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2 hours ago, Box and Won said:
Brock Vice to North Texas.
Yep, that's where the tool belongs.
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57 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Guess you haven't had ESPN for the last 30 years.
Big schools, conferences were already driving everything, NIL or not.
Wrong... more "mid majors" and non football schools were doing better in hoops 30 years ago. There were more opportunities to break through. Now everything is working against mid-major/non football schools. Even the mighty Big East had a lot of disappointment on selection Sunday this past season.
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12 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
Seems like the market can take care of itself. If it's not sustainable and no one pays there's less money. Pretty simple.
You can choose to donate, not donate, watch, don't watch. Everyone has a choice now even the players.
For every regulation or new law there's unintended consequences and loop holes to be exploited.
If better players stay and don't jump to G League or Europe don't we see better basketball? Seems like the system is rewarding more experienced players and keeping a team together as long as possible. That's why Calipari struggled with a bunch of one and dones when he previously dominated.
But the system makes it nearly impossible to keep a team together for a long time. Keeping a core together for multiple years is becoming a thing of the past. As a result, we're not seeing better basketball.
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3 hours ago, Lord Elrond said:
Question- Pete mentioned on the podcast that he had noticed that the staff under CTF hadn’t done much recruiting activity recently. I would assume that’s about the time that CTF’s assistant coaches came to the conclusion that CTF was a dead man walking, and they needed to start polishing up their resumes. About what time do you think they reached that conclusion? The SIU game? Sometime around then?
Assistants should keep recruiting, building relationships and possible recruits for their next job. I have little doubt Forte was doing it while he was here - recruiting for his next job.
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45 minutes ago, SLU_Lax said:
Well crap
Larry was not expected, so not a big deal - but Kent was.
Is it still hard work being a Billiken fan?
The rumor of 3 seems unlikely. Get Cream! If it drags on beyond Thursday, that would be a bad sign.
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16 minutes ago, SLURadioBoy said:
Manyawu is visiting tomorrow.
Hopefully we get a commitment tomorrow and he can go ahead and cancel that visit to Drake. He had 5 double digit rebounding games in his last 9 games.
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4 hours ago, SLURadioBoy said:
Looks like Kent committed to Texas and won’t be visiting this week after all.
Tool!
I think the fact that we were scheduling recruiting visits with several 4s was a sign.
I'm really intrigued by the kid from Wyoming.
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22 minutes ago, crymdg2 said:
Also from Stu: "Others expected on campus are 6-9 Wyoming transfer Cam Manyawu, 6-9 California transfer Grant Newell and guard Amari McCottry from St. Thomas More High in Milwaukee."
Manyawu was really good against us in Myrtle Beach. Looking at his box scores it looks like his play slipped a bit as the season went on, but I'll take a 6'9" kid that averaged 7 and 6 as a freshman. McCottry also looks really promising! Let's keep up the momentum!!
I remember being very impressed when we played against Manyawu. Very athletic and active on the boards. He had several double doubles, including against Texas. He doesn’t shoot 3s however.
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10 minutes ago, gobillsgo said:
Also averaged 6reb, 4a, 2stl, and was the conference defensive player of the year
Yeah, I'm not dismissing him - never seen the kid play and there are some impressive numbers, it's just the turnover thing is something that I'm sure he'd want to clean up. He had as many turnovers as assists.
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12 minutes ago, thetorch said:
I can think of a guy that most people think pretty highly of that was #1 in TOs in the country.
Oh, please tell us! Who?
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2 hours ago, Slu let the dogs out? said:
28% from 3 and 72% at the stripe. Although Schertz's style of play seems to enhance 3-point shooting percentages. Offensively, Conwell and Jimerson > Derkack. Hopefully we're able to retain Jimerson and/or convince Conwell that P5 schools are for the birds. We know what type of defender Jimerson is; not sure about Conwell. Rebounds and steals/game are pretty impressive for Derkack.
I think I'm turning into Old Guy with my posts.
He had the second most turnovers/game in the country.
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Christ!... Essandoko commits to Providence.
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46 minutes ago, Matty Light said:
Schertz must think he can improve his shooting if he is going to fit in the offense. His fg% is likely buoyed by drives to the hoop and his FT and 3PT percentages are not particularly impressive. But I trust Schertz to actually develop talent. This might be one of those guys who is a sleeper.
Look at the 3pt% improvement of Kent and Conwell this year from the prior year - that offers hope.
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47 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
Old friend alert Kesean Pryor is back in the portal/NBA Draft.
If I recall, Tate had a connection - Pryor spent a year at JUCO. He actually would seem like a Schertz player, but probably not a role here if Avila and Kent are on the way.
The churning continues! USF actually had a pretty decent season. This was the opening line from a Tampa article about South Florida hoops: In the span of less than a week, the USF men’s basketball program has transitioned from resurgent to rebuilding mode.
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On 4/1/2024 at 10:02 AM, Taj79 said:
NEW ADDS IN BOLD:
As of 04/04/2024 (1388):
Davidson: Angelo Brizzi, Grant Huffman, Jarvis Moss, Rikus Schulte, David Skogman, Achile Spadone,
Dayton: Zimi Nwokeji, Petras Padegimas, Koby Elvis (went thru Senior Night, Daron Holmes (expected PRO).
Duquesne: Dae Dae Grant, Jimmie Clark, Fousseyni Drame, Hassan Drame, Dushon Mahorcic, Andrei Savrasov, Tre Williams.
Fordham: Wayne Franklin, Elijah Gray, Romad Dean, Kyle Rose, Antrell Charleton.
George Mason: Berke Arslan, Devin Dinkins, Keyshawn Hall, Malik Henry, Kam Johnson, Ronald Politte III (UNCG), Tre Wood, Amari Kelly.
George Washington: Maximus Edwards, James Bishop IV, Babatunde Akinbola.
La Salle: Khalil Brantley, Jhamir Brickus, Tommy Gardler, Anwar Gill, Daeshon Shepard.
Loyola: Ben Schweiger, Braden Norris, Greg Dolan, Patrick Mwamba, Tom Welch, Dame Adelekun.
Umass: Josh Cohen, Robert Davis, Jr., Sawyer Mayhugh, Gianni Thompson.
Richmond: Dji Bailey, Trevor Smith, Jordan King, Isaiah Bigelow, Tyler Harris.
Rhode Island: Walter Allen III, Tyson Brown, Connor Dubsky, Jerry Foumena, Zek Montgomery, Rory Stewart, Brandon Weston, Sebastion Thomas.
Saint Louis: Gibson Jimerson, Cian Medley, Sincere Parker, Steph van Bussel, Bruce Zhang, Abou Magassa, Brad Ezewiro, Dorde Curcic, Mike Meadows, TJ Hargrove.
St. Bonaventure: Assa Essamvous, Barry Evans, Kyrell Luc, Chad Venning, Melian Martinez, Mika Adams-Wood, Charles Pride.
St. Joseph's: Lynn Greer III, Kacper Klaczek, Christian Winborne, Christ Essandoko, Cam Brown, Charles Coleman
.VCU: Sean Bairstow, Kuany Kuany.
LaSalle was not very good to begin with, but wow. It will be interesting to see what kind of team they trot out next year. Davidson, Bonnie and Mason - ouch! Duquesne will be completely starting over.
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10 hours ago, TRN said:
Hargrove was only 6’5”. We need another player to backup Avila that is actually 6’8”, that is not Thames.
Thames could be a nice back-up for Kent at the 4. The Canadian freshman could be Avilla's back-up.
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8 minutes ago, Ibruce said:
From Trilly:
Indiana State Transfers
Avila and Swope are locked in to go with Schertz
Kent more than likely going
Waiting for more info on Larry
Conwell has the biggest market and will likely test it before deciding
Damn it! He's a fun player to watch. If it doesn't happen for us, Gibby would be a hell of a good Plan B.
Hopefully Conwell factors in that he thrived under Schertz.
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I would expect we would know in a few days, maybe by the end of this week. Typically when a player follows a coach, it seems to happen very quickly. If any of these players are still on the market next week, we can take that as a sign that they are shopping around and not likely to follow Schertz.
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6 minutes ago, brianstl said:
That's a big one.
Avilla and Conwell are 1A and 1B on the priority list.
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24 minutes ago, brianstl said:
Larry was the one the ISU reporter said was the least likely to transfer to SLU. We shall see. He's a very solid player.
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6 minutes ago, Taj79 said:
I think Hughes is at best average. I've always wondered why he had no collegiate offers .... was that because all thought him a lock for SLU due to his dad? I've watched him closely over the season. While he is athletic, he rarely was an offensive option when the game was in the balance. We couldn't defend the three yet he was helping out on lane passes only to get burned on threes with the return. I think he has a place, but at best he and Curcic are really the same player with plusses and minuses affecting both. One or the other, not both. I'd keep Hughes, but as the eighth or ninth man. Fourth guard at best.
Hughes is really not athletic for a guard. He rarely beats anyone off the dribble is not good defensively. He can shoot a bit and if he wants to stick around and be the 10th man, fine. If he wants a bigger role, he should transfer.
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15 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
The chance of any of those starters returning to ISU seems like slim and none.
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1 hour ago, TheA_Bomb said:
I put that fool on ignore. I'm missing nothing.
I keep DOC off ignore because dude kinda makes me laugh. I imagine he's thinking of his next insult and that's the one that's really going to get me. Only to be immediately virtually spanked again by his message board daddy.
I gotta kick out of you waving the white flag of surrender
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42 minutes ago, TheA_Bomb said:
It's cute you two seeking attention. Sorry I didn't respond sooner Brighton's mom wouldn't stop texting me.
You don't have to get negative attention. You could say something intelligent about basketball and discuss things like an adult. But that would require you to know something.
You’re the Alex Jones of the board and you got a nice like by your sidekick- who was still peddling the Ahearn fake news a couple days ago
. Sources and credibility don’t matter. Conspiracy theories run wild!
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Nah - another naive take.