Bay Area Billiken

Yuri would have had more assists in his NBA debut today had his teammates not missed wide open shots.

Yuri sees his first action for Golden State: 6 minutes, 2 points, 1 assist, 1 rebound, 3 fouls. Yuri was running the point, is the first Warrior to wear #99. I saw his first NBA basket (watching on ABC TV).

LeBron to JGood for the 3 ...

Yuri Collins started and played 34 minutes last night for Santa Cruz in the G-League, scored 23 points and had 13 assists. Golden State hosts Dallas today in a little over an hour, 12:30 Pacific on ABC.

St. Mary’s beats Gonzaga 74-67 in The Kennel, sweeps the two regular season meetings with the Zags, wins the regular season WCC outright.

38-32 SLU at half.

How many bunnies has SLU missed? This game should be a blowout. They’re letting URI hang around. Swope has 3 turnovers.

This is just bad basketball.

https://gleague.nba.com/game/okl-vs-scw-2022400305?view=box-score Yuri played 35 minutes, scoring 10 points with 9 assists for the Santa Cruz Warriors in the G-League last night. Santa Cruz has another home game tonight, while Golden State hosts Dallas in the NBA at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Sunday on ABC.

The Warriors played 13 players last night.

Lines: ESPN SLU -6.5, Total 152.5; CBS Sports SLU -6, Total 152.5.

Yuri Collins is expected to be in uniform for tonight's Golden State at Sacramento game at 7:00 p.m. Pacific on NBC Sports Bay Area (Warriors announcers) and NBC Sports California (Kings announcers). The Warriors host Dallas on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Pacific on ABC.

The school is not shown on the Warriors' official website. However, ... https://www.espn.com/nba/team/roster/_/name/gs/golden-state-warriors Man, that looks good seeing "Saint Louis," right below "Marquette" for Jimmy Butler, and right above "Davidson" for Stephen (Steph) Curry, hero of the USA Olympic team and one of the greatest players in the world. ESPN is showing Yuri wearing #99, the same number he wore for the Santa Cruz Warriors. The Warriors (aka the Dubs) play the Sacramento Kings tomorrow (Friday) night in Sacramento. As the late, great Joe Strauss would say, "Developing."

https://x.com/warriors/status/1892359011636310147?s=46&t=jikm5nKg-NlIUjy2c9C9zw

https://x.com/gleaguewarriors/status/1892361656279216269?s=46&t=jikm5nKg-NlIUjy2c9C9zw Yuri makes it official.

Then future Pros Rich Niemann, Barry Orms and Eugene Moore were on the same team at SLU. A bit later, Billiken big man Robin Jones was indeed Bill Walton’s backup on the NBA Champion Portland Trail Blazers.

https://x.com/gleaguewarriors/status/1892350946849804306?s=46&t=jikm5nKg-NlIUjy2c9C9zw Having both Jordan Goodwin and Yuri Collins on NBA rosters, and in the Nation’s most populous State and #2 and #10 (or #6 depending upon the ranking) TV markets nationally, is tremendous publicity for our SLU Billiken Men’s Basketball Program and for SLU itself.

Congratulations to Jordan Goodwin, who is playing significant minutes with LeBron James, Showtime in Tinseltown. I've been told by a native Los Angelino that the (18 time NBL/NBA Champion and 17 time NBA Champion) Lakers are the #1 team in LA, even above the World Series Champion LA Dodgers. And congratulations to Yuri Collins, who has made the big show with our hometown, 7 Time Champion Golden State Warriors, where he will be suiting up alongside Steph Curry. Two of our SLU players, both Travis Ford recruits, will be playing with two of the top players in the World, both here in California, both on iconic NBA franchises. Bravo to both Jordan and Yuri!

I was impressed with the SLU CF (Hayden Moore), 2B (Ethan Sitzman), and C (J.T. Crabb). LF Hank Gomric had 2 hits Sunday. St. Mary's was impressive at the plate. SMC hit 3 HR's in Sunday's Game 4. SMC scored in all 6 innings in Saturday's Game 3 and in 4 of its 5 innings in Sunday's Game 4. The freshman starting pitcher for SMC on Sunday is from Serra High School in San Mateo, the same high school that produced Barry Bonds and Tom Brady.

Yes, but I don’t recall SMC having lights. The closest parking lot is in a foul ball danger zone. Like almost any ballpark, a couple of loud mouth fans were present, one providing us with pitch by pitch running commentary. He sounded like an old refugee from Candlestick Park.

SMC outscored SLU 45-15 in the 4 game series. SLU won the first game 9-4. Yours truly attended Games 3 and 4. I actually attended a baseball-basketball (St. Mary’s vs. Washington State) “doubleheader” at SMC Saturday. SMC has upgraded its facility, has theater chair seating and a covered press box, in a permanent grandstand.

SMC wins Game 3 by mercy rule 16-3, has outscored SLU 32-4 in the last 2 mercy rule games, 36-13 so far in series. Game 4 is tomorrow morning, as SLU seeks the 2-2 series split.

Schertz had 7 players average double digit minutes last season at Indiana State, and the 6th man averaged 18 minutes.

SLU has 5 regular season games left, including @Dayton where SLU rarely wins. I think SLU needs to go 4-1 minimum, and 11-7 still might not make a Top 4 finish.

SLU Baseball split a season opening Double Header at St. Mary’s in Moraga, CA, winning Game 1 9-4, losing Game 2 16-1. We will be attending Saturday’s Game 3.