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Post by MCIGuy on Aug 17, 2019 19:08:18 GMT -5
Didn’t we blow that with the reading proficiency test? Mary Fenlon, right? Under Big John's supervision.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Aug 18, 2019 15:58:14 GMT -5
Dennis Scott? ::Bleep:: that! We didn't get Grant Freakin' Hill...a kid who attended every Hoya game, wore 33 in tribute to Ewing and would, a lifetime later, ask Ewing to help introduce him into the Basketball Hall of Fame. JT HATED recruiting and after his championship got increasingly lazy and bad at it with the exception of whenever he sniffed the Next Great Big Man coming around. He could have had an unimaginable dynasty that could have... Oh, my goodness I fell off the wagon and started all in on this again. Years of therapy down the drain! My bad. Back to topic. Didn’t we blow that with the reading proficiency test? If he couldn't pass a reading proficiency test - did we really blow it?
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Post by Elvado on Aug 18, 2019 16:00:49 GMT -5
Didn’t we blow that with the reading proficiency test? If he couldn't pass a reading proficiency test - did we really blow it? It wasn’t that he could not pass it, he was offended at being asked. His parents were Calvin Hill (Yale) and a mother who was I believe an accomplished attorney. It was the most tone deaf act of Pops’ regime.
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Post by SirSaxa on Aug 18, 2019 18:01:35 GMT -5
If he couldn't pass a reading proficiency test - did we really blow it? It wasn’t that he could not pass it, he was offended at being asked. His parents were Calvin Hill (Yale) and a mother who was I believe an accomplished attorney. It was the most tone deaf act of Pops’ regime. Mom Was also a graduate of Wellesley
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Post by Elvado on Aug 18, 2019 18:12:57 GMT -5
It wasn’t that he could not pass it, he was offended at being asked. His parents were Calvin Hill (Yale) and a mother who was I believe an accomplished attorney. It was the most tone deaf act of Pops’ regime. Mom Was also a graduate of Wellesley Thanks. I knew she was a very accomplished person as well. Did not remember she went to Wellesley.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Aug 18, 2019 20:00:00 GMT -5
If he couldn't pass a reading proficiency test - did we really blow it? It wasn’t that he could not pass it, he was offended at being asked. His parents were Calvin Hill (Yale) and a mother who was I believe an accomplished attorney. It was the most tone deaf act of Pops’ regime. Definitely. I just saw "Dennis Scott" and missed Grant's name. Guess I would have failed the reading comprehension test!
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Post by MCIGuy on Aug 19, 2019 7:39:07 GMT -5
This seems like a good place to post this.
I just got around to start working on my season edits of individual players and the first one I completed was James Akinjo’s.
Wow. I knew he was a good passer but I didn’t realize just how good until I trained my eye to keep a look out for all of his individual plays. He has a special talent for delivering the ball to teammates and a gift for seeing the entire floor. And he is able to do this despite being only 6 feet tops. Drop passes, pocket passes, no-look deliveries, particularly when on the move. He is easily the best passer that I’ve ever seen in a GU uniform and my fandom goes back thirty years. The only other guard from Georgetown during this run that thrilled me with his passes on the regular (so that takes AI out of the equation) was fellow Californian Kenny Brunner, but he wasn’t close to being as good as Akinjo and he only played a couple of months for the Hoyas anyway. Akinjo is an extremely exciting player to watch largely because of those passing skills. If he had gone to Duke, UNC or Kentucky there would be dozens of YouTube videos dedicated to his first season exploits. How was this kid rated so low coming out of high school? It doesn’t matter. To this day I regret JT not having recruited Kenny Anderson and while Akinjo is no Anderson he may, from a passing standpoint, end up being the closest thing for the Hoyas that I’ll get to see in my lifetime. If he continues to shoot well from long distance and makes adjustments to be more effective at scoring when closer to the basket, he should play in the NBA for years to come despite his size. Because he already has that elite passing skill and toughness.
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Post by MCIGuy on Aug 19, 2019 7:47:56 GMT -5
Mom Was also a graduate of Wellesley Thanks. I knew she was a very accomplished person as well. Did not remember she went to Wellesley. You couldn't find a better example of a student athlete who came from a home of well-educated parents, but Big John and Mary weren't flexible enough in their routine of trying to gauge reading comprehensions of prospective recruits. Actually its ironic because essentially the two of them could not read the room, otherwise they would have been able to decipher by family's surroundings, how well-spoken the entire family was and the certainty of the uncomfortable body language that came about when they asked Grant to read aloud to them, that they were going down the wrong path. That's embarrassing. And to be honest it wasn't their job to administer such tests in the first place. That was the job of Hill's high school.
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Post by SirSaxa on Aug 19, 2019 8:08:35 GMT -5
This seems like a good place to post this. I just got around to start working on my season edits of individual players and the first one I completed was James Akinjo’s. Wow. I knew he was a good passer but I didn’t realize just how good until I trained my eye to keep a look out for all of his individual plays. He has a special talent for delivering the ball to teammates and a gift for seeing the entire floor. And he is able to do this despite being only 6 feet tops. Drop passes, pocket passes, no-look deliveries, particularly when on the move. He is easily the best passer that I’ve ever seen in a GU uniform and my fandom goes back thirty years. The only other guard from Georgetown during this run that thrilled me with his passes on the regular (so that takes AI out of the equation) was fellow Californian Kenny Brunner, but he wasn’t close to being as good as Akinjo and he only played a couple of months for the Hoyas anyway. Akinjo is an extremely exciting player to watch largely because of those passing skills. If he had gone to Duke, UNC or Kentucky there would be dozens of YouTube videos dedicated to his first season exploits. How was this kid rated so low coming out of high school? It doesn’t matter. To this day I regret JT not having recruited Kenny Anderson and while Akinjo is no Anderson he may, from a passing standpoint, end up being the closest thing for the Hoyas that I’ll get to see in my lifetime. If he continues to shoot well from long distance and makes adjustments to be more effective at scoring when closer to the basket, he should play in the NBA for years to come despite his size. Because he already has that elite passing skill and toughness. He definitely has the toughness - and the confidence. Thank you, MCI, for bringing his accomplishments into focus for us. In evaluating him so far, I have to keep reminding myself he is only a freshman...or WAS only a freshman. I believe Akinjo (and Mac & Josh) are going to be the poster boys for that legendary Frosh to Soph jump. Like you, I recall Kenny Brunner. He was a miraculous passer in his abbreviated Hoya career. An erratic personality led to his early departure. Also like you, I believe Akinjo has a much higher ceiling for his game even as a 6 footer. If he were taller, he would likely never have ended up on our Hoya roster. He did lead the conference in APG last season, and by an even larger margin in Assists per 40 minutes. With a deeper and more experienced team around him, including a Center who plays far more effectively closer to the basket than did Govan, Akinjo's assist totals could well rise. Getting dimes to Omer will likely be easier than to Jesse. That point about adjusting his game to be more effective "finishing" his drives is a key. "Finishing" can mean a lot of different things. It is not limited to getting to the rim for a score. Drawing the D then kicking out to an open shooter, or an interior pass to a teammate left alone by a collapsing D, or pulling up for a floater are three different ways to successfully "finish" the drive with a successful outcome. I do think he was starting to make that adjustment late last season. I also want to credit Patrick for the way he worked with this strong-willed kid. Despite Akinjo's repeated failures to listen to his coach, Patrick made his points and never "lost" him. Coach sat him for the start of a couple games, but made sure James knew how important he was to the team and how much Coach believed in him. That is a delicate balance and Ewing handled it very well - at least that is how it appeared from afar. Akinjo's maturity as a soph and expected improvement after his BE ROY freshman season are major reasons why I have such high hopes for GU this season.
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Post by TrueHoyaBlue on Aug 19, 2019 9:14:53 GMT -5
One thing I'm looking forward to is a continued emergence of James's drive-and-kick game, which started to emerge as last season went on.
In the out-of-conference and into the early season, James's handle was amazing, and when he got into the paint, his vision at the speed of the college game led to an increasing number of dump-downs for easy buckets. As the season went on, he slowly added more kickouts for 3-point shooters from the paint. If he has that kind of peripheral vision and ability to spot and reach the open shooter from day one this season, he could easily average 7+ points per game. This will be especially important if teams continue to pack the lane against us.
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Post by professorhoya on Aug 19, 2019 9:17:19 GMT -5
Reverse layup. If he masters that he will be unstoppable. You hear me, Akinjo!
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Post by jwp91 on Aug 19, 2019 18:02:49 GMT -5
This seems like a good place to post this. I just got around to start working on my season edits of individual players and the first one I completed was James Akinjo’s. Wow. I knew he was a good passer but I didn’t realize just how good until I trained my eye to keep a look out for all of his individual plays. He has a special talent for delivering the ball to teammates and a gift for seeing the entire floor. And he is able to do this despite being only 6 feet tops. Drop passes, pocket passes, no-look deliveries, particularly when on the move. He is easily the best passer that I’ve ever seen in a GU uniform and my fandom goes back thirty years. The only other guard from Georgetown during this run that thrilled me with his passes on the regular (so that takes AI out of the equation) was fellow Californian Kenny Brunner, but he wasn’t close to being as good as Akinjo and he only played a couple of months for the Hoyas anyway. Akinjo is an extremely exciting player to watch largely because of those passing skills. If he had gone to Duke, UNC or Kentucky there would be dozens of YouTube videos dedicated to his first season exploits. How was this kid rated so low coming out of high school? It doesn’t matter. To this day I regret JT not having recruited Kenny Anderson and while Akinjo is no Anderson he may, from a passing standpoint, end up being the closest thing for the Hoyas that I’ll get to see in my lifetime. If he continues to shoot well from long distance and makes adjustments to be more effective at scoring when closer to the basket, he should play in the NBA for years to come despite his size. Because he already has that elite passing skill and toughness. Was there a summary video you can point me too to see what you saw?
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Post by LCPolo18 on Aug 20, 2019 7:24:52 GMT -5
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Post by zxhoya on Sept 15, 2019 18:31:37 GMT -5
Relentless work ethic, you have to love him. He frustrated me so many times last season but his effort and intensity is infectious and he will lead the Hoyas where we all want to be, the beast of the east, champions.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Sept 15, 2019 19:43:46 GMT -5
You have to recruit players who are wired this way. A coach can only instill so much motivation to a college student.
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Post by hoyas315 on Sept 27, 2019 15:22:58 GMT -5
Perfect example for James to look to and have as a mentor!!
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