The Wiz Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 No rest for the weary.....If you want to see the wrapup for the RI game ...see post #15 on RI over Bills thread. The good news is our numbers are improving. The bad news is we are still F+. We dug a deep hole for ourselves and need a win to climb out. A strange quirk in the schedule gives us our third A- game in a row with GW. Of the 3 , Vandy was the best shooting team followed by RI and now GW. And while GW is the weakest of the 3, they are still a very good shooting team at around 46%. While the shooting numbers of our opponents has been drifting down their defense has become better with GW the best of the 3. This does not bode well for us. Here is what we need to do to win........... On defense. Slash line equals these numbers or lower.....23 FGM / 51 FGA / 45%....I need 2 of 3 13 or more TO's 31% 3pt 11 assists Hold Larsen to 14pts Hold Garino to 4 FGM Hold McDonald to 5 reb Weakness....not very good at 3's or FTs On offense We need to score 64pts or more Make at least 24 FG Shoot 43% FG Make 1/3 of our 3's Shoot 70% FTs Less than 12 TO's...take care of the ball The one take away from the RI game was that we can play against anyone in the A-10. RI is one of the premier teams in the A-10 ( A- ) with a good shot at the Dance. Yet we trailed by 2 with 5 1/2 min to go and had the ball with a good chance to win.....even after all those TO's. Bottomline...played poorly against one of the better teams and still had a chance to win with a few minutes to go. If we play smart, we could give GW a run for their money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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billikenbill Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Sagarin agrees with the Wiz. Gdub is going to whip us in the paint. Play hard guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikenboy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 School will be open once again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMouthBilliken Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Something tells me the Bills are gunna make George Washington wish he never cut down that cherry tree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BACKHANDtheRICAN Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Something tells me the Bills are gunna make George Washington wish he never cut down that cherry tree. Maybe next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Predicted to lose by 22....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wiz Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Predicted to lose by 22....... Lol....maybe we can fill the Bills with Helium before the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizziken Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 GW is really good this year. They were my pick to win the league. I hope we can keep it within 15. If they employ that janky 1-3-1 trapping D we could be in a world of trouble....hopefully not 20 points trouble, but trouble nonetheless Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 If someone on here said we would be a 22 point underdog at GW according to the Wiz and Sagarin at the beginning of the season we all would have called the guy an idiot. This season is a complete disaster so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I would like to recommend that our founding father and keeper of the board be given multiple warning points. He has posted the GeeDubya fight song to the main page and then put that horrible GeeDubya video of himself doing the harlem Shake on the Wiz thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 If someone on here said we would be a 22 point underdog at GW according to the Wiz and Sagarin at the beginning of the season we all would have called the guy an idiot. This season is a complete disaster so far. At least it won't be SLU's worst loss at the Smith Center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I would like to recommend that our founding father and keeper of the board be given multiple warning points. He has posted the GeeDubya fight song to the main page and then put that horrible GeeDubya video of himself doing the harlem Shake on the Wiz thread. http://youtu.be/trQQd0TMbGY?t=1m9s I do admit, I am torn. This is the first time this game has been played where I have an official affiliation with Saint Louis University. For Christmas, I got my first sign framed, and will hang it in my office this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MusicCityBilliken Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 We owned GW the last 3 years. That year we only scored 20, GW only scored 49. Later that season we got revenge with a nice 63-38 win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 If someone on here said we would be a 22 point underdog at GW according to the Wiz and Sagarin at the beginning of the season we all would have called the guy an idiot. This season is a complete disaster so far. How much would you have expected to lose by at the beginning of the season? 10? 15?? Does it really matter??? Anybody who ever expected to be favored in this game under any scenario would've been the real idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 How much would you have expected to lose by at the beginning of the season? 10? 15?? Does it really matter??? Anybody who ever expected to be favored in this game under any scenario would've been the real idiot. I would have expected to be about a 10-12 point dog. Yes, it does matter. Being a a 10-12 point dog in Sagarin's system puts you you right around the top 100 teams. That is where I expected to be this year. I thought we probably miss out on any post season play, but would finish just inside the top 100 in most power ranking systems by the season's end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 This is backwards thinking. Results matter. Stewing over the difference between totally meaningless preseason prognostications and slightly less meaningless pregame odds accomplishes nothing and offers no insight on what is going to happen moving forward. The reality is both Vanderbilt and RI were losses. Everyone expected them to be losses, and probably double digit ones. But anybody who actually watched the games knows we played with both teams for 35 minutes, which should be encouraging. If GW blows us out, it won't be a good result, but it also shouldn't be surprising. Apply a little perspective... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 -our kids won their first road game at Indy State, why not win the first road conf game? -okay, back to the psych ward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SluSignGuy Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Did the Harlem shake kill this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Looks like Vegas has GW as a 17 point favorite. It's just depressing to be a 17 point dog in A10 play Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Predicted to lose by 22....... Oh, the inhumanity of watching Billiken hoops this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Looks like Vegas has GW as a 17 point favorite. It's just depressing to be a 17 point dog in A10 play No bet tonight if it's +17, too close to the Wiz. If it was somewhere around 9 to 11, I'd do it. Gotta feeling that 1-3-1 GW plays is gonna give us fits, and they have some really nice players; Danish, Japanese, Argentines, Mongolians, Tibetans, Aztecs... Lonegran's recruiting budget must damn near equal the Obama's vacation budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 GW is really good and I think they'll win the conference. Just hard to accept being a team that is expected to get blown out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 Looks like Vegas has GW as a 17 point favorite. It's just depressing to be a 17 point dog in A10 play Wow. What a difference a season makes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted January 6, 2015 Share Posted January 6, 2015 I don't think it's just one season, but rather three. As evidenced in "Recruiting Hindsight" thread Acie is admonished for starting. I called it "sustainability" many moons ago but its the same thing. This year reaps the benefits of three barren recrutiing years. Our seniors are limited, woeful or, sadly, gone. Our juniors are gone or limited. And our sophomores are at best enigmatic or worse. I have a theory for all that but don't want to be a "negative ninnie." While technically still attached to the Majerus umbilical cord, we are as far away from the mothership as possible with a sole microscopic thread still hanging on. It's a seven-footer microscopic thread but still ..... We are laying the Jim Crews foundation right now. How that goes will be truly of great interest. Majerus gave the program tons of fish to barbeque and grill and skewer and enjoy and get fat on. But did the program learn how to fish? Biblical, ain't it? Rocky road. Enjoy the ride. Can't wait. Go Bills! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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