RUBillsFan

There were so many reasons to hate him before this season. Now that is essentially robbing the only Billiken in the NBA of minutes, it is personal.

Brandin Podziemski is also listed on the SC Warriors roster, but has a full guaranteed contract with the Warriors.

Goodwin's 10 mins all came in the 1st half when the Spurs couldn't miss/Devin Vassell was going off & no one outside of KD on the Suns could hit anything. Spurs cooled slightly/Vassell got hurt, but dominated the boards and the Suns turned the ball over a ton. Why you wouldn't put the closest thing to a true PG on your roster who also happens to be an excellent rebounder when you are getting worked on the glass & coughing the ball up repeatedly, beats me. KD & Booker put up 28 & 31 respectively on great efficiency. Suns need some defense, rebounding, & ball control to win games NOT additional guys who can score. But by all means Frank Vogel, keep throwing Grayson Allen out there to get cooked on D.

I don't really like the guy, but lumping in Alford with Crews and Isiah Thomas is harsh. Alford flamed out at UCLA (as have a bunch of other pretty good coaches), had middling results at Iowa, but was really successful at New Mexico. He got Nevada to the NCAA last season, but jury is still out on him there.

Based on the Twitter stats her post above about doing PxP for SLU games currently has 76.5k views, 28 comments, 11 reposts, and 315 likes. For comparison, you have to add up the last 11 tweets from the SLU MBB account from 10/27 to today to top 315 likes. Last single post that had more was their 10/16 post about Collins signing with the Warriors that got 600 likes.

This is actually pretty awesome for SLU / better than I thought. Twitter...er... X followers aren't everything, but: Datt has over 46,000 followers. Warmann has about 1,300. Danny Mac has 9,700. SLU men's basketball has 24,000 which is almost double SLU Athletics and slight more than the University's account. Getting someone involved with SLU athletics that has a platform / online reach that is much larger than anything they otherwise have is pretty awesome. I've not heard Datt do play-by-play (has she done any in the past?), but I was never that impressed with Warmann. If they aren't going to give it to Colin Suhre, you might as well bring in someone who might attract some new viewers. Big whiff on SLU's part not including a picture of Datt in the marketing releases / social media stuff.

To non-professional basketball players that a lot of moolah, but Goody is making the league minimum. If he carves out a roll in the rotation of a championship caliber team, he'll could make 10 times that on the right deal in a few years (see Bruce Brown).

Clarification here. I believe the A-10 considers the "first round" of the tournament to be the "pillow fight" games between the 10/15, 11/14, and 12/13 seeds. Are you both saying that you expect SLU to lose pillow fight games as the higher seed to the worst or 2nd worst teams in the conference? The last time we dropped a pillow fight game was as the 14 seed (dead last) during the first awful Jim Crew season in 2015. Our final KenPom ranking in 2015 was 289. I don't have super high hopes for this upcoming season and I understand anything can happen in a single elimination tournament, but man that losing a pillow fight game would suck.

1. last season Yuri - Who leads the team in assists? Medley 2. l/s Jimerson, Perkins, Yuri - Who are the top 3 point scorers? Parker, Jimerson, Dalger 3. l/s Okoro, Forrester - Who are the top 2 rebounders? Dalger, Thames 4. Who plays more minutes among Medley, Zhang, van Bussel? Medley 5. l/s Yuri - Who leads the team in free throws attempted? Parker 6. l/s 9 - Number of players to average over 10mpg is… 9 7. l/s 19.6 - Average number of 3pt attempts per game for the team is… 22 8. l/s 75.5 - Average points scored per game is….71 9. l/s 21-12 - What is the Season record? 17-15 10. l/s 12-6 - What is the A10 record? 9-9 11. l/s 4th - Final conference standing, i.e. conf tourney seed (1st, 2nd, etc) is… 7th 12. l/s.A10 semifinals - End of season is… Quarterfinals

I'm fairly unenthused about the upcoming season, but here goes: Harriman and Charles Thomas seemed like good hires and they just haven't had much time / opportunity to show that yet. We just landed a good HS recruit. @3star_recruit said the 2025 class in St Louis has "multiple top 250 range" players that SLU has targeted. Those guys should be right in SLU's wheelhouse and Corey Tate has shown the ability to land them in the past. Even if the BVF isn't has flush with cash as we would dream, we should still be ahead of / on par with most other A-10 schools in terms of the total package we can offer (NIL, facilities, etc.) Honestly, the biggest issue I have with Ford is that he's overpaid for the results he has produced and the biggest issue with May is his role in Ford being overpaid and seemingly has a golden parachute on his deal. Re: Ford: you could probably make a decent argument that the last 6 season of SLU basketball are the most consistently good / quality season the program has had since the 1950s (?) (for some reason I can no longer access the record books on SLUBillikens.com). We've had good 2 or 3 year stretched, but they've usually been flanked by some awful years. The issue is that he's the highest paid coach in the A10 and should be winning the league regularly, but he's not. Re: May, he's had some pretty big successes during his tenures - men's soccer & women's soccer are in great shape right now, women's basketball seems to be the same, Champions Center, etc.

He also lead all Suns bench players with a +7.

Welp...we're all a bit down on the program, but if Brian Conklin is hyped about the season starting then I'm hyped too. LETS F*CKING GO!!!

Do we think Scott Warman will call the games on Ballys again this year alongside Highmark? Obviously former Cardinals broadcaster Dan McLaughlin was calling Billiken games before his most recent DUI issues. That makes me wonder if Ballys can dictate that current Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray call Billiken games. Caray did call Orlando Magic games from 1989-1998, so he has basketball experience in his past.

If we aren't so putrid at generating turnovers, it won't be that hard to tread water or even improve on defense. Theoretically more playing time for longer / athletic players like Hughes (led the team in stl % last season) & Thames should lead to more steals. I think (hope?) we can also put more pressure on the ball when our lead guard / primary on-ball defender isn't being asked to carry such a heavy load on the offensive end.

If it wasn't clear "we" is only Taj. My post was intended to call attention to the insanity of his post. I think very highly of Flowers game. Brook Flowers was tall...she blocked shots, but... Anthony Bonner was big & tough...he rebounded, but... Erwin Claggett was a good shooter...he made 3s, but...

Utah State was really good last season under Ryan Odom (now VCU HC). However, they have an entirely new roster this season under new HC Danny Sprinkle (former Montana State HC). T-Rank 2024 projection has them at 98, so they've presumably added some pretty good players. One of their portal adds is former Maryland guard Ian Martinez who torched us for 14 points in 18 minutes on (6-8 shooting, 2-4 from 3).

Stu QT'd this to say the series is starting at SLU. So pencil in a late November home game vs Utah State. 11/22, 11/25, or 11/29 seem most likely, but who knows could be anywhere 11/22 - 11/30.

Brooke is probably the most dominant defensive player in program history. Other that that I don't think much of her game.

Ford has shown that he doesn't have an issue with handing the PG duties to a freshman in the past with Goodwin and then Yuri. I have a feeling it'll be closer to Larry & Cian splitting PG duties with Meadows and Parker handing the ball as some as well. I do think Larry plays more than 1/2 the time & move off ball when Cian is in to play the point.

I could see Ford going back to the 1-3-1 zone more often this season. Collins playing 90% of the time & not being a great fit in the zone because he lacks length meant it didn't make a ton of sense to play zone a lot in recent years. If you've got a lineup of with Hughes at PG, you have good length, but mostly mediocre one-on-one defenders. That could be a formula for the zone being better than man to man.

Just saw this come across. SLU could really benefit from having Akok. They need a big presence to fill the void inside. It is a bummer they no longer have the flexibility to fit Akok.

T-Rank's projections for next season look like this: Charleston - 88 Vermont - 133 SLU - 139 Wyoming - 236 Wichita State - 105 Costal Carolina - 313 Furman - 124 Liberty - 83 If the bracket were to go chalk according to these rankings, SLU would finish in 4th place W over Wyoming, loss to Charleston, loss to Wichita State. Good news for SLU is that this is a very winnable tournament if they exceed expectations a bit. Bad news is there aren't any signature Ws in there and losing more than 1 game probably ends up looking brutal on the resume.

Those aren't Hoosier's words. He copied/pasted from https://www.thefieldof68.com/ daily newsletter. I think it does go to show that you should take what they're saying with a grain of salt since they mention Parker as a PG option over Hughes. As @gobillsgo mentioned they're also comparing EWU & Portland to the A-10 which is a little suspect. I think they're actually saying the opponents those teams faced in the Big Sky (EWU) and Portland (WCC) are similar to A10 opponents. I'd agree on the WCC. WCC (Gonzaga, St Marys, San Francisco, Santa Clara, & for last season anyways BYU) is actually probably better than the A10 right now. Big Sky isn't terrible. It's one of the better low major / nearly always one bid conferences out there. It regularly has teams who would be upper half in the A10, but A10 is indisputably better top to bottom.

I wonder how often a team has a player go off for 39 points, but still loses by 19+ points? Not even looking at his exploits from the FT line, he shot 64% from the field and took 1/3 of the team's shots. His teammates meanwhile shot just 32% from the field. That's not a recipe for success especially when you allow the other team to shoot over 56%.

I don't want to dump too much cold water here, but that triple-double was against DIII Willamette University. Meadow's assist numbers are pretty pedestrian for a guy billed as a combo guard, so I'd call him more of a SG. At first I was thinking this may be Rashad Williams part II - late arriving transfer 6-2 SG with 2 prior stops at lower level schools who shoots decent, but not great efficiency from 3pt range. That assessment is wrong though. Williams was just a volume 3pt shooter with little else to offer. Meadows appears to have a more well rounded game even if nothing in particular stands out (aside from FT shooting). On paper, Meadows appears better suited for a more limited / complementary role than Williams ever was. Portland had a bad record in a tough WCC, but wasn't horrible (only 157 per KenPom) like some of the teams our other transfers have come from (cough Tulsa 316 cough). As others have said, beggars can't be choosers for scholarship players in August. He's a good get as a depth piece, but likely not a difference maker. If taking minutes away from Parker, Hughes or Thames next season & we're a 150ish team, I'm not really sure what the plan is.