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Post by TBird41 on Jun 6, 2014 9:09:57 GMT -5
I'm driving the Reggie Cameron bandwagon. Plenty of room for those that want to hop aboard. Kid is a pure shooter and is 6'7. We'll figure out a way to compensate for his relative lack of lateral quicks on D. He's going to see plenty of minutes in this upcoming season. Mark it down. I'm on board. I think he's going to turn into an incredibly valuable 6th man. I'm thinking he's going to turn into our version of Luke Hancock from L'Ville. Really excited to have a knock down 6'7 shooter on the team
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 5, 2014 22:48:56 GMT -5
That was stupid.
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 5, 2014 13:26:16 GMT -5
Given the timing of this game, I actually think New York might be a better venue. If this game was held in DC, two days after Christmas, I think there would probably be very few Hoyas fans in attendance. There would be no students there, and even while being at home, it wouldn't have a real home game feel. Thus, given the circumstances, I think the game will probably get better attendance at MSG than it would at the Verizon Center, so I have no real problem with it. The last four non-conference games in NYC: Indiana: 10,071 UCLA: 10,478 Texas: No attendance listed Michigan State: 12,561 I understand the staff wants to play in NYC, but as previously discussed, there are other options. The game would draw just as well at the United Center in Chicago. Of course, last year's game at Seton Hall likely didn't capture the attention of NYC, since it drew only 6,590 people.
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 5, 2014 9:23:12 GMT -5
Coach'll have no choice, they'll revolt In general, coaches don't change when recruits do. Fans reading these recruiting pages and expecting "Dunk City" are going to be disappointed. The lineup is still DSR, Trawick, Cameron, Hopkins, and Josh Smith, with Bowen as the first off the bench. Copeland and Campbell will see a little more time than people expect right now, Peak and White probably a little less. Mourning and Hayes, not sure. I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that Cameron is some kind of lock for the starting job. "Still" implies that he was a starter last year, not a guy that averaged 13 minutes per game, including playing less than 10 minutes in five of the team's last ten games (not including a DNP in the opening round NIT game). Bowen has a much better chance of starting at the 3 than Cameron does.
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 4, 2014 16:04:31 GMT -5
Playing an OOC at MSG every year would be a great way to keep the Big East/NYC imprint in the public eye during the regular season. If a combined 18 home games between St. John's and the Hall aren't keeping up the imprint, I'm not sure a game two days after Christmas and scheduled against ESPN's Pinstripe Bowl will garner any more or less buzz. I'm sure that games against New York City's College Team Seton Hall should be enough to keep the BE in the NYC public's eye. Nothing like a game in Newark to catch the attention of the movers and shakers in the Big Apple!
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 4, 2014 15:14:01 GMT -5
I think Rich is probably hoping this does not happen. Or maybe it just makes his job really easy. If he can't identify a player, just say Tre(y). Whereas Fox is, undoubtedly, hoping it does happen. Not that they seem to care much about getting names correct. "Two Campbell passes into Four Mourning, who kicks it out to Three Lowe, who pump fakes, passes it to Riveria in the corner, who is wide open for the trey! JT2 has gotta be happy about the passing on that one"
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 4, 2014 14:42:11 GMT -5
Probably don't want to charge any of the Taliban prisoners either
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 3, 2014 10:18:57 GMT -5
In fairness, we've also been discussing comic book TV shows. Don't screw up Constantine, NBC! Also, while Guardians of the Galaxy is from a comic book, I think it's really a Sci-Fi movie, like Star Wars, rather than a superhero movie, like the Avengers. (Also, I've heard some people say good things about Mom's Night Out. You could go see that). Jupiter Ascending and Edge of Tomorrow have potential as well.
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 3, 2014 10:03:10 GMT -5
So, with that in mind, JT3 should be lower than where he's ranked. Kevin Ollie should be number one. Coach K and Calipari? Well out of the top ten. At least they diversified the sample... all ESPN people. Very representative (as usual) of the CBB landscape. Why would Calipari be outside of the top ten? UK made the Finals this year. He's won the SEC regular season title and the SEC tournament twice and gone to 1 Elite 8, 1 Final Four, 1 Title Game Appearance and 1 Title in his five years at UK. Even his NIT season is excusable, since they lost their best player to a knee injury partway through the year. Is there any other coach with that kind of success in the past 5 years?
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 2, 2014 11:35:50 GMT -5
Tubby Smith and Bruce Weber are ranked ahead of him and the recency bias of that list is off the charts.
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Post by TBird41 on Jun 2, 2014 10:19:20 GMT -5
I'm for it. He's got some gravitas and I could see him doing crazy. Benicio del Toro as The Collector was a really good choice too. Agreed. I wonder how they're going to present Thanos though--some kind of motion capture, like Gollum? Is Brolin just doing the voice and Thanos will be entirely CGI?
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Post by TBird41 on May 30, 2014 13:03:05 GMT -5
Getting this guy could be the piece that beings it all together. A lineup of Ali, Peak, Copeland, Derrickson/Dickerson, and Govan would simply grown man every team they played. That's a lot of physicality for any college team to handle, added to the guys on the bench it could resemble the Hoyas of old. Can Ali play point guard (within our system)?
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Post by TBird41 on May 29, 2014 12:27:37 GMT -5
I am not sure I am buying all these one-and-done conspiracy theorists on this board. They are saying the same thing about Trier as well. Quite frankly, there is no way to predict how a player is going to perform first year in college. I haven't seen any real convincing evidence that these guys are going to bolt to the NBA, much less be ready for the NBA, after one year. Yes, of course, they would give us an incredible lift should we get two or three to commit. But to see them as one-and-done, to me, is a bit of a stretch. Furthermore, I would hope that anyone advising them, would encourage them to get at least two years under their belt. Porter had two years, remember? Porter was also not nearly has heralded coming out of high school as players like Rabb. That was partially because he didn't play AAU, and people only came to know him later on. However, Porter also made a huge jump between his freshman and sophomore seasons, which was not predictable. Porter played on an elite level, but I would say that only began during his sophomore year (he was very good in his freshman year, too, just not elite). You are right that one can never predict what will happen (many thought Kyle Anderson would be one and done, too), but the odds that someone like Rabb are the real deal are much higher. Generally, the top 5-10 guys are usually fairly safe one-and-done bets, especially if they have NBA size like Rabb. Once you go a little lower in rankings, it's a lot more unpredictable. At least 6 of the RSCI top 10 have gone pro after their freshman season in each of the last five years.
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Post by TBird41 on May 27, 2014 16:51:24 GMT -5
Strangely, one thing I think that helped our recruiting this year was our bad performance last year. Frequently, top quality recruits look to a quality program that has fallen off and figure that they, and some of their friends from AAU ball, can get credit for not just being great players but also for bringing the program back. Plus, any big man with an outside shot and moves to the basket and who watched us last year has to figure he could do better. Hop, Lubick and Moses definitely lowered the bar. I just hope these guys aren't so good they are one and done. I'd like to think they will make an effort to stay around and become part of the Georgetown family. That might be true in some cases, but all of the 2014 class (excluding Trey Mourning), along with Marcus Derrickson, committed prior to this last season (Derrickson committed in October 2013). They weren't coming to bring us back from missing the tournament, since we'd just won the Big East regular season and gotten a #2 seed in the tournament. And Govan and Noah aren't coming to get us back into the tournament--they want to play with the talent in the 2014 class, who, I assume (and they probably assume) will be tournament bound this upcoming year.
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Post by TBird41 on May 25, 2014 16:24:52 GMT -5
Agreed. One of the Quicksilver scenes was a highlight of the film. I also really liked some of the new "future" characters. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are two of my favorite characters in all of Marvel. I thought the Quicksilver scenes in X-Men were great, but really looking forward to seeing them both together. On that note, anyone know how Marvel Pictures pulled off being able to include them in Avengers 2? I thought mutants were verboten in the MCU because Fox owned them. You can't make them not mutants. Also, Apocalypse is one of my favorite villains, so...yay. Not that it was much of a secret. I think that, since Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are so connected to both X-Men and the Avengers, making it really hard to determine who should get their rights,, Fox and Marvel ended up agreeing that both companies could use them, but Marvel can't reference any of their mutant history, so they won't be mutants in the Avengers they'll be something else.
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Post by TBird41 on May 24, 2014 10:52:49 GMT -5
Handing out playing time could be III's most difficult problem. Agreed, but man is that a better problem to have when its b/c of too many good players, rather than too few
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Post by TBird41 on May 23, 2014 14:21:24 GMT -5
This doesn't make sense at all, since nothing can ever happen that would prevent one of our centers from playing.
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Post by TBird41 on May 22, 2014 15:28:18 GMT -5
How did this thread morph into a Paul White vs. Kyle Anderson discussion?? Good old HoyaTalk. How else are we going to get the page count up A good old fashioned slap fight involving advanced stats
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Post by TBird41 on May 21, 2014 21:43:59 GMT -5
In the interest of keeping thread going, can we please discuss the two opposing trajectories that DC (or at least Warner Pictures) and Marvel (or at least Marvel Pictures, and maybe, maybe Fox...certainly not Sony) are taking for their cinematic future? Now that Christopher Nolan is gone, does anyone have ANY confidence in the future of DC-based films? (And forget about Bat-fleck for a moment; he'll actually probably be OK. But Jessie Eisenberg as Lex Luthor? What, Michael Cera wasn't available?) I mean David Goyer has been a big part of comic book movies in the past. I get that. And he worked with Nolan a lot. But he is now basically openly scornful and disdainful of all comic book characters as well as their fans. And they are putting pretty much their whole future in his hands. I was always a much bigger Marvel fan anyway, so it doesn't really bother me. But it does kind of suck to have nothing promising coming up from the other side. Not even Sandman, if that ever happens. Feel free to disagree and/or discuss.... I have no confidence in the DC movies being any good. I don't think Warner gets any of the characters, are just going to attempt to make them all feel like they were in the Dark Knight /are gritty like Batman. Man of Steel was a weird movie, in that it ignored a lot of what is important about Superman--a useful contrast is how Marvel has handled Captain America, a character with a very similar moral code / All-American vibe.
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Post by TBird41 on May 21, 2014 17:00:07 GMT -5
With Govan and Dickerson in the fold, and with the Hoyas apparently in it until the end with Rabb, I would think we wait as long as it takes for Ivan. There's an interesting question--let's say we're in serious contention with Rabb (i.e. our hat's going to be on the table)--would we take a commitment from Skal or Chance Comanche, presumably ending our recruitment of Rabb? I assume we're going to stay on both at this point.
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