At Southern Illinois Sunday 1pm

[BrockLesnar2]

Be tough and ignore their fans.

[BrockLesnar2]

The battle for the last bye.

[BrockLesnar2]

I would put Campbell on Johnson. He is quick enough to stay with him and is 2 inches taller and can be more physical than Born/Taylor. Might put Wolf on him at times too. He would be more physical too. We'll see.

[BrockLesnar2]

The ESPN matchup predictor has SIU with 68.5 percent chance of winning.

[Wxcpanther]

I would put Campbell on Johnson. He is quick enough to stay with him and is 2 inches taller and can be more physical than Born/Taylor. Might put Wolf on him at times too. He would be more physical too. We'll see.

Are....you forgetting about Heise?

[BrockLesnar2]

Are....you forgetting about Heise?

Him too. It's not that I don't think Born or RJ can guard him, but if he scores his average of 21 we're beat.

[Username]

Him too. It's not that I don't think Born or RJ can guard him, but if he scores his average of 21 we're beat.

This is silly. Tucker scored above his average and even shot above average, but the fact he was ran off the 3 point line was a game changer.

The strategy should and will be to rotate different guys including Campbell, Heise, and Taylor for stretches. And naturally he’s going to get switches to try and take advantage of anyway, so I can live with him having a tough above average game where his teammates impacts are mitigated

[Khan4Cats]

Wolf only played 1 minute the first meeting and Taylor didn't play. Hutson and Henry combined for less than 30 minutes of game time as we went smaller. I think the fact RJ didn't even face them the first time gives us an advantage in how he's been playing now as they won't have any experience against him, but I agree that first cracks will be Heise and Campbell. Got handled on the boards by them up here but overwhelmed them at the free throw line (31 attempts to 12). It's going to be physical, hopefully our depth allows us to rotate enough to win a battle of attrition.

[BCPanther]

It's noticeable watching SIU that Johnson doesn't have a ton left in his legs. He's playing pretty much the full 40 every night. Using RJ to make him expend more energy bringing the ball up the floor is a good move there plus RJ doesn't seem to get beat.

[BrockLesnar2]

This is silly. Tucker scored above his average and even shot above average, but the fact he was ran off the 3 point line was a game changer.

The strategy should and will be to rotate different guys including Campbell, Heise, and Taylor for stretches. And naturally he’s going to get switches to try and take advantage of anyway, so I can live with him having a tough above average game where his teammates impacts are mitigated

Tucker has nothing to do with this game.

[PantherAlum09]

If RJ develops an outside shot a bit, I think we are looking at an all league level PG. I think he is that good as an on ball defender and he is so good bringing the ball up the court. He also has incredible vision and passing ability. I'm really excited to see how much he continues to develop. The way he makes teams work to get their offense going has been a huge plus for us lately.

[catsize]

If RJ develops an outside shot a bit, I think we are looking at an all league level PG. I think he is that good as an on ball defender and he is so good bringing the ball up the court. He also has incredible vision and passing ability. I'm really excited to see how much he continues to develop. The way he makes teams work to get their offense going has been a huge plus for us lately.

I'm actually starting to get worried about RJ wanting to transfer. The last few games it seems like he has been really wanting to wear the other teams' uniforms the way he's been sticking so close to them.

[Username]

If RJ develops an outside shot a bit, I think we are looking at an all league level PG. I think he is that good as an on ball defender and he is so good bringing the ball up the court. He also has incredible vision and passing ability. I'm really excited to see how much he continues to develop. The way he makes teams work to get their offense going has been a huge plus for us lately.

I'm thinking he's pretty similar to Aaron Craft or Delly in these regards

With that much effort being expelled on Defense, there's gonna have to be another playmaker alongside him.

[CyCarp]

4.5 point dogs in this one

[Username]

Good news is, if it’s an underwhelming loss to end the season, it doesn’t really matter all that much

Bad news is, if it’s the best performance of the season it also won’t mean much if it doesn’t translate to Friday.

My hope is that if anything the team at least goes down swinging vs a good team like the Bradley game last year. Rewatched that recently and when the team is performing well it’s very noticeable the team is better than last year’s version even if it’s seemed murky at times.