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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Dec 15, 2019 8:30:24 GMT -5
Seven-man rotations and three-guard looks are not weird especially for teams with legitimate centers. Being down a reserve 4 after all that's happened isn't great but nobody in the Big East will be crying for the Hoyas. We can go small with 4 guards, go big and play Yurt and Q together, or bring in Muresan to steal a few minutes. Of all the problems you could have after 10 days of turmoil to come out the other side wondering what happens at back-up PF is about as good as it gets.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Dec 15, 2019 8:21:47 GMT -5
The fanbase on this board gets down on every center at one time or another, with one semi-constant early complaint being that the center in question has "bad hands." Nothing new to see here. It's almost like it's difficult having three other large humans swatting at an object you're holding. Syracuse's entire game plan was to take away Omer. They didn't do it. He still went for 19 and 9 and our guards made their open looks. It's great we're playing this competition now so he gets a better sense when not to bring the ball down in traffic. To see a Hopkins reference when we have a center who can operate down low (two actually!) keying our offense in the half court...it's head scratching.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Dec 14, 2019 23:21:51 GMT -5
One of the best wrinkles of our zone attack was when the player flashed to the elbow, then didn't receive the ball, they'd clear out and create space for a drive into that very spot. It was very effective. Boeheim's zone was bringing a banjo to a gunfight against Ewing. It's literally so simplistic that the only variables for Ewing are talent and execution. Great to see especially against a fellow Hall of Famer.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 12, 2019 22:17:26 GMT -5
Isn’t the point of the game differential? As a team or a lineup, yes. But using PPP differential and +/- for an individual to extrapolate team or lineup success is already widely documented as flawed. They are useful stats, but have to be considered with other factors as I mentioned before. No they pay coaches to look at a spreadsheet, sort by PPP differential, and fill in a lineup card. Its literally paint by numbers. That's why everyone is good at it.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 12, 2019 17:41:38 GMT -5
Gardner and Blair will probably have minimal minutes in this one. We'll play nine which I think is our rotation at this point.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 11, 2019 7:47:32 GMT -5
My one question about Penn State is why have they taken so many threes against such bad competition so far? Is that actually what their offense is going to look like? This might be a version of the Villanova gameplan if that's the case.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 9, 2019 18:30:48 GMT -5
For seven minutes of playing time, he was awfully productive. He was 2-5 with 2 offensive rebounds and 1 defensive rebounds. He also had 3 fouls. For his 2nd game, that is not too bad for me. Does he need to improve? Yes..but I’ll take it. Did you watch the game or are you just looking at the box score? He had three air balls, 2 on out of control drives. One of which he got his own rebound and put it back in which accounts for one offensive rebound and 2 points. Deer in headlights on offense, somewhat lost on defense. I’m not down on the kid, just saying he’s not ready yet to be part of rotation. Qudus, on the other hand looks ready to contribute. Beat me to it. Its actually the opposite of "concern". He's a big athletic kid but right now he just happens to be on the floor doing things. He's not part of the flow on either side. No knock on him, its great he can contribute by brute force. But that's not going to fly going forward. Qudus is raw too but as a back-up center, hes disruptive and really just has to clear space on offense and not bite on pump fakes on defense to be a positive.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 9, 2019 17:02:07 GMT -5
I wish we could but we are already playing 11 players. Today 10 players played 10+ and an eleventh played 7 minutes. [Myron was that 11th and his per 40 today would be (18 rebounds and 24 points)] Myron doesn’t look ready yet IMHO. Agreed. A lot of upside but he looks like a freshman. Now he is good enough to get minutes in these games as we might need him at some point (injury, fouls). I would not expect to see him much against better competition.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 7, 2019 16:14:42 GMT -5
First half of the first game of the season with a starter missing and a center that hadn’t played in real action in 2 years against a team returning all 5 starters that was hot from deep. We played great in the second half and won by 13 (still missing Leblanc and being in a big hole). I’m fine with that and have confidence it will only get better as the season progresses (i.e., let’s not overreact to those circumstances). As someone else said, a nice way to show the team not to take anyone lightly without causing us any damage. Also, there’s a lot of complaining considering the delightful game Syracuse had last night. Anyone remember trailing Hartford in the second half? For those who don't,that was the Final Four year with a pre-season top ten team. Crazy things happen early in the season, even crazier game one. Hot takes welcome, but its really hard to draw conclusions.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Nov 6, 2019 21:51:20 GMT -5
The oddest part of this game is the box score looks exactly like "the Hoyas were favored by 19 and LeBlanc unexpectedly didn't play." Moseley filled in admirably as a starter and the new guys struggled a bit. Fine its November.
But what happened the first 23 minutes of the game? Can't shoot, terrible PnR defense, dumb turnovers (oddly Picketts only one was the dumbest).
And then suddenly everything clicks. Well one more warm-up (hopefully) before Penn State. Good news is they have great tape of what to do and what not to do.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Sept 18, 2019 10:12:48 GMT -5
I really want to see this team clean up on second chance points. Hankins and Jones made a living on that for Xavier last year. LeBlanc and Yurt have the ability to be great on the offensive glass but also be threats from the outside. It might be our biggest improvement as an offense in getting more easy baskets.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Sept 8, 2019 11:00:30 GMT -5
Have to say, I'm with MCI here. To say Providence is a point guard away and Pipkins is that point guard seems a bit of a stretch.
Just straight up which 5 do you want? Akinjo-Mac-Pickett-Leblanc-Yurt or Pipkins-Duke-Reeves-Diallo-Watson?
I'd be surprised if anyone seriously picked the latter.
Put it this way, if Pipkins and Duke this season had the respective years of Akinjo and Mac LAST season, Providence fans would be ecstatic. Now even if you think that is going to happen, you have to either believe our backcourt is going to regress or the Providence frontcourt is that much better to vault them over the Hoyas. Thats kind of a hard sell.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Aug 17, 2019 21:41:38 GMT -5
The biggest reason for optimism is replacing Govan, Trey, and Greg with Yurt, Q, and Galen defensively.
The freshmen will improve and Allen adds defensive depth but even without that, the frontcourt is so much better defensively from a personnel standpoint.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Aug 14, 2019 8:20:53 GMT -5
From a quick internet search... Furman defeated Raw Talent Elite 91-80 last week. Duquesne also defeated Raw Talent EIite 103-89 last week. McNeese beat Raw Talent Elite 98-78 last week as wel. So checking the Bahamas league results; Commonwealth apparently went 23-1 (losing that one game in the best of 7 finals) and of course almost beat Temple and blew out Mcneese. So long story short, that game was probably as good as it gets.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Aug 13, 2019 20:25:06 GMT -5
Sparks are good. Chemistry is good. Talent is better.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on May 23, 2019 18:35:39 GMT -5
Why do people think Memphis is cheating Memphis let Calipari run the show and ultimately get their 2008 Final Four erased off the books. Calipari is actually their second-most crooked coach with a vacated Final Four which is extremely difficult to do for multiple reasons.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on May 1, 2019 16:51:58 GMT -5
Can I just ask a question here? Is there any evidence, other than speculation based wholly on the fact that he submitted his name to the portal after signing day rather than before signing day, that this was an unwilling transfer? Men's college basketball has a 13% transfer rate. People are going to transfer. But there's no proof it did not happen. So that means it could have not not happened. And if it happened, we should be outraged. I am outraged. Ladies and gentlemen, discourse in 2019.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 30, 2019 18:02:06 GMT -5
It’s interesting to me that on here there’s this phenomena where the guy who never plays (scholarship player) is this awesome player who is better than the 13 guys who do play. For whatever reason, this is a sports world phenomena among fans. I never understood it. People clamor for the guy at the end of the bench to play more, and when they do, it's almost never validates the requests. I am sure someone will come up with an example at Georgetown, but I really can't think of someone buried on the bench, who played and suddenly was a starter-level player. The closest I can come up with is Henry Sims, except (1) nobody was clamoring for him to play at the time, and (2) he was behind Monroe his first two years, so regardless he wasn't going to play much. But Sims' trajectory (being pretty bad 2 years, then good) is extremely, extremely rare. Not to go off topic, but that's also why I have trouble being enthusiastic about sophomores who have shown very little to date. It's rare for guys to be below average players their first two years and turn it around. It happens, but it's the exception, not the rule. Agree on the first, disagree on the second. Going from below average to star? Nearly never happens. Going from below average to average or above? Happens all the time. Did you have Mosely pegged at eighth in the conference in offensive efficiency pre-season? Its not that odd for guys to develop after 1 or 2 years. A senior year only jump like Henry I agree is extremely rare.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 30, 2019 11:19:45 GMT -5
We had 11 active scholarship players last year. Ten averaged double digit minutes in conference play. One was Grayson Carter.
Not sure we have to hire a PI on this one. He literally was our last guy. That guy often transfers.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 29, 2019 21:08:52 GMT -5
Can’t blame the kid. There was a log jam at his position and I am not sure how many more minutes he was going to get. Really wish him the best...seemed like a really good guy. Always came in ready to play and put forth maximum effort. Agreed 100%. Great kid and wish him well. He actually should benefit from the extra year too.
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