BillifromPhilly
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Going to be a wild ride, but, I'm still booking a room and tickets for Brooklyn
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This is so unfortunate all around. The manner in which the process has been conducted and the lack of accompanying meaningful transparency, has blemished the university I cherish in ways that will be difficult, if not short term impossible to repair. Here on the East Coast, the discussion has been unfortunate and centered around the unprofessional, unusual and counterproductive handling of the whole situation by the administration
I have met Chris May before at games at La Salle , Saint Joe's and the A!0 in Brooklyn. It is disheartening to view his participation in the handling of this process. Protocol is one thing but the public relations strategy coming from the university regarding the press and outgoing communication in general is not of the style I would have associated with him. It has tarnished the way the university is locally and nationally perceived. --not to mention the abject disappointment of alumni everywhere.
Hopefully, the next stage will produce a more constructive and timely resolution of this situation. Certainly a long, drawn out. civil action serves no positive conclusion. Let's hope the powers that be surprise us and bring this to a fair, transparent and ultimate ending before more damage occurs personally and institutionally to all involved..
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Tough day to be a Billiken in Philadelphia.....just glad it's not on local tv....will have to endure the sports segment on nightly news.....things have got to get better from here
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First time I have seen them this year...wow...against Samford....long way to go before the A10 starts
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Our refs are so bad that I actually thought that yesterday was sort of typical. Overall, they were terrible and to me it seemed they were trying to influence the outcome so the Bills would lose. But I have thought that in several league games this year and I expect it will get worse when we start playing the teams with a real chance to get into the tournament. The A10 is now a pretty good league with some of the worst officiating in all of college basketball.
Being an ex high school and junior college official, it was painful to see three officials work the floor and have one , in particulat blow ten fouls on the Billikens midway through the second half.....the Bills won, kept their poise, so did the coaches, .......then the officials called a flurry of fouls on La Salle late in the game to help them stop the clock as quickly as possible.....road games are tough enough.....and refs will always seem to lean against the road team....but this is the facts of life.....wait til we play St Joe's in their bandbox of a gym later in February.....but, we're making progress and we're behind them in this year of transition
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Well, this was my first chance to see the Bills up front and close from the lovely confines of TomGola Arena.....it was a good win and a troublesome one...first , it was great to see LM play so well....undersized against La Salle's front line, he continued to be the only muscle on the floor and had excellent shot selection....really was the glue with KL's hot hand to lead us past a team that unfortunately was aided by the local tradition of homer zebras that had the Explorers in the bonus with more than twelve minutes left to play.....Tommie's second half , when he broke away and took it to the basket(including an acrobatic deomoralizing left handed baseline jam) gave glimpses of what we might see if someone would consistently be able to rebound and get the ball to him with a quick outlet to the open court....Danny Brown looked like a player and contributed great minutes.....Barry ,playing against a much taller front line showed aggresive style under the basket for some short power shots that will be need to give the outside guys some rooom....the rest , was tough to watch....Husak was doing his Fred Munster ball pick imitation and was out quickly after playing a meek inside game....Polk is still a non shooter and let his man sag into the lanes to clog them......the rest looked like adequate rest providers as Majerus hustled people in and out for much of the game
But all in it was a W....never mind about the team....La Salle is athletic enough to win some games .....but we got one on the road, overcame home officiating, took great shots in the second half and bellied up on defense when we needed a stop late in the game....a good way to go into Dayton....they're undersized and , for the first half anyway, pay way to much time on an offensive half court play scheme that does not capitalize on their overall size and talent.....but they saw that they can overcome a lot and play a solid game.....I was proud to be there and see this kind of effort and result...if this was good, I'm hoping more is better
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Skip, RM is in love with the high/low wheel and cut offense, and will not deviate one iota from his script. This requires three bigs, two of whom need to be very good passers. This offense requires three above average outside shooters to keep defenses honest, and with dribbling kept to a minimum, all players must know the angles for the cuts and passing lanes which will be open, and when to push plays. The three players we would want to be receiving passes for plays are BE, TL, and KL. The third "big" we often have trying to make pass plays is Polk/Eberle, and it really ain't working.
Our personnel in the 8 man rotation have two players who have played in a slight version of the wheel and cut offense - Luke and Paul. Small wonder they seem to fit this system so far. Tommie and Kevin are our two creative players who play best with the ball. The WTF comes in with RM's decision to sacrifice postseason possibilities by ignoring the glaring lack of suitable personnel to fully implement the high/low.
If a coach came in and wanted to maximize the current players' talents, a high/drag rotation with cutters would make a lot of sense. This would reduce the deficiencies from Polk/Ekerle's 40 mpg slot and allow Husak/Eberhardt to play the high and drag forward, and allow Tommie and Kevin to do some drive and kicks, their proven ability for the last two years.
Teaching and coaching the high/low as a organizational change from day one is an interesting concept. RM has made playing PE a critical priority to foster continuity with the new system after Tommie and Kevin graduate. If you account for this year's seniors, add next year's graduation, and then throw in two to four more transfers, we will be looking at second semester of 2010 before there will be a significant base level of knowledge with RM's players installed(RM's 4th year at the helm.) I don't see RM going past the five year point at SLU, and neither Moser nor Biancardi is a staunch hi/low coach and advocate. Heck, half the problems we have are because they are trying to learn the system at the same time they are trying to coach/teach it.
RM routinely launches a couple players a year, most every year. He always publicly throws players under the bus after bad games, ignores most of the local media, plays up the national media, and does not listen much to University administration or compliance departments. He also is a brilliant coaching mind when finally settled in a very specific environment. In the past at Utah, he did not have to deal with programs on par with Xavier and St. Josephs, so his tenure here is going to be very interesting.
Sheltie's post is right on the money....and accurately describes the dilemmas of picking up the system....it's not for the short term....and he's obviously made a decision to install what will work down the road....mismatched to the current talent, but, has worked for him and others in the past....it's his ball, let's see what he does with it....got to give it time until the personnel fits
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This thread is getting tough to read....let the season play out....and hope for the NIT and a good recruiting class performance for next year