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A fairly sloppy game, we missed some wide open layups that would have made the difference at the end. I think we keep on improving and getting closer and one of these days we are going to break through and start winning.

Taj, I hope you are wrong about RA. If he does develop, even to a degree where we can use him consistently (not a star), he could become a significant plus for the team.

Valid points Roy, however a lot depends on how the players develop for the rest of the season and next year. I think it is possible that a number of our freshmen will develop beyond your expectations. I think it is too early to say at this time. I also think RA has made definite progress and may become more of a significant player in the future, I think the same about MC. I agree a number of the freshmen need to bulk up a fair amount and I will hold any comments on them until they do.

Agree

SLU 72, remember Jordair's play in his Freshman year? Yarbrough may be more similar to him than we realize, he will learn.

OK, by what I heard from the announcers, GM shoots FTs in the mid 60%s. Tonight they had the FT night of their lives with what has to be well over 80%. That plus the fact that they went to the FT line 10 times more than SLU sealed the game for them. Crawford played well.

Thank you Go_Bills

Agree, great post Taj, the long one.

That is what makes the process a lot of fun to watch, sometimes (maybe often) the fun may turn into pain. That is the way it is.

I have been looking at the storm's projected snow falls and current paths, New York apparently will get significantly less snow than what was projected, the heavy snow will fall in New England. This means that areas of the East Coast South of NY are likely to get even less snow. Of course, transportation depends not only upon the amount of snow falling down, but upon the local capability and equipment availability to remove it efficiently. A 2 inch snow fall in DC may be crippling, whereas a 2 inch snow fall in NY or north of NY is next to negligible in terms of its impact on transportation. We will see what happens but it does not look like such a terrible and crippling snow storm will hit Virginia this time.

I believe that as far as Vegas is concerned, the important number is the spread, not whether one team wins or not. As such, they missed badly in their spread estimates for that game. The final spread for that game, as per Team Rankings, was VCU 73.8 to SLU 61.2, a spread of 12.6 in favor of VCU. The actual score of VCU 63, SLU 61, a spread of 2.0 in favor of VCU, was not a good outcome for them. They have to tighten their estimates in order to avoid this kind of a miss.

It is water under the bridge, look ahead, not behind. We all get older and less capable. Situations like the one you describe will happen again someday, and SLU will continue doing its thing and moving forward for better or for worse.

Roy, it is nice to read your posts again, welcome back.

Slufan13 there is a vast difference between someone who really has knowledge about something and someone who is putting up airs and building a fake image regardless of who he hurts. I have full confidence that you are among the ones that know what he is talking about and has valid information. As far as the other person goes, I think he has a future in politics.

I think it is too early to say what will happen to us this year. It depends on many factors. We have come within a hair's breadth of winning over GW and over VCU, not bad performances. We keep improving and our team's play keeps on getting better. We still have over half of the regular A10 season to play and then there is the A10 tournament. Who is to say that we are not going to win a whole string of games before the A10 season ends and or in the A10 tournament. Remember out team last year? We were really really good, but reached the end of the conference play and the A10 tournament with 5 starters that were very tired and had all kinds of minor dings and injuries. We made it to NCAA but did not go as far as we could have in the big dance. I think it is possible we may be facing play with teams that are increasingly tired or have had injuries after the wear and tear of this season. We may win a lot of games still, who knows for sure otherwise? Now, whatever we do post season will or may be dependent upon how we continue play for the reminder of the season and the A10 tournament. Let's sit down and enjoy it. I for one really enjoyed watching our kids playing VCU, they played well. I intend to do the same for the reminder of the season. I hope we win a lot, and if we do, I hope we get to some kind of post season play. If not, I will still enjoy seeing how our team continues improving, which I am pretty sure they will do. I think our freshmen have learned a lot so far this year and will continue doing so. We will be a really good team and win a lot next year.

Took off this post.

Good Lord White Pelican you have inside information saying the Pope is not infallible? Sorry, this is my very poor attempt to make a sarcastic humorous post.

No Dwayne's_World what you are really saying is: "Look at me, I know something that no one else knows, it is likely going to hurt Grandy and being the respectful wonderful person I am I will keep my mouth shut." What you are doing is getting the spotlight on yourself regardless of who you may hurt and regardless of how bad your inside information is, which judging by your prior posts about Grandy is very inaccurate. You would serve yourself much better by keeping whatever rumors or innuendo you have in this regard to yourself. Leave the guy alone, he is obviously not going through a happy period in his life, respect his privacy and let him deal with it as he will do in time.

Great Game tonight. VCU won but they could very easily have lost as well. We played well the whole game and stayed on with them. Yes we lost but by a miniscule amount. I think our kids gained a lot of experience tonight and we will see the results of this later on. Reggie was very good, McBroom, Bartley, Yacobou, Yarborough, Gillman all played very well tonight. Very enjoyable experience, the place was packed and the enthusiasm of the crowd was infective and wonderful to hear. Go Bills! If we keep on playing like this we may make post season play despite our weak start!

More information from your "usually reliable sources" Dwayne's World? i will tell you without a doubt that GG is undergoing rehab for his shoulder. I can tell you without a doubt that the truth of his condition is slowly percolating into his brain as the rehab progresses. Whatever is going on with him is private and should stay that way. He does not or cannot be sitting on the bench as part of the team, he may not feel like he is part of the team any longer or there may be any other of a myriad reasons for him not appearing publicly with the team. We should respect his privacy in this regard. All I can say to Grandy is: hope your shoulder heals well and that you are happy with the result. All the best and hope to see you with the team when you decide this is OK.

Very nice game, very very nice effort by our team who showed real improvement is happening. We could have beat VCU which none of us really expected to happen. Regardless, I think our kids learned lots from this game. Did you see Bartley's face when VCU stole the ball from his hands? he will not forget that one and this will make him better. Nice posts Mudkat, you can be a gentleman and we should treat you as such.

I agree Cheeseman, I agree.

No need to fear, after Friday they will all have had experience playing against VCU. You do not develop experience at anything until you do the job. If they manage to win this game it will be great, if not it will still be a great learning experience for our Freshmen. I will be there Friday.

Could not agree more, improved FT scoring would markedly improve our results.

Kshoe I do not do well with sarcasm, sorry. This comes from 22 years of marriage to my ex.