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RiseAndGrind is your name Donald Trump or Bill Gates by any chance?

Yes, he built the house because he could, that is correct. He will have trouble selling it. Houses like that in small communities priced much below asking price are very hard to sell. The American Dream turns into the American Nightmare. Ever been stuck with paying two mortgages at the same time?

Did not say he could not dunk, what I said is that I did not see the whole highliht clip. It was long and I had to go. He may have dunked in the portion of the clip I did not .watch.

The way I see it is this, there are 3 sets of factors that will determine how we do this coming season: 1. The team: a) What will be the effective contribution of Moore, Johnson and Welmer to the overall results? 2) Will the injuries that affected Bartley, Crawford and Gillman's play last season recur and affect their play this year as well? c) How well will the team hold up playing a season with basically 10 active players under scholarship? 2. Crews: How bad a coach was Crews in reality? We all know he was not good but was he really worse than we thought, as it may have been indicated by Grandy's performance last season? 3. Ford: We know he can recruit, we know he is a very good spokesman, now, the acid test, we are going to find out how good is he as a coach and how good will his staff be in coaching our players. We all agree, he should do better than Crews did, but how much better? If we have mostly positive outcomes for the issues listed above: the new players are very good and can contribute effectively this season, the prior player injuries do not recur, the team holds better than expected under heavy playing pressure this year, and Ford and his team turn out to be much much better than Crews outfit was, If all of this turns out in our favor we may have a fairly decent season coming up. It may turn out that there was indeed a lot more talent in the team than we have come to believe, and it may turn out that Ford and his team were what was needed to free this talent. Who knows what will happen this coming season? We have to wait and see.

Watched a piece of his highlights video, nice moves and shoots lots of 3 pointers, did not see all the video but there were no dunks in what I saw. His stats look good too.

This has nothing to do with basketball, but happy father's day for all of you that have children or have raised them.

I think you are correct on that one.

The worst team in the NBA is still a team in the NBA. Congratulations to Grandy.

You could look at it from the opposite point of view kshoe. The league desires to make its most competitive teams better prepared for the big dance and therefore they will play one another more often. I do not think the league goes out of its way to aid struggling teams, they may rather be sweeping them out of view by making them play one another as much as possible. Same thing, different angle.

Thank you hsmith19, I did use the ignore feature.

Off topic it is, sorry. Thank you A bomb. I want to provide some clarification. I am not trolling anyone or anything. However I am rather irritated with the constant talk about players as if they were shoes, we get something else prettier and discard the old one. No concern at all about the players that tried their best and played suffering pain, or took all the craziness and irrational replacements during play the prior set of coaches loved to do. These are players who have tried their best despite all that came their way. They may not have been playing up to snuff, but they did try their best despite all, and there was plenty of bad stuff coming at them over the last few miserable years. These players deserve respect, and that includes Hines. I am also very tired of people justifying Biondi, in any way, the ___ was not a positive force at SLU despite all the statues and new buildings. I cannot stand the badmouthing the jebbies either. And among the issues that I really cannot stand are the "look at me" entitled, center of the universe, types that post cutesy crap not because it has any value imaginable, but because they think it will make them look intelligent, or well informed, or nice, or whatever. What is wrong with you who do this, are you small in stature, do you have a little c__k, are you bald? I would appreciate if someone would let me know how I can automatically delete or block all posts by some people. I will be a lot happier after doing that. Thank you in advance for the information and feel free to block me if I really upset you.

Bonwich would you kindly explain the meaning of "OT"?

Forget the stick in the reporter's ass, what was it that convinced Dwayne's world this was a fit topic for inclusion in a basketball message board? This is nothing but a put down on Jesuits in general and Biondi (who deserves whatever he gets) in particular. What molecular size packet of information regarding basketball is conveyed by this article?

I see you got the front page working with the scripts, very nicely done.

Trying to drag an image, no I cannot the image (jpg) will not attach to the post. I am using Win 10 prof, 64 bit and Chrome version 49.13.20.402

Kumbaya it is, we have an agreement.

OK Taj, you said what you said and I said what I said. I think we can both agree upon that. One correction to your last post, we are both message board morons. I can live with that title as well as you can.

Let me paraphrase what you are saying here, you are saying that the payers in last season's team were lacking ability and that you do not care if they were injured or not. Good stuff there, spoken with true leadership. So far we only have 2 new players plus one player that was redshirted last year and has not yet played in D1. The rest are the residual players of last year's team, what you call a "Crewsplatt" team, which are, as you say see below, a very unworthy group of players, only 1 or 2 of which may be worth a bench player's role in a proper Div 1 team. So, as a team we are and have been crap since 2014-15 when the "Crewsplatt" machine took over. Unless Ford can, by some miraculous incantation, coax something out of the remaining players from last year, none of the players deserve respect for what they have done or attempted to do despite the coaching dearth they had to live with and despite the injuries they had to play with, and are just warming up seats until the happy time comes when they are replaced by someone else. This is a very cute and empathic summation of the returning players in our team according to your posts above, which reveals a great deal of circuitous and disclamatory thinking, otherwise known as CYA. My, my, my, such a destructive manner to describe a bunch of kids who have done all they could despite significant obstacles (poor coaching, injuries, divisive attitudes, erratic player replacements during games), and now have the happy role to be "coaxed" by Ford to become decent enough while they wait to be replaced as soon as possible. This, in a nutshell, is a parable of the real working world. Congratulations, you may have bested both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in describing what is wrong with our country.

That is what I was posting all about until Taj came in and said he had NO ability as a point guard. I made a number of posts carrying on what Taj had said and ridiculing it. Yes, I agree this kid played a season while injured and in pain, he deserves respect not put downs.

OK Taj, getting meaning out of what you say is like interpreting the bible. So now, Bartley may have under some conditions some limited abilities as a point guard, assuming he develops properly under expert coaching. You do not know if he can be a Div 1 point guard or not, so far so good so far I assume. I think I am interpreting your comments faithfully so far. You also say that his prior body of work, as a competitive player, kind of indicates he cannot be such a guy, meaning a point guard, but again you are not saying anything to the contrary either. This is great!. Then you indicate he may stay as a shooting guard, but you qualify this statement by saying he needs to learn to play defense first, and then that it really does not matter much because he is prone to make 4 fouls in 2 minutes of play which makes him a non playable player, if I follow your logic. All in all you seem to stick, despite disclaimers to the contrary, on your view that Bartley is a pretty awful player, at least for Div 1. So, I think you are confirming that he probably should be the next player to be let go, ahead of Neufeld and Gilmann, ne's ce pas? Where is the error in this logic coming our of your descriptions of Bartley's abilities?

Hello Steve, I get nothing in the front page where the list of active topics used to be. All I see now is the video of Chris May doing his think (old video). To get to the topics I have to go to the message board and look for the current ones. Is this the way it is supposed to be or am I missing something? Thanks

OK I will buy that, Bartley has NO ability to be the point guard and there is no reason to speculate about his injury, That is fine then. Simplifies things, then Bartley should be the first one to be let go if someone else who can play next season decides to commit. Wow! I thought we would let Neufeld or Gilmann go before getting Bartley out.

The problem here was that something was lost on translation, the Dr. did not understand what she meant, or worse he did not realize what the phrase "normal activities" meant for her, and she did not explain in detail. Besides, she got the answer she wanted to get from the Dr. She did not feel the need for a second opinion or for providing a detailed explanation of what she would be doing in Yoga with her hips. I think most Drs will not understand the level of stress that is required to play competitive basketball or how this very uncommon level of stress will affect a "healed" injury.

Good luck with the upgrade.