2024-25 Season

Amaseinyourface said:
I don’t think it’s the flashes people are necessarily worried about. More about constancy. But I agree that hard workers with talent eventually get there, just more a matter of when for me.
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Glover takes his minutes by BE season.
Being a good entry passer as your only real skill is not conducive to playing meaningful minutes on a hopefully tournament team.

This team should make the tournament. I really hope Pitino does not sacrifice OOC games to “develop” guys like Dunlap. Those games will come back to bite us on Selection Sunday.
 
NCJohnnie said:
Why do I feel like posters are almost rooting against Brady? Strange as he seems like a great kid. It's certainly possible that an uber talented kid like Glover could challenge him for minutes but don't remotely see it from lefty or Prey.
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I'm 100% rooting for him. It would be better for our program that he has a breakout year or even a good/reliable bench player year. Having him return and penciling him as a starter next year would be outstanding. He also seems like a great guy. Very rootable.

Albeit an exhibition game, the Rutgers game looked very much same old same old.
 
My guess is Pitino realizes this team will go as far as their D takes them & generating some easy buckets off defense is essential. That’s more than fine to me. I also feel there are several guys including Smith and Kadary who will drive well & generate a lot of fouls as well as find open shooters. Hit this foul shots & open looks guys.
 
Larry Wright said:
Glover takes his minutes by BE season.
Being a good entry passer as your only real skill is not conducive to playing meaningful minutes on a hopefully tournament team.

This team should make the tournament. I really hope Pitino does not sacrifice OOC games to “develop” guys like Dunlap. Those games will come back to bite us on Selection Sunday.
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Agree on Glover, Brady needs to be a deep threat off the bench when needed.
 
My feeling is that Aaron Scott will be the yardstick for our season. The better he is, the better our record.
 
First and foremost, Grady needs to figure out how to be a consistent free throw shooter. There is no excuse for his past ineptitude at the charity stripe. If he can’t figure that out, he shouldn’t be on the court period.
 
Joedib said:
I also heard no one was attending class. Team lacked any discipline. Cubelo allowed to eat popcorn on bench. Sneaking into Anderson’s press conference. Good Lord.

But try this one on. If Anderson really did fire DeMeo because he was disabled, he committed violations of federal and state law. And you can be fired for cause if you violate federal or state law. So it a strange way, if DeMeo wins his case, that victory could give him the ultimate revenge against Anderson.
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Anderson’s case is in arbitration so the guidelines are different than if it was in front of a Judge or jury.
 
I know I basically try to take it as it comes and just enjoy whatever this team produces, BUT

It's tiresome that the high water mark of any st. John's team over the last 25 years has been to squeak into the NCAA tournament with a high seed only to be bounced out in non competitive games.

Although we look with teverance at the 98-99 Artest led team in Jarvis' first season and finished ranked 9th in the AP poll, even that team finished 3rd in the Big East.

Now, we pay players with a healthy NIL budget and have a HOF coach. To me, at least, an NCAA bid is a bare minimum, and getting through the first weekend of the tournament a reasonable goal.

We aren't investing in top 15 HS recruits the way UCONN and Rutgers are, which concerns me a bit. The very top of the recruiting classes are pretty much nba ready, as that kid Harper appears to be.

Rosters nowadays are 1 year commitments so basicslly you aren't building anything for the future except to make your program more attractive to transfer into or sign with.

Anxious for tip off tonight, excited about the season, but being good enough is no longer good enough.
 
SJU Center Court said:
Totally agree. CA has not been a home court advantage for Big East games for several years.
Hopefully 10-12 games at MSG next season including this one.
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If it was such a "Home Court Advantage" why don't we play UConn and Georgetown there every year? CA is way overdue for a rehaul, the seats are uncomfortable and its like a high school gym. We need to have more MSG games. If they want to make a state of the art CA during this window that they have Pitino go ahead but for right now its outdated and uncomfortable. I appreciate throwback but not at the expense of comfort. The only bearable seating is the cushioned lower bowl.
 
FriendofJohnnie said:
If it was such a "Home Court Advantage" why don't we play UConn and Georgetown there every year?
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Cause....$$$.... am i taking crazy pills here.... am i the only one that has experienced essentially "Home" games for UConn / Nova / Cuse etc over the years at MSG? with their fans taking over the 200s and some of the 100s...

I will concede the fact that games at CA dont mimic/come close to the "home court advantage" we see at places like Cameron/Phog Allen/Providence... thats what years of ineptitude do... the average age of the Lower bowl at CA is probably 60+... so we don't have that Rowdy noise close to the court...

But to say there is no "advantage" to playing teams at CA, where it will be 90%+ SJU fans... is just silly
 
Larry Wright said:
Glover takes his minutes by BE season.
Being a good entry passer as your only real skill is not conducive to playing meaningful minutes on a hopefully tournament team.

This team should make the tournament. I really hope Pitino does not sacrifice OOC games to “develop” guys like Dunlap. Those games will come back to bite us on Selection Sunday.
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Writing off top 100 6'8 Freshmen before they play a single game as sophs seems crazy to me. No reasonable poster expected anything from him last year. If someone would have given us his game logs and we didn't see anything else, most of us would have been shocked by his big games.

We did not manufacture looks as a team last season. I expect us to manufacture a lot of them this year. Wilcher, Brady, and Scott should really benefit. Brady handles, passes, and defends better than anyone expected...his shot has just been rushed and, as a result, flat.

You've been around enough basketball to know that everyone is telling this kid to shoot, shoot, shoot ever every chance, but the looks just weren't there. So what does he do? He forced his shots. Kadary will pull in double-teams and find him. Scott and Wilcher will pass on okay shots to swing it to him for excellent shots and vice versa. Smith will Tasmanian Devil tons of drive and kicks.
 
Too early to get a good handle on many players. Let's see where they stand come BE play.
 
bucketshardy said:
Cause....$$$.... am i taking crazy pills here.... am i the only one that has experienced essentially "Home" games for UConn / Nova / Cuse etc over the years at MSG? with their fans taking over the 200s and some of the 100s...

I will concede the fact that games at CA dont mimic/come close to the "home court advantage" we see at places like Cameron/Phog Allen/Providence... thats what years of ineptitude do... the average age of the Lower bowl at CA is probably 60+... so we don't have that Rowdy noise close to the court...

But to say there is no "advantage" to playing teams at CA, where it will be 90%+ SJU fans... is just silly
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1000000%
 
Beasts of the East said:
I know I basically try to take it as it comes and just enjoy whatever this team produces, BUT

It's tiresome that the high water mark of any st. John's team over the last 25 years has been to squeak into the NCAA tournament with a high seed only to be bounced out in non competitive games.

Although we look with teverance at the 98-99 Artest led team in Jarvis' first season and finished ranked 9th in the AP poll, even that team finished 3rd in the Big East.

Now, we pay players with a healthy NIL budget and have a HOF coach. To me, at least, an NCAA bid is a bare minimum, and getting through the first weekend of the tournament a reasonable goal.

We aren't investing in top 15 HS recruits the way UCONN and Rutgers are, which concerns me a bit. The very top of the recruiting classes are pretty much nba ready, as that kid Harper appears to be.

Rosters nowadays are 1 year commitments so basicslly you aren't building anything for the future except to make your program more attractive to transfer into or sign with.

Anxious for tip off tonight, excited about the season, but being good enough is no longer good enough.
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I think most of the “SJU should make the NCAAs” talk is coming from media who do not look at it from an emotional standpoint.

Since the program has stunk for so long, the media thinks we should be greatfull being one and done in the tournament. The fans will not however.

I am fine with not pursuing top 15 high school talent, because a top 15 recruit is not coming here yet.

There is only so much NIL to go around, and from SJU’s perspective, it makes more to get transfers who have succeeded playing a year of a lower college conference, who will get the program to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament.

I will stick to my schedule, the program must make consecutive NCAAs before looking at top 15 high schoolers like UConn. Rutgers had the good fortune of a father who actually wanted his son to play there as well.
 
FriendofJohnnie said:
If it was such a "Home Court Advantage" why don't we play UConn and Georgetown there every year? CA is way overdue for a rehaul, the seats are uncomfortable and its like a high school gym. We need to have more MSG games. If they want to make a state of the art CA during this window that they have Pitino go ahead but for right now its outdated and uncomfortable. I appreciate throwback but not at the expense of comfort. The only bearable seating is the cushioned lower bowl.
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Pitino wanted to play UCONN at CA this year but UCONN and the Conference balked.
 
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