Quote from: muwarrior69 on December 31, 2025, 11:37:31 AMI said sought after recruits and and the market price for those recruits is pretty high according to CBS. Are you really convinced that if Marquette came up with resources to sign a top transfer or HS recruit they would not come because of what they read on Scoop or was it just sarcasm?

Sarcasm. Jeesh.

Thank you, Jables, for another year of your efforts to protect Americans from the dentist scourge, aina?

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on December 31, 2025, 06:24:35 PMSaw a Seton Hall Shirt today in California. Many other schools represented. Many other schools But No Marquette shirts but ours in California or the airport!

I flew into Kona a few hours ago.  So far I'm the only one wearing MU gear. 

Quote from: tower912 on December 31, 2025, 03:57:51 PMIf the player is wearing a MU uniform, I cheer for them.  Why on earth would I not.  I want Hamilton to succeed.  He hasn't, but it is not in me to celebrate his failure.  What kind of useless POS celebrates MU's failure?

There are plenty here.

Quote from: Pakuni on December 31, 2025, 01:00:12 PMThanks to foul trouble. I suspect it wasn't Shaka's intention to start him and then play him all of four minutes for the entire game.
No matter how you slice it, continuing to start Caedin is indefensible at this point. He hasn't earned it, and he's actively hurting the team when he's out there.

But he had 3 fouls at the half and didn't play a second in the second half. Seriously, saying you feel bad for Ben Gold (even though plenty of people, probably the OP, were saying play Chase, the freshman, and pull the redshirts and play them just a couple weeks ago) because he got "benched" for Caedin Hamilton (despite Caedin not being the guy that replaced Ben in the starting lineup) on a night he played 36 minutes to Caedin's 4 is crazy. Caedin wasn't in the game when SHU closed the game on a 13-0 run.

What happened to Zaide was a benching. Playing 36 minutes in a game is not being "benched."

Point out to me where I claimed he was succeeding.   He is miles ahead of where he was a season ago.  He has miles to go.

Quote from: tower912 on December 31, 2025, 03:51:26 PMHamilton has really good footwork in the post.  Isn't making anything, but has the post moves.  Nobody in the NBA runs low post offense.  The international game even less.  Low post offense is Sears.

Good grief! Hamilton has great footwork? Ok. BUT, He's overmatched in high major college basketball. D-II more his level, which is still full ride sports. His 'good footwork' might work for him there. We cheer for all of them...but we aren't blind. Hamilton is overmatched.

Quote from: Zog from Margo on December 31, 2025, 04:41:51 PMSo it's best to have a team of players incapable of taking advantage of mismatches. Making Gold incapable of exploiting a size advantage doesn't seem like smart basketball to me. Glad you like it.

Gold taking it to the basket 8 times last night is what I have been waiting for.  Probably too much to hope for, but that is the exploiting of mismatches we need to see. 

Quote from: K1 Lover on December 31, 2025, 01:19:10 PMWhat a horrible take. Liking Jimmy Butler and being able to recognize distasteful, racially charged behavior are not two mutually exclusive things.

There's a clear difference between calling someone a "white boy" when you have the established rapport and friendly history with, versus going out and transparently using the term as a blatant insult to a complete stranger. Regardless of how universally acceptable an expression is, it's the intent with which it's used that matters. And in Jimmy's case, it's clearly anything but positive.

You know, there was once a time when any black person in a racially diverse environment had been called the N word in both complimentary and taunting fashion. I guess we wrong about tabooing the N word. Black people should've just unclutched their pearls.

K1 you are correct on this and thank you for speaking the truth. Really bad look for Jimmy.

Quote from: MarquetteMike1977 on December 31, 2025, 06:28:56 PMBen helped us win for years! Ben played well internationally. Ben Should be starting over Hamilton.

Ben is infinitely better than CH. The choices of Shaka are beyond bizarre.