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If we don't block out the sky is the limit.

Isn't that what I said - he can not change the players at this point all he can do change the scheme. If all he does is say the schemes I developed are what they are you all just have to make the shots then he would not be a very good coach. He has to keep tweaking the scheme to help them be successful.

Torch - I think what Brad was trying to say is that it his job to devise schemes to make sure his perimeter players are getting the best open looks they can. Up to now, whatever he has devised are not helping the kids knock the shots down - is it the scheme or the kids - who knows but he can not change the kids but he can change the scheme.

Has anyone given thought to the idea that JJ simply may not be the type of player who fits the BS model. Look at RB - he simply did not fit the model at Villinova - that did not mean that he could not excel at SLU. We have all kinds of examples of a kid simply not being a good fit at a school - coach - and the best thing they can do if they can not adapt is transfer and try to reach their full potential. I think JJ can play here but the truth might be that he and Brad are simply not a fit.

JJ did score - 2 points and 3 rebounds.

Roy, I think winning 4-5 is a tall order. If we have to win at least 2 and I would be thrilled with 3.

Roy - I hope you are right about the attendance.

What I have come to see is that Brad has found a way to give all the guards good minutes - so the only thing that will take pt from AD is if he plays poor defense - probably not going to happen - or he shoots terrible - also not likely, he won't shoot great but probably well enough to stay in the rotation.

ABomb - first of all we play at Savvis not the Kiel. Second, there was close to 9000 in attendance and still the Savvis looked empty - that is the reason we need to have our own arena that is smaller and on campus. We will always look like nobody is at the game at Savvis. I know when Spoon was here we drew more but realistically those times were not the norm.

This discussion of Ian made me think of a couple of related things: 1. If Ferricks does not get hurt where would Ian be today - not the player he has developed because he would have missed the chance to mature as a player from the experience he gained last year. 2. Look at his play last year - he steadily got better and showed Brad that he could redesign his offense through him. The points I am trying to make is that we are far better off because of the experience and work that Ian has done the last two years and if Ferricks had not gotten hurt, Brad would never have given the minutes to Ian last year to spur his development - sometimes you have to go with the youth upside over the experienced known.

IV probably took 10 shots but he was fouled 5 times and those do not count as shots. He made 7 -10 fts.

Same time zone as us.

AJ - your previous post said exactly what I said - SIU slowed the game down for us and NCState did it to Iowa. Therefore, the opponent controlled the tempo thus creating a low scoring game. So why are you not accusing Iowa of playing an uninspiring offensive style? It is important who scores - if all your baskets are coming from 2 feet and in and your perimeter game is not hitting then the score will naturally be lower than if you have a more balanced scoring attack - more 3 pointers for one thing.

Skip - did you really mean to say that IV should play the 3 spot? Why would you take a natural center and move him away from the basket? While this was not a fast paced game and looked closer than it really was - SIU never got the lead once they were up 9-4 - I know they closed within 1 but that was brief and they played most of the game consistently down by 6-8 pts. Sitting in the stands I never felt really threatened by them all night so I think we really had control of the game for the most part. SIU's defense was good and was the reason we could not run more but if we had hit just 2 or 3 more threes then the game would have looked more like a runaway and we would have scored over 60 points and nobody would be talking about how ugly or slow the game was. This was a good win for us - now we have try to get at least 2 wins over the next 5 games - 3 would really nice.

Look at that Iowa score last night - 45 -42 win over NCState. Nobody is claiming that they are playing slow down basketball. You don't get to be ranked #14 by playing slow down ball. You will have games like this from time to time due to several factors. Fatigue, opponents, poor shooting night, whatever - lets look at the whole picture when the season is over. By the way, it is hard to score many points when you TL shoots 1-5. The only reason our shooting % was at 43% was that IV made all those short shots/dunks and VN was 3-4. We shot very poorly from the perimeter.

Don't pin that run on JJ exclusively - when the starters came out everybody who went in had an impact on the direction the game went. He played good second half minutes and did contribute both defensively and offensively - he did miss 3 shots but they were good shots that simply did not fall. Not sure what was going on with BH. I do agree that LM did not add anything and clearly Brad agreed since he never got into the game again.

Why would SC want to let him out of a contract he signed - they did it because he said he did not or could not coach. I am sorry but I can not remember all the times RM has either been talked to or indicated some mild interest in a coaching job. Lets just say that I am suspicious of his name being mentioned. By the way Slaten would not like him because his son was supposedly being recruited by him at Utah but apparently did not offer the schollie as Slaten was sure he was.

Taj - sorry I did not express myself very clearly - I did not mean to say that they in anyway gave the money or in kind donations to the prep school - what I meant was that a school can develop relationships with prep schools and recommend to the kid that he look at this prep school. If the prep school is interested, they will offer the schollie. Normally they are interested because this is a way for them to get good players. This is no different then what they do in football when a school recommends a JC for kid that won't academically qualify. No need to investigate anybody since it is all legal under the rules. By the way, the kid has no obligation to the school that recommended him - can't under NCAA rules.

BLaw - he took the job and then backed out. If you think he backed out of the job because of some health problem and now he is fine you are are being rather naive. He has done this more than once in the past and somehow he always comes up with some mysterious health issue that somehow mysteriously gets better the next time around. He loves living in Southern Cal and loves living his stress free life - good for him but people should realize that his susposed interest in any job is just an ego stroke for him.

Anybody who seriously thinks that Rick M is going to leave Southern Cal is kidding themselves - he has jerked more than one team around before - I think he just likes hearing his name bandied about. Look what he did last year.

72- more than that - OJ reported that there was more than simply a passing interest expressed by the Tyus and the family.

Taj - normally when a school is said to have sent the kid to a prep school what they mean is that they arranged for the prep school to give a scholarship and they pointed the kid to a school that would be open to encouraging the kid to go to their college. What is interesting about the comment is that Kruger continues to try to worm his way back into the St. Louis area. The truth is UNLV is no better of a program than SLU from a competetion stand point.

Goat - funny you mentioned the coach's comments, I was thinking the same thing when I read it. He also needs a geography lesson - Lawrence is a hard 5 hours from here - so if the family only wants to go to weekend home games and pay to spend the night out and then drive back thus losing the entire weekend then I guess you could say they can easily get there to watch him play. ILL is closer than KU.

Not sure what to make of this - doesn't sound good but who knows.

Turn your radio on during the day in those areas and you will get KFNS - that is why they would probably define that as their coverage area.