EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 19, 2010 19:35:56 GMT -5
Is it normal to not like someone that you have to deal with professionally and then find out that they went to Syracuse. At that point realizing that is probably the underlying reason that you disliked them in the first place. I had to talk to him on the phone this morning and I wanted to reach threw the phone and slap him when he started talking about the game! I hope we play them in the tournament and kill them. CUSE SUXS. I have a similar situation and I thought you and I were both talking about VP Biden.
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OldHoyafan
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 19, 2010 21:55:16 GMT -5
I hate to keep quoting Doris Burke, but during the Nova game she said that JT3 said his players getting to the basket via backdoor cuts was just like a player driving to the basket so he did not worry about players ability to drive to the basket. Now that may be true for most of the teams in the BE, but for this Syracuse teams zone defense with its size and length you must have the ability to drive into the middle and maintain your dribble without getting ball stripped. There are no angles to pass the ball to the basket because they are so tall and so long. The Hoyas only have one guy who has confidence in his handle to dribble into the middle of Cuse's zone and that is Chris. Therefore you get this monotnous passing of the ball around the horn over and over. Villanova and a few more teams have the guards and small forwards who can do this and therefore can get the Cuse zone out of position. Right now I cringe whenever Jason or Austin try to dribble into Cuse's zone. A turnover is almost inevitable. The fact that the two bigs for Syracuse went to the bench early 2nd half, opened the passing lanes a little and the Hoyas were able to take advantage. I agree with those who have said that Vee looks real calm on the court vs Hollis who looks like you could not stick a straight pen between his cheeks. I don't know if this kid has an adequate handle or not because he just has not been in game long enough to tell. This was the first time I missed having Rivers on this team. He could not shoot but he had a good enough handle and was strong enough to drive the ball into a zone and maintain possession and pass it. I believe in JT3 and he like his players is maturing in his coaching.
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bmartin
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Post by bmartin on Feb 19, 2010 22:43:31 GMT -5
Your premise is wrong. Burke didn't say that JTIII does not want drives to the basket and JTIII would never say that. The point is and was that cuts get layups.
We tried to drive into the zone but the result often was turnovers and blocked shots.
If it was easy to get layups against a zone no one would run a zone. The whole point of a zone is to make it hard to get the ball inside and make teams have to shoot over it.
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OldHoyafan
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 20, 2010 0:48:47 GMT -5
Your premise is wrong. Burke didn't say that JTIII does not want drives to the basket and JTIII would never say that. The point is and was that cuts get layups. We tried to drive into the zone but the result often was turnovers and blocked shots. If it was easy to get layups against a zone no one would run a zone. The whole point of a zone is to make it hard to get the ball inside and make teams have to shoot over it. [/qu Burke did not say that JT3 did not want drives, she said that he said that cuts to the basket and receiving pass for a layup is as good as a drive to the basket. My point was that one reason the Hoyas have had trouble with the Syracuse Zone under JT3 is that they have not had guards and small forwards who had good enough handle to drive in the gaps of the zone without getting ball strpped most of the time. Wallace and Sapp did not have the handle to do it and only Chris on this team has it. Now there are other ways to beat a zone like passing to player at foul line or below like they did in 2nd half but that is very difficult with 6'7" and 6'5" guards out front and 6'9",.6'9" and 6'7" in the back who are very athletic.,
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bmartin
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Post by bmartin on Feb 20, 2010 9:46:26 GMT -5
We drive all the time when we have players who can drive. Wright drives. Freeman drives. Monroe drives. Sapp drove. Green drove. Bowman drove. Ashanti drove.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Feb 20, 2010 13:46:03 GMT -5
Harvey Thomas drove too.
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OldHoyafan
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 20, 2010 18:10:41 GMT -5
In 1984-85 season Georgetown played 2 nationally ranked teams 3 times, St Johns(2-1) and Villanova(2-1). Point being its tough to beat a nationally ranked team 3 times in a single season. I hope Hoyas are in different bracket than Syracuse in BET with Hoyas meeting them in the final game of NCAA tournament where the Hoyas pull off the upset and beat the no.1 ranked Cuse in their 3rd and final meeting of the tear.
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