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I do recall reading it in a magazine.

Not a pleasant observation, but I know several people who no longer attend sporting events of any kind downtown because of fear of street crime in our fair city. Some of these are SLU alums. They will watch a SLU game on TV, depending on the opponent. I wonder what attendance would be if the SLU campus were in St Louis county?

Change the name to Team Blue? Seriously? I guess our home town baseball team needs to change its name to ‘Cardinal Nation’.

What if he faced a Green Zone defense?

Glad to have you, Jake!

This is my stealthy positive energy, disguised as negative energy.

Hope he doesn’t de-commit from us…

The same boosters who now have to help buy and retain elite athletes will continue to be tapped to fund expensive facility upgrades in order to make the school more attractive to potential recruits. Either the donors’ wallets will be lighter, or the facilities will suddenly be considered good enough.

Wish you well, Rashad.

This may sound unsupportive, but he does not seem quick enough to play the 3, not strong enough to play the 4 for us for the foreseeable future. I hope he finds a school where he can get some meaningful minutes. Wish him well.

Athletes vs basketball players. Majerus teams routinely beat teams with better athletes. His players were basketball players who were able to execute his game plan. TF has athletes. Some of them are basketball players. They often struggle against teams with more/better basketball players. Teams like Northern Iowa and Davidson have enough basketball players to offset SLU’s athleticism. IMO, our coaching staff needs to do a better job at turning athletes into high level basketball players.

One critique of TF: Wondering why we didn’t use a zone defense for at least part of the second half, when VCU either scored or drew a foul almost every trip down the court, was struggling from 3 point range, Thatch and Okoro were in serious foul trouble, and JNez and TH were not at their best. Majerus would never use a zone defense either. I don’t understand coaches’ obsession with man-to-man defense.

My point is that the players are responsible for executing their game plan. They did a great job of doing this in the first half, not so much in the second half, and were still in a position to at least tie the game in regulation. TF was not the one throwing up bricks with the game on the line. We are going to finish the regular season just about where the preseason prognosticators predicted we would - and that was before we lost Perkins.

We simply need a coach who doesn’t put 5 guys on the floor who will go 0 for 10 in crunch time.

Historically insightful...

Not getting playing time should motivate high quality players, not discourage them.

...and Dartmouth beat Georgetown. Take no opponent for granted.

Diarra was never 100% healthy for us. A physically intact Traore should be an upgrade.

Does getting Nesbitt increase our chances with higher-level recruits - Tarris Reed, for example?

We are all expecting the team to be as good as advertised if and when they resume competition. I am running out of optimism on this issue. While other teams are playing games, improving, and getting in increasingly good game shape our players are being told that they are not allowed to overexert themselves in practice and are significantly behind in number of games played so far this season. It may take a few games to get back into form - our ranking and our national profile might take a hit as a result.

When it comes to athletes vs basketball players, I will bet on the basketball players. TH will get plenty of minutes when he becomes a more complete basketball player.

The SLU women dominated play. A low stress game for the fans. Nice crowd, beautiful conditions. Good luck in the dance!

In defense of Hankton, he was trying to deal with a FGCU big who can physically match up with HF. He was giving up 30 pounds to the guy.

This is less of a hit to the program than it might have been. Imagine the layers of speculation if CG had decided to de-commit last summer.

IMO, it speaks volumes that CG quit the team in mid-season. I cannot see how this benefits him career-wise. Has there been another player do this in the past? I agree with other posts - let's recruit athletes with character who are fully committed to the program.