Picked 6th by BE Coaches

12 votes behind 5th place Creighton, a few votes ahead of Marquette and Butler. Shamorie and Marcus 2nd Team All BE, I'll take it.

Let's exceed expectations this year and finish in the Top 5 

Sounds about right. If we improve every year , we will get to where we want to be.

Evan Daniels
St. John’s Chris Mullin said Justin Simon gives them versatility. Allows him to move Ponds & Lovett off the ball. All 3 will play together.

YESSSSSS:

Shamorie Ponds on the open runs with Melo: “I told him we beat Syracuse by 33. He didn’t like that.” #sjubb

@DalyDoseOfHoops
Ed Cooley: "Thank God for our presidents for getting rid of the football schools and becoming basketball-centric. I think we have the best schools, the best coaches. We sell the Big East." #pcbb #BEmediaday

"They can expect a show coming soon" - Marcus when I asked what fans can expect to see this year

The full story here: http://dalydoseofhoops.blogspot.com/2017/10/despite-mid-pack-predictions-st-johns.html

One thing I am confident of...we will lead the Big East in alley-oops.

One thing I am confident of...we will lead the Big East in alley-oops.

To who?

Quote from: Marillac on October 18, 2017, 05:50:57 PM

One thing I am confident of...we will lead the Big East in alley-oops.

To who?

Yeah I am thinking the same thing. I don't see a ton of scoring from our frontcourt.

Quote from: Marco Baldi on October 18, 2017, 06:56:30 PM

Quote from: Marillac on October 18, 2017, 05:50:57 PM

One thing I am confident of...we will lead the Big East in alley-oops.

To who?

Yeah I am thinking the same thing. I don't see a ton of scoring from our frontcourt.

Owens is perfect recipient for an alley when guards draw his man. Yakwe and Simon good targets as well.

Quote from: Marillac on October 18, 2017, 05:50:57 PM

One thing I am confident of...we will lead the Big East in alley-oops.

To who?

Owens, Clark, and Yakwe to lead the way and Bash and Simon right behind them. Ponds has perfect touch on those passes too.

 

 2 things we did not see much of last year were alley- oops and easy inside baskets.

2 things we did not see much of last year were alley- oops and easy inside baskets.

Easy baskets at all. That was a big problem because we gave away a ton of easy baskets.

We need to box out defensively if we want to see a lot of alley oops.

2 things we did not see much of last year were alley- oops and easy inside baskets.

We need meat and potatoes and strong "D"...not Washington Nationals/Globetrotter crap.

Agreed, basic basketball was sorely missing in recent years.  Good luck considering AAU influence.....this is a problem everywhere

Quote from: ras on October 18, 2017, 10:49:04 PM

2 things we did not see much of last year were alley- oops and easy inside baskets.

Easy baskets at all. That was a big problem because we gave away a ton of easy baskets.

Degree of difficulty throwing alley oop to Yakwe is about 100.
Maybe a handoff and oop