SLUMS81
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On paper we should have been much better last year than we were. 10 minutes of high effort per game won’t get it done against legitimate competition.
Nothing new here, but Twitter tweets and previous year’s statistics don’t win games. If our newbies bring consistent intensity, we may be as good as if not better than last year.
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Maybe he got a better NIL offer to play football somewhere.
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2 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
good post cheese. we all need to keep in mind yuri might be the worst point guard using (or should i say not using) a screen in my lifetime. he circles around so wide my 94 year old mother could stay with him. a good guard will basically drive and almost bang his teammate setting the pick's hip. that forces the switch and now you likely got a terrible match up with our big and with collins passing skills the center gets the ball and maybe a dunk. if they dont switch collins has a layup because he has at least 2 steps on his defender caught in the screen.
while hate the "weave" i do recognize it could be a very effective start to an offense if the man with the ball diverts occasionally direction or the next handoff the reciever would all at once roll elsewhere and maybe be open for a pass. but we dont. we just waste 10-15 seconds. i have never seen the billikens do anything different than the three handoffs and end up right back where the weave started. just stupid. particularly since we should be playing faster not burning clock.
Another problem with the point guard not using the pick well is that it forces the big to move a foot or two to try and intercept the defender - in full view of the zebras, who may then call a moving screen.
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I wish the NCAA would just have every D1 team play - would add at most 3 rounds, probably increase revenue and we could stop our constant complaining about the selection process.
Never gonna happen, but oh well…
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Maybe we could convince Jim Boeheim to become the assistant head coach. Quite a track record.
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The band, dance team and cheerleaders were on the Today Show this morning.
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7 hours ago, dlarry said:
I thought it was odd a few weeks back when Ford came out and said something along the lines of “we are having some chemistry problems we hope to figure out.”
The next quotes were from Collins saying “we don’t have any chemistry problems we all like each other and get along.”It sure looks like they have major chemistry problems to me.
I wonder why they might be having chemistry problems?
I certainly have my guesses.Here’s my guess:
We are a veteran team.
Veteran teams don’t forget what to do when playing a quality opponent.
TF is not telling them to make bad decisions.
TF has lost this team. They are no longer listening.
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1 hour ago, wgstl said:
we're they one handed or two handed? two handed means he's probably still too injured to play.
Both. He looks like he has the best vertical other than Hargrove.
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Thames was doing monster jams during pregame warmups. Doesn’t look like someone on the pup list.
11 minutes ago, wgstl said:Isn't he injured? I thought he's been injured for like the last month.
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If an ugly win makes us a better team for the conference tournament, I’ll take it.
Who’s having more fun this year - TF or Craig Berube?
Wish the 200 or so student athletes honored at halftime had stayed for the second half.
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A pathetic comment.
13 hours ago, Billiken Rich said:I'm over Jimerson. Thank you for your service and hope you have a GREAT Life
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I have no inside knowledge, but I will bet that Chris May has a finite budget and has to operate within whatever agenda his boss(es) decide to give him.
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Acting like hardasses and demanding a coaching change halfway through a season is the easy part.
Let’s hear your suggestions for the next coach.
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Has anyone on this board ever coached a D1 athlete?
I have never attended a practice run by TF. Just a hunch, but I don’t think he tells his players to miss free throws, open 3’s or play mediocre defense.
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College basketball is structured more equitably than football. There are 300+ teams with a chance to be national champion.
If we make free throws, we beat Auburn.
If the teams in the A10 had better records, our conference would be ranked higher and the chances of multiple bids would increase.Any school in an automatic bid conference has the chance to get to the Final Four.
To quote Al Davis: ‘Just win, baby!’
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Fred Thatch got in Okoro’s face and basically told him to go up strong and dunk it. Okoro apparently listened. His offense changed from weak to effective immediately.
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Does Chaifetz have a new sound system? I could hear the announcer more clearly than in the past.
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Perkins definitely favoring his left leg. Coach on postgame with Rammer said he is only 70%. Makes his 21 pts even more impressive.
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I am going to be Mr. Positive here. I hereby hypothesize that Rivera’s foot issue was not a secret, thereby keeping him largely un-recruited.
We have more than enough depth to compensate for his absence this year. Foot surgery requires a long, gradual rehab process (no Welmer.2). Hopefully he will return intact foot wise next year, when we will have greater need for his skill set.
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For conferences with automatic bids, for lower ranked teams the conference tournaments basically function as a series of must win play-in games for the Big Dance. Every school in an auto-bid conference has the opportunity to get to the Final Four.
The only way to make the NCAA Tournament more inclusive would be to invite every single school.
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Credit where credit is due.
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Hope some P5 school doesn’t offer him a football scholarship he can’t refuse…
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One way to accomplish this would be to add a $10-20 surcharge to the price of each ticket toward the players’ NIL fund.
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ND also looked physically stronger than SLU.
Best Billikens Point Guard
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Larry Hughes basically was our offense, did it all including the point, for 1 legendary year.
Marquis Perry was no slouch at pg.