Well, lets hear it for the Billikens...I guess. It is hard for me to get up for a 4 point win at home against a .500 team. It is nice to rebound from humiliating loses to the like of St. Bonaventure and Duquesne,and it is nice to see the Bills can play defense, when they feel like it...but this wasn't how this was supposed to be.
We went into this season being told that finally Sodeberg had the guys he needed to play up tempo basketball. And they can indeed play that way...as long as the competition is limited to NCAA Division II schools. (You've been warned Missouri-St. Louis!) In reality, this team cannot play up tempo against most folks. So, yet again, we will be treated to half-court, take the air out of the ball, and limit the other team's possessions ball. And that's fine, but that wasn't what we were sold on.
How difficult is it to recruit some guys who can actually shoot the ball?
Want a scary stat?
Saint Louis was 11-for-28 from 3-point range, one off its season best. Liddell was 5-for-8 from long range.
And we still only scrap by with a four point win at home.
Ugh.
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