WSU v Loyola Game Thread

[Hurley]

Highlight of the game for me was Jenny Dell. My goodness, watching her shimmy and shuffle back and forth across the arena was mesmerizing. Had a hard time concentrating on the game!

[ShockdaWorld]

I think it's time we start exploring Nurger over Grady in the rotation more. I thought Anton would flourish against Valley teams because of his great footwork and basketball IQ but you can see he doesn't have enough athleticism, even against MVC competition. How is he going to hold up against power conference teams?

I said the same thing a week or two ago. I am becoming more and more convinced that Rauno is our second best 5 man.

[WstateU]

Highlight of the game for me was Jenny Dell. My goodness, watching her shimmy and shuffle back and forth across the arena was mesmerizing. Had a hard time concentrating on the game!

I didn't notice! :)

[im4wsu]

In the Valley? I think he might be one of the best Freshmen in the country.

Here are MVC Freshman who have played 10 min per game

						Per Game					Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game	Per Game
Player	Class	Pos	School	G	MP	MP	FG%	2PT%	3PT%	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Landry Shamet	FR	G	Wichita State	3	53	17.7	0.434	0.650	0.303	0.750	1.0	1.7	2.7	1.7	1.7	0.3	0.7	2.7	8.7
Ronnie Suggs	FR	G	Bradley	22	638	29	0.333	0.413	0.229	0.690	0.6	2.9	3.5	1.2	0.7	0.2	1.8	2.3	8.3
Markis McDuffie	FR	F	Wichita State	19	343	18.1	0.459	0.500	0.364	0.720	1.2	2.0	3.2	1.1	0.8	0.2	0.9	1.7	8.2
Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye	FR	G	Bradley	22	699	31.8	0.318	0.366	0.280	0.592	0.1	3.9	4.0	2.6	0.7	0.2	3.5	2.4	7.9
Luke van Bree	FR	F	Bradley	22	567	25.8	0.360	0.371	0.350	0.700	1.3	3.1	4.4	0.8	0.6	0.5	1.5	3.9	7.6
Antoine Pittman	FR	G	Bradley	19	488	25.7	0.333	0.378	0.281	0.818	0.5	1.5	2.1	1.2	0.6	0.2	2.2	2.6	7.2
Obediah Church	FR	F	Missouri State	21	567	27	0.612	0.612		0.407	2.1	4.4	6.5	1.4	0.6	1.5	1.4	2.0	7.0
Jarred Dixon	FR	G	Missouri State	21	437	20.8	0.406	0.446	0.250	0.632	0.8	1.1	2.0	1.1	1.0	0.1	0.9	1.8	7.0
Ryan Kreklow	FR	G	Missouri State	17	362	21.3	0.370	0.429	0.341	0.750	0.4	2.2	2.6	1.3	0.9	0.1	1.4	1.9	6.6
Roland Griffin	FR	F	Illinois State	16	351	21.9	0.469	0.500	0.389	0.462	0.6	2.1	2.7	1.1	0.5	0.3	1.2	1.6	5.9
Callum Barker	FR	F	Bradley	22	541	24.6	0.444	0.559	0.091	0.640	1.5	3.2	4.8	0.4	0.4	0.4	1.9	3.2	5.8
Armon Fletcher	FR	G	Southern Illinois	21	284	13.5	0.432	0.520	0.263	0.583	0.9	1.2	2.1	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.7	1.9	5.0
Dominik Olejniczak	FR	C	Drake	20	251	12.6	0.679	0.679		0.636	0.9	2.6	3.5	0.3	0.2	0.5	1.0	1.8	4.5
Scottie James	FR	F	Bradley	21	229	10.9	0.400	0.529	0.308	0.727	1.1	1.7	2.8	0.2	0.1	0.4	0.6	1.3	3.7
Austin Weiher	FR	F	Southern Illinois	20	242	12.1	0.464	0.571	0.286	0.571	0.5	1.3	1.8	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.6	1.4	3.1
Emondre Rickman	FR	C	Indiana State	20	245	12.3	0.500	0.500		0.533	1.2	1.5	2.6	0.3	0.3	0.8	0.2	1.9	2.7
Nick McGlynn	FR	F	Drake	20	216	10.8	0.500	0.500		0.615	0.8	2.3	3.1	0.3	0.2	0.6	0.7	2.0	2.5
Joel Okafor	FR	G	Bradley	19	221	11.6	0.263	0.357	0.000	0.333	0.3	1.2	1.4	1.1	0.4	0.1	1.5	1.5	1.4

[Kung Wu]

Highlight of the game for me was Jenny Dell. My goodness, watching her shimmy and shuffle back and forth across the arena was mesmerizing. Had a hard time concentrating on the game!

Pour some water on it!

[1972Shocker]

Most impressed with the ball movement and unselfishness of the team last night. That's when they play best and when they are most dangerous especially when they play defense and attack the boards like they did last night.

Assist to Turnover Ratio: Shockers 2 to 1. Ramblers 1 to 2.

Now the Shocks have an opportunity to separate with games at Evansville and against SIU coming up.

[Kochaddict]

Pour some water on it!

That might make it grow! That and a little sunshine!

[Eric]

You forgot the 2 worst calls of the night:

1. The one on Shaq where he grabs the rebound while getting elbowed in the face. That should have been a no call or inadvertant elbow by the Loyola player.
2. The out of bounds call where Ron and a Loyola player were fighting for the ball and they called it off Ron. It wasn't even close to being off Ron.

The TV replay showed the Loyola player giving the "awe ****" look and heading back up the court. He new who it was off of.

[Stickboy46]

A nice "classy" post off the Illinois State Forum about our game last night.

Marshall was at his finest last night crying about every call and he was wrong on most of them. Wichita sets an illegal screen almost every possession. After they set the screen they usually lean or slide step in the direction the defender is going. Almost every time they guard the ball, they make contact with their knees or body up. On offense, they usually try to initiate contact. They have a lot of big guys that they just interchange in and out of the game. I think it is part of their strategy to get opponents big guys in foul trouble because they have more depth. All that being said, watching Marshall cry to the refs the whole games makes me really hate the guy. By the way, they wasted time at the monitor twice, while one of them was when Shaq Morris pretended he got an elbow to the face when in reality an arm grazed his face on a rebound.

If "illegal" things happen every possession and every game and never get called .... maybe you don't understand the rules right.

[ShockerFever]

A nice "classy" post off the Illinois State Forum about our game last night.



If "illegal" things happen every possession and every game and never get called .... maybe you don't understand the rules right.

Illinois State fans trying to analyze basketball is comparable to UNC basketball players trying to analyze Algebra.

[Cdizzle]

Illinois State fans trying to analyze basketball is comparable to UNC basketball players trying to analyze Algebra.

Not fair. Algebra is just a bunch of numbers, letters, and symbols mixed together in an utterly confusing, and seemingly useless jumble. Which is the same as the English papers they got A's on. It's all very confusing.

[WeWillShockU]

Highlight of the game for me was Jenny Dell. My goodness, watching her shimmy and shuffle back and forth across the arena was mesmerizing. Had a hard time concentrating on the game!

Ditto. What a fox!

[Eric]

Illinois State fans trying to analyze basketball is comparable to UNC basketball players trying to analyze Algebra.

I can't wait for the Shox to curb stomp these bastards twice.

[Stickboy46]

I can't wait for the Shox to curb stomp these bastards twice.

They just keep getting trashier

We lack a Ransom to knock the teeth out of Baker's skull this year, but I'd be interested to see if MM throws a pick for DAP and the resulting doom Baker would see. MM is made of iron and granite and will not be easy to muscle around.

[The 'hut]

I thought Fred's game last night may have been his best performance. He did, as great point guards do, in my opinion, make everyone around him much better and never forced anything. He shot when he was open and stayed out of garbage underneath with great wisdom. Not that I don't appreciate the scoring when we need it, but he has had some very low shooting percentage games when he is forcing it a bit.