Bigs"R"Us
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Jan 29, 2020 17:43:13 GMT -5
He is so quick off his feet. He’s dunking the ball while most centers would be gathering themselves.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Jan 29, 2020 20:53:10 GMT -5
He needs to use that quickness to alter shots and to rebound. Takes time to develop your timing, learn to ignore shot fakes, etc. But he can be a dominant player with work.
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Post by johnnysnowplow on Jan 29, 2020 22:07:37 GMT -5
Right. Because yurtseven is such a stalwart defender. 🙄 He wasn't asked to compare Qudus to Yurtseven. He was asked about Q, who is a good defender for a freshman but needs improvement. Yurtseven is a bad defender for a senior and will probably never improve. No he wasn’t directly comparing the two but he’s clearly using it as an excuse to continue to play Yurt over him. It’s silly at this point. Play the kid until he fouls out. He gives us the best chance to win.
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EtomicB
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Post by EtomicB on Jan 29, 2020 22:31:10 GMT -5
Right. Because yurtseven is such a stalwart defender. 🙄 He wasn't asked to compare Qudus to Yurtseven. He was asked about Q, who is a good defender for a freshman but needs improvement. The context of the question for the tweet was this "seeing that the +/- for Wahab was much better than Yurtsevens during the game why not go with Wahab more?" PE's 1st response was that "he'll leave the +/- stuff to you, I go with my best players." "Wahab is our future but Omer is best now" Paraphrasing some on both quotes...
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Jan 29, 2020 23:01:03 GMT -5
He wasn't asked to compare Qudus to Yurtseven. He was asked about Q, who is a good defender for a freshman but needs improvement. Yurtseven is a bad defender for a senior and will probably never improve. No he wasn’t directly comparing the two but he’s clearly using it as an excuse to continue to play Yurt over him. It’s silly at this point. Play the kid until he fouls out. He gives us the best chance to win. That is a silly overstatement. There are certainly nights when Yurt is off and Qudus has the better game. But Yurt has a much broader offensive game and is generally a good rebounder, and on balance gives us the better chance to win.
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Post by johnnysnowplow on Jan 30, 2020 7:54:42 GMT -5
Yurtseven is a bad defender for a senior and will probably never improve. No he wasn’t directly comparing the two but he’s clearly using it as an excuse to continue to play Yurt over him. It’s silly at this point. Play the kid until he fouls out. He gives us the best chance to win. That is a silly overstatement. There are certainly nights when Yurt is off and Qudus has the better game. But Yurt has a much broader offensive game and is generally a good rebounder, and on balance gives us the better chance to win. I just don’t agree that Yurt gives us the best chance to win. And what makes his offensive game broader? He’s pretty predictable if you ask me. All he does is shoot face up or turn around mid range jumpers. They’re bad, inefficient shots and when they don’t fall he has nothing else. He’s woefully inept around the rim.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 30, 2020 8:00:14 GMT -5
The quizzical decision to keep the talented center so deep in the rotation for the Hoyas is one that has many within the fanbase dumbfounded. The team is down to only nine scholarship players and need all the production they can get. While Yurtseven has been dominant at times, he’s also inconsistent and struggled to find a rhythm in games. www.nbcsports.com/washington/ncaa/peculiar-case-georgetowns-qudus-wahab
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Post by aleutianhoya on Jan 30, 2020 8:04:24 GMT -5
That is a silly overstatement. There are certainly nights when Yurt is off and Qudus has the better game. But Yurt has a much broader offensive game and is generally a good rebounder, and on balance gives us the better chance to win. I just don’t agree that Yurt gives us the best chance to win. And what makes his offensive game broader? He’s pretty predictable if you ask me. All he does is shoot face up or turn around mid range jumpers. They’re bad, inefficient shots and when they don’t fall he has nothing else. He’s woefully inept around the rim. Q is better around the rim. No argument there. But there's not really anything else that he's demonstrably better at. Both have a solid interior post game (with both having had he predictable off days). Yurt is wildly better away from the hoop. And only Yurt commands double teams. Obviously not everyone doubles, and he doesn't always deal with it well, but it does create open looks for others. He's also much better at PNR defense. Q is the better pure post defender, but 5-1 PNRs are such a huge part of the game now for a center and Yurt is very good at them.
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Post by professorhoya on Jan 30, 2020 9:35:50 GMT -5
That is a silly overstatement. There are certainly nights when Yurt is off and Qudus has the better game. But Yurt has a much broader offensive game and is generally a good rebounder, and on balance gives us the better chance to win. I just don’t agree that Yurt gives us the best chance to win. And what makes his offensive game broader? He’s pretty predictable if you ask me. All he does is shoot face up or turn around mid range jumpers. They’re bad, inefficient shots and when they don’t fall he has nothing else. He’s woefully inept around the rim. Wahab is shooting 578 against backup centers. Yurt7 538 at a higher volume vs starting bigs.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 10:07:50 GMT -5
I'm usually pretty hesitant to fast track young guys and/or promote backups, but just like Josh last year you can see that Q adds elements we don't have on the floor most of the time.
Omer is obviously much better than Trey, so it's not as easy a call as "play Josh over Mourning" -- but Q needs to start seeing double digit minutes EVERY night instead of every other.
If that means some nights it'll be closer to a 20/20 split between the centers, so be it. If you can figure out a way to get them on the court together, then do that.
Either way, he's been too good to this point to be a 7th man in the current 7-man rotation. We've got to start making lemonade with this lineup - quickly.
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Post by HoyaRejuveNation85 on Jan 30, 2020 10:53:31 GMT -5
I'm usually pretty hesitant to fast track young guys and/or promote backups, but just like Josh last year you can see that Q adds elements we don't have on the floor most of the time. Omer is obviously much better than Trey, so it's not as easy a call as "play Josh over Mourning" -- but Q needs to start seeing double digit minutes EVERY night instead of every other. If that means some nights it'll be closer to a 20/20 split between the centers, so be it. If you can figure out a way to get them on the court together, then do that. Either way, he's been too good to this point to be a 7th man in the current 7-man rotation. We've got to start making lemonade with this lineup - quickly. Could not agree more. Q's earned more playing time.
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bostonfan
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Post by bostonfan on Jan 30, 2020 11:20:45 GMT -5
I'm usually pretty hesitant to fast track young guys and/or promote backups, but just like Josh last year you can see that Q adds elements we don't have on the floor most of the time. Omer is obviously much better than Trey, so it's not as easy a call as "play Josh over Mourning" -- but Q needs to start seeing double digit minutes EVERY night instead of every other. If that means some nights it'll be closer to a 20/20 split between the centers, so be it. If you can figure out a way to get them on the court together, then do that. Either way, he's been too good to this point to be a 7th man in the current 7-man rotation. We've got to start making lemonade with this lineup - quickly. I agree that it would be better to find a way to play Yurt and Q together some more. Q has shown he is one of the top 5 most efficient and effective players on this teams roster now (I consider Mac and Yurt the number 1 and 2 players) and to restrict his minutes to just when Yurt is off the floor does not seem to take maximize the roster's abilities. I acknowledge there are limitations to how long you can both Yurt and Q on the floor together because of match up issues, but getting Q more minutes seems warranted now and I would not want to simply reduce Yurt's minutes to make that happen. It is probably not the optimal choice, but with the current roster I think the staff needs to be creative and find ways to get them playing together some more.
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Post by aleutianhoya on Jan 30, 2020 12:49:28 GMT -5
I'm usually pretty hesitant to fast track young guys and/or promote backups, but just like Josh last year you can see that Q adds elements we don't have on the floor most of the time. Omer is obviously much better than Trey, so it's not as easy a call as "play Josh over Mourning" -- but Q needs to start seeing double digit minutes EVERY night instead of every other. If that means some nights it'll be closer to a 20/20 split between the centers, so be it. If you can figure out a way to get them on the court together, then do that. Either way, he's been too good to this point to be a 7th man in the current 7-man rotation. We've got to start making lemonade with this lineup - quickly. I agree that it would be better to find a way to play Yurt and Q together some more. Q has shown he is one of the top 5 most efficient and effective players on this teams roster now (I consider Mac and Yurt the number 1 and 2 players) and to restrict his minutes to just when Yurt is off the floor does not seem to take maximize the roster's abilities. I acknowledge there are limitations to how long you can both Yurt and Q on the floor together because of match up issues, but getting Q more minutes seems warranted now and I would not want to simply reduce Yurt's minutes to make that happen. It is probably not the optimal choice, but with the current roster I think the staff needs to be creative and find ways to get them playing together some more. Absolutely. The easiest way to think of it? Wouldn't we always prefer Yurt and Q in the game together instead of either Yurt and Muresan or Q and Muresan? Muresan gets 2-3 mins per game on average in BE play. I just can't find a scenario where he's a better option than Yurt at the four. In addition, you can certainly make a case that during games when Jamorko isn't giving you anything on either end, having Yurt play the four instead of him would be an upgrade too. It's not as obviously correct as with Muresan, but it's not obviously wrong either. At a minimum, there'd be some opponents/matchups where that would make perfect sense.
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skunk
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Post by skunk on Feb 18, 2020 13:19:38 GMT -5
Did something happen to him..?
Saw a tweet, “Georgetown is holding media availability today at 2:30. We will learn more about Wahab's status then, I would think. I can't make it unfortunately.” -Aidan Curran
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Post by HoyaRejuveNation85 on Feb 18, 2020 13:24:16 GMT -5
what? ?
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mdtd
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Post by mdtd on Feb 18, 2020 13:25:01 GMT -5
Did something happen to him..? Saw a tweet, “Georgetown is holding media availability today at 2:30. We will learn more about Wahab's status then, I would think. I can't make it unfortunately.” -Aidan Curran
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Post by BeantownHoya on Feb 18, 2020 13:42:14 GMT -5
Did something happen to him..? Saw a tweet, “Georgetown is holding media availability today at 2:30. We will learn more about Wahab's status then, I would think. I can't make it unfortunately.” -Aidan Curran This team is cursed...
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DudeSlade
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Post by DudeSlade on Feb 18, 2020 14:25:45 GMT -5
Seeing the boot in the photo, I'm hoping it's for an ankle sprain and it's to try to help heal a minor one quicker. Because right now all we have is hope.
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Post by wponds on Feb 18, 2020 14:45:20 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaatheart55 on Feb 18, 2020 14:46:05 GMT -5
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