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cgeldmacher

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  1. I feel like we are better than any team we play in non-conference.  I know that sometimes you build in a stumble or two, but I am predicting, oh boy (deep breath), 13-0 non-conference.  No matter how good you are, there are always stumbles, especially on the road, in conference games.  I will say 15-3 in conference.  That puts us at 28-3 before the A-10 tournament.  Even with that win total, if we lose in the A-10 tournament, we will be sweating the selection show given our dismal schedule.

  2. 2 hours ago, slu72 said:

    Does anyone know if Schertz is grooming any of our bigs to be a Robbie clone? No player is likely to be a Xerox Robbie 2, but since that role on the team is so key he must have a backup or 2 in mind. 

    No one can fill that role this season if Robbie goes down.  I know that they are high on Pikaar's future, but he needs to put on muscle and get seasoning for two seasons until Robbie is out of eligibility (assuming he stays).  In a perfect world for Schertz, Pikaar will be groomed to be the new Robbie by his junior year (assuming he stays).

  3. 13 hours ago, thetorch said:

    Creighton really hated losing Dotzler.  Having gone to a couple practices and talking with people around the program the majority opinion is Dotzler will be in the rotation and most likely starting sooner rather than later.  

    Hughes ultimately is just a one dimensional player and not built for Schertz's system.  Him being on the outside of the rotation is a good sign, we'll have a very good team.  He's a spot up shooter, a decent defender, not a great ballhandler, and doesn't move well away from the ball at least as good as our other options.

    I would think that a spot up shooter and decent defender is exactly what fits Schertz's system.  That being said, he doesn't play to his strengths.  I believe that he thinks he has to play his dad's game, meaning driving into the lane to try to make a shot he's not capable of making, even though he is not his dad.  If he stuck to spot up shooting from the 3 point line and chose his shots better, I think he can have success in this system.  Right now, he seems to think he has to prove he can make shots and is choosing bad (hand in his face) shots to try to accomplish that.

  4. On 10/15/2024 at 2:04 PM, RiseOfTheBillikens said:

    Anyway you can purchase through SLU so we are sitting in the proper section with SLU fans? Everytime we have reached out to SLU in the past when getting tickets to events they are clueless. 

    5 of us going to be in section 201. Guess our bench is in front of 101? You weren't kidding about them going quickly. 

    SLU does get tickets to road games, but not many.  It also depends on the team they are playing and what that team's policies are.  Since the tickets are limited, they have to hold onto them to make sure players' and coaches' families are taken care of first.  After that, I would assume big donors comes next, but I understand that.

  5. 34 minutes ago, SluSignGuy said:

    Thanks for this feedback!

    For the sections, do you prefer the white on the grey? Or do you recommend the sections themselves also have a grey background?

    I like that they are set off.  I would consider either doing those in the color you current have for the background and then making the background even lighter, or vice versa.

  6. The tickets to the road game at Loyola Chicago on February 14 went on sale today at 10:00 a.m.  They might go quickly.  Let's scoop up those tickets before Rambler fans do.  Just as warning, they are restricting online purchases to 8 tickets.  I had to create two different accounts to purchase the 14 tickets I needed for my group.

  7. 22 hours ago, cheeseman said:

    If we stumble against the 2 D2 schools and the exhibition games then we deserve to not recover in the eyes of the committee with or without Robbie.

    I agree with you, but I'm also referring to most of our non-conference games.  We cannot afford to lose any more than one or two.

  8. On 10/5/2024 at 11:51 AM, Aquinas said:

    If he is fully recovered, he should play. I don't think playing  it safe is a winning  strategy.  With the Schertz offense, it is super important  that each player makes the right read and takes the right action. It's especially  important  that the guy with the ball knows what each player is going to do next.  This being year one with so many new players to the system, every minute of playing time is important  to the success if the team moving forward.

    Your point is especially true when considering our poor schedule.  We cannot afford a stumble early to one of these no name teams, or we will never recover in the eyes of the Committee.  We need to be firing on all cylinders and playing with some chemistry by day one of the season.

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