@Providence, Tue., Feb. 13, 7p, CBSSN

Rhythm said:
Rick built the team around Soriano. Made him a captain. Soriano has wilted under the role. When it matters he misses free throws, layups and fouls his man three times on a row.
It’s not all on him but he really has been disappointing the last three weeks. You always want max effort and strong sense of grinding when things go sideways. And he doesn’t exhibit these qualities!
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Agree on Soriano. Players get in offensive slumps, but you can't let that affect defense and effort. And in Soriano's case, it has. Very disappointing ending to a very nice SJU career.
 
dk423 said:
We actually don't. Taylor is a nice Big East rotation player. He helped us in November and December, before Pitino randomly sat him against Butler (of course w/out any questioning from the beat reporters) & then decided to not go back to him from there. He's a guy who has size, athleticism, can shoot a 3, and can help any team in the country.
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Yes, we need players much better then "nice rotational" guys. Taylor can come off the bench and play 8 minutes a game. Anything more and we are in trouble. Get big time talent in here!!!!!!!!!
 
Mullins Revenge said:
Yes, we need players much better then "nice rotational" guys. Taylor can come off the bench and play 8 minutes a game. Anything more and we are in trouble. Get big time talent in here!!!!!!!!!
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We do, sure. But we also need roster continuity and have "nice rotational guys" potentially develop. Taylor's spot on the roster is the least of my concerns.

It will hurt the team a lot more than people expect if we lose 2 of Wilcher/Dunlap/Luis/Taylor/Zuby
 
The issue with our team is that we have only two players who can consistently get their own shots - Jenkins and Luis. (Luis forces the issue, but at least he gets to the rim.) Everyone else - Dingle, Alleyne, Taylor, Dunlap, Conway, Wilcher, and all the bigs - get shots in the flow of the offense or in transition.

At crunch time, you need guys who can get to the basket and make things happen. Only Jenkins ans Luis can do it. I thought Dingle would be a guy like that, but he's not.

And calling Oduro a mid-major equal, and equating that with Ledlum and Dingle is silly. Oduro was a very good player for George Mason in the A-10. The A-10 is miles above the Ivy League. You cannot equate the two.
 
paultzman said:
It doen’t take a genius to see net of GT & D’P Johnnies are easiest team in BE to prepare for and exploit.

Ironic that Rick adapted to three point implementation extraordinarily efficient, but this team is horrible hitting 3s & defending them especially in transition.
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Spot on! Rick knows teams deficiencies and tries to cover them up of course. When no longer possible go to Plan B!
 
Mullins Revenge said:
Yes, we need players much better then "nice rotational" guys. Taylor can come off the bench and play 8 minutes a game. Anything more and we are in trouble. Get big time talent in here!!!!!!!!!
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Not every player needs to be a big time talent. You need 2 big time talents and a good supporting cast. Right now we don't have big time talents and our supporting cast is Meh!!
 
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bucketshardy said:
Cam Spencer - Loyola
Newton - East Carolina
Oduro - George Mason
Kolek - George Mason (potential gold mine?)
Scheierman - South Dakota St
Olivari - Rice
Dayvion McKnight - W Kentucky

Just gotta find the 'right' Mid-Majors... which our staff will do.
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Even this lists forgets Tristen Newton (UCONN) from East Carolina, Jahyml Telfort (Butler) from Northeastern, DJ Davis (Butler) from UC Irvine.

Easiest the stupidest talking point on this site.
 
Alumni Hall said:
That game was similar. We stayed at the Harrison House is Glen Cove. SU stayed at the Marriott at LaGuardia. We were exchanging phone calls between us and them and the Big East office all morning as the snow amounts that day were unreal. Around 930 we were told that all roads into NYC were closed with a mandatory snow emergency. So,we were expecting a cancellation. At 10am we were told to get on the bus, that NYC were sending a police escort to Glen Cove and another to SU at the Marriott. We were the ONLY people on the LIE into NYC that day beside snow plows. Dave Gavitt and the Big East pulled their weight for the escorts to MSG. Crowd was next to non-existent, no bands or cheerleaders. After the game we could not return to Queens, so the Big East got us a nice hotel for the night.
Because of this, the next year the Big East mandated that all teams for the Tournament had to stay in Manhattan. Back then we were in Glen Cove, Georgetown in White Plains, Seton Hall and Nova stayed at the Meadowlands, SU in Queens and PC and BC and UConn were only teams in NYC.
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GREAT STORY, THANKS.

NJTransit big ol' diesel trains ran right through the snow and got me to the Garden and back hime to NJ after the game.

My wife thought I was absolutely nuts for going to the BET during the STORM OF THE CENTURY.
 
austour said:
I remember that game. I went and then had to figure out how to get back to Hartsdale. Trains were running but not buses or taxis once I got there so I started walking home when I saw my wife come sliding down the hill to my rescue. I think she was lucky there wasn't any cross traffic. LOL
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Same story except in Glen Rock NJ my home was 1/4 mile to the train station. So I was able to walk it through a foot or more of snow.
 
carmineabbatiello said:
'Jenkins is one of the best guards in the country'; 'Jenkins is going to have a long career at the next level' - Shaka Smart
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I’d say the same thing if I was coaching against him. I want him to take 30 shots. He is a cancer like I’ve never seen before on a team and it’s not like he can’t play.

I am in utter disbelief that he would even want to take another last second shot after his track record late in games. It’s just not a human reaction to such repeated failure.

I guess now just let him keep taking the last second shot because one has to eventually go in?
 
SLYFOXX1968 said:
Truthfully ? I don’t know .
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I appreciate that answer, and to be honest, I looked up the answer before asking since I also don't watch much games from any of these conferences.

This site and others had the Ivy around 15th best conference in the nation, while Summit/Patriot almost always last: https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/rpi-ranking/rpi-rating-by-conf

I bring that up because Summit League is where Schierman came from and Patriot is where Spencer came from.

I'm not saying I'm looking to target the Ivies this specific portal, but I don't think we should conference-discriminate. We just need people with the right level of athletcism, skill level, and mindset. Dingle and Ledlum do not possess all three of those things.
 
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