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    Gotta give these guys credit

    I don't think Collins teams (or most teams) can shine without a big man who can anchor a defense like Pardon or Nicholson did. But Page played hard today and had several good defensive plays. It could work next year if he gets a little better and (with respect to Kropp) we get a JVZ type as a...
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    Depaul

    Collins is trying to do something nearly impossible: Develop a bunch of freshmen and sophomores and at the same time integrate several transfers, figuring out who can play together on the fly. It makes sense that our defense has been such a mess. I get CC’s strategy in scheduling a bunch of...
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    Game Thread: Northwestern vs. Oklahoma State

    I really liked Singleton’s minutes at the 5 there instead of Kropp. It seemed our rebounding got slightly better with him, Nick and Angelo on the front line.
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    UVA's 22 year old freshman ex-PROFESSIONAL player

    South Carolina had a guy named Mike Sharavjamts (“Mongolian Mike”) who had played at four schools in four years. For what it’s worth, if we can’t retain Page after this year — and he’s on his way to a seven-figure senior year right now — so will he. Has anyone ever gotten a degree attending four...
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    Game Thread: Northwestern vs. South Carolina

    Not giving that one back!! So huge to come away with this given the stretch we have ahead.
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    Game Thread: Northwestern vs. South Carolina

    Cool to see how even a few hundred fans in purple (if that) can make it sound loud on TV. Kudos to those who went to White Sulphur Springs!!
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    SportingNews reports there is interest in Fitz from the decision makers at Penn State

    Not just that, but anyone with access to Google can find him sounding like a fogey in the 2010s, which might as well be the 1960s at this point in CFB. RPOs are the purest form of communism, I don't do hat dances, recruiting is like dating ... now he's going to be the decided schematic advantage...
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    Is David Braun Bill Carmody?

    Going back to the original comparison just to disagree with it. Carmody was an indifferent recruiter (pick your favorite story, but calling in by speakerphone to Frank Kaminsky's official visit is mine), but an excellent tactician. I don't see anything close to that with Braun or Lujan. What's...
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    Good and Bad

    That's such a good point about Big Matt and "rebound assists." He also cleaned up a lot of bad perimeter defense. I wonder how much we'll be able to play offense-first guys like Windham and Green without him back there.
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    Tough stretch coming up....

    Going even 2-3 in that stretch would be pretty good with how unformed our team still is and having zero games at W-R.
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    NU vs. Minnesota (Wrigley) (11/22): 11:00 AM CT, BTN national

    11 am on BTN … Wildcat Winning Time!!
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    WOW

    Love his shooting and moxie … but if you can’t play defense or rebound, you shouldn’t be out there
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    WOW

    We have four guys who can definitely play in the Big Ten … which is a silver lining for a November win. But I think CC may need to tighten the rotation early. Kropp, Green, West all seem overmatched.
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    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo DePaul Blue Demons

    We lost to Chicago State in a year we made the tournament ...
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    Collins

    I have watched this for years and am so glad you brought it up. Brian James is still the funniest when Collins goes into these rants at his assistants. He just has this dead stare at the court ... doesn't look up at all. I live for the rants and for color commentators' disappointment anytime...
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