Comments on Cracked Sidewalks: Star System Predicts MU 5th to 9th in BE

bamamarquette, You may know a thing or two about ...

2009-07-16T11:37:47.029-05:00

bamamarquette,

You may know a thing or two about marquette basketball, but i dont think you know too much about the rest of the Big East. Brandon Reese is replacing Paul Harris??? Really? He is a walk-on. You failed to list the best player on both last year's and this year's Syracuse team, Wes Johnson (according to both Jonny Flynn and Boeheim). Wes is an early favorite for BE POY (he's a junior transfer).

Also, even though Flynn left, their PG (Scoop Jardine) is back after missing last season with an injury. He's pretty good if you remember. And Brandon Triche is supposedly VERY good...he was MVP of the Regional Jordan Classic and lit up Flynn when they were both in high school despite the fact that he's two years younger.

As you can tell, I'm nervous (again) about playing Cuse AT the Dome. They're my sleeper BE team. Also, Mookie Jones was injured last year but is back this year...

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2009-07-16T11:29:08.603-05:00

Well, we'll see. Who out there remembers Tony Ree...

2009-07-08T11:46:20.737-05:00

Well, we'll see.

Who out there remembers Tony Reeder? He was a "hot" star commodity too, but he didn't do anything at Marquette.

There are as many flops as successes and the difference between the two often is coaching (ahem, Buzz) and attitude. Good coaches get great work from journeymen recruits and not-so-good coaches get nothing from stars.

Here's hoping there's a real buzz around Buzz this fall.

Walters is gone from Seton Hall too. ND has two t...

2009-07-06T22:35:09.243-05:00

Walters is gone from Seton Hall too. ND has two transfers in that you missed, including Ty Hansbrough bro.

Two departures have been noted. Paul Harris is go...

2009-07-06T16:24:43.660-05:00

Two departures have been noted. Paul Harris is gone so he is replaced in the top 8 Syracuse players by Brandon Reese (0 stars), thus lowering Syracuse to 31 total, and in the 2nd tier. Dar Tucker is gone from DePaul, so he is replaced by Michael Bizoukas (2 stars) in DePaul's top 8, pushing them to last place by half a point. That leaves it:

Tier 1: UConn 36, Nova 33.5, WVU 32.5

Tier 2: Syracuse 31, Gtown 31, Cincy 31, MU 30.5, Pitt 30, Lville 29.5.

Tier 3: SH 29, St. Johns 29, ND 28, Rutgers 28.

Tier 4: Providence 25, S. Flor 25, DePaul 24.5.

I have played with this breakdown, but it's the fi...

2009-07-06T15:10:52.064-05:00

I have played with this breakdown, but it's the first time I've put in print the results in preseason, so I am sure there will be tweaks. Thanks for the article on Jerel - I thought Wes was working out with Utah but then I saw he was down as one of Jerel's teammates on the Kings summer team.

On Cube, I guess the upside I hope for is that the double shoulder surgery really held him back. I do think we again have great thrashers to the basket, and need to have someone come in and sink a few 3-pointers at times. Also, I sat through the miserable Michigan State NCAA game a few years ago, and when we still had ZERO points with 11 minutes left in the first half, I thanked God for him coming in to bury a trey to avoid the shutout.

"We all see upside with David Cubillan" Really, w...

2009-07-06T11:40:03.272-05:00

"We all see upside with David Cubillan"

Really, we do? I see an occassional three-pointer and a lot of clapping while his man drives past him.

I give him credit for staying and a good attitude, but I don't see much upside.

Here's a nice story on Jerel McNeal in the Chicago...

2009-07-06T11:08:41.663-05:00

Here's a nice story on Jerel McNeal in the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/chi-03-mcneal-jul03,0,7765543.story

This is a cool analysis. Have you done this befo...

2009-07-06T11:06:07.557-05:00

This is a cool analysis. Have you done this before or have other sites used this method?
By the way, I noticed DePaul's Dar Tucker was included in the analysis but isn't returning as he went undrafted.