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Bonner was pretty amazing from jump -- he was half a rebound away from averaging a double-double his first year.

The old-timers on this board have been waiting 15 years for a 6'8 power forward who could contribute right away. I think their patience is at an end.

I hope you meant Jeff Ryan, the 6'6 swingman from Glenbrook South. Scheyer is a one man team -- next guy on his squad averages less than 10 ppg.

Jeremy Sharpe could be one of those classic late-bloomers who goes from a D-2 player to a mid-major D-1 if can get stronger. Lack of strength is why he gets stripped so often and has problems finishing.

Well, Frank's show starts in 35 minutes. If anybody has any early scoops, it will be him.

Wherever Price goes, he'll have to sit out a year because he's a transfer.

Whoever's open. I think about 10 of the 14 teams in our new conference are in the same situation.

Illinois and North Carolina are basketball hotbeds, so it does not surprise me that Depaul and Charlotte are good teams. But the other big city urban schools like Memphis, Cinci and Tulane are horrible just like SLU. SLU just happened to be the worst of the bunch this year.

"D1 school in a major metro area and no emphasis on girls basketball?" Isn't that pretty typical for women's basketball?

Teams a lot better than us recruit the best guards they can find, every year. I've got no problem with going after big, versatile guards just as often, especially when they're in our own backyard. The staff has been looking high and low for the the past two years for a decent four-man and the best they've come up with is Va'shun Newborne. And you expect them to land two A-10 caliber power forwards in the same class?

"I chose to believe that Brad made a recruiting mistake in taking Clarke over Ahearn. Hopefully he has learned from the mistake." IMO, Clarke never got a fair shake here. I think another coach will give him a chance to play and be rewarded with some decent production. Whether it was a recruiting mistake or the inability to harness Clarke's ability. neither scenario puts Brad in a positive light. Do you really doubt that Brad would have buried Ahearn on the bench after seeing him play defense in practice? "Needs work on defense" was one of the reasons given by the staff why Luke Meyer wasn't playing more minutes earlier in the season and that kid had a good defensive rep coming out of high school.

"He went on to say that he is starting to add players who will be able to extend the defense and pressure the ball further out in order to create more turnovers." Did he commit to playing this style of defense next year or are we still a couple of years away?

"Out of high school, I would say Meyer, Polk, Liddell, Lisch, and Brown would be within 3% of the 3 pt shooting ability of Brown, Head, and Williams(Brown was pretty notorious as a clanker in Chicago.)" Did you mean "gunner" instead of clanker? Dee Brown once hit 12 threes in a single high school game about three years ago and knocked down at least 8 threes on several occasions.

"We were a different team at the end of the year then we were at the beginning and I think with the addition of Tommie and Kevin we will be better at the beginnining of next year than we were at the end of this year." I hope so, but since every Soderberg team has been worse at the beginning of the season than they were at end of the previous season, I'm not counting on it.

"J - from what 3Star wrote, he was a junior this year" I thought I made it pretty clear that Darren was a sophomore. He's in the same class as Ian and Ahearn.

Hoping for improvement as the season progresses is fine but at least two guys are going to have to be ready to score in double figures from day one for this team to have any chance of winning more than 5 games in the non-conference schedule.

Okay, but we better be prepared to go 2-10 again. Our teams are notoriously slow starters and having a bunch of freshmen who've never played in this system isn't going to help.

If Brad schedules to that end, we should be able to go at least 5-7 in the nonconference. He just needs to put four Troy St. type teams on the schedule and win one of the other games, which will include tournament teams like Gonzaga, SIU and Wisc-Milwaukee as well as a road trip to Hawaii. I know that playing scrubs won't be popular with season ticket holders but we're sending the youngest team in the last 10 years into the frying pan next year. Lisch may be healthy and ready to rain threes from game one. Then again, he may not. I'd rather Brad's scheduling err on the side of caution.

JJ came in with Bryant, Drejaj and Ohanon. Darren was the first signee in the class that included Ian, Frericks, Husak and the kid who was supposed to play point for us, Brandon Morris. If you remember, Blake Ahearn, who is also a sophomore that never redshirted, lit up our guy in the Demetrius Johnson All-Star game.

http://bonesville.net/Articles/ThadMumau/2...32805_Mumau.htm Highlights: For the season, Neal averaged 20.5 points and 13 rebounds, while shooting 65 percent from the floor and 85 percent from the free throw line. ---- As a result of Neal’s strong showing in big games, the recruiting field has grown larger and stronger. Clemson and Northwestern recently offered scholarships, and Maryland and Georgetown may both offer soon. Washington State has also offered. --- “Coaches from Maryland and Georgetown saw David for the first time when we played DeMatha in late January,†Wootten said, “and I think they are close to offering. He has heard from a ton of mid-major schools, I would say 20-25.†Neal is academically qualified for freshman eligibility, and anyone would admire his improvement in the classroom. He had a 2.9 grade-point average as a freshman, 3.5 as a sophomore, 4.0 as a junior and 3.8 so far this year. He has surpassed the 820 SAT requirement. --- “He can hit the three-point shot and he can hit the five-footer, and the latter is one of the toughest shots in basketball. He hits a lot of 15- and 16-footers, and he can finish inside. “He looks like a football player because he is so strong. He weighs 235 pounds, and he has that natural strength. He hasn’t worked that much with weights. He is deceptive, though, because despite that muscular look, he moves well.

Price is a pretty good shooter when he gets his feet set. I'd take him in a minute. He'll have to sit out a year, but I seriously doubt any freshman we sign this late is going to be any better than a sixth guard anyway. As for high school forwards, even if we don't sign David Neal I bet it will be a player of that ilk. There aren't any unsigned, athletic 6'8 glass mashers whose best offer is SLU.

I thought as much. I've compared Lisch to former Illini Kiwane Garris in the past but if you want a point of reference among current players, I think Pitt's Carl Krauser has a similar game. Whether that translates to similar success in a different offense, who knows?

Besides one poster on this thread asking if he was a similar player to Redick and another expressing his belief that Lisch will eventually take us to the promised land, I haven't seen anyone doing that. There are always going to be a handful of posters on any sports message board who go a little overboard in their expectations for a player. This board is actually more realistic than most.

"I'm beginning to think that he is the best college backcourt player since Magic." I realize Dwyane Wade has been gone a a couple years, but have you forgotten about him already?

I don't see how an idiot can have a championship and multiple Final Fours under his belt. It's not like he did all that winning with a roster full of McDonald's All-Americans.