tampa. Originally signed with an NAIA school in TX, went the D-2 JUCO route instead.