Both Xavier and Brown are among the top five in the Valley in minutes per game. D'Amico's a bit further down in 17th. But yep, running these guys all year long usually means either a lack of bench strength... or a coach unwilling to use the bench to give his starters rest.If the ESPN box score is correct, X played all 40 minutes today. Nothing like running your star player into the ground right before you need him in the MVC tourney.
Coming into today, X racked up 36.3 minutes per game, 20th highest in the nation.
This has been a continuous theme with Mullins. He did the same with Domask.
He should have pulled him out during garbage time at Bradley too the other night.
This is why I think it will be hard for us ever to win in St Louis. By the time we get there, our best players are ran into the ground playing 38 plus minutes every game.
Might be a bit of both. Three of SIU's four portal transfers weren't even serviceable, and Sharp isn't quite ready yet (let's hope he takes big strides this offseason). Even if next season's core returns intact and someone emerges as a go-to-guy, we need depth badly, especially at guard. Whiffing in the portal simply isn't an option.
Did anyone else notice Jacobson called a timeout at the end of the game so SIU could get their seniors in the game? When SIU still had a timeout.
Does that tell us anything?
Class act move by Jacobson.
Both Xavier and Brown are among the top five in the Valley in minutes per game. D'Amico's a bit further down in 17th. But yep, running these guys all year long usually means either a lack of bench strength... or a coach unwilling to use the bench to give his starters rest.If the ESPN box score is correct, X played all 40 minutes today. Nothing like running your star player into the ground right before you need him in the MVC tourney.
Coming into today, X racked up 36.3 minutes per game, 20th highest in the nation.
This has been a continuous theme with Mullins. He did the same with Domask.
He should have pulled him out during garbage time at Bradley too the other night.
This is why I think it will be hard for us ever to win in St Louis. By the time we get there, our best players are ran into the ground playing 38 plus minutes every game.
Might be a bit of both. Three of SIU's four portal transfers weren't even serviceable, and Sharp isn't quite ready yet (let's hope he takes big strides this offseason). Even if next season's core returns intact and someone emerges as a go-to-guy, we need depth badly, especially at guard. Whiffing in the portal simply isn't an option.
Speaking of Sharpe...we wasted his entire freshman year of eligibility for a grand total of 7 minutes this season. That's roster malpractice.
@sportsfreak75 Same thing we did with Hornecker last year. But who knows what goes on behind the scenes?
Only the second game I've attended this year ...the other was Drake. I guess I should have stayed home and sharpened my mower blades.
XJ played his brains out today but Northern Iowa was very well prepared .. every time he drove he got double teamed and the middle got jammed up. They also played great three-point defense against him. He had a hard time getting those shots off. UNI shot way more free throws than we did and even though XJ shot a lot of free throws, I thought he was fouled way more than what they called. They were bumping and banging him and very often no foul was called. The refs sucked but I've seen worse ... like that game at Drake. XJ still ended up with 24 points.
Then Brown had a very bad shooting day and Rupert didn't do much either. Troy DAmico played a very good game.
Fact is we don't have much of a bench. Uni has at least 10 good players they play. That second four or five guys come in and they don't lose much at all. Then their big guy Hutson swishes three three-pointers... that hurt..
They shot the ball way better than we did and made quite a few more free throws because they had quite a few more attempts. Fact is the Panthers are a better and more talented team. We stayed with them for a half but in that first 5 minutes of the second half, they just demonstrated their superiority.
Hope we can win at least one game in the tournament and get the 20 wins.
Then the coaching staff really needs to hit the recruiting trail hard.
Nice article in the Washington Post about Xavier Johnson. Good publicity for the Salukis out east.
They’ve talked before about redshirting. If Sharpe didn’t redshirt it’s always the kid and family who make the call…
about the game, I don’t think we played all that bad just back to being unable to make shots… UNI made big shot and big play one after another when they needed them. They were the much better team yesterday. They made a lot of really tough contested shots off the bounce, long 2s over hands… UNI deserved to win. This team can’t win if they generate 4 wide open 3s for Trent and he doesn’t make them and if Hensley blows a dunk and wide open lay up driving to his left. Hope for some magic next week. One game at a time.
I'm. Not going to gripe about coaching strategies, plays, etc. He's payed alot to do that, and does what he thinks is best. I dont always agree, oh well, lol. Not getting the seniors in at the end of that game was a poor decision. I get the not giving up attitude but the game was over,Siu just finished 6th in the valley conference. Who cares, what was he trying to prove.get em in the damn game.
Mullins should not have given up on Stulic. He hit a rough patch shooting, but he would have come out of it. He has size at 6'5", played decent defense and rebounded. He could play the 2 and the 3. He was a game changer early when he had his stroke going. He went from 20 minutes a game to zero, big time head scratcher.Both Xavier and Brown are among the top five in the Valley in minutes per game. D'Amico's a bit further down in 17th. But yep, running these guys all year long usually means either a lack of bench strength... or a coach unwilling to use the bench to give his starters rest.If the ESPN box score is correct, X played all 40 minutes today. Nothing like running your star player into the ground right before you need him in the MVC tourney.
Coming into today, X racked up 36.3 minutes per game, 20th highest in the nation.
This has been a continuous theme with Mullins. He did the same with Domask.
He should have pulled him out during garbage time at Bradley too the other night.
This is why I think it will be hard for us ever to win in St Louis. By the time we get there, our best players are ran into the ground playing 38 plus minutes every game.
Might be a bit of both. Three of SIU's four portal transfers weren't even serviceable, and Sharp isn't quite ready yet (let's hope he takes big strides this offseason). Even if next season's core returns intact and someone emerges as a go-to-guy, we need depth badly, especially at guard. Whiffing in the portal simply isn't an option.
Mullins should not have given up on Stulic. He hit a rough patch shooting, but he would have come out of it. He has size at 6'5", played decent defense and rebounded. He could play the 2 and the 3. He was a game changer early when he had his stroke going. He went from 20 minutes a game to zero, big time head scratcher.Both Xavier and Brown are among the top five in the Valley in minutes per game. D'Amico's a bit further down in 17th. But yep, running these guys all year long usually means either a lack of bench strength... or a coach unwilling to use the bench to give his starters rest.If the ESPN box score is correct, X played all 40 minutes today. Nothing like running your star player into the ground right before you need him in the MVC tourney.
Coming into today, X racked up 36.3 minutes per game, 20th highest in the nation.
This has been a continuous theme with Mullins. He did the same with Domask.
He should have pulled him out during garbage time at Bradley too the other night.
This is why I think it will be hard for us ever to win in St Louis. By the time we get there, our best players are ran into the ground playing 38 plus minutes every game.
Might be a bit of both. Three of SIU's four portal transfers weren't even serviceable, and Sharp isn't quite ready yet (let's hope he takes big strides this offseason). Even if next season's core returns intact and someone emerges as a go-to-guy, we need depth badly, especially at guard. Whiffing in the portal simply isn't an option.
Agree. And now with Johnson and Brown both struggling from 3-point land, SIU's shooting options are very limited. Not to mention when you have to try to win 3-4 games on consecutive days in the all-important conference tournament, it would be nice to have more than eight guys who have a shred of confidence.
This has been a mystery to me as well. Injury? Attitude? Violate some rule? Did his performance really drop that far and that quickly that he literally got zero minutes in last half of conference play?Mullins should not have given up on Stulic. He hit a rough patch shooting, but he would have come out of it. He has size at 6'5", played decent defense and rebounded. He could play the 2 and the 3. He was a game changer early when he had his stroke going. He went from 20 minutes a game to zero, big time head scratcher.Both Xavier and Brown are among the top five in the Valley in minutes per game. D'Amico's a bit further down in 17th. But yep, running these guys all year long usually means either a lack of bench strength... or a coach unwilling to use the bench to give his starters rest.If the ESPN box score is correct, X played all 40 minutes today. Nothing like running your star player into the ground right before you need him in the MVC tourney.
Coming into today, X racked up 36.3 minutes per game, 20th highest in the nation.
This has been a continuous theme with Mullins. He did the same with Domask.
He should have pulled him out during garbage time at Bradley too the other night.
This is why I think it will be hard for us ever to win in St Louis. By the time we get there, our best players are ran into the ground playing 38 plus minutes every game.
Might be a bit of both. Three of SIU's four portal transfers weren't even serviceable, and Sharp isn't quite ready yet (let's hope he takes big strides this offseason). Even if next season's core returns intact and someone emerges as a go-to-guy, we need depth badly, especially at guard. Whiffing in the portal simply isn't an option.
I don't see any attitude or injury issues w/Stulic. He hit a bad slump, and when you're inclined to play Brown 35-plus minutes at the 2 and need to find minutes for Davis and Ferguson at the 3, it's not hard to see what happened. I would have preferred to see Stulic get 10-12 of Brown's minutes most nights, but alas.
Brown finished the year shooting 39% and it was his 2nd best season at SIU (41% in 20-21). He finished conference play shooting 29.6% from 3 and played the 3rd most minutes in the conference.
Brown finished the year shooting 39% and it was his 2nd best season at SIU (41% in 20-21). He finished conference play shooting 29.6% from 3 and played the 3rd most minutes in the conference.
This has been a killer here to close out the season. Our 3pt shooting fell off a cliff over the last 1/3 of the season. Nothing like we were shooting early on in non-con. Troy has been pretty steady, but everyone else has really struggled. I never thought Brown was going to stay at 53%, but man we needed him at a better clip in conference play. Our last game X and Brown were a combined 0-8 from deep and they were mostly good looks.
Edit: I think those stats didn’t include the UNI game (at least not the overall percentages from deep). X finished at 36%, Brown at 36.3%, and Troy at 36%. Hensley led the way at 39%…obviously his volume was way lower than those guys. Feels like the tale of two seasons b/c X and Brown were shooting 40+% when we were rolling (Stulic was also contributing).
They’ve talked before about redshirting. If Sharpe didn’t redshirt it’s always the kid and family who make the call…
The player can tell the coaches he doesn't want to redshirt, but he doesn't get to choose his minutes. You could play him 7 minutes all season and blow a year of eligibility...OR you could keep him planted on the bench and force his hand to accept the redshirt year. I'm not sure what benefits come from the first option that we chose.
