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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 28, 2019 20:35:09 GMT -5
Watch this space for Mac's TWO point percentage to make a jump. We're in a great position for him to get more easy chances moving towards the basket and fewer shoulder down end of shot clock attempts.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 28, 2019 19:28:13 GMT -5
I'd be interesting in starting Qudus at the 4 (if he's as good as he looks) and Omer at 5. Then have Pickett backing up Qudus and Tim backing up Omer. My speculative depth chart looks like this: PG: Akinjo/Allen SG: McClung/Blair/Mosely SF: LeBlanc/Gardner PF: Wahab/Pickett/Carter C: Yurtseven/Ighoefe/Wilson Thoughts? Honestly I'm very impressed with how Ewing's put this team together. Lot of depth and versatility. I think Patrick would love to play big -- he tried Govan and Mourning together early in the season this year. I think by far our most effective lineups will not be big -- they will have LeBlanc paired with another wing -- whether Pickett, Gardner or Alexander -- as the two forwards. How much we see a "real" PF out there with Yurt is probably largely dependent on how many of the freshmen (and Carter) are prepared to play. Out of Q, Ighoefe, Carter and Wilson, is one good enough to break into the rotation? Two? More than that? If it is one, then the younger players will be Yurt's backup primarily. If two, then I think we go big a bit, but less than 50%. But I could be underestimating Qudus, who seems the most likely to outplay the wings on the roster to grab a spot. Completely agree and I think that will be the most interesting story this year. There are 9 players essentially I think most of us can't imagine not being in the rotation. But...what about the 4? Two wings? Two centers? One Grayson? After LeBlanc those minutes are up for grabs and the looks are completely different depending on who we go with. The hope is of course, its "all of the above" depending on matchup.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 26, 2019 21:19:57 GMT -5
I am just loving it! Ewing and the coaching staff are surpassing my wildest dreams as far as recruiting goes. Just want to welcome Terell to the "sky is the limit" team. Its weird because Ewing hasn't landed a top 50 recruit. What he has done is synthetically create a full, balanced roster with half a dozen four star recruits that fit his culture two years after inheriting a seven-man team. You would almost never know we had two consecutive one-man recruiting classes of Mosely and Walker when he walked in. We even somehow now have two key rotation players with NCAA tournament experience. So what he's lacked in star power, he's made up for in talent identification, establishing a culture, and crafty roster building.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 26, 2019 14:33:02 GMT -5
I would love to see some of first diagnostic scrimmages...maybe Akinjo vs. Allen McClung vs. Mosley/Blair Gardner vs Pickett/Alexander Carter vs. Wahab Omerseven vs M. Wilson/ T.Igoefe or you choose matchups. ...I'm thinking old versus new...but the new recruits are generally taller. Josh?
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 23, 2019 20:44:26 GMT -5
We'll see. There will certainly be more options. To this point, Pat's been pretty conservative dishing out minutes to FR bigs (Sodom, Walker, Carter). Josh excluded, obviously -- but even he had to have some consistently great play before Pat loosened the reins. Watch Tim’s video from today. (On paper at this point, Tim seems to be the 3rd option/most polished behind Omer and Qudus). Then tell me that Sodom, Walker, or Carter are a comp for him. I am not sure those examples apply. Have to agree here. You don't want Yurt to foul but for fouls to be less punitive than the drop off from Jessie to Trey is a big deal. Depth matters especially in the ever shifting universe that is NCAA officiating. And with big men the difference crew to crew is even more pronounced.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 23, 2019 20:34:18 GMT -5
Ok so who? Who are the available big SG transfers we are scaring away by "giving" the leading freshman scorer in the Big East 26 minutes? We know low/mid major transfers including grad transfers and top 20 JuCos dont count by your own standards. So who are these big, highly-ranked, high major SGs available that are clearly better than Mac historically? Lets start there before even considering whether they are chicken or not. There are plenty of local guys that could easily be better like Moore, Beran, Harris and even Quinones and tons of transfers including low/mids as Greg showed, but why would they risk coming somewhere that the SG position seems pretty locked up for the foreseeable future. We are going to get the next level of guys that are OK being at Georgetown and getting whatever time they can. Luckily we have someone capable to back him up so it's not that big of a deal. Next year could change that depending on how Mac does this year. A lot of people on here seem to think we need a great shooter/defender at SG. That would mean that person would have to take Mac's minutes which not many people seem to condone. This isn't a knock on Mac it's just the truth of the situation. But we offered Quinones. I thought we weren't on anyone like that. So we are offering guys we secretly don't want as we show them we are guaranteeing Mac minutes so even though we recruit and offer we try to turn them off? Meanwhile almost anyone could beat out Mac by helping us win games but Ewing is so sold on him they don't want to come here and fight to get six of his minutes for 20 per game? Water tight. Agree fully.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 23, 2019 14:30:28 GMT -5
Galen just showed up to presumably battle for the SF spot, and Jamorko played just a shade less than Mac did overall and in conference -- and has 2 years left. Why would every transfer now be chicken at the SG spot? Or is it just that you wanted to write about Mac and his minutes? Jamorko got benched and afterward played about 20 MPG and isnt the fan favorite that Mac is. We don't really seem to be in on any big immediate SG talent so that should be a hint as well. Galen isn't a big SF talent as well. Did you just want to call me out because I typed Mac? Ok so who? Who are the available big SG transfers we are scaring away by "giving" the leading freshman scorer in the Big East 26 minutes? We know low/mid major transfers including grad transfers and top 20 JuCos dont count by your own standards. So who are these big, highly-ranked, high major SGs available that are clearly better than Mac historically? Lets start there before even considering whether they are chicken or not.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 19, 2019 11:46:18 GMT -5
Completely accidental but a good coach. I don't buy the "no local ties" narrative about Anderson or any St Johns coach for that matter. Who cares? Kids go away to school all the time and if he gets recruits from Brooklyn or Alabama it really doesn't matter.
This could have been way worse.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 17, 2019 5:45:37 GMT -5
OK - I did not do a deep dive statistical analysis on Akinjo's 2 pt shooting. However, I recall about 3-4 games in a row in which he was about 1-21....or something crazy like that. I also recall him running aimlessly into the trees and getting blocked, repeatedly. Then he started doing his pullup jumpers and floaters, varying his attack and even passing out from time to time. Point is, if we only look at season stats, we will only see how the entire season averaged out. But watching the games, I saw a kid getting better and better from November to March. Yes, he definitely has to be better from 2, most of that was failing to finish at the rim, and he was already making adjustments during the season. I expect AKinjo - and LeBlanc and Mac - to come back much improved from their outstanding freshman year performances. Just my take... from memory. Yes, I probably did have my B&G glasses on at the time. You are correct. He was 14-64 through 13 conference games and finished 20-53 the rest of the way through the BET. That included his best performance of the season at Marquette after one of those early season blocks possibly cost us the prior Marquette game. Still plenty of room for improvement but to be expanding and adjusting his game while supposedly hitting the "freshman wall" bodes well.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 12, 2019 22:11:03 GMT -5
Wiseman-Yurt...hope we get Memphis. I hadn't seen Wiseman until tonight. He's you know, good if you like that sort of easily #1 pick sort of thing.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 9, 2019 17:41:16 GMT -5
He should take it in a second. Howard is a top 2 team in the MEAC next year. He could make the tournament year 1 and have a nice recruiting class.
And in year 2, he'll get a #15 seed and beat #2 seeded Georgetown in the first round because the universe can't help itself.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 6, 2019 20:59:39 GMT -5
He is but he's not allowed to start dribbling again because it was not touched by an opposing player. Once he picked it up with two hands he could not dribble again. It doesn't even take two hands. Once he picked it up, its over. Next dribble is a double (or if he's particularly coordinated, a carry).
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 6, 2019 20:37:10 GMT -5
James Breeding on the floor tonight when they missed Jerome’s double dribble. SMH The one off his leg? I'm pretty sure he's allowed to pick that up. He is but he's not allowed to start dribbling again because it was not touched by an opposing player.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 6, 2019 20:29:29 GMT -5
High Point. Tubby's new home in the Big South! Odd but might be a walk on if he comes here. That would make sense since I'm pretty sure if your top 2 are both schollies from HPU and Georgetown, its pretty easy.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 6, 2019 7:22:09 GMT -5
I hope this guy is all so many are piping him up to be. When I saw him at Kenner last summer the word that came up in my mind was SOFT!! I was underwhelmed. Now I read reports that he was really something else later during league play, but that not what I saw. Here's hoping Omer Yurtseven truly is "Beast". We need him to be so. Look...we've been over this before. It doesn't matter what you or anyone else (including myself) thought he looked like at Kenner because it wasn't as if he was coming into that league as some unproven commodity. He had already proven to be one of the elite bigs in the ACC months earlier, which is frankly way more important than any KL showing anyhow. And now he has had a year to get even better through practice. I understand wanting to see him play in a Hoya uniform before making judgment but we need to stop using summer league play as a barometer when the guy in question has already suited up for two seasons of elite college level basketball. Remember the running three-point shooting tracker at Kenner which "proved" the Hoyas wouldn't be able to shoot threes? We finished third in the league in three-point shooting.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 5, 2019 20:26:54 GMT -5
There is literally no reason for Powell to come back....his stock will get no higher than it is now...... Right now, he's not on any draft boards and if he doesn't get invited to the NBA draft combine he should definitely come back... I think this might be a Marcus Derrickson situation. Go now, worst case huge overseas contract.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Apr 4, 2019 6:10:27 GMT -5
I looked at some fan expectations of Oklahoma State and the big 12 entirely. People are expecting a down year for that conference this upcoming season as of right now. I've seen some people say that Oklahoma State could be in the top half of the conference and will most likely be in the middle of the pack. Granted, all of the people I saw have a take on Oklahoma State were fans. It's something to monitor as a good win could go a long way early in the season. Really hoping for a massive schedule tune-up this year. Cuse, Memphis, and UMD are teams I want to see. They've made the tournament 4 of the last 7 years and return literally everyone. Oh yeah the last time we faced them, we were down 30. This is absolutely a tough game on the road. Oklahoma State doesn't need a down year to compete in the Big 12. They're routinely a good team.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Mar 31, 2019 9:03:57 GMT -5
UVAs KenPom ratnking had improved from 90 to 76 over his first two years so there was statistical evidence of improvement. Georgetown’s KenPom has dropped from 69 to 95 and we just witnessed the worst defensive efficiency in the history of the program— so improvement can certainly be debated because there is no statistical basis for it. No statistical basis for improvement, if you look at one ranking and ignore, you know, record. There is no requirement that there be a turd in every pool - you are allowed to be happy, even optimistic. Highest offensive efficiency in conference play since 2010. Every single starter actually improved their efficiency from the non-con to.conference play except...Jessie Govan. Defense in conference improved YoY as well. Is there a kenpom subscription that doesn't allow scrolling or clicking? Literally the only way you could argue a team starting three freshmen didn't improve this year is to look at the headline kenpom ranking full year. So yes if we get a flux capacitor and everyone is a freshmen in November again, this team will not be any better next year.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Mar 24, 2019 8:25:34 GMT -5
If trash is talked and your entire one-and-done factory isn't there to hear it next year, does it make a sound?
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Mar 24, 2019 7:51:38 GMT -5
Say what you will about second chances but, in my experience, people that get a second shot and recognize it as such can be hugely valuable and add a type of lift to any team, sports or otherwise, that you can't get from a person on their first go-round. Learning from failures and setbacks isn't something you can teach. Unfortunately for all of us, those lumps and scars you have to earn to learn. And while we are talking charades, he was kicked off the team because he wasn't recruited by oh-so-ethical Will Wade. Paintball guerilla warfare is immature and stupid but pretty sure Wade's recruits would face suspension for exactly as many games as it was between now and Kentucky. Zero worries. And if he does something stupid Pat has set the precedent that you're gone so it's on him.
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