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Post by Hoya TMF on Dec 16, 2008 15:04:45 GMT -5
This was bound to happen. If Summers plays like he has been so far, he may be gone. Regardless, he will definitly test the waters. I would be mildly surprised if Monroe left, but he will project fairly high in a weak draft, as is the case this year.
But as someone else said, if Summers and Monroe return, I think we return to the Final Four and win the title. We'll be that good, and expereinced at every position, with additional depth. That could be a huge selling point for both of those guys. It will be hard to sweat it out in April, May and June though.
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Post by JohnJacquesLayup on Dec 16, 2008 15:55:01 GMT -5
Aren't we only getting one recruit next season? And losing Sapp? I wouldn't say we'd have any additional depth. More experience though for sure, with hopefully Henry and Vaughn playing a bigger role.
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Post by tashoya on Dec 16, 2008 16:07:07 GMT -5
Greg and DaJuan would be LUCKY to be lottery picks after 6 years of college much less a measly 4. Currently, they're awful and neither can hold Scottie Reynolds' jock. If there were EVER 2 guys who NEEDED all 4 years at a university, it's DaJuan and Greg.
Oh... Austin and Chris? See above.
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Post by chep3 on Dec 16, 2008 16:09:11 GMT -5
We can wonder and speculate all we want, but there's still a lot of basketball to play. Greg might go out and look bad against Thabeet, Blair, and Harangody, and all the talk will go down. He might jump anyways. Or he might go out, be BE ROY, take us deep in the tourney, and want to come back. I doubt the players do to much thinking about it until the season's over and they can actually figure out where they stand.
If both of them jump, yeah it would suck. We'd have a rough year next year. But if JTIII could point to 5 players being drafted in 3 years, I'm sure that would give us a nice little bump in his recruiting pitches.
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Post by tashoya on Dec 16, 2008 16:09:30 GMT -5
Plus, tv adds 6 inches. I hear Greg is only 6'5" and DaJuan is only 6'3". The NBA would certainly want them to finish growing. DaJuan's not quick for a guy that's 6'2". Now, if he were, say, 6'8", that would be a whole different story. But I don't project him being 6'8", ironically enough, until right after graduation.
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Post by I Bleed Hoya Gray on Dec 16, 2008 16:09:35 GMT -5
Tas, you remember a couple weeks ago how everyone was talking about the fact that nothing we say here has any effect on the program. Yeah, don't try to trick the players.
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Post by grokamok on Dec 16, 2008 16:13:00 GMT -5
It also says he'd be playing with Roy in Indiana And now I'm once again thinking about how freaking good we would have been last year with Jeff playing power forward. Undefeated? I say yes. Fixed. |
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Post by TBird41 on Dec 16, 2008 16:22:20 GMT -5
And now I'm once again thinking about how freaking good we would have been last year with Jeff playing power forward. Undefeated? I say yes. Fixed. Now why'd you have to bring that up? I prefer thinking in impossible hypotheticals like Greg playing PF last year (or, alternatively, Roy having redshirted so he could play this year) rather than get all bitter about the way Jeff went out. |
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Post by justabballfan on Dec 16, 2008 16:24:44 GMT -5
I have a line to players on the team, and from what information I have gotten, I can say that Summers is a virtual lock to leave after this season for the NBA.
Monroe had stated before the season that he wanted to stay all four years at Gtown. Take that statement for what its worth, when you are a lock to be a lottery pick.
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Post by I Bleed Hoya Gray on Dec 16, 2008 16:28:12 GMT -5
I've always wanted to say this:
Lock it up
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Post by PopeJohn2 on Dec 16, 2008 16:29:33 GMT -5
this is what happens when you start 4 mcdonald all-americans. have we recruited anymore recently???
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Post by redskins12820 on Dec 16, 2008 16:33:02 GMT -5
I think we really should consider a spring signing. If Summers and/or Monroe, not to mention Wright (I think he'll get some attention down the stretch) leave early, we are going to be thin. There has to be a diamond in the rough out there. Hey Russel Westbrook went from spring signing to #4 pick in the draft after his sophomore year, so we should look for a similar player who developed late in his high school career
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Post by juanjohnhoya on Dec 16, 2008 16:33:40 GMT -5
That's funny. I put up a post a couple weeks ago asking about the over-under for Greg Monroe staying on past his frosh year, and the admin folks closed the post down because it fell under the realm of "speculation."
Go figure... :-)
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Post by grokamok on Dec 16, 2008 16:33:51 GMT -5
Now why'd you have to bring that up? I prefer thinking in impossible hypotheticals like Greg playing PF last year (or, alternatively, Roy having redshirted so he could play this year) rather than get all bitter about the way Jeff went out.  I've always wanted to say this: Lock it up Seconded. |
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Post by strummer8526 on Dec 16, 2008 16:37:17 GMT -5
On the plus side, if Monroe and Summers AND maybe even Wright are getting NBA looks, we must have a VERY good season.
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Post by blueandgray on Dec 16, 2008 16:42:42 GMT -5
Agreed...this is crap.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Dec 16, 2008 16:42:45 GMT -5
Now why'd you have to bring that up? I prefer thinking in impossible hypotheticals like Greg playing PF last year (or, alternatively, Roy having redshirted so he could play this year) rather than get all bitter about the way Jeff went out. I was actually considering starting a "What If?" thread about Roy's redshirt to kill some time before the UConn game. |
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Post by TBird41 on Dec 16, 2008 16:43:23 GMT -5
I think we really should consider a spring signing. If Summers and/or Monroe, not to mention Wright (I think he'll get some attention down the stretch) leave early, we are going to be thin. There has to be a diamond in the rough out there. Hey Russel Westbrook went from spring signing to #4 pick in the draft after his sophomore year, so we should look for a similar player who developed late in his high school career There's a schollie for a spring signing what with the whole Dashonte backing out thing. So if there's somebody there because they are a late bloomer or because their coach left (like what happened with Wright and NC State), I assume JT3 and the staff will be on them. |
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Post by redskins12820 on Dec 16, 2008 16:46:30 GMT -5
I really don't understand people's obsession with locking threads on this board, unless it turns into bickering back and forth between two posters. Is discussion about something we don't know that scary? Why can't we speculate if Greg is going to leave? Don't you think JTIII is doing the same thing? Let's not Galileo this message board.
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Post by I Bleed Hoya Gray on Dec 16, 2008 16:48:35 GMT -5
I really don't understand people's obsession with locking threads on this board, unless it turns into bickering back and forth between two posters. Is discussion about something we don't know that scary? Why can't we speculate if Greg is going to leave? Don't you think JTIII is doing the same thing? Let's not Galileo this message board. It wasn't the speculation; it was the "inside info" that DaJuan is definitely leaving. |
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