2024-2025 Season

[Billikenbooster]

It’s never as bad as it seems after a loss, and never as good as it seems after a win.

[billiken_roy]

1 hour ago, ARon said:

while transfers can make anything possible, it’s hard to imagine this team without Swope and Jimerson next season suddenly being a better shooting teammate.

Can't say this. You never know when someone will have a Conklin or Thames summer.   And I can't disagree enough about transfers.   Open the vault and we can import most as anyone with the current free agency system 

[laker119]

21 hours ago, ARon said:

Pretty disappointing given the hype around this squad. And while transfers can make anything possible, it’s hard to imagine this team without Swope and Jimerson next season suddenly being a better shooting teammate.

Gibson Jimerson, for as great of a Billiken he’s been, has peed down his leg in every big game we’ve had that I can remember.  I don’t really care about his shooting against  State Tech School - this or Northeastern State School - that.  It’s just fluff - the only thing that matters is doing it when it counts, and he hasn’t done that.  I hope later this year he proves me wrong

[kappy96]

3 minutes ago, laker119 said:

Gibson Jimerson, for as great of a Billiken he’s been, has peed down his leg in every big game we’ve had that I can remember.  I don’t really care about his shooting against  State Tech School - this or Northeastern State School - that.  It’s just fluff - the only thing that matters is doing it when it counts, and he hasn’t done that.  I hope later this year he proves me wrong

Strong take here but there is substance to it.  GJ hasn’t hit the big shots in the big games.

[Wendelprof]

10 minutes ago, kappy96 said:

Strong take here but there is substance to it.  GJ hasn’t hit the big shots in the big games.

Man, I agree there is a place for tough love, but some of you can be pretty harsh.  In the Loyola game, didn't he hit the big shot with about a minute to go that ended up being the shot that put the game away?  And given our roster over the years, who else would you have had on the court at the end of the game to take such a shot if someone had to take it?  Come on guys, give the players a break.  It isn't fair comparing them to players on other teams.  The only other options are other players on the Billikens.  Using that standard, while I've been disappointed at times that his shot hasn't fallen, I'm still glad he's been a Billiken.

[Billiken Rich]

It's easy to remember the missed dagger that could've iced the game or the missed last second shot to tie but then you look down at the box score and Jimerson has 20 points for the game on a tough shooting night from the 3 pt line......

 

[Bay Area Billiken]

Dan Hurley goes to Maui and reverts into his old lovable self …

[CenHudDude]

3 hours ago, Bay Area Billiken said:

Dan Hurley goes to Maui and reverts into his old lovable self …

Did you think Hawaii would mellow him?

[Bay Area Billiken]

While injuries are part of the game, SLU has sure been hit with a rash of injuries so far this season:  Avila, Casey, Johnson, Dotzler, Thames (health cramping issue), and per Tom Timmermann- McCottry (possible knee brace in 2nd Half Monday night).  Dotzler and McCottry had worked their way into the rotation, in Dotzler's case only to have a season ending injury. 

The team needs some better luck from the injury standpoint.