#11 Marquette (MSG), Tue., Feb. 4, 6:30p, FS-1

Marillac2 said:
This is why Marillac hasn't shut up about demanding weekend games next season. There is no other team in the conference that has such potential swings in attendance like St. John's. We are also the second biggest draw and a TV darling. It's time we started throwing some weight around in the conference. Next season Uconn, Nova, Marquette, Creighton, and Providence/Xavier must be at MSG on the weekend at a minimum.
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If the University needs any assistance throwing extra weight around, they can ask us older fans to contribute since most of us can stand to lose a few pounds anyway.

Win. Win.
 
Marillac2 said:
This is why Marillac hasn't shut up about demanding weekend games next season. There is no other team in the conference that has such potential swings in attendance like St. John's. We are also the second biggest draw and a TV darling. It's time we started throwing some weight around in the conference. Next season Uconn, Nova, Marquette, Creighton, and Providence/Xavier must be at MSG on the weekend at a minimum.
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Now that there's a legitimate chance we can be a preseason top 10 team, I expect this to happen.
 
Looking forward to this game. I think we rise to the occasion. I'm concerned with Mitchell's on ball defense. Kadary and Smith will need to be tight with their handle if that's the matchup. Glover and Sim may be an adventure. We need our length to bother their shooters. Joplin, Kam, Ross can all shoot from deep. Hopefully they learn from their Rahim mistake.

I feel somehow calm with this game tomorrow. That'll change when sitting in the garden, but we have the goods to win this game and Marquette has been shaky. The time is ours
 
Marillac2 said:
This is why Marillac hasn't shut up about demanding weekend games next season. There is no other team in the conference that has such potential swings in attendance like St. John's. We are also the second biggest draw and a TV darling. It's time we started throwing some weight around in the conference. Next season Uconn, Nova, Marquette, Creighton, and Providence/Xavier must be at MSG on the weekend at a minimum.
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glad you are back to talking in the 3rd person you slipped a few times last week when you had perfect opportunities
 
montyaloofah said:
Looking forward to this game. I think we rise to the occasion. I'm concerned with Mitchell's on ball defense. Kadary and Smith will need to be tight with their handle if that's the matchup. Glover and Sim may be an adventure. We need our length to bother their shooters. Joplin, Kam, Ross can all shoot from deep. Hopefully they learn from their Rahim mistake.

I feel somehow calm with this game tomorrow. That'll change when sitting in the garden, but we have the goods to win this game and Marquette has been shaky. The time is ours
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Kadary likely not a big concern in that department (or we are screwed). RJ will give up his share with his high, loose dribble and Devion is oddly not great against the press. Shaka will likely target those two. Hopefully no Vince minutes or it will be blood in the water time for those sharks. Probably best to limit Glover as well.

We just need to be absolutely relentless on the glass more than at any point in the season. They cannot play with us there at all so the discrepancy has to be absurd.
 
kranmars said:
If the University needs any assistance throwing extra weight around, they can ask us older fans to contribute since most of us can stand to lose a few pounds anyway.

Win. Win.
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I'm glad that you said "most of us". I'm down to 140 and I actually just put back a couple of pounds. The liquid diet sucks (except that the doctor said I could start drinking beer again!).
 
dk423 said:
Look at Marquette's last six games:
-- Beat @DePaul in OT!
-- Lost against Xavier at home. Horrible first half.
-- Beat Seton Hall handily, honestly a middling Atlantic-10 caliber team. Who cares.
-- Beat Nova, but was a game similar to ours in that it was close until four minutes left.
-- Beat Butler, but was losing at half time. Butler is probably an upper echelon Atlantic-10 team.
-- Lost to UConn, couldn't make a shot in the first half.

We watch every minute of STJ games and then go on this board & analyze every minute to death afterwards, so obviously we will have harsher feelings about us. But Marquette is a team that has been on an iffy trajectory for awhile now. You can fairly interpret them as a team that may have played their best in Nov/Dec because of their continuity compared to their competition. But their size/reliance on freshman to provide it, may limit their ceiling in Feb/March.

I'm not saying we should feel uber confident or anything, but they have worts just like we do.
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I was looking at their schedule and thinking the same thing but was scared to say anything. They had some big wins in OOC and those will impact seeding but they really aren't a true reflection of what a team is looking like now that we're well into the conference season and teams are more fully formed and functional. Maybe it's me but I tend to discount a lot of what happens in pre-Conference games.

I addition to your analysis I looked at play vs. the 4 top teams in the conference. STJ is 0-1 in that pod but had the ball in their hands with a chance to win the game on the road. Marquette is 1-1 with both games so far at home. Then there's X, the only other team rally Dance worthy. STJ swept them Marquette split with them.

Both teams have beaten the conference teams they are supposed to beat. Believe it will be a highly competitive game. Their quick and disruptive on D, so is STJ, They have a decided edge from 3 even though they only shoot it at 33%, STJ has a decided edge underneath. Can't wait.
 
btw I can confirm with 100% certainty there won't be an ICE raid on msg Tuesday so that's a safe place for any fan
 
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