Post by FLHoya on Jul 2, 2006 23:57:11 GMT -5
(FL: I don't know exactly how/when/what I'm gonna do with these during the summer. I'll prob. try different formats depending on the week and what games I happen to catch. Nice to be back at McDonough...nicer to see more people I know there this year. If you have any questions let me know and I'll try to answer them...this isn't my area of expertise, esp. once the recruits start coming in, but we'll see how it goes.)
7/2/06 KENNER LEAGUE
The first note I have on my folded up sheets of legal pad is the reminder: ARNOLD.
This is to remind me to tell you all that Tyler Crawford must have been hitting the weights recently even more than he undoubtedly does already. He was rather eloquently described tonight as like Arnold Schwarzenegger if he played basketball.
Kenner League games sometime lend themselves to these types of thought exercises. The group of folks I was with had ample chance to ponder the degree of muscle development on Georgetown’s reserve guard…though the author of the above line was rather nervous to learn she was sitting pretty much in the midst of the “Crawford clan” when she made the comment.
Not much excitement at Mickey D’s this evening…save the ending to the final game of the night, which saw the Georgetown team playing a man down for nearly one and a half overtime periods. Just when you think you’ve heard your last Esherick reference…
The Tombs could have used ARNOLD in overtime, that’s for sure.
I caught the final two games of the session this evening. The first pitted The Clyde’s (apparently they’re taking naming advice from tOSU and tWGU) against C.U.T.S. (Custom Uniforms and T-Shirts, as far as quality acronyms go, somewhere between LFO and UCSAAKWYHYF).
Clyde’s features Roy Hibbert and Jessie Sapp, while CUTS includes Patrick Ewing, Jr. and Kenny Izzo—who are both still waiting for nodak89 to write songs about them.
Clyde’s came out on top 73-65 in a game that was for the most part played at that scoring margin. Given the relative lack of depth on the Clyde’s bench, Roy pretty much went the distance, with Jessie and Patrick both pretty much doing the same.
In general, you don’t see a ton of combo play from the Georgetown players in this venue with the exception of some memorable exclamation points—today at least this was the case, as it has been the vast majority of times I’ve been to Kenner League games. Assist numbers—assuming anyone is actually keeping stats—are undoubtedly low. There are jumpers aplenty, and several more violent collisions and scrums on moves to the basket than I’d personally like to see, but that’s life.
This is to say I can’t write a ton about things like Jessie and Roy running a great high-low game, or Kenny Izzo taking a perfect 40 foot bounce pass from PEJr and throwing down a vicious tomahawk jam over a Godzilla.
So I’ll write a bit about what I saw in the individual players:
Patrick Ewing, Jr: I don’t recall how many points he ended up with, though it wasn’t anything spectacular. I have him around the 1-4 or 1-5 range from 3-point land, pretty much all being on the flat end of the spectrum (not quite Bowman but DEFINITELY not close to Wallace). Probably not shots he’s gonna take outside of a summer league game, although you can be confident he seems to have that range, or not-confident and wonder whether someone’s gonna have to reign the man in at times during the season.
One of the things you notice when you focus in on Patrick, even during the summer league games, is that he glides around the court. There’s such a fluidity of movement there, I was amazed watching it really, it almost appears as if he’s in a different gear than other players on the court yet he isn’t seemingly expending that much effort. He’s also got lightning quick moves, whether on penetration or in the low post (both displayed at times), but the decision making—inasmuch as you can tell this from a summer league game (and you might not be able to)—looms as something to watch.
Minor disappointment: he did not do a windmill dunk with the pass through the legs in mid-air.
Jessie Sapp: I’d echo KGHoya’s sentiments in the sense that I didn’t see anything different about Jessie’s performance today than what I already knew. It wasn’t a big points day for Sapp either—strangely, I didn’t write a single note about him other than to write his initials down at one point—but the aggressiveness remains in all facets of the offensive game, most notably ball handling and rebounding. Jessie’s rebounding toughness is one of those traits players on my favorite teams possess that make me jump up off my seat/couch and start cursing with delight at the television/court for no good reason.
Roy Hibbert: I wasn’t counting points during this game, so there ended up being a difference in opinion over how many Roy scored. I had him somewhere in the 20-25 range, while others said he clearly topped 30. He probably came the closest of any player today to bringing out the full arsenal—a good variety of post moves including some baby hook, baseline moves, spin moves, there was an alley-oop dunk in there (it’s really not fair cause the guy barely has to jump).
What impressed was there’s some…speed isn’t the right word but it’ll have to do. He’s making some darn quick post moves—very efficient, difficult as hell to stop. Also showing greater skill in receiving and putting up a shot without the dribble—really looks like he plugging up the little holes that were left in the game. I’m scared to death for centers who don’t bring it next year against us.
He also scored an and-1 over Kenny Izzo. Only in Kenner.
One thing to keep an eye on is the free throw percentage, as Roy went to the line quite a bit during the game and clearly figures to do the same during the regular season.
The second game was a barnburner inasmuch as these things can be barnburners. I went to a charity basketball game once—members of the Miami Dolphins versus a team of local Firemen. It went into triple overtime, but this was because in the waning seconds of OT number 2, with the Firemen up 3, one of their players sank a three pointer on purpose into his own basket to even up the score. At the time, being about seven years old, I was happy to see more of the show (the Fire Squad turned it on in the third stanza and won going away…it was the last game Mike Brey ever coached for the Dolphins charity team). By OT2 tonight, I heard a lot of grumbling from the guys around me that their wives were gonna start wondering where they were.
Bethesda Magic (co-owned by HoyaSinceBirth and his brother…the Maloof family of Kenner League*) defeated The Tombs 79-74 or something like that in double overtime. The game was most memorable for the fact that The Tombs were reduced to four players with 40 seconds to go in the first overtime but STILL fought back to tie the game and successfully defend the final possession of the period. They even had a chance to tie with under 10 to go in the second overtime, but Jeff Green’s pull-up three pointer didn’t find the bottom of the net.
(*This is a complete lie. But anyone who shows up at Kenner League with mononucleosis as HSB did deserves a lot of credit. When Hoya Blue puts together an intramural basketball team next school year, they’ll make sure to give him #22—just like Tony Bethel.)
The other notable thing about this game is that The Tombs wore purple jerseys. Apparently you’re going to have to get used to this for the summer if you attend Kenner League games a lot. I can imagine that secretly TBird41 who’s from Minneapolis is delighted at this development, but is afraid to verbalize his feelings for fear of 007 punching him in the jaw.
The Tombs were missing all of the Georgetown freshmen, as you have all no doubt heard by now. Thus they played with Jon Wallace, Jeff Green, and four other guys. One of them I nicknamed “Bisquick”. This did not have the appearance of a scintillating matchup—there weren’t any truly notable players on Bethesda Magic either (at least to my relatively uninformed and untrained eye). In fact, the crowd kept getting smaller as the game went on.
I decided rather than concentrating on the goings on in the rather unstructured game, I’d try my hand at charting points and shots for Jeff and Jon.
Jeff Green: I have him down for 40 points. In the first half I had him down for 17 points on five two point FGs and 7-9 from the line. I only have him missing one 2PTFG and one 3PTFG, but it’s far more likely I forgot to check off misses. Second half 18 points on two 2PT, three 3PT, and 5-6 from the line. Looks like 4 misses, two each from 2 and 3. He scored a bucket in OT and a three pointer in 2OT before missing the final tying shot.
Jeff didn’t really take it out of first gear tonight though—that’s kinda scary to think of isn’t it for someone who scored 40 in about 50 minutes with a running clock. He was far and away the most talented player on the court—not even CLOSE!!!!!!!! But he stayed at around 75% power it seemed, concentrated on working from the perimeter—we got to see some nice pull-up jumpers, the three point range, and occasionally some drives to the goal (a nice crossover move on one play). Jeff was also being double and sometimes triple teamed during the game, and it’s really not worth it in summer league to be fighting through those kind of things and throwing the body around risking injury.
The most notable play of the game for me was Jeff’s ridiculous swat in the first half that sent the ball out of bounds almost on the fly. This was the play where Jon Wallace knocked the lid off the metal trash can trying to save the ball. In fact, throughout the game I noticed Jeff altering shots by…being Jeff Green…a lot of times his opponents assumed the block was coming and threw up their own self-altered shots.
Jon Wallace: 19 points on my card. First half 7 on 2-2 from two point range and 1-3 from downtown. Second half 8 on 2 FTs and 2-5 from downtown. Four in the OT. I had him at 4-7 from the line for the game, including a missed front end during the second OT IIRC. Jon definitely deferred during the game as well, although he stepped the game up in the latter stages when the result was in question, hitting the tying three with about 10 seconds to go in regulation and, in general, assuming full control of the offense with Jeff thereafter. Like Jessie, nothing new to the arsenal this evening, though his alley oop to Jeff to close the first half was the crowd pleaser of the night—this not including the announcement that the hot dogs were finally ready round halftime of the first game.
A bizarre ending to this game with two players fouling out and The Tombs reduced to 4 on 5 with 40 seconds to go in the first OT. Yet somehow this really didn’t affect the outcome that much…BM’s power play line is apparently in need of work.
A final note: that Alonzo banner is up in McDonough, congratulating him on his NBA Championship. A classic Georgetown gesture to honor one of its all-time greats. And, in another fashion, a classic Georgetown execution that the pictures at the bottom of the banner are clearly cut off significantly.
Enjoy your Fourth of July long weekends. Have some real hot dogs while you’re at it.
7/2/06 KENNER LEAGUE
The first note I have on my folded up sheets of legal pad is the reminder: ARNOLD.
This is to remind me to tell you all that Tyler Crawford must have been hitting the weights recently even more than he undoubtedly does already. He was rather eloquently described tonight as like Arnold Schwarzenegger if he played basketball.
Kenner League games sometime lend themselves to these types of thought exercises. The group of folks I was with had ample chance to ponder the degree of muscle development on Georgetown’s reserve guard…though the author of the above line was rather nervous to learn she was sitting pretty much in the midst of the “Crawford clan” when she made the comment.
Not much excitement at Mickey D’s this evening…save the ending to the final game of the night, which saw the Georgetown team playing a man down for nearly one and a half overtime periods. Just when you think you’ve heard your last Esherick reference…
The Tombs could have used ARNOLD in overtime, that’s for sure.
I caught the final two games of the session this evening. The first pitted The Clyde’s (apparently they’re taking naming advice from tOSU and tWGU) against C.U.T.S. (Custom Uniforms and T-Shirts, as far as quality acronyms go, somewhere between LFO and UCSAAKWYHYF).
Clyde’s features Roy Hibbert and Jessie Sapp, while CUTS includes Patrick Ewing, Jr. and Kenny Izzo—who are both still waiting for nodak89 to write songs about them.
Clyde’s came out on top 73-65 in a game that was for the most part played at that scoring margin. Given the relative lack of depth on the Clyde’s bench, Roy pretty much went the distance, with Jessie and Patrick both pretty much doing the same.
In general, you don’t see a ton of combo play from the Georgetown players in this venue with the exception of some memorable exclamation points—today at least this was the case, as it has been the vast majority of times I’ve been to Kenner League games. Assist numbers—assuming anyone is actually keeping stats—are undoubtedly low. There are jumpers aplenty, and several more violent collisions and scrums on moves to the basket than I’d personally like to see, but that’s life.
This is to say I can’t write a ton about things like Jessie and Roy running a great high-low game, or Kenny Izzo taking a perfect 40 foot bounce pass from PEJr and throwing down a vicious tomahawk jam over a Godzilla.
So I’ll write a bit about what I saw in the individual players:
Patrick Ewing, Jr: I don’t recall how many points he ended up with, though it wasn’t anything spectacular. I have him around the 1-4 or 1-5 range from 3-point land, pretty much all being on the flat end of the spectrum (not quite Bowman but DEFINITELY not close to Wallace). Probably not shots he’s gonna take outside of a summer league game, although you can be confident he seems to have that range, or not-confident and wonder whether someone’s gonna have to reign the man in at times during the season.
One of the things you notice when you focus in on Patrick, even during the summer league games, is that he glides around the court. There’s such a fluidity of movement there, I was amazed watching it really, it almost appears as if he’s in a different gear than other players on the court yet he isn’t seemingly expending that much effort. He’s also got lightning quick moves, whether on penetration or in the low post (both displayed at times), but the decision making—inasmuch as you can tell this from a summer league game (and you might not be able to)—looms as something to watch.
Minor disappointment: he did not do a windmill dunk with the pass through the legs in mid-air.
Jessie Sapp: I’d echo KGHoya’s sentiments in the sense that I didn’t see anything different about Jessie’s performance today than what I already knew. It wasn’t a big points day for Sapp either—strangely, I didn’t write a single note about him other than to write his initials down at one point—but the aggressiveness remains in all facets of the offensive game, most notably ball handling and rebounding. Jessie’s rebounding toughness is one of those traits players on my favorite teams possess that make me jump up off my seat/couch and start cursing with delight at the television/court for no good reason.
Roy Hibbert: I wasn’t counting points during this game, so there ended up being a difference in opinion over how many Roy scored. I had him somewhere in the 20-25 range, while others said he clearly topped 30. He probably came the closest of any player today to bringing out the full arsenal—a good variety of post moves including some baby hook, baseline moves, spin moves, there was an alley-oop dunk in there (it’s really not fair cause the guy barely has to jump).
What impressed was there’s some…speed isn’t the right word but it’ll have to do. He’s making some darn quick post moves—very efficient, difficult as hell to stop. Also showing greater skill in receiving and putting up a shot without the dribble—really looks like he plugging up the little holes that were left in the game. I’m scared to death for centers who don’t bring it next year against us.
He also scored an and-1 over Kenny Izzo. Only in Kenner.
One thing to keep an eye on is the free throw percentage, as Roy went to the line quite a bit during the game and clearly figures to do the same during the regular season.
The second game was a barnburner inasmuch as these things can be barnburners. I went to a charity basketball game once—members of the Miami Dolphins versus a team of local Firemen. It went into triple overtime, but this was because in the waning seconds of OT number 2, with the Firemen up 3, one of their players sank a three pointer on purpose into his own basket to even up the score. At the time, being about seven years old, I was happy to see more of the show (the Fire Squad turned it on in the third stanza and won going away…it was the last game Mike Brey ever coached for the Dolphins charity team). By OT2 tonight, I heard a lot of grumbling from the guys around me that their wives were gonna start wondering where they were.
Bethesda Magic (co-owned by HoyaSinceBirth and his brother…the Maloof family of Kenner League*) defeated The Tombs 79-74 or something like that in double overtime. The game was most memorable for the fact that The Tombs were reduced to four players with 40 seconds to go in the first overtime but STILL fought back to tie the game and successfully defend the final possession of the period. They even had a chance to tie with under 10 to go in the second overtime, but Jeff Green’s pull-up three pointer didn’t find the bottom of the net.
(*This is a complete lie. But anyone who shows up at Kenner League with mononucleosis as HSB did deserves a lot of credit. When Hoya Blue puts together an intramural basketball team next school year, they’ll make sure to give him #22—just like Tony Bethel.)
The other notable thing about this game is that The Tombs wore purple jerseys. Apparently you’re going to have to get used to this for the summer if you attend Kenner League games a lot. I can imagine that secretly TBird41 who’s from Minneapolis is delighted at this development, but is afraid to verbalize his feelings for fear of 007 punching him in the jaw.
The Tombs were missing all of the Georgetown freshmen, as you have all no doubt heard by now. Thus they played with Jon Wallace, Jeff Green, and four other guys. One of them I nicknamed “Bisquick”. This did not have the appearance of a scintillating matchup—there weren’t any truly notable players on Bethesda Magic either (at least to my relatively uninformed and untrained eye). In fact, the crowd kept getting smaller as the game went on.
I decided rather than concentrating on the goings on in the rather unstructured game, I’d try my hand at charting points and shots for Jeff and Jon.
Jeff Green: I have him down for 40 points. In the first half I had him down for 17 points on five two point FGs and 7-9 from the line. I only have him missing one 2PTFG and one 3PTFG, but it’s far more likely I forgot to check off misses. Second half 18 points on two 2PT, three 3PT, and 5-6 from the line. Looks like 4 misses, two each from 2 and 3. He scored a bucket in OT and a three pointer in 2OT before missing the final tying shot.
Jeff didn’t really take it out of first gear tonight though—that’s kinda scary to think of isn’t it for someone who scored 40 in about 50 minutes with a running clock. He was far and away the most talented player on the court—not even CLOSE!!!!!!!! But he stayed at around 75% power it seemed, concentrated on working from the perimeter—we got to see some nice pull-up jumpers, the three point range, and occasionally some drives to the goal (a nice crossover move on one play). Jeff was also being double and sometimes triple teamed during the game, and it’s really not worth it in summer league to be fighting through those kind of things and throwing the body around risking injury.
The most notable play of the game for me was Jeff’s ridiculous swat in the first half that sent the ball out of bounds almost on the fly. This was the play where Jon Wallace knocked the lid off the metal trash can trying to save the ball. In fact, throughout the game I noticed Jeff altering shots by…being Jeff Green…a lot of times his opponents assumed the block was coming and threw up their own self-altered shots.
Jon Wallace: 19 points on my card. First half 7 on 2-2 from two point range and 1-3 from downtown. Second half 8 on 2 FTs and 2-5 from downtown. Four in the OT. I had him at 4-7 from the line for the game, including a missed front end during the second OT IIRC. Jon definitely deferred during the game as well, although he stepped the game up in the latter stages when the result was in question, hitting the tying three with about 10 seconds to go in regulation and, in general, assuming full control of the offense with Jeff thereafter. Like Jessie, nothing new to the arsenal this evening, though his alley oop to Jeff to close the first half was the crowd pleaser of the night—this not including the announcement that the hot dogs were finally ready round halftime of the first game.
A bizarre ending to this game with two players fouling out and The Tombs reduced to 4 on 5 with 40 seconds to go in the first OT. Yet somehow this really didn’t affect the outcome that much…BM’s power play line is apparently in need of work.
A final note: that Alonzo banner is up in McDonough, congratulating him on his NBA Championship. A classic Georgetown gesture to honor one of its all-time greats. And, in another fashion, a classic Georgetown execution that the pictures at the bottom of the banner are clearly cut off significantly.
Enjoy your Fourth of July long weekends. Have some real hot dogs while you’re at it.
