Matty Light
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Comparing numbers to French's senior year is bunk. COVID wiped him out. He was not the same player. If anything look at his junior year.
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On 7/7/2023 at 2:08 PM, stmdragons said:
Just going off the top of my head and people I haven’t seen mentioned yet.
CUSA: Steve Logan
A10: Courtney Stockard
Interesting you thought of Steve Logan. My mind went to Melvin Levett. I think they only played together one season when KMart was a junior. Those Bearcats were dangerous!
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On 7/7/2023 at 2:08 PM, stmdragons said:
Just going off the top of my head and people I haven’t seen mentioned yet.
CUSA: Steve Logan
A10: Courtney Stockard
Interesting you thought of Steve Logan. My mind went to Melvin Levett. I think they only played together one season when KMart was a junior. Those Bearcats were dangerous!
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52 minutes ago, kshoe said:
Kevin was far better than "decent." He is 6th in the all-time SLU scoring list and while that may have been modestly inflated by his teammates not being good enough to spread out the shots, he would have been a major play on any Billikens team, ever. Not to mention he was a two time Australian league MVP and played in the Olympics for Australia. Dude was a stud.
I didn't get to see Kevin play much due to the Billikens and A10s crappy TV distribution in those days. When I saw him play, I saw tenacity, extreme toughness, and leadership. I really liked what I saw. My uncle went to ND with his dad and thinks Rusty is a good dude too.
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10 hours ago, Coach314 said:
I'm now interested in seeing Goodwin and Watanabe on the floor together. Two A-10 defensive legends coming off the bench together would be cool.
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53 minutes ago, Taj79 said:
What are Ford's biggest claims to fame? Marcus Smart. Jordan Goodwin. Yuri Collins. Makes complete sense for a guard to enlist with Ford's camp.
What are Ford's biggest failures? Pretty much anybody over 6'7" or 6'8".
From a coaching standpoint, this is it. But he's probably best known for being the starting PG on the 1993 Kentucky Final Four team. Since all of Michigan's wins were vacated did Travis lead his team to the NCAA Championship without actually getting to play the game? I think the official records would suggest it. Weird.
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5 minutes ago, BrettJollyComedyHour said:
I was aware of the trade window, but not of the timeline. I didn't use Amex
The Wizards jersey will be like a Gretzky Blues jersey at some point, I guess
If I had a Gretzky Blues sweater, I would definitely be down to trade for a Scott Stevens Blues sweater.
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7 minutes ago, almaman said:
Suns Memphis road game
Don't know that Morant will be suited up in that one. We'll have to see when the schedule comes out.
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I am sort of at the age where I am surprised to see any of the coaches still active.
Of all the CUSA coaches when I graduated in 01, only John Calipari and Lorenzo Romar are currently employed as head coaches.
Tom Crean will probably catch on with another program and Ray McCallum is the assistant at Tulane. I am shocked Huggins made it another 20 years as it was.
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Open that Aussie pipeline please. Harriman, Lisch, Ellis, and now Tatum. We should have connections to some talent down under.
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Is this our first Dallas player since Cory Remukun?
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24 minutes ago, thatskablamo said:
It will now be turned into a float for the 2024 Mardi Gras parade.
contrary to Mulkey’s charm was the Iowa coach, who sells Tupperware to church groups in the off-season. You couldn’t find two more polar opposite coaches in the land facing off for a natty.Whenever I saw Mulkey in that suit from the zoom out view I would swear I just saw Rod Roddy from Price is Right.
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18 minutes ago, Zink said:
He had a 2.2 defensive box +/- (DBPM), which is quite good... his DRating was less impressive, but that is a bit more of a team stat.
For context, Goodwin's freshman year DBPM was 3.2 - Fred's this year was 3.1. Goodwin's worst (Junior) season had him at 2.4...
Interesting. I would be curious to know the rating for Hasahn French that freshman year and whether the rating is different for front court players. Do you happen to know?
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31 minutes ago, dennis_w said:
i agree roy, he kept proper position, stayed in front of his man, etc. wasnt flashy with the steals, but that is a small part of overall defense, imo he was our best defender
Hughes was probably our best freshman defender since Goodwin.
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18 hours ago, VeniceMenace said:
No way he’s 275 and based on observers who saw him at Bradley and posted on their message board, he’s more like 225. Any stats I have seen have come from his coach’s Twitter feed, one post of which appeared on the front of Billikens.com. He can dish so he at least must have good hands.
Considering Chris Heinrich was 255 and much more solid I would think he is 235 tops from the video.
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On 3/13/2023 at 5:19 AM, gobillsgo said:
I’ll root for the smaller schools to upset P5 at every opportunity. Since they’re trying to squeeze mid majors out entirely. Otherwise, don’t really care.
How are you enjoying a tournament where we are guaranteed a nonPower 6 school in the final? I have found it exciting.
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On 3/12/2023 at 9:34 PM, mrjoelabs said:
If flordia Atlantic gets past Memphis they could be fun.
Always behind St Mary’s with the man who should’ve been our coach. Where would we be now…
Did you find Florida Atlantic's run to be a fun one? They are almost to the finish line.
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18 hours ago, HoosierPal said:
So where will Coach May be coaching next season? It won’t be in Boca Raton. He just got himself a huge raise.
My guess is somewhere like the Mountain West or American. He needs a bridge school to work at until the Indiana job opens up but he needs to stay successful until then.
It is interesting that Dusty May is from the coaching trees of both Bob Knight and Rick Majerus. He was an assistant to Mike Davis for 2 seasons at UAB, as well as 2 seasons under Kerry Rupp at LA Tech. Rupp served under Mike Davis himself for 3 seasons and was assistant to Rick Majerus for 4 seasons at Utah, eventually becoming Interim Head Coach when RickMa retired from Utah.
Very interesting pedigree and potential fit for SLU in Coach May but would likely be waiting for that job at his alma mater, Indiana.
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14 minutes ago, brianstl said:
I don’t know how much I believe in Hurley, but I don’t think any team has looked more impressive in all of their tournament games to this point than UConn.
Maybe so. But individually has anyone looked better than Timme? It's going to be a great matchup but I got the Zags winning this one.
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https://www.kcrg.com/2023/03/22/ulis-ogundele-transfer-iowa/?outputType=amp
Ulis is a very solid defensive point guard. Ogundele is a Jimmy Bell type from the UK. If they are interested in going down a conference level for PT then I know an A10 team that needs a center and a point guard.
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4 minutes ago, SLUDrew said:
Yes, this program is ABSOLUTELY on the brink of irrelevance. To the casual sports fan in St Louis we have become an afterthought at best when we are, with all due respect to Lindenwood and SIUE, the ONLY BASKETBALL SHOW IN TOWN.
I'll give you an example, I was at a local sports bar for our A-10 tournament game against VCU. There were probably 20 TVS on showing various games. I had to frigging ask them to turn the SLU game on!!! This was in Webster Groves which is about 15 minutes from campus. You don't think we are an after thought??
The program has no identity anymore. The next coach will have to bring that.
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If we were to decide to revamp the program with a new coach we shouldn't just jump to who is available. We want to decide on an identity and bring in a coach that can recruit, develop, and coach that identity. If we want to continue to sign local players, having a style palpable to the local basketball culture is important.
I have been away from the StL prep scene for awhile so I don't know what that style is. Is it a two-way game where offense and defense are equally strong. Tatum and Carawell did well in that style with Coach K. Are local preps thriving with another style now? Either way, the next coach needs to be part of a long term vision to revamp the program. If that coach isn't available now, we wait and go forward with Ford until he is. But we don't extend Ford in the meantime.
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47 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
So only mid majors would have to be in the play in? - seems very pro P5.
No, there would be a 3rd playin but just for one spot, unlike the First Four where one win gets you into a spot.
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47 minutes ago, cheeseman said:
So only mid majors would have to be in the play in? - seems very pro P5.
No, there would be a 3rd playin but just for one spot, unlike the First Four where one win gets you into a spot.
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