Duff Man
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Willie was being represented by a con man agent who'd been fired from his agency at the time he turned down that deal...
and then he got arrested for a domestic violence beef...which as far as fringe players go, teams would just assume not employ a bench player with a history of domestic violence arrests...
and that's on top of the whole evolution of the league and extinction of the traditional center (who doesn't have an outside shot)
He defied the odds to get to the NBA and then he managed lose it more quickly than really should have been possible.
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Forgot to post yesterday for the 29 year anniversary...I guess technically the 2nd half was played on the 12th (RIP Orlando Stewart)
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Goodwin has really cleaned it up in the half court set. Granted probably facing easier defenders than he'll face most nights, but he's playing under control getting to his spots and knocking down shots.
(and no turnovers...knock on wood)
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4 minutes ago, almaman said:
I did not notice him on TV. Was he in the Doc's house tonight?
He was there. On crutches w cast.
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In the 3pt era, has a D1 team ever had 21 more turnovers than made 3s and won the game? Get Elias on the horn.
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3 minutes ago, moytoy12 said:
Why is jacobs in the game? Hasn’t done anything in the second half.
3ball
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1 minute ago, moytoy12 said:
Why is jacobs in the game? Hasn’t done anything in the second half.
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Goodwin playing within himself is our best player. Goodwin trying to do too much is our worst player. He's not Michael Jordan or Jordair Jett...he can't score consistently via half court iso. He's great at the give and go and backdoor stuff.
How they had him try to do that as the last play shows how little anyone has learned.
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3 minutes ago, Schasz said:
Dang Yuri messed up on fast break and ball went off his foot. Need good D here with no fouls!
Goodwin should be better than that.
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5 minutes ago, SLU_Nick said:
I’d like to see Weaver
Weaver falls asleep on D and on his last 2 open looks had a miss and a hesitate/pass. Weaver is only useful when yes feeling it.
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Still work to be done and the turnovers are going to kill us against good teams but amazing the difference it makes when players make smart passes and attack.
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Great steal by Goodwin and they got the and 1 on French's rebound but Goodwin left that ball for Hargrove like he was passing to Shawn Kemp.
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Goodwin more TOs than FG. French scoreless. Perkins 0-6 from the field. Yuri out of sync.
Jacobs and Bell are the only reason this is close.
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Perkins now 9-46 (19.56%) from 3 against D1 opponents on the year. STOP TAKING THREES.
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12 hours ago, billiken_roy said:
imo conklin doesnt deserve first team consideration for just one great year. the rest of his billiken career was ok but not all decade worthy.
Conklin was first team All-Conference when Xavier and Temple were in the A10.
He was the glue that kept players from jumping ship during the difficult 2010/11 season. None of the NCAA appearances 2012-14 happen without Conklin.
Goodwin has yet to make any All-Conference team, and while he's been good (not great) this year and he gets credit for his role as a cornestone program builder...I think Conklin did more.
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34 minutes ago, GoSluBills said:
Piggybacking on some of the others above:
Jordair go ahead layup against Umass to clinch A10 title in 2014
Evans dunks against VCU at home in 2014
Barnett’s steals and buckets against Butler
Jordair was doing this every game, but this sequence clinched the regular season A10 title and put the finishing touch on his A10 Player of the Year campaign.'
This was the consummate Jett/McCall/Loe/Evans play. Jett gets it started with the block on the other end, McCall brings the ball into the frontcourt, hits Evans who drives in for the dunk with Loe providing the seal.
Those are both very good choices...but my pick as the play of the decade is Kwamain's 3 point bomb against Memphis in 2012
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3 hours ago, billikenfan05 said:
I’m saying currently, French would probably have it if both played out their 4 years but Willie as a 4 year player and French halfway through Jr, Willie would be the all time leader
Willie would have naturally broken Melvin Robinson's career blocks record in this implausible alternate universe.
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Jordair Jett
Kwamain Mitchell
Javon Bess
Dwayne Evans
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51 minutes ago, slufan13 said:
Is this game really not going to be televised at all? When's the last time we have had a game with no streaming options at all?
2 teams fly halfway across the country to play a neutral court game that's not on TV and is part of the undercard for Jerry Fallwell U?
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1 hour ago, Box and Won said:
What do you suppose they're hoping these phone records will reveal?
I'm not sure if anything more will come out that's not already out there but just having the most powerful dickheads in the world having their phone records turned over for discovery is win for all of mankind.
That said....
27 minutes ago, brianstl said:One big thing I took away from the article is that the guy making the most money from the Rams move to LA is Jerry Jones. Jerry set this whole thing up to make a couple billion dollars through Legacy.
The more evidence that comes out showing Jerry Jones was running point on this maneuver, the more damages can be claimed and the more pain inflicted on Jerry and Stan.
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45 minutes ago, moytoy12 said:
I thought Perkins was one of our better players on the court in the first half. Although he missed some shots, I thought he was a positive on both ends of the court. He was very calm and didn't seem overwhelmed by the environment.
I concur Perkins' sequence midway through the first half was one of the positives to take away from this game. At a time when the Bills were struggling to get anything done inside the arc, Perkins fearlessly weaved through the taller defenders and got to the rim. That's a skill that this team will need.
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19 hours ago, JohnnyJumpUp said:
Nothing productive from what I've heard.
You have to wonder how Cam's trajectory would have turned out had he come to SLU instead of ND and played on those 2012-13 and 2013-14 teams. I realize he verballed to ND in Sept 2010 (Majerus alluded to how at ND they took him to a football game and we took him to a soccer game and that was that) and with the turmoil of the 2010-11 season would have been tough to get him even if his recruitment was still open...not to mention even if he had signed with SLU he'd have arrived on campus to find Majerus was gone (and may have transferred anyway ala Keith Carter)...
but going from Notre Dame (as a top 50 HS recruit) to Mizzou (sat out a year but never played) announced he was transferring to Iona but ultimately transferred to Jacksonville St and subsequently bounced around NAIA schools LSU-Shreveport before finally ending up across Compton at Harris Stowe...it's a cautionary tale of how quickly a star fades
Typically a player can get a 2nd chance with that first transfer - there's always a coach out there trying to rebuild a formerly big time program willing to take a flyer on a disgruntled former blue chip prospect - but once you blow that, there's no going back
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If I had to guess, this will be settled for some astronomical number in order to avoid the extensive pre-trial discovery process and to keep Kroenke, Demoff, Goodell, and Jerry Jones, et al from being deposed under oath.
re: the Chargers
My read is that some in the NFL power structure have "workshopped" the idea of sending the Chargers to STL as part of the settlement (kill 2 birds with 1 stone), but that's unlikely to happen based on Dean Spanos recent comments and also the fact that there's really no money for a new stadium which the deal would hinge on (even when the lawsuit windfall comes, I doubt that money would go to a new stadium).
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Not only are the Billikens bumped to the 2nd Fox Sports Midwest Plus channel, but they have been confused with an indoor soccer team that plays at Family Arena.
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Jordan Goodwin's NBA Chances
in Billikens.com Main Board
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I think Goodwin's NBA potential is greater than Kyle Cassity's, but he's a longshot compared to Bess.
While there are some similarities between Jordan Goodwin and what Marcus Smart brought in college, Smart -was just at another level when it comes to his defense and athleticism. More importantly Smart is an NBA caliber ballhandler.
For Goodwin to make the NBA, he'd need to improve his ballhandling in order to play PG against the best in the world, and also improve every other aspect of his game.
The reality is he's a great fit for SLU because of his limitations - i.e. he'll be here 4 years.