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Whats the deal with JS sitting on the bench when we're desperate for players? Is RM down on him?

I think they only wanted to go out with you because you sit by The Dude.

The Rammer invented the internet. He proclaimed it his best invention since the wheel.

Sure. He drove us all crazy and underachieved his senior year, but overall he had a nice career. I'm sure he had a career double figure scoring average and was the best rebounding quard we've had. We all think he could have done more, but he wasn't a bust.

Where Thompson and Cotto all-state? Making 1st and 2nd team all-state in Illinois is big time. I can't recall us getting many hyped recruits over the years that didn't pan out. Lisch and Liddell panned out. The Hughes class panned out. The Claggett's class, Douglas and Gray, and Bonner all panned out. Upchurch was never given the chance to pan out. I can't recall any other recruits that were hyped by any body else otyher than our fan base. The problem was other than the Douglas and Gray followed by Bonner followed by Upchurch years we never have had a string of good recruiting years until RM. He looks like he's doing it year after year which bodes well and will also make next year's recruiting interesting since we're already recruiting for a scholarship we don't have open this year and have no one sheduled to leave next year. I'm not complaining. This is way better than scouring for players in May, June and July and always having unfilled scholarships.

If thats true, tonight was a big money looser. Maybe they'll take away another charter next year to make up for it.

We don't seem to have the beating mentality. Once we get a lead and see we're obviously superior, we loose our sense of urgency, relax and let inferior teams creep back in. We play to the level of our competition. We've done it all year.

We paid to get out of CUSA??? I thought we were shown the door along with Charlotte because we were nonfootball schools.

The videos I've seen on Evans show strong offense and passive defense. I wouldn't count on him playing much early until he buys into RM's defense first philosphy.

Temple played hard, physical and tough, but they didn't play dirty. BC's not a thug and thats how he plays. We got beat by a team that played a little more consistently than we did. If we play them in the tourney we learn from this and win. Our toughest matchups in the tourney will be Richmond and X. Those would both be very tough games for us, but winnable. If we only have to face one of those two teams in the tourney, we could win it.

I agree, he ought to keep his mouth shut once the guy at the line gets the ball. We can all see who is shooting. He was still announcing when Kwamaine was starting his shot.

The last two games the ball movement has been great. It now looks like our offense has purpose and is creating opportunities.

willie can hit his jump from the free throw line, maybe he should try that. it would be entertaining and no less accurate.

I think 20 wins gets us in the NIT. They like to sell tickets. We're a good story. The youngest team in the nation, on the upswing and another Majerus success story. We've got a good story line you can sell and I think they'll consider that.

The jury's not out. This is the most fun its been being a Billiken fan in 10 years. We've won 6 in a row and have the biggest game of the year at home on Wed. Let's enjoy it and make the place rock.

I don't see it. Watch an NBA game. No way he can play in that league. Maybe if continues to develope he could sit on the end of the bench 4 or 5 years down the road. I think he can have a good 4 years at SLU and make a good living playing in Europe, but if he leaves early he's making a huge mistake.

Did they give them the points for the goal tend?

Would anyone care to explain the purpose of our offense? All I see is high screens set by our bigs for our guards. The result of these is usually jus a pass to another perimeter player who is neither open nor capable of taking his man off the dribble. It doesn't seem our personel is suited for this offense. I guess the hope is for quick ball reversal to create an opening, but our guys don't seem quick enough to get it done. I quess I could start a thread on our defense too. Why not switch to a zone when they're chewing up our man to man?

They don't come out when we play well. They're just sitting in the weeds, waiting to pounce. If you think these guys are idiots, read the comments following political and criminal stories.

WR can't be thinking he's anywhere near NBA ready. He sees the game tapes. He hasn't been dominating since the easy part of our schedule.

I saw some footage of Evans and his shot is better than all of our bigs, except Ellis. Maybe he was on, but it looked good to me.

Why not make the radio show the coaches show and have Porter do it most of the time? Porter is always good on the radio. If he's not available one of the other coaches. We have 4 of them besides RM and I'd rather here their insights than RM ramble anyday.

I think its best to occasionally switch to a zone, just so you aren't so predictable. It also helps prevent the opposing offense from getting into a rythm. If you have it in your bag of tricks, you can pull it out to stop the penetration and take your chances on them hitting 3s.

Our best 5 lately have been KM, KC, WR, JS & CE. He tried to have them in as much as possible and at cruch time. We're 3-2 in the conference and our two losses were on the road and in OT. If we hit another free throw in regulation in those games we're 5-0 and everyone is pumped up and jumping with joy. This team is coming together nicely and competing in every game. I'm pleased with their progress and with the progress of KC. The only player that has elevated his game more since the arrival of CE is JS. I don't see the need to panic. Did anyone think the game was over when we were up by 13 with 9 minutes to go? I didn't and neither did Bob or Earl. Yes, it sucks to blow a 13 point lead but we never had this one wrapped. My biggest problem with the game was we started playing the clock way too early. Hopefully this will be a learning experience for these guys to never take the foot off the accelerator with that much time left.

This is the Spoon ice cream debacle at a much higher level. If you're spening a million a year on a coach, fork out another $100,000 to give hime what he says he needs to succeed. Otherwise you're shooting yourself in the foot. That's something SLU has always been good at.