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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 18, 2024 12:23:57 GMT -5
Toibu Lawal of VCU just hit the portal. Watched him a ton this year. 6'8" with 49" vertical. Dunks anything near rim and great weak side shot blocker.
Curious what those who unlike me know how to evaluate talent think.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 17, 2024 19:28:31 GMT -5
Welcome Malik!!!
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 22:31:13 GMT -5
Makes sense. Don't wanna lose Drew so hopefully Ed has him locked in with the plan.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 22:23:09 GMT -5
Yeah was curious about Peavy w Styles. Dontrez for buckets and Peavy to lock up? May help Dontrez lock in on what he is good at?
Most intrigued by Drew. I think he is gonna make a jump and earn good minutes on an improved team.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 22:15:52 GMT -5
Saw the boxscore. For those who watched - 7 TOs? How many of the bad variety?
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 22:13:19 GMT -5
This is interesting as Primo Spears used to play for the Hoyas and is transferring for the 4th time. Options appear to include a reunion with Brandon Murray at Ole Miss as well as Big East rivals St. John's and Providence. Predicting that Primo will keep the streak of a different team every year until he hangs it up.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 21:57:56 GMT -5
Yeah. Just like Sibley. They guy who played 3 minutes a game for Ewing and then went to UTEP and Southern Utah? I'm sure Peavy is just like Sibley. That wasn't the reference. Sibley was a Top 100 recruit in the 2020-21 class, on his third school, now averages 9.6 ppg. Peavy was also Top 100 that year. That isn't what you wrote though. And you are still comparing what Sibley did last year on a bad team to what Peavy did on a bubble team.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Apr 13, 2024 21:36:22 GMT -5
Excellent news. Welcome to Micah Peavy. I have really wanted to get someone to bolster our defense. This is a great start. Having only seen limited experience with his play at TCU, what's the play here? Peavy is a lot like the former Jamari Sibley - great rep out of HS, can rebound and play defense, but doesn't shoot well from outside. In three years with the Horned Frogs, he averaged 8.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, and scored six points against GU last season. Would he play small forward? Yeah. Just like Sibley. They guy who played 3 minutes a game for Ewing and then went to UTEP and Southern Utah? I'm sure Peavy is just like Sibley.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 3, 2024 9:46:38 GMT -5
You are not going to win games when the other team gets to the line 24 more times than you do. I was at the game. The refs took over the game and totally changed the momentum we had. Xavier repeatedly drove into several defenders and got every call. At the other end we got hammered driving the lane and got no calls. We did not change the way we played defense in the second half, the refs changed the calls and we could not play defense without being called for fouls. And the calls were totally different at the other end. We outplayed Xavier in EVERY aspect of the game except one - 46 free throws for Xavier and 22 for Georgetown. You cannot win when the other team is given that advantage. And, has been discussed multiple times in Hoya Talk, when the refs change the way they are making calls during the game. This game was not lost, it was taken away from us. The age old lament of the loser. No amount of refereeing excuses this type of collapse. Exactly. Find a way to win.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 23:40:52 GMT -5
I agree that Cooley deserves a pass this year. But that being said I do have two questions for him. Why didn’t you play Brumbaugh more in our OOC games? And How bad is Motumbo that he didn’t deserve more minutes that Massoud? It’s obvious that Rowan has a huge ceiling and playing him more will allow him to reach his full potential sooner either this year or next. And knowing how bad our defense in the paint is did you really think we could beat any BE team other than De Paul without Ryan playing at least 10 minutes per game? Armchair observations from someone with very little appreciation for xs and os: Ryan - seems like a nice kid but his HS ranking was probably inflated but if he went somewhere else the dozens of people on the Board would have exploded. Rowan - I agree he knows how to be a true PG. He is very savvy and his stroke from 3 is better than I expected but he is a half a step slow on D.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 23:14:15 GMT -5
A tale of two halves! At least we scored 90+. I think that’s the first time this year!? Nope. 91 v. X on the road. Saw that one in person. Also Lemoyne I think but their 1st D1 game.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 23:08:24 GMT -5
We started running two men at Claude once they caught all the way up. Xavier still scored on pretty much every possession, but at least they had to do a little more than just have someone dribble right to the rim and hit a layup or get fouled! I would not be surprised if the Xavier "points per possession" number in the second half broke some kind of NCAA record. They had to be well above 1.5 points per possession, which is unimaginably horrific. The second half was not played at an especially fast pace. and they still put up over 60 points. It was easily the worst half of defense that I have seen in my 45 years of closely following college basketball. I can't even begin to figure out who is to blame. When things get that awful, everyone involved in the program is to blame. it's too bad, because we played our best offensive half of the season in the first half. there was actual ball movement and good shots. Epps played the way he has to play to be effective in the first half - under control, passing rather than forcing difficult shots, attacking when the right opportunity arose. But that second half defense was indescribably bad. When Claude went right to the rim on the first possession of the second half, I knew the game was over. Once a team realizes that simply attacking the rim off the dribble is a guaranteed basket/foul almost every time, our D has no chance to stop anybody. It is actually kind of shocking that every team has not done this on every possession all season. It is not hard to figure out, just watch 15 minutes of video of our D and it becomes blatantly obvious. I survived the Ewing years, so I know I can survive whatever the Cooley years become. I am still hopeful (though far from optimistic) that the incoming freshmen plus 2 or 3 high quality transfers will make us a competitive team next year. And that's all I want for next season. Just be competitive. No 20 point halftime deficits. No 60 point defensive halves. Top 100 defensive rating/overall rating on KenPom. A record within a few games of .500 in the conference, a game or two over .500 for the season. Some prayer of going to the NIT. My hopes have been so beaten down that this is all i want now - not to be the laughing stock of the conference/nation. Maybe we can get to this level next year, maybe beyond this to some slim hope of making the NCAA tournament within a couple of years. But after that second half today - this is all just stuff I hope for. I don't expect any of it - there are zero expectations, just as there were during the last two Ewing seasons. I had some slight expectations going into this season, but I'm back to expecting nothing, and just hoping for the most modest of progress next year. This is pretty much where I am with a touch more optimism perhaps for next year. The defense is absolutely shocking.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 23:05:04 GMT -5
Do you seriously feel like he had a chance to coach the team he wanted to coach based on his hire date?
Yes or no?
He has underperformed IMO but lets at least be objective about it.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:59:41 GMT -5
So he had a full recruiting year before he coached his first game? I know you have an agenda but please be better than that. Kind of embarrassing.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:40:31 GMT -5
He gets a mulligan this year. Cobbled together whatever he could with zero time. So far incredibly disappointed in ending Hall on road, X times 2 at minimum. Thought we would win those games on x and o and schema based on rep.
Still giving him a pass with the horrific defenders he inherited and others he perhaps begged to come. Next year will be the barometer for me.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:30:31 GMT -5
46 FT attempts on 27 fouls. Seems like a lot. Not blaming the refs BTW. Just seems hard to do that.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:23:01 GMT -5
The adjust comment is for both Fielder and Cooley.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:22:01 GMT -5
Pass.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:20:57 GMT -5
claude is a 40% shooter and he was 13-18 tonight They were mostly layups Seriously. Guess we should call him Desmond Jordan after tonight. If we have no answer to Desmond Claude we might as well end it.
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Post by FHillsNYHoya on Mar 2, 2024 22:17:18 GMT -5
Looking for good news… Fielder has the best 3FG% on the team of regulars at over 37% Can't stay on the court. Constantly fouling. Like him but adjust.
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