@DePaul, Wed., Feb. 19, 9p, FS-1

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Great game missing one of your best players. The defense and switching were relentless. Smith looks amazing again and Richmond is as cool as ice. Let’s sweep those bums on Sunday!
Dev looked like himself for the first time in a while. He still does a few things here or there which makes you want to tell him to pump the brakes or forego his own shot for something better, but I think that's part of the deal with a player that athletic and explosive, and he gives us another element we don't have.
 
The color guy was gushing about Prey's potential tonight, how he loves his defense and activity, how he can switch on anyone, how disruptive he was -- but you actually have to be a St. John's fan to appreciate that, not a Uconn or Holloway (LOL) fan. So there's that.
A guard with a big man on him is a decisive advantage against almost every team in the country. Not against us. This isn’t normal. Prey is sliding 20 feet with guards and challenging the shot without help.

Compare it to last year when teams would isolate Ledlum as a 4/3 and absolutely abuse him at 6’5.
 
Our 10th man to start the season came in to a conference game, on the road, played 19 minutes in the first half, and we were up double-digits.

He covered 1-5 spots tonight. He’s a + Big defender. For a team that doesn’t have a lot of premier depth, that is huge.
He had a great game. Our new Brady Dunlap?
 
A guard on a big man is a decisive advantage against almost every team in the country. Not against us. This isn’t normal. Prey is sliding 20 feet with guards and challenging the shot without help.

Compare it to last year when teams would isolate Ledlum as a 4/3 and absolutely abuse him at 6’5.
Prey has BE DPOY potential and it's not just the eye test, his metrics are excellent
 
Pitino gushing about Kadary playing through injuries and and his practice habits is every Seton Hall fan’s worst nightmare lol.
I don't kmow about that. If SHU could have paid Kadary the NIL he received here, they'd at least be as good as we would be without him.

Their best player now is Wusu, and that's a kid who could have helped us this year and last.

Can't gloat. In this era, any school is one Zuckerberg, Gates, Bezos, or Musk NIL donor away from dominating a college sport. Essentially, those donors "own" the franchise, because they can dictate or at least have a strong voice in which players to sign, coaches to hire, or other investments a program makes.

With some coaches, notably Wright, bailing on the sdditional headsche of one year rosters and kids who now have cash in their pockets, Pitino has adapted and used the system to accelerate a rebuild.

SHU, Butler, DePaul are currently among the have nots in college basketball which the NCAA has to (but probably won't) address. It weakens the overall product if less schools can compete.
 
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