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Wikipedia tells me he's the only basketball alumni, but: John Berner played a few MLS games with Colorado and John Carenza played with the St. Louis Stars and for the 72 Olympic team. Joe Garagiola played for the Cardinals, Pirates, Cubs, and Giants and YOGI BERRA, admittedly unbeknownst to me, was a St. Mary's alumni.

Bronny getting drafted is 10000000% nepotism. Unarguably.

Bronny just isn't an NBA level player. Nepotism baby. His dad is awesome. Top 3 player of all time, unarguably. You have a good argument for #1 though I ain't having it. But let's not pretend his son is special.

LOL, you never know with the boomers on here. Hand up - my bad on that one.

Horrible take, Skip. Especially as a soccer fan you should know that's part of the game. There's lines that shouldn't be crossed but you take away trash talking from sports you might as well not have sports. ESPECIALLY when you're talking about someone like Phil Russell. Hometown kid, former Billiken, known and documented head case, having a good game but also FLOP FLOP FLOPPING without repercussion = trash talk. Fack that guy, let him hear it. As others have mentioned these are now paid employees, and we're not talking about a kid - he's a 23 year old man.

Trash family with a trash son. Nothing surprising.

Robbie had 18/8/3/2/1 on 75/100/83 shooting last night. In case you didn't notice.

Arizona State is awesome.

Dotzler was the Nebraska Gatorade Player of the Year as a Senior after winning the state title as the starting PG and got a scholarship to play for one of the best teams in the nation. Larry was a walk-on on a bad SLU team because his dad happens to be maybe the best player we've ever had. Don't pretend they're two in the same. Thames is the most versatile player on the roster not named Robbie Avila, and he is a prototype replacement for Jayson Kent - arguably with a higher ceiling. I was not a big Kobe fan until this weekend's scrimmage - dude can shoot better than I thought. The thing is he can also do all the other things Larry can't, is much more experienced in doing so, and does it with a significantly larger frame. Then there's Amari McCottry. 2" and 20lbs larger than Larry, has a 7' wingspan, and is a three way scorer with better ball handling. I don't think he's ready today but I'll be surprised if he isn't ready by conference play. If this team is half as good as it should be it doesn't include Larry getting minutes unless Larry gets exponentially better real quickly.

I was just having this argument Friday at the game - with the above mentioned 9 and Brockhoff getting spare minutes at 10 I think Larry is the 11th man in the rotation. I've always thought his defense was exaggerated and that leaves him with nothing but a 3pt shot and that's just not enough to demand minutes over other guys like Swope, Jimerson, Johnson, Thames, Dotzler, and Johnson who are much more versatile. Being our 4th or 5th best 3pt shooter might get him minutes when we need someone to get hot but other than that I don't see his role.

I put my money on Swope, Jimerson, Thames, Anya, Avila with Dotzler, Johnson, Casey, and McCottry off the bench in that order until A10 play when McCottry will eclipse Johnson and Brockhoff will eclipse Casey.

It's so nice to have a short fat bald man in our corner again

Stu got much better at his job over time but he never became any less of a prick, and I think much of that improvement is simply because there was so much room for it. Timmerman is great, with the buzz around the program I'm sure he'll have plenty of great content for us.

Sometimes those offside runs are as much or more the fault of the passer but I don't disagree with you. What kills me is how often she beats the entire defensive line and has no teammate within 20 yards of her to demand attention, be a passing option, clean up rebounds, etc. So often seems she's doing it entirely alone.

And it won't be just one defender, it could be the entire back line and I'm still confident she'll get where she's trying to go. And fight through a half dozen uncalled fouls on the way there.