2024-25 Season

Marillac2 said:
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.
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Shoots a flat line drive
Don’t see that shot going in with any consistency ever.
 
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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Be a top 15-20 this year, play more games at MSG, then we take over the 200s and 100s. I don't want to concede MSG to UConn and Nova fans.
National media coverage is MSG not CA.
Winning will make the Garden "Our House".
CA for early season non-conference games only.
 
SJU Center Court said:
Be a top 15-20 this year, play more games at MSG, then we take over the 200s and 100s. I don't want to concede MSG to UConn and Nova fans.
National media coverage is MSG not CA.
Winning will make the Garden "Our House".
CA for early season non-conference games only.
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Sounds Great... where do i sign up?
 
SJU Center Court said:
Be a top 15-20 this year, play more games at MSG, then we take over the 200s and 100s. I don't want to concede MSG to UConn and Nova fans.
National media coverage is MSG not CA.
Winning will make the Garden "Our House".
CA for early season non-conference games only.
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I think we will learn early on how good this team will be this season by our performances in the Bahamas.😎👍
 
This is going to be a special year long suffering Johnnie fans. Pitino put together a great fit of guys that fill needs and who look to play well together.
Yes I can be overly optimistic but this team on paper has what it takes to win it all this year.

We have several guys who will put up great lines from game to game. I just hope we don’t anoint them until proven game after game after game because until then that’s when fans start to trash their games. Perfect example is Zuby who had his coming out party in the Rutgers game only to be what he is now following that game.

I sure hope Wilcher will follow this up with several solid games. But if he has a slight step backwards next time around I sure hope we don’t hear he is not ready etc.

Very excited for the magical run which could potentially be what is to be expected around here.
 
I remain a gang of one I guess but yet another year of gaudy predictions and expectations after a season opening blowout of a team that was simply out-talented.
Absolutely rooting as hard as the next guy but little to take out of that game.
 
logen said:
I remain a gang of one I guess but yet another year of gaudy predictions and expectations after a season opening blowout of a team that was simply out-talented.
Absolutely rooting as hard as the next guy but little to take out of that game.
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To be fair, I have been saying this on record since the team was formed. It's not based off this game. Now I have said things super optimistic before that didn't happen but THIS time I really mean it.
 
After last night's abysmal performance it will be very interesting to see how Baylor fares hosting Arkansas Saturday night.
 
Back to our "home court"...

So the "student section" near the Opposing teams bench - seems to be where the Band sits now... it was where some students heckled the opposing team... i'm indifferent about that... but what can the U do to make our games "Louder"

At a Garden game last season (maybe 2 seasons ago?) - the Lax team showed up which made a lot of noise behind the hoop. Can we offer incentives to other Sports teams to attend these games? Frats?
 
Eric said:
To be fair, I have been saying this on record since the team was formed. It's not based off this game. Now I have said things super optimistic before that didn't happen but THIS time I really mean it.
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logen said:
I remain a gang of one I guess but yet another year of gaudy predictions and expectations after a season opening blowout of a team that was simply out-talented.
Absolutely rooting as hard as the next guy but little to take out of that game.
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Under previous teams and coaches last nights game would have been a nail biter.
 
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