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Watched a replay. Last play you can't be to aggressive because you dont want to foul. Jacob's got knocked off balance on a back pick by Toppin. The kid made a big shot.
The three minute stretch of made 3 pointers. First was made because for the first time all game Jordan wasn't able to fight through a screen. Two made by Toppins with Bell playing off him. One Bell and French both were guarding Toppin and left Landers open and one French didn't close out on Watson. Nothing to do with coaching.
We played the 6th ranked team to the last shot. I think Dayton is better than Auburn.
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17 minutes ago, wgstl said:
since its mid January, doesn't he have to sit out all of next year anyway? He could wait a few months.
Not clear on the rules but Mizzou has not started second semester yet.
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We can't take a mid year transfer. No scholarship available
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Anyone hear coach this morning on KMOX? I forgot to listen.
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5 minutes ago, GBL_Bills said:
One thing I noticed was in the second half, almost every offensive set involved getting the ball to the post (either French, JBJ, or even Perkins), and having them try to beat their man at the post. It seemed like the sets were playing into GW's strategy of hack-a-Billiken.
Meanwhile, in the first half, when we built that big lead, we had a variety of set plays leading to jumpers in addition to the occasional post play. Why did we step away from what was working for us?
Ford said that they wanted to go inside to get more freethrows. It was a point of emphasis
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5 minutes ago, wgstl said:
As ford said last night,
Hes averaging 8/6 every 27 minutes.
Ford said Bell leads the team in points/rebounds per minute played and the coaches agreed he needs to play more minutes
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Starting the season we had 3 players who had previously played significant minutes. One of those three is not playing and our best shooter is out for the year. 13-3 at this point is damn good no matter how we looked getting there. We will win one or two we should lose and lose one or two we should win. I think we are probably a top 60-70 team.
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10 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
Starting a new thread for this year. As pointed out on the older thread, Coach was on with Frank this AM.
Coach complimented the atmosphere. He pretty much repeated what he said yesterday.
Frank asked about Jacobs. (He said French and Gordan talked about him before they went on the air last night.) Ford said he was 'brutally honest' with Jacobs, pretty much laying it on the line. My guess is he gave him an ultimatum on upping his game. Not necessarily scoring, but rebounding, defending. etc. Jacobs looked Coach in the eye and said 'Yes, you are right Coach'. No excuses given.
On Jimerson, yes he will get a red shirt. He is lifting in the weight room. Should be off crutches in the next week or two. Thatch is practicing 20 to 30 minutes per day. He hasn't been cleared to play in a game. Coach doesn't know when he will be cleared. Coach said Jimerson watching the games and practices will help him. Watching and studying the game will benefit him.
Frank on Collins, he was scoring 30 per game for St. Marys at the end of last year. Ford adjusted their press offense to get the ball to Collins which helped them out. Next progression is for him to hit his jump shots. His hands have something to do with it. Ford is looking for Collins to make himself a shooter this summer. Ford said Collins is similar to his PG at UMass Chris Lowe, now on the staff, who struggled to score as a freshman. LaSalle played a triangle and two on UMass and didn't even guard Loee. That motivated Lowe to develop as a shooter. Says Collins will do the same. Said Collins is a winning player.
Frank "What do you have to do in conference to be NCAA worthy?" Coach "11 gets us 22 wins. 12 A10 wins gets us 23, that gives us a shot. We just have to win games. We are in position to talk about these things."
In the A10, Dayton is on top, with about 8 or 9 teams then all bunched, able to finish in the top 4.
A couple of things to add. French and Goodwin said Jacobs is very talented.
Ford said you can no longer be brutally honest with players and said when you criticize them they make excuses. He said that a couple of times. He was honest with Jacobs and he was very impressed that he offered no excuses.
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10 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
I’m not sure I’m following your point, they didn’t even try to get it to Yuri to run a play.
East would not let Collins get the ball. The announcers commented on it.
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8 minutes ago, billikenfan05 said:
He did. Just like ford moving away from things that work(1-3-1) he moved away from Bell. He made a lot of head scratching decisions, including giving Goodwin the ball for the last play of regulation
Ford probably would have preferred the ball was in Perkins or Collins hands and UMass knew that.
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14 minutes ago, SLU_Nick said:
I think it’s because Ford is looking for someone to create on offense lately and that means Perkins or Hargrove in, Bell out. I like Bell and think he guarded the big Freshman better than French did
Bell played well. I think when French started taking over there wasn't a place for Bell. He would have clogged up the middle.
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3 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
Ha. Nice change of tune. So now are you a Jacobs believer?
I thought Jaobs was the difference in the game but oddly enough he had by far the worst plus/minus
5 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:Ha. Nice change of tune. So now are you a Jacobs believer?
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Jacob's brother hasn't played in the last few games for DePaul. Anyone know if he is hurt.
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10 minutes ago, SLU_Nick said:
I just think that we are kidding ourselves if we think we will get any benefit of the doubt from the tourney committee. We have maybe 2-3 opportunities for good wins, and losses anywhere else for us are killers. I think we have to have 26 wins to even be on the bubble given history.
There are just too many blue bloods who will find resume wins just solely on the fact that they get 12 chances at it. The talking heads are already starting to talk about how Wisconsin “turned the corner” with their win over OSU. Never mind that their 19 win resume at the end will include losses from NC St, Rutgers, and Richmond by 10 (!).
Duquense is a bad loss bc in March, the Dukes will not be Q1. If the goal is an at large resume, then all the middling teams in the A10 (Bonnie’s, GMU, Richmond, Duquesne) are essentially must wins unless we do something crazy like sweep Dayton.
I saw on twitter that the Bills called a players only meeting....I think they realized that Duquesne was trash too and the Bills should never have taken that L
They have a meeting the night before every game.
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We lost last night because we allowed the Dukes to shoot 65% in the second half and gave up 45 points. Won't win many games doing that. The offense will come and go but the effort on defense must be more consistent. It's only one game. I have a feeling we will look much better on Sun.
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1 minute ago, wgstl said:
Attendance says 6,723. Had to watch for a distance on tv with no sound, but it didn't seem that high. impressive. Beat the Dukes, should be a packed house in midtown for Umass.
Rammer said he thought it was closer to 8,000
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According to Stu Thatch is not dressing tonight
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1 hour ago, SLU_Nick said:
Report from Stu is that thatch was practicing full speed. If he gets in the game today, it better be a standing O.
I don’t care how we look. I just want to win.
I hope you are correct but I can't find where Stu said that
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1 minute ago, HoosierPal said:
Nope, no mention of Thatch. The Sports on a Sunday Morning link isn't up on KMOX. Perhaps that was where some heard the issue discussed?
Wasn't discussed there. Wiz said he heard it in postgame news conference.
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Just watch a replay of the game. Hargrove had a hell of a game. His defense was fine. He got beat a couple times but so did a lot of guys. His defense will not keep him off the floor. It will improve as he plays more. We have to remember this really was his first real game experience.
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10 hours ago, Cowboy said:
-either he didn't see the opening (which was huge), he wasn't comfortable driving from that range or has been told not to drive from that range, if that's the biggest issue with our frosh big at this point I;ll take it
Bell actually seems to handle the ball pretty well. In a drill in warmups he went behind his back with both hands numerous times.
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7 minutes ago, HoosierPal said:
Coach on KMOX this AM. (He was at church, and stepped out to take the call for KMOX.)
Coach confirmed French was taken out yesterday because of injury. He said, "French is sore, and is day to day....but nothing serious."
When asked about Thatch, coach said Fred isn't practicing. They are trying to figure out how to get him well.
He did say it was day to day with Fred which made it sound a little more hopeful. It would be nice to have him back.
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6 minutes ago, slu72 said:
I'm not often critical of Travis, but tonight he was not good. At halftime he should have been stressing kickouts. But he hardly played Jimerson. The 1-3-1 was a total failure tonight. Go to man to man. The last guy we thought was going to kill us, McLemore, killed us. I won't get into the FT thing. Face it we suck at FTs. Not Travis's fault. We just plain suck. 353 in the nation is proof enough.
What we needed tonight was more of getting Jimerson, Jacobs, and Perkins open for 3s. No screens, no kick outs. Yeah, they were physical but that's our game. We let a big W slip thru our fingers tonight.
All that said, we are headed in the right direction, and will do well in conference play.
Jimerson really was -17 in the plus minus. It was not a good match up for him. They set plenty of picks for him. Auburn played him tough. I do agree the 1-3-1 has not been good this year
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5 minutes ago, brianstl said:
Ruled a two and then missed the FT. Buffalo will hold on
Jim Whitesell with the win
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He was mad at the end of the first half about something. French had his arm around him talking to him going into the locker room. Might of been mad about being yanked after his guy scored