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https://x.com/studurando/status/1867650838048706961 Josh Schertz said playing freshman Dylan Warlick, who has been expected to red shirt, is on the table due to dwindling personnel but would have to be mutually agreeable and worthwhile in terms of playing time. https://x.com/RoccSTL/status/1867679769740927389 @RoccSTL The depth issue isn’t getting better. Kalu is still fighting a bug, but Kobe is getting closer to 100%

https://x.com/studurando/status/1867643607932616999 @studurando·26m Kellen Thames has a hip injury on top of his cramping issues and has not practiced this week. His status for Sunday is unknown.

@JosiahDotzler·47m Thank you to all my family, friends, and supporters for all your prayers and encouragement. I especially want to thank the @SaintLouisMBB staff. Coach @JoshSchertzSLU and all the coaches have been right with me through every step of this journey and I can’t thank them enough!

Not in the same season.

36.3% career three point shooter. We don't have many of those. Hughes II is currently SLU's 20th best Career 3 Point Shooter (150 attempts). This is a significant loss. Best wishes wherever you go.

This is a very interesting article from Stu. A good amount of research was involved with putting this together. I'm sorry to read about Kramer and Traore out for the season with injuries. It happens more places than just here. I'm also surprised Stef vB hasn't gotten off the bench at Charleston. We could use his physical inside presence on our Billiken team. I'm a subscriber and look forward to his daily blog. Pretty cheap for the amount of information he supplies.

I agree. But then throw in who gets minutes as the Creator, Dotzler or Johnson.

Tom Timmermann @tomtimm·2h Pat McBride, one of the greats of St. Louis soccer, died this morning. He was a two-time All-American and national champ at SLU, played for the U.S. national team and played 10 seasons in the NASL. He was 81. For those with a PD subscription: https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mls/city-sc/pat-mcbride-st-louis-soccer-legend-dies-at-81/article_e580bdae-b829-11ef-a0e2-c7e5ec7db154.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

Casey had 6 blocks last season at Miami. I don't believe he is the rim protector we seek. (Brockhoff had 1 block last season.) Perhaps Pikaar can develop into a rim protector-that likely won't happen this season. If not, we don't have one that will make the opposition think twice about driving the lane. Ah the days of the French Rejection!

Don't get too deep in the weeds on this. Today, the NCAA "minor" injury reporting requirement is not mandatory, but voluntary. Catastrophic injuries such as death, permanent disability or severe injuries are required to be reported. Severe injuries are, well, severe such as cardiac arrest, spinal injuries, etc. The NCAA outsources the injury collection to a third party. Several football conferences, such as the SEC and Big Ten now make it mandatory that all injuries be reported, similar to what is required in the NFL. This is due primarily, if not totally, to betting on games. Now does the A10 require basketball injuries to be reported or not, I don't know but I doubt it? If they do, perhaps it would be for conference games. How current SLU injury information is input into the system, again I don't know, but it would be someone inside the athletic department. And apparently it isn't that big a deal to go public with this information. There are numerous injury reporting sites. I found two today thru a simple google search. One listed Dotzler out for the season and the second didn't list him at all. Warlick, Hughes and Johnson were on both. According to Schertz last night on KTRS, Casey is out for "the foreseeable future". That is what is important, not whether it is reportable or not. Additionally Schertz said we are playing Loyola Marymount away next season. Six or seven games already scheduled for next year already.

https://www.101espn.com/episode/slu-mens-basketball-coach-josh-schertz/ 37 minutes

Coach wearing a sweater/hoddie today with The Lou script.

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Yes. Great for the A10. Don’t really care about Pomeroy today. Two A10 teams are undefeated 1/4 of the way through their schedule. That is great for the A10. if you don’t think this qualifies as good, that’s your problem to figure out. Let those A10 fans feel good about this.

The Ignore function can be your friend. I have two regulars on Ignore, and this blog is much better for me without them.

Pretty nice graphic. Great for the A10. https://x.com/jloose128/status/1865932322660356324

What is the status of walk on Nick Patton. He is in civie clothes at each home game. He stands at the half court line with Warlick and Casey during warmup. Still with the team I'd assume, but injured? Not eligible?

https://x.com/studurando/status/1865488130863759401 @studurando Larry Hughes will remain out for Sunday’s game. Kobe Johnson is questionable with an illness. AJ Casey remains out indefinitely.

If you are looking for rule changes, in 2015-16 season the shot clock was reduced from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. When Bonner played 1986-1990, the shot clock was 45 seconds. Jimerson era players would have more possessions than players in the Bonner era had. (The clock went from 45 seconds to 35 seconds in 93-94.) Comparing players from different era's is fun, but difficult, and somewhat pointless. And here is one to think about. Larry Hughes scored 670 points in his single season. If he would have stayed 3 and scored 670 each season, that's 2010 points. Four seasons of that scoring would have been 2,680. Of course the money formula says a player of that ilk will never stay in college for four years, but never say never.

I am not liking this hesitancy to shoot the mid range jumper. Schertz has all but banned it, and the players won't take open mid rangers. I've been watching, and in the past three games, the team has taken three mid range jumpers (making one). There are visible opportunities where the jumper is there, but it isn't taken. And do you think our opponent knows this? Pack the arc and pack the paint. When you are hitting 35% from the arc, and 65% under the basket, the math works. When you hit 20% from the arc, the math doesn't work.

Hurt his back in practice yesterday.

It's hard to tell from the feed, but Thames doesn't appear to be on the bench. That slip he had under the basket may be an issue. Anyone at the game, is Thames on the bench?

I have Rammer synced up on KMOX with the feed.