TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Mar 5, 2015 15:47:49 GMT -5
Balla led us to leads on several players, assistant coaching changes (Cox), transfers in and out, well before they were announced. Josh Smith being the most recent/obvious one. Personally, I rank DSR ahead of balla.
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Cambridge
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Post by Cambridge on Mar 5, 2015 15:52:51 GMT -5
The best comparison for DSR is Braswell. They were similar players. Though, I would say at this stage that DSR is not the complete player that Braswell was. DSR really needs to step up this last game and in the BET and NCAA tournament. DSRs teams have really underperformed for 3 years. 1 NCAA tournament win (Belmont). This year we are 4-9 against RPI Top 50. Braswell ended his GU career 8th all time in scoring, first in assists and first in steals. DSR is a very good shooter and offensive player. But, remains to be seen where he ranks all time. Right now, he should be below Braswell. P.S. my favorite running subplot on Hoyatalk is the anti-Balla sentiment. Really great work. He was one of the VERY few on this site with any real information about the program. He was the first and strongest on Josh Smith and several others. You guys ran him off the site and now the site brings us these moronic conversations that swing game to game and almost no one with any real clue what is going on in the program. This site is much less valuable without Balla. For those who are constantly negative about Balla, I challenge them to let us know ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER added to this site that is inside information IN ANY WAY. Balla may have been wrong on Roscoe, but he was also right several times. NONE of you Balla critics have ever broken any information. I invite you to please respond to this post with ANY information you have ever broken on this site about the program. Along those lines thanks to Blueandgray. He always adds information. One of the FEW. Fewer without Balla. Didn't Braswell shoot about 30% from the floor for his career?
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TBird41
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Post by TBird41 on Mar 5, 2015 15:56:05 GMT -5
The best comparison for DSR is Braswell. They were similar players. Though, I would say at this stage that DSR is not the complete player that Braswell was. DSR really needs to step up this last game and in the BET and NCAA tournament. DSRs teams have really underperformed for 3 years. 1 NCAA tournament win (Belmont). This year we are 4-9 against RPI Top 50. Braswell ended his GU career 8th all time in scoring, first in assists and first in steals. DSR is a very good shooter and offensive player. But, remains to be seen where he ranks all time. Right now, he should be below Braswell. P.S. my favorite running subplot on Hoyatalk is the anti-Balla sentiment. Really great work. He was one of the VERY few on this site with any real information about the program. He was the first and strongest on Josh Smith and several others. You guys ran him off the site and now the site brings us these moronic conversations that swing game to game and almost no one with any real clue what is going on in the program. This site is much less valuable without Balla. For those who are constantly negative about Balla, I challenge them to let us know ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER added to this site that is inside information IN ANY WAY. Balla may have been wrong on Roscoe, but he was also right several times. NONE of you Balla critics have ever broken any information. I invite you to please respond to this post with ANY information you have ever broken on this site about the program. Along those lines thanks to Blueandgray. He always adds information. One of the FEW. Fewer without Balla. Didn't Braswell shoot about 30% from the floor for his career? The best opportunities we had to get an on-campus arena built were during the 1980s and when Braswell was playing.
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Post by miracles87 on Mar 5, 2015 15:59:45 GMT -5
DSR is certainly tracking to be an all-time great Hoya, that is for sure. It's hard to compare players across eras, weighing each player's roles, and the talent surrounding them, etc. I'm curious why people are ignoring Chris Wright, who was an amazing player over his career, but suffers with Freeman due to lack of NCAA tourney success. However, those Freeman and Wright teams produced so many dizzying highs and huge wins, I've always felt that, crushing season ending losses aside, I will long cherish their careers. Another player who deserves mention is Michael Jackson. What an incredible baller, 4 year starter on the greatest of Hoya teams, efficient with the ball, great scorer when needed, a terminator at the point. Finally, I have seen a couple early lists of NCAA guards who could go off and carry their team, featuring dudes like Melo Trimble, and strangely, DSR is absent. To me, he is obviously a player capable of carrying his team a round or three in March, and fulfilling those ever so slightly premature Larry Bird comparisons.
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Just Cos
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Post by Just Cos on Mar 5, 2015 16:15:53 GMT -5
Definition of trolling...keep it on topic and start your own thread on balla. That way I don't have to read about it.
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Post by EtomicB on Mar 5, 2015 16:34:10 GMT -5
Balla led us to leads on several players, assistant coaching changes (Cox), transfers in and out, well before they were announced. Josh Smith being the most recent/obvious one. It's crazy the amount of irony there is in the fact that you're touting Balla's virtue in a thread about DSR, a player he's killed for 3 years now.. Smh..
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Post by blueandgray on Mar 5, 2015 17:16:39 GMT -5
Balla led us to leads on several players, assistant coaching changes (Cox), transfers in and out, well before they were announced. Josh Smith being the most recent/obvious one. I respect your opinion about missing Balla. For the record, I had first hand knowledge of the Josh smith situation, in fact, I began his thread and was very much in he loop with what was going on in his decision to transfer from before Josh even declared he was leaving ucla. Balla simply made a prediction that turned out to be correct....nothing else. Balla seems to take pride in making predictions whether he gets them right or wrong. If he does get a prediction wrong, he'll bash a kid for his entire career (see DSR). Just don't see how that makes a chat board better. I also don't get why people emphasis the importance of making predictions or being first to break news. Some people get off on it, I frankly don't care. I just enjoy a good discourse and I can tell you that HT is a happier and better place to be post balla. For the record, HT has been on every recruit that has committed to us in the last two years. Done are the days where guys like Benimon and Bowman commit and no one knows who or where it came from. We know which kids are visiting, we know more about their visits went and know which kids are attending games. Yaboy and others have done an amazing job providing video, tweets and analysis. If we miss anyone here it's idhoya. In the end, I feel like we have more information, more accurate information and a better idea of staff direction.
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SFHoya99
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Post by SFHoya99 on Mar 5, 2015 17:47:47 GMT -5
The best comparison for DSR is Braswell. They were similar players. Though, I would say at this stage that DSR is not the complete player that Braswell was. DSR really needs to step up this last game and in the BET and NCAA tournament. DSRs teams have really underperformed for 3 years. 1 NCAA tournament win (Belmont). This year we are 4-9 against RPI Top 50. Braswell ended his GU career 8th all time in scoring, first in assists and first in steals. DSR is a very good shooter and offensive player. But, remains to be seen where he ranks all time. Right now, he should be below Braswell.
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Post by playtyler on Mar 5, 2015 17:53:34 GMT -5
Thanks blueandgrey. As I said at the beginning your contribution to this site is Very appreciated. I was not trolling on the Balla stuff. Just responding to someone else trolling in this thread on Balla. As for DSR. Also not trolling. He is a really good offensive player (though VERY deliberate, there is almost no fast breaking with him). Just expected more from him and this team. He was pre-season Big East Player of the Year. The team is 4-9 against good teams. Most of the issue is with the seniors. But, I do think the DSR - Braswell comparison is pretty close. Same build, similar game, similar results. Not really meant to be an insult to DSR. Just reality.
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Post by prhoya on Mar 5, 2015 18:04:49 GMT -5
Balla led us to leads on several players, assistant coaching changes (Cox), transfers in and out, well before they were announced. Josh Smith being the most recent/obvious one. I respect your opinion about missing Balla. For the record, I had first hand knowledge of the Josh smith situation, in fact, I began his thread and was very much in he loop with what was going on in his decision to transfer from before Josh even declared he was leaving ucla. Balla simply made a prediction that turned out to be correct....nothing else. Balla seems to take pride in making predictions whether he gets them right or wrong. If he does get a prediction wrong, he'll bash a kid for his entire career (see DSR). Just don't see how that makes a chat board better. I also don't get why people emphasis the importance of making predictions or being first to break news. Some people get off on it, I frankly don't care. I just enjoy a good discourse and I can tell you that HT is a happier and better place to be post balla. For the record, HT has been on every recruit that has committed to us in the last two years. Done are the days where guys like Benimon and Bowman commit and no one knows who or where it came from. We know which kids are visiting, we know more about their visits went and know which kids are attending games. Yaboy and others have done an amazing job providing video, tweets and analysis. If we miss anyone here it's idhoya. In the end, I feel like we have more information, more accurate information and a better idea of staff direction. I found it funny how balla pretended to have a bunch of "boys" (scouts/evaluators) visiting high school/AAU basketball courts all over the country. It has been shown that, at the end of the day, anyone could pick and choose from different college basketball sites and create his/her own site. Where's that great article someone wrote about the proliferation of recruiting gurus that was posted in HT last year or the year before? For example, Yaboy gathers the available recruiting info and posts it here, yet he doesn't pretend to have a network of "boys".
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Mar 5, 2015 18:08:52 GMT -5
Where would DSR rank if he had a Sweetney to play with?!
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Post by aleutianhoya on Mar 5, 2015 19:18:53 GMT -5
Where would DSR rank if he had a Sweetney to play with?! He has had better overall teams, though, although I'm not sure which way that really cuts, at least statistically.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 19:28:49 GMT -5
I respect your opinion about missing Balla. For the record, I had first hand knowledge of the Josh smith situation, in fact, I began his thread and was very much in he loop with what was going on in his decision to transfer from before Josh even declared he was leaving ucla. Balla simply made a prediction that turned out to be correct....nothing else. Balla seems to take pride in making predictions whether he gets them right or wrong. If he does get a prediction wrong, he'll bash a kid for his entire career (see DSR). Just don't see how that makes a chat board better. I also don't get why people emphasis the importance of making predictions or being first to break news. Some people get off on it, I frankly don't care. I just enjoy a good discourse and I can tell you that HT is a happier and better place to be post balla. For the record, HT has been on every recruit that has committed to us in the last two years. Done are the days where guys like Benimon and Bowman commit and no one knows who or where it came from. We know which kids are visiting, we know more about their visits went and know which kids are attending games. Yaboy and others have done an amazing job providing video, tweets and analysis. If we miss anyone here it's idhoya. In the end, I feel like we have more information, more accurate information and a better idea of staff direction. I found it funny how balla pretended to have a bunch of "boys" (scouts/evaluators) visiting high school/AAU basketball courts all over the country. It has been shown that, at the end of the day, anyone could pick and choose from different college basketball sites and create his/her own site. Where's that great article someone wrote about the proliferation of recruiting gurus that was posted in HT last year or the year before? For example, Yaboy gathers the available recruiting info and posts it here, yet he doesn't pretend to have a network of "boys". That's only because I have a network of ladies that do all of the scouting PR...
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Post by prhoya on Mar 5, 2015 19:30:23 GMT -5
Where would DSR rank if he had a Sweetney to play with?! He has had better overall teams, though, although I'm not sure which way that really cuts, at least statistically. Hmmm... I'm not sure about that. Braswell had Sweetney for his last three years. Compare that to DSR's soph season and the 2-vs-5.
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Post by prhoya on Mar 5, 2015 19:31:39 GMT -5
I found it funny how balla pretended to have a bunch of "boys" (scouts/evaluators) visiting high school/AAU basketball courts all over the country. It has been shown that, at the end of the day, anyone could pick and choose from different college basketball sites and create his/her own site. Where's that great article someone wrote about the proliferation of recruiting gurus that was posted in HT last year or the year before? For example, Yaboy gathers the available recruiting info and posts it here, yet he doesn't pretend to have a network of "boys". That's only because I have a network of ladies that do all of the scouting PR...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2015 19:35:40 GMT -5
I have read several of the posts about Balla and have all I can do not to respond. However, I can't help myself.
He is just such an angry man. Look at his general posts and just about 90% are nasty and hostile. I just don't understand what makes him so angry. He much be horribly depressed.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2015 19:38:24 GMT -5
MOD NOTE: The topic is DSR, not someone who chose of their own accord not to participate here. Take that topic to PMs please. Further posts on that off topic subject are subject to deletion.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Mar 5, 2015 20:09:09 GMT -5
I found it funny how balla pretended to have a bunch of "boys" (scouts/evaluators) visiting high school/AAU basketball courts all over the country. It has been shown that, at the end of the day, anyone could pick and choose from different college basketball sites and create his/her own site. Where's that great article someone wrote about the proliferation of recruiting gurus that was posted in HT last year or the year before? For example, Yaboy gathers the available recruiting info and posts it here, yet he doesn't pretend to have a network of "boys". That's only because I have a network of ladies that do all of the scouting PR... And mic drop.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2015 20:18:36 GMT -5
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Post by SirSaxa on Mar 5, 2015 20:42:59 GMT -5
Oh my god! What happpened to his shorts?!?!?
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