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Post by TBird41 on Nov 10, 2014 10:08:27 GMT -5
Assuming DSR doesn't leave, we shouldn't lose too much depth. We lose Trawick, Bowen, Hopkins and Smith. Presumably sophomore Tre and Peak can cover Trawick and Bowen's minutes (Tre by shifting DSR to SG). Sophomore's Copeland, White and Derrickson should be able handle the 3/4 at least as well as Trawick / Hopkins handle the 3 & 4 respectively (if not better than Hopkins). The big question will be how big the drop off from Smith/Hopkins/Hayes to Govan/Hayes ends up being. That being said, we're still at least 9 deep next year. PG: DSR/Tre SG: Peak/DSR/Copeland SF: Copeland/White/Cameron PF: White/Copeland/Derrickson/Cameron C: Govan/Hayes Tbird...I am with you all the way. Maybe I am delusional, but I think that despite his deficiencies, an older, somewhat slimmed down Josh Smith will be a very big weapon on offense for us this year, and Hopkins at the power forward and backup center is pretty nice, as well. They will both be gone next year, and not sure if Govan/hayes will come close to that. Definitely not worried about next year...just feel THIS year's team is stacked. The hope is that Sophomore Copeland/White and a freshman Derrickson are as big, if not bigger, an improvement at PF over freshman Copeland/White than the drop off from Smith/Hopkins to Govan/Hayes. Guess we'll see, but really, we're set up for two big years if Smith can step up this year and Govan can step up next year.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 10, 2014 9:40:39 GMT -5
I agree with Eastcoast that this "should" be a year of very high expectations. There is a lot of quality depth..for the first time in awhile. There is also skill, size, and athleticism up and down the lineup. Further, although I hope I am wrong...not sure who in the BE is all that strong (maybe Nova.) So, yeah...I agree the time is NOW. Obviously, the frosh will be better as sophs...but not sure with the way recruiting is going, that we will be as deep next year. Assuming DSR doesn't leave, we shouldn't lose too much depth. We lose Trawick, Bowen, Hopkins and Smith. Presumably sophomore Tre and Peak can cover Trawick and Bowen's minutes (Tre by shifting DSR to SG). Sophomore's Copeland, White and Derrickson should be able handle the 3/4 at least as well as Trawick / Hopkins handle the 3 & 4 respectively (if not better than Hopkins). The big question will be how big the drop off from Smith/Hopkins/Hayes to Govan/Hayes ends up being. That being said, we're still at least 9 deep next year. PG: DSR/Tre SG: Peak/DSR/Copeland SF: Copeland/White/Cameron PF: White/Copeland/Derrickson/Cameron C: Govan/Hayes
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 9, 2014 18:43:11 GMT -5
I don't see anything wrong with that tweet. Some of you are ridiculous. Agreed. People really are setting up the Dad as the scapegoat if PJ decides to go elsewhere. I don't see it--seems like college basketball would be better if more families (rather than AAU coaches) were involved in recruitment.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 6, 2014 18:02:33 GMT -5
Did we gain a lot of Hoyas? I know Dan Sullivan went to the Law School, and the Chair of Senate Energy is now a Hoya (Lisa Murkowski). Any other Hoyas make it to Congress this year?
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 5, 2014 10:22:51 GMT -5
Disagree. You know who else is a pretty solid guard? Your preseason BE POY. Very little chance he won't be back for his senior year. Not to mention that Tre will, by many accounts, be ready to go at PG day one of his sophomore year with PW able to play the 2. And LJ (hopefully) able to play the 2. And Isaac able to play pretty much anywhere other than the 1 (can probably play a bit of the 5 if we're going small). I agree that it's better to cover as many bases as possible but we're not in a position of being desperate. What happens in 2016-17 when DSR is gone Tas? Shouldn't it be in the back of the staffs mind that LJ may only be @ G'town 2 seasons? Imo the staff has to look beyond next season when assessing the roster.. Also shouldn't put all of eggs in one basket. Tre might not develop quick enough, he might not develop, or he could get hurt.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 4, 2014 10:01:40 GMT -5
Especially considering that Hardnett would likely have a year or two before he's called on to be a starter, I like getting a super quick guard that can finish but needs help shooting, as JT3 has shown he can improve players shooting.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 3, 2014 13:51:52 GMT -5
Awesome. I like that they are having the coaches come back through after all the visits. It allows for the visits to soak in, but not to lead to a rushed / poorly thought out commit due to a fun weekend. Also, not sure why people are jumping on the parents so much. It makes sense that a dad w/ D1 experience would be involved and that he'd want to keep his kid from getting overwhelmed with media requests or making an ass out of himself (he is a teenager, and therefore prone to such things) in interviews/on twitter/etc. (Similar to how, say, some schools don't let freshman talk to the media for a semester). And its nice seeing parents running the show instead of an AAU guy trying to make sure his runner is happy. It's a lot better than, say, having his own hashtag and a "mentor" setting up a random school for him to play basketball at. And announcements on ESPN? While not exactly heartening for our chances, based on past history, I'd bet most of the guys on our team would have announced on ESPN if they'd had the chance. I wouldn't say people are jumping on the parents. It was just me commenting on parents who involve themselves in the process more than they should. Based on experience it happens far to frequently. I did qualify it by saying it doesn't seem to be the case here. BG say they are cool so that's good enought for me. Fair enough. It's just seemed that people are laying the groundwork to blame the parents if Dozier doesn't come here, which seems unnecessary. A kid choosing to go elsewhere doesn't have to be influenced by nefarious forces--sometimes, he just prefers a different coach / school. And in this case, the Doziers seem to be doing a good job of helping their son make the right choice for him. Hopefully that's Georgetown.
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Post by TBird41 on Nov 3, 2014 12:10:59 GMT -5
Not so strange. He will have the info he needs, and wants to make a decision so that he does not have the recruiting distractions during his season. They have to make a choice at some point. A deadline can help. The Dozier family from what I hear has been great throughout the process and are really being careful they make the right decision for PJ. In-homes are being coordinated now....and yes, we are one of them. Awesome. I like that they are having the coaches come back through after all the visits. It allows for the visits to soak in, but not to lead to a rushed / poorly thought out commit due to a fun weekend. Also, not sure why people are jumping on the parents so much. It makes sense that a dad w/ D1 experience would be involved and that he'd want to keep his kid from getting overwhelmed with media requests or making an ass out of himself (he is a teenager, and therefore prone to such things) in interviews/on twitter/etc. (Similar to how, say, some schools don't let freshman talk to the media for a semester). And its nice seeing parents running the show instead of an AAU guy trying to make sure his runner is happy. It's a lot better than, say, having his own hashtag and a "mentor" setting up a random school for him to play basketball at. And announcements on ESPN? While not exactly heartening for our chances, based on past history, I'd bet most of the guys on our team would have announced on ESPN if they'd had the chance.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 30, 2014 15:09:19 GMT -5
That sounds like a fantastic idea. I can not think of any unintended consequences that could possibly occur as a result of allowing such lawsuits.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 28, 2014 9:45:45 GMT -5
I think it's a little bit unfair to call recruiting an "absolute disaster." Sure, if you want to focus on the summer only, then it wasn't great but that completely ignores our commitments from Derrickson and Govan, who will be important pieces to our future success. Also, we did get Dickerson, and I don't think it's the staff's fault he decided to decommit 2 weeks after visiting campus and saying he couldn't wait to be there the following year (that shows you how the 16 or 17 year old mind works). While I wanted Fall, I really don't think his loss is a huge deal. He likely would have been playing behind Govan anyway, so it's doubtful he would have seem meaningful minutes until 2016-2017 or beyond. If we can land another high quality big man in the class of 2016, suddenly Fall's loss isn't a big one. Really, we are only a quality guard away from having a really good class. If we get Dozier, great. If not, then we'll need to wait until the spring and see if anybody emerges or if anybody decommits and becomes interested in coming to Georgetown. The last 2 years have been one of the best recruiting stretches in recent times, when you consider the fact that we are no longer in a football conference, we actually require our players to go to class, our facilities are poor (until the TAC is built) and by March, it will have been nearly 8 years since we saw the second weekend of the NCAA tournament. For years, we all complained that the assistant coaches weren't doing enough on the recruiting trail - JT3 fixed that with great results. Now, it's time for the on-court performance to improve. The best way to get recruits is to win. Sure, there is a lot of shady stuff in the recruiting world, but the surefire way to win recruiting battles is to put a winning basketball team on the floor every single year, including the NCAA tournament. We have fallen short on that score in recent years, and now it's time to turn that around. If we do, recruits will come. Really, once the IAC is built, NCAA success will be the only missing piece w/r/t recruiting. That and a Hoya guard that goes in the lottery. We've already got the NBA draft results to attract high quality bigs and wings. Just need an NBA guard and some NCAA success.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 28, 2014 7:52:16 GMT -5
I am so confused right now. Did we just lose a recruiting battle to a team who was 13-18 last year with a 5th year coach? A team whose last post season appearance was in the CBI in 2011? What just happened?
[edit: looks like he chose to stay home. Understandable, I guess, but probably not the best decision basketball-wise]
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 26, 2014 20:23:05 GMT -5
Gtown doesn't want to end up like that Florida State team who had all of those bigs and did little in the tourney. Need guards, right? That being said, I'm a Tacko fan. Also, Skal is pretty good, but not Rabb good. Or Thon. There are three scholarships available for 2015. We could take Tacko and Skaal and still bring in a guard. And we should still have DSR, Peak and Tre for 2015 already.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 24, 2014 16:42:07 GMT -5
Probably depends on how confident - or not - the staff feels about Dozier. Although I guess taking Galen would not preclude Dozier, might just make it tighter for other targets. We've got at least two scholarships for 2016 (DSR & Hayes), possibly a third from Trey Mourning (not sure if he can relinquish his scholarship like Doug McDermott did, but it's possible) and it's probably pretty likely another opens up due to transfer or early entry. We have three open scholarships for 2015. Now that Rabb's cut us, we're pretty much down to 4 targets (Robinson, Dozier, Skaal and Tacko) that have any possibility of signing with us this fall, and waiting on a spring late bloomer, transfer or recruit that's reopened their commitment due to a coaching change or NCAA sanction (come on down UNC / SUCKS) seems like a risky gambit when we could use a point guard. So really, it's all about whether you think (1) Skaal is a realistic possibility and (2) whether you'd want to be able take Tacko if Skaal commits. Honestly, assuming Robinson is reasonable PG recruit, I'd rather get Robinson this weekend, take Dozier if we can get him, and then take either Skaal or Tacko. Dozier's probably the most important 2015 recruit for the program long term, since he's the most likely to be a lottery pick as a guard, which would be a big help in strengthening our biggest recruiting weakness--signing high level guards (Peak, obviously, could be a big help here too, though Dozier would presumably be a better example to trot out when recruiting point guards).
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 24, 2014 16:30:37 GMT -5
Do you think the problem is the recreational activity or the fact that he's participating in the recreational activity? I mean, since when is golf seen as effete? It's associated with rich people / the elite, but not manly? Since when? I mean, yes, obviously, in this instance the real target is the individual, not the activity. The activity is merely highlighted as a means to an end. Also relevant, to some extent, is the fact that Bush 43 made a thing of giving up golf because Iraq. So there is at least some school of thought out there that golf during wartime = unacceptable (no one bothered to tell the Zoomie brass who insist on having a golf course at every AFB), where presumably other pursuits like Segway-ridin', sports-watchin', and the aforementioned brush-clearin' are ok. It's also probably about the amount of time participating in said recreational activity / how often said recreational activity is done. But good effort trying to make it about whether people think golf is manly enough for Obama. Honestly, he should probably spend less time on the golf course and more time either working on his jump shot or learning how to throw a baseball, because he needs work on both. go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2013-04-01/obamas-hoops-two-for-22-so-much-for-home-court-advantage/
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 23, 2014 11:33:54 GMT -5
But that's the problem--the NCAA can adjudicate based on its manual, but what NCAA rule did UNC violate? Otherwise, it's the kind of subjective and punitive overreach so blatantly misused in the Penn State case. Joe Paterno violated no NCAA rule and this had wins taken away for no other reason that it looked to be "the right thing to do", though none of the players themselves were in violation of any NCAA action. Taken to its extreme, NCAA sanctions would become little more than a tool of societal outrage. I think it could be easily argued that UNC allowed academically ineligible players to play. Presumably, the NCAA would come down on UNC basketball the same way (if not harsher, since this involved so many other players) that it came down on Memphis because of Derrick Rose's SAT. Also, the Gophers lost their Final Four and scholarships b/c of an academic scholarship (the difference, of course, being that Clem Haskins wasn't smart enough to avoid being directly involved) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota_basketball_scandal#NCAA
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 23, 2014 9:02:19 GMT -5
All I'm saying is that I've counted at least 16 guards or guard like recruits (PG-SF) that have passed on GU. That's pretty alarming! I will admit I have high expectation and I also agree with shaking the bush to find quality recruits, but my patience is getting thin. We are the flagship of the Big East, we put quality players in the NBA but we also provide a quality education to fall back on. What is it about GU that is so unappealing? It’s frustrating but that’s just recruiting…. Even though this kid is under the radar a bit he looks very solid fwiw... Obviously I have no idea about this kid, but from what I've read over the past day or so, if he was from New York (or Philly) rather than Houston we'd be a lot more excited and talking about toughness / not having a kid from NYC since Sapp / needing a Trawick replacement. Of course, he'd likely have been on our radar a little earlier if that was the case. Still, that might be that East Coast bias seeping in. I'd bet DFW could go on a bit about that.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 22, 2014 14:22:28 GMT -5
I assume he's a a back-up plan for Dozier. Anyone have any idea if he's any good / a decent prospect? Who the competition is?
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 22, 2014 12:16:48 GMT -5
Tyler R. Tynes @tylerrickytynes 50m50 minutes ago Arcidiacono said that Darrun Hilliard not being named preseason Big East Player of the Year "kind of makes him mad" #BEmediaday Does he not like Pinkston? Why Hilliard? Also, DSR was a lot better individually than both of them last year. He was really efficient and a high usage player--he put up stats, but he did so without being a gunner--there's no reason to think he can't be even more effective as the offense becomes better, as he won't be forced into low percentage shots due to the quality of his teammates as often.
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 21, 2014 23:18:01 GMT -5
I agree with Andrew Exum: Apparently, we desire our presidents to only engage in super manly recreational pursuits, like clearing brush. No wonder Putin has so many admirers on the American right: he plays with tigers, rides horses barechested, wrestles bears with his bare hands, etc. No effete linksman, he! Do you think the problem is the recreational activity or the fact that he's participating in the recreational activity? I mean, since when is golf seen as effete? It's associated with rich people / the elite, but not manly? Since when?
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Post by TBird41 on Oct 16, 2014 15:43:31 GMT -5
He'd be the first RSCI top 25 guard since Austin Freeman. It'd be great if JT3 and the staff can lock him up this weekend.
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