Bills By 40

I agree with all of the above.

I don't disagree but we're not talking about those passes. It's the routine passes that slip through our front court's hands that I'm referring to - and there's many of those.

How often have we complained about moving screens? See: Obi Toppin. You and I both know they don't get called a VAST majority of the time. It's how the screen is set far more than it is when. Okoro set the screen with a shoulder, can't do that. BUT if that's the logic we're using, let's talk about the turnovers credited to Yuri that are really the fault of the receivers

Okoro fouled out because he laid a shoulder into the defender he was screening. Yuri might've left early, I'm not arguing that, but what got the call was the much larger Okoro setting an obviously illegal screen on a much smaller defender. He does this often and gets away with it. The other argument I'm not willing to settle on is that Yuri's tendency to over-drive and take shots we'd probably rather he didn't is at least in part, arguably in large part or majority, due to his teammates lack of movement (Gibby excluded) and overall inability to score the fu**ing basketball. Most importantly, yes, I wish Yuri was better at closing games. We'd be in a different situation right now and surely a lot happier. Wouldn't hurt if someone else could close out a game too, though, including Ford.

If coach installed a decent offense, we were running in transition more often, and the other guys were doing their jobs better he'd have the option to revert to only passing, but none of those seem to be the case.

Hey, Old Fart, watch games through a different lens once in a while. There are more problems than just Yuri. I'll happily admit that he has issues, some much larger than I'd care for, but most ALL of his issues are greatly enhanced by the problems of those around him. Yuri Collins is still the best passing point guard in the country and that's how our team was built - to complement that truth. The issue is our entire team fu**ing sucks, and what can a pass first guard do when nobody can make a damn shot? Not a lot. Drive into trouble and hope for a foul I guess. A lot of this is on the coach, some of it is on Yuri, some of it is on every other player that steps on the court. There is not one sole reason or person at fault and your bit is getting real old.

I see no correlation to your tired message board b!tching and the betterment of either your life or ours. So I find your existence here utterly stupid.

I bet at least one of them sees this message board post, too.

It's the delivery. You're intentionally obnoxious and overwhelmingly unwanted here.

What we need is for you to go f*** yourself

I - and most basketball brains, too - disagree with you.

One spot may seem insignificant but that was all while we were sitting at home. We didn't even play a game. Important things to track: - Drake's win moved them up 15 spots to 84, and they're now only 9 spots away from turning to a Q2 win. That development would (likely) show far more improvement. Drake has as many as 5 Q2 games in conference play and could easily win 15+ games in conference play so 9+ spots in NET is very realistic if not likely. - Providence's win moved them up 7 spots to 79th and if they can climb 29 more to 50th they will be a Q1 win. If that happens I bet we move 5-10 spots in NET and our at-large chances go through the roof. Providence has as many as 9 Q1 games and 5 Q2 games left on the schedule (the Q2 games could increase if some of the Q1 fall in rankings) so moving 29 spots is not out of the question though could be difficult. KenPom does have them projected to finish 10-10 in conference play in which case they would not be anywhere near 50, but they'd have to be below 100 to lose the Q2 status for us, and if they play like they did last night they will be laughing at 10-10.

As I posted in the "B!tch about Coach Ford" thread: Dayton is now the 88th ranked team in NET after climbing 20 spots from 108 following their 40-point victory yesterday. Just 4 days ago they moved 29 spots from 145 to 116 after beating Wyoming by 17 in a game they were only favored by 2.5, and just 6 days before that they moved 30 spots from 189 to 159 after beating UNC Asheville by 23 in a game they were only favored by 10.5. They improved 101 spots in the NET rankings in a span of ~11 days. This goes to show two things: There's a LOT of room for movement in the NET rankings (albeit maybe less in the sub-100 range than there is above it), and it's very important that we win big in the games we can. A10 NET Rankings (and Games on the Schedule): 87th SLU 88th Dayton (02/10 @ Dayton, Q2 - 13 spots from a Q1 game | 03/03 @ Chaifetz, Q3 - " ") 103rd Fordham (01/31 @ Fordham, Q2 - 28 spots from a Q1 game) 106th UMass (01/04 @ UMass, Q2 - 31 spots from Q1) 130th George Mason (01/11 @ Chaifetz, Q3) 134th Duquesne (02/18 @ Chaifetz, Q3) 138th Davidson (01/27 @ Davidson, Q3 - 3 spots from Q2 | 02/15 @ Chaifetz, Q3 - 22 spots from Q4) 145th VCU (02/03 @ Chaifetz, Q3 | 02/28 @ VCU, Q3 - 10 spots from Q2) 152nd Richmond (02/21 @ Richmond, Q3 - 17 spots from Q2) 191st St. Bonaventure (01/07 @ Chaifetz, Q4 - 31 spots from Q3) 204th George Washington (01/14 @ GW, Q3) 220th Loyola Chicago (01/18 @ LoyChi, Q3 - 21 spots from Q4 | 02/25 @ Chaifetz, Q4) (Everyone else is well out of reach of being anything more than a Q4 game either at home or on the road, F*** this year's A10)

Circling back to this, reminded of it by @wgstl Dayton is now the 88th ranked team in NET after climbing 20 spots from 108 following their 40-point victory yesterday. Just 4 days ago they moved 29 spots from 145 to 116 after beating Wyoming by 17 in a game they were only favored by 2.5, and just 6 days before that they moved 30 spots from 189 to 159 after beating UNC Asheville by 23 in a game they were only favored by 10.5. They improved 101 spots in the NET rankings in a span of ~11 days. This goes to show two things: There's a LOT of room for movement in the NET rankings (albeit maybe less in the sub-100 range than there is above it), and it's very important that we win big in the games we can.

"aBsOlUtElY zErO pEoPlE aRe ThInKiNg ThIs" dude stfu. In this one, not only was it quoting a response of yours - you even called it a good post! (I acknowledge that in other posts you recommend against him playing and instead redshirting, nonetheless): Another one:

Bills by a billion, it's cougar season.

Yes, as of now the expectation is that he'll be here in the fall. He's technically already graduated high school so some are hopeful he will waste a year of eligibility to come early and magically be the answer to all of our front court woes.

Old Guy for coach! Old Guy for coach!! Hell, hire him now. He could really turn this ship around in time to make the tournament. TeamRankings stock would skyrocket if he were hired as a division 1 head coach.

Zhang would be a very high risk, medium reward addition. I can't imagine he'd acclimate quick enough to be worth significant minutes over Forrester or even Momo. I could be wrong about Momo, but I'd hate to waste a year of his eligibility for an idea that's bound to fail from the jump.

I've never Seen Ford and The Wiz in the same room at the same time

You must have missed the part of the presser where Ford said "I owe a lot of thanks to Old Guy, from Billikens.com, because I drew all of my coaching inspiration from him tonight. His statistical analysis and constructive criticism alone helped me find the answers to our problems and lead this team to victory tonight. In fact, I'm even thinking of cutting Yuri from the team - he made some points that opened my eyes to the cancer that he is to this program and I have come to the conclusion that we would be better off without him. Lastly, I am announcing that we have acquired a commitment from Carteare Gordon to return to Saint Louis University in a groundbreaking transfer move and this development is enough to elevate us to a national championship contending level."

I hope we win by 20+, that's more important than freshman playing right now. (See: NET.)

Old guy is really on a roll in the last 24 hours... You don't get to be both an idiot and an a$$hole, pick one or the other.

Someone needs to backhand BACKHANDtheRICAN. I'm sick of this dude. I had to look into this, because I knew Fordham had a bottom-5 ITN SOS. I thought no way the rest of the league could be that bad... Turns out: SLU is the only team in the top-180 SOS in the nation We only have two other teams in the top-200, UMass (8-2, NET 87) and Richmond (5-5, NET 122) We have two teams in the BOTTOM 5, GW and Fordham. Fu** this conference.