Aquinas Posted June 5 Author Share Posted June 5 1 hour ago, Old guy said: Swope wants to play, a lot, that is clear. Whatever he says, his knee may not be ready to take the stress of D1 competition playing yet. Better to be safe than sorry in cases like this. It all depends on what kind of surgical repair he had. If they had to use hardware like rods or screws, it will take longer to be ready. My understanding is that it was a medial meniscus tear (cartilage), that didn't stop him from playing. No rods or screws. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 If it is just a meniscus tear, it will not take that long for him to be ready to play, particularly if they just took the torn pieces out and did not have to open the knee to get into it. Swope should be ready for the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Posted June 5 Author Share Posted June 5 I decided to look at the total division 1 minutes and points scored by our current team. Total minutes available - 200. Total by this team 216, Total points 84 Adjusted to 200 minutes that would be 78 points a game, BEFORE Schertz starts coaching the team. Player Min Points Avila 31 17 Brockoff 8 3 Casey 9 2 Anya 27 10 Jimerson 36 16 Thames 19 6 Swope 33 16 Hughes 23 7 Johnson 26 6 Dotzler 4 1 216 84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 Worth watching. It's about 10 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 9 hours ago, billikenfan05 said: Are you just referring to his lack of in game coaching ability or was I asleep for something this big? Referring to Mac Irvin leaving the team in the middle of a game during Grawer era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 7 hours ago, David King said: Hey Menace, where can I get some of the weed you've been smoking? David King, regarding weed...you better ask OId Guy about its physiological effects, it's not a laughing matter...unless you're high! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 rarely here the mbm's here talk about young hughes or young thames. i believe both are gonna play and play a lot. if this video is truly a typical day, the young man is working HARD. he is gonna make a difference. i love the new haircut. makes him look older and more serious. Aquinas, billikenbill, CenHudDude and 2 others like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Posted June 6 Author Share Posted June 6 2 hours ago, billiken_roy said: rarely here the mbm's here talk about young hughes or young thames. i believe both are gonna play and play a lot. if this video is truly a typical day, the young man is working HARD. he is gonna make a difference. i love the new haircut. makes him look older and more serious. I think they are positioned at least as well as the incoming guards, not named Swope. I am still not sure what Thames is capable of doing or how big he actually is. His 3 pt% was good last year, but his FT% was bad. Is he 6'5" or 6'7"? I think he has the greater potential of the two. I think they fit Schertz system well and they will make improvements in efficiency. The minutes they played last year, position them to take big steps up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 3 minutes ago, Aquinas said: I think they are positioned at least as well as the incoming guards, not named Swope. I am still not sure what Thames is capable of doing or how big he actually is. His 3 pt% was good last year, but his FT% was bad. Is he 6'5" or 6'7"? I think he has the greater potential of the two. I think they fit Schertz system well and they will make improvements in efficiency. The minutes they played last year, position them to take big steps up. The fact that Schertz didn’t run them off with words like” you ain’t gonna see the floor much” is a promising sign. Rick didn’t pull any punches with Brad’s leftovers and sent them packing. Same with Ford and Crews crew. Hopefully I am right and Schertz sees them as contributors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeniceMenace Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 29 minutes ago, slu72 said: The fact that Schertz didn’t run them off with words like” you ain’t gonna see the floor much” is a promising sign. Rick didn’t pull any punches with Brad’s leftovers and sent them packing. Same with Ford and Crews crew. Hopefully I am right and Schertz sees them as contributors. Agreed. The 8 upper classmen, all with significant PT last year, seem to fit the bill for cracking the rotation...ton of experience there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACE Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 23 hours ago, slu72 said: And Thames as well. But from everything we’ve heard he likes a short rotation. We shall see. I have pointed this out previously - I'm not sure Schertz necessarily "likes" a shot bench, I just sense he played one last year because the starters were far superior to the bench. I suspect he would have preferred a stronger bench. Look at the distribution of minutes from the 2022-23 season - he consistently played 10/11 players a game: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/stats/_/id/282/season/2023 billiken_roy likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, Aquinas said: I think they are positioned at least as well as the incoming guards, not named Swope. I am still not sure what Thames is capable of doing or how big he actually is. His 3 pt% was good last year, but his FT% was bad. Is he 6'5" or 6'7"? I think he has the greater potential of the two. I think they fit Schertz system well and they will make improvements in efficiency. The minutes they played last year, position them to take big steps up. Agree his 55% FT has to improve. But Schertz brought in three others in the same situation: Anya 51%, Casey 59%, Brockhoff 57%. Without improvement, none of these will be on the floor at crunch time. [Yes small sample sizes for everyone except Anya.] And if you look in the video, Thames appears to be at least 2" taller than Larry Jr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crewsorlose Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 1 hour ago, ACE said: I have pointed this out previously - I'm not sure Schertz necessarily "likes" a shot bench, I just sense he played one last year because the starters were far superior to the bench. I suspect he would have preferred a stronger bench. Look at the distribution of minutes from the 2022-23 season - he consistently played 10/11 players a game: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/stats/_/id/282/season/2023 I agree. The A-10 is more physical and there are different types of "rotation" players. Two years ago, Yuri was a 38mpg guy, but had to take it easy on defense to avoid foul trouble and conserve energy. The team won't be successful if Avila, Swope and Jimerson play that way. Jimerson at 28-30 mpg probably means the team is having the right kind of success. I'd love to see 10-11 guys getting regular minutes. I especially want to see Thames and Hughes flourish in this system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (Wrong thread.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 On 6/3/2024 at 10:59 PM, Pistol said: Pikaar is on campus but not in the video. He and Brockhoff will go back to Europe for national team obligations in the next couple weeks. Warlick is also not in the video (injured). Everyone else is accounted for in it. There is a new walk-on in there at the 48 second mark - Isaac Holmes, who was also a walk-on at Indiana State. The other two walk-ons (Jaden Schertz and Nick Patton) are both in the video. I am kind of surprised the Mexican national team has not attempted to lock up Avila to this point. They announced their Olympic team invites a week ago for the FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico. Honestly, he is good enough to make their team right now. Good thing for us at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crymdg2 Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 10 hours ago, billiken_roy said: rarely here the mbm's here talk about young hughes or young thames. i believe both are gonna play and play a lot. if this video is truly a typical day, the young man is working HARD. he is gonna make a difference. i love the new haircut. makes him look older and more serious. RiseOfTheBillikens and dlarry like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 24 minutes ago, brianstl said: I am kind of surprised the Mexican national team has not attempted to lock up Avila to this point. They announced their Olympic team invites a week ago for the FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico. Honestly, he is good enough to make their team right now. Good thing for us at this point. I've wondered the same. brianstl likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy II Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 -I don't think I am dreaming as I recall reading or hearing CJS say he does prefer a limited rotation billikenbill and Aquinas like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 On 6/6/2024 at 3:46 PM, Cowboy II said: -I don't think I am dreaming as I recall reading or hearing CJS say he does prefer a limited rotation Correct. In his interview with Martin Kilcoyne he said he prefers a tight rotation. (His words.) He feels it keeps his best players in rhythm. He also said he will bend his coaching schemes to fit the team strength. My editorial comment. Schertz is here to win. He is not here to make his players happy with their place in the rotation. If he uses a tight rotation, and the players who sit are unhappy, so be it. Aquinas and Old guy like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crymdg2 Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 https://www.instagram.com/stories/maxpikaar/3386126560451738488?igsh=MXBmeWd0Mmg2MWR5Mg== Bet he can definitely get over a trash can!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierPal Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Spotted this article on one of my bookmarked sites. It is the first, that I have seen, speculation on the A10 basketball race. https://bustingbrackets.com/posts/atlantic-10-basketball-way-too-early-power-rankings-for-2024-25-season-01hwnn09qf67 For those who don't want to read the article, the author has the following ranks: 1. Loyola, 2. SLU, 3. VCU, 4. Dayton, 5. St. Joe 6. Dusquene, 7. G Mason, 8. Richmond, 9. UMass, 10. Rhody 11. St. Bonnie, 12. GW, 13. Davidson, 14. Fordham and 15. LaSalle. Rosters aren't set yet, so it is kind of a crap shoot speculating. I'll go with the three 5 team tiers. My only comment was that I think he is selling low on George Mason. I'd slip Mason up into the top tier and move Dayton down to the middle level. I posted this roster recap site before. Take a look at the A10 rosters along with stats and see if you can come up with a different ranking. This site is where I see George Mason as a possibly intriguing team. Chemistry for just about every team will be a huge issue this upcoming season in college hoops. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LkmdTvvP-5_gfLo5tmvQ7DORgOdn43NC Old guy likes this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgeldmacher Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 The following is from an article about the Celtics championship and explains how their the first NBA team to win using the "Five Out" or "3 and D" system. If I were Schertz, I would use articles like this in recruiting. Tell kids that the way we play is essentially an NBA style system. The Celtics didn’t win by having the game’s supreme player, which is the lesson here, because there is only one of those, and damn near impossible to acquire. Instead, the Celtics won by having the best team, one constructed with a certain modern-day vision of a five-out system. The 3-and-D player became en vogue in the 21st century, but this was the first 3-and-D team — a deep squad built to rain from downtown and defend at a high level. For now, 3-and-D was a better formula than M-V-P There’s a saying in basketball: live by the 3, die by the 3. The Boston Celtics don’t abide by that ethos. They seem to take on a different angle: live by the 3, thrive by the 3. The Celtics took more 3-pointers than any team in the NBA this regular season. A total of 3,482, to be exact. The second team on that leaderboard was the team they just beat in the NBA Finals, the Dallas Mavericks. The Celtics’ proportion of field-goal attempts that were 3-pointers, 47.1 percent of all shots, set a record for an NBA champion. In the Finals, that percentage swelled to 49.6 percent, exemplifying how much they believed in the shot. To put it in perspective, the 2008 champion Celtics took 121 3-pointers in the Finals. This year’s Celtics just took 207 3-pointers — in one fewer game. The thing is, the Celtics didn’t even get particularly hot from downtown. Brown and Tatum shot 23.5 percent and 26.8 percent, respectively, from beyond the arc in the series. But overall, through sheer volume, the Celtics scored 66 more points from deep than the Mavericks did and routinely attacked the open driving lanes the 3-point spacing provided. It’s widely known the NBA is increasingly becoming a 3-point league. More 3-pointers are being taken every year. Rather than buck the trend, the Celtics leaned all the way in, playing a 3-point threat at all five positions — at all times. Did I mention that this was the best offense in NBA history? Yes, with the perimeter-oriented offense, they scored 122.2 points per 100 possessions, a blistering figure even in an offensively charged era. dlarry, Old guy and Aquinas like this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquinas Posted June 22 Author Share Posted June 22 Does anyone know when SLU updates the height, weight and pics for the current roster? I think they did physicals about 2 wks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLIKNS Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 Idk, but Florida just updated Olivier Rioux, he is now listed at 7'9" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobillsgo Posted June 22 Share Posted June 22 12 minutes ago, BLIKNS said: Idk, but Florida just updated Olivier Rioux, he is now listed at 7'9" That guy makes Rob Loe look like Glen Big Baby Davis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.