BACKHANDtheRICAN
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Hoping for 0-10 to close out the season....
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Crews is embarrassing.
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There is a Real Housewives of Beverly Hills re-run on tonight....time to turn off the Bills game. #FireJimCrews
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Rough return to reality tonight
Return to reality? Did you think for a minute that we didn't suck?
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My gut feeling tells me coach Crews will be back next year only because I have zero information concerning his status. Based on results of last season and this season I could see a recruit wanting to win and going somewhere else.
My gut feeling says that Crews will be back because SLU can't run a basketball program and is fine with being mediocre. I burned my degree years ago...
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Riverview won again yesterday, 4-1 with whole roster now. Zeke posted this little short video. For a player who doesn't have much film, figured this is at least something.
his competition doesn't look that great. if he chose to go play for Crews, he's probably very average. Backhand doesn't need to see the film.
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Mods - please lock this thread. we have already decided on David Blatt.
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David Blatt is on the market
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She used to come over whenever I called. I still have video if BK would like to see.
#savage
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Definitely a catastrophic win. but, there are plenty of potential losses on the horizon to seal Crews' fate.
We can not win anymore games.
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How's your girlfriend doing? Are you enjoying my sloppy seconds?
wow. 05 > BK
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. we beat UMASS. Crews will be retained along with more years of mediocrity for our program.
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+1
Unless you are talking about Crawford, Reynolds, or Welmer; I don't care anymore.
I want to know what happened.
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I wish Earl would ask him some real questions. We absolutely suck.
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Seriously...only 6?
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Hmm...interesting thread.
First let me say that if you are offended by numbers, statistics or grading systems, you need to put me on your ignore list. If you don't like it , don't read it. If you are here to kill the messenger (me) what's the point. I have been doing this many years. There are people on the board and in the stands who enjoy "the numbers behind the story" I get it that "we suck" Sorry, I can't fix that. I am also sorry that for some of you the numbers aren't as bad as you think they should be. Again, I am here to report my findings. It is interesting that a few years ago in that 1st season we went to NCAA's...I remember typing in that we were an A team...and that we were really good and that created a firestorm too...in that I had a flawed system that over rated the Bills. By the end of that season everybody pretty much agreed we were an A team. FWIW, using my model on other games, I haven't seen anything unusual ...I am coming in pretty much on target. . The Bills are just a tough team to predict this year because they are so inconsistent. Last year we were a D- team at the start of conference play ....that rose up to D+ ( a big move once you are in conference play) and then something happened (of which there has been much discussion about in past threads) and we slipped back to D-. This year at the beginning of conference play we started at D+...rose up to C- and probably tomorrow will slip back to D+. One of the ways to look at the spreads is to see trends. So when we miss a trend on the downside like today, it means we are playing below our norm and are trending downward. A miss again next time by a wide margin on the downside would indicate to me something else was happening besides normal basketball variances. ( see last year's 2nd half conference play or the year of the incident)
As for kmbilliken's question...."Would we be F- if we left off the 1st 4 games. All I can say is we would be lower than we are now. The reason I can't give you a more specific answer is that I would not only have to leave off the 4 games the Bills played against them...but also all the teams they played plus then all the teams they played etc etc. In other words the model is based on all 351 teams. Plus the fact that those 4 teams grades have changed since we have played them .
OK...now a review of the GM game...Remember if you are offended by stats now is your chance to leave.
GM .. a not very good team. The problem is we played worse than they did.
GM season slashline....40 / 29 / 63...which translates to....D- / F / F..Today's slashline 55 / 35/ 86
The 55% was a season high. Many of those shots were gimmes because of no defense underneath.
The good ...we outshot them (FGA) and had an amazing TO rate of 2 ...Pretty good for a team that was averaging close to 20/ gm. Even more amazing considering all the new people. Keeping TOs down will keep us in most games. BUT you still have to make shots. The Bills slashline ...40 / 28 / 64...not good enough to win. We had 12 more FGA than GM and made 4 less baskets. That is a huge swing . No major deadzones this game but a mini one at a crucial time. 52-46 deep into the 2nd half then 1 basket in 4min 46 sec....59-48...ball game. Also before the last 2 Bills baskets in the final 21 seconds of the game...we miss 6 shots in a row..again ball game. It looked to me deep into the 2nd half we were tiring due to lack of depth. I know Jolly was out but where were the others?
This was a game that we could have won but a poor defensive effort near the basket cost us. Btw, how many bunnies did we miss? Answer...too many
Bottomline...We have fixed some problems , others are improving but you can't forget defense. On offense , we need to be able to finish around the basket.
I think I would feel better if we lost by double digits with a lot of TOs. We had only 2 TOs and still got spanked. We are terrible. Simple atrocious.
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#FireJimCrews
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How do you feel-see any decent recruits who want to jump into this fiasco.
Given we don't recruit decent players, this isn't an issue.
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On a team full of guards, starting and playing a walk on guard significant minutes is an admission of failure as a recruiter and talent evaluator. This was probably the last winnable game on the schedule and it was a 13 point loss at home. Pathetic. Everyone involved with this team should be embarrassed at the level they allowed the program to fall. Pestello, May, Crews, Bronson, etc.
Did you really expect to win this game??? outside of the Wiz, I don't think anyone would have chalked this up as a win. Worst team in the A10 with no hope of the future....
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I along with Rican and I am sure many more have tired of your analytic "shtick" . You can twist it anyway you want we are not better than 100 other teams in D1 ..92 points is the only stat I need
I actually LOVE what the Wiz does for us and this board. I just can't get past how god awful I think we are vs. the projected spreads I see....
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How the ###### are we C-?? Down 30+ to a C+ team....
Wiz PLEASE acknowledge that we suck and aren't a C- team so that you stop getting destroyed in your score predictions. WE ARE NOT GOOD or even bad...we are pathetic.
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Even under Rick I'm not sure we ever got 9,985. Close, but not the record. Hope the AD took notice. They will today when they see about 5,000 for the men's game.
Not a fair comparison. This was a basketball game as well as a breast cancer event.
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Now that we can all agree on.I think regardless of the reason, we still need to #FireJimCrews
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They had 200 for the previous game, and usually 1000 or a little more, give or take. Fine.
This game was a huge breast cancer fund raiser, multiple forces artificially stimulated, enhanced ticket sales significantly for this very worthy cause.
Do not make an apples to apples comparison, smart ass.
Agree with this as far as our members who want to attribute the 9k fans to watching women's basketball. They came to support the fight against breast cancer not watch women's basketball. Any other day there would be 1000 fans there.
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