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Post by RockawayHoya on Mar 13, 2023 13:58:00 GMT -5
I've tried to stay out of the coaching discussion until now, simply because I don't see a lot of value getting worked up over unsubstantiated rumors and any time anybody with a Twitter fires off an opinion. But I do think a select few scenarios are starting to emerge, and I do think the upcoming March Madness timeline gives you a pretty good indication of when we'll hear something.
Game 1: Penn St. v. Texas A&M (Thurs. 9pm)
I haven't seen anything that indicates an open dialogue between Shrewsberry and GU to date. But I do think he's a clear #2/#3 choice for our leadership at the moment, as he's the one unique candidate that checks off the boxes of being both a diversity hire and completely disconnected from the Thompson lineage. I can't begin to guess as to whether or not he's got something else (ND? PSU extension?) lined up, but I would suspect you'd hear something from him fairly soon one way or another after PSU is eliminated. So, perhaps as early as late Thurs. night / Fri. morning. Would he wait to see how the dust settles on the Georgetown situation? I'm not sure.
Game 2: Iona v. UConn (Fri. 3:30pm)
Here's the kicker. Assuming Iona loses this game, I think you will very clearly see whether or not Pitino had any genuine interest in GU. If he signs with SJU minutes after the Iona game ends, then one of two things have definitely occurred. Either his reps were told flat out well in advance, "Georgetown will never hire you, go kick rocks" or Pitino never had any intention of moving once it became apparent he had a feasible situation to return to major conference basketball without leaving NY. HOWEVER, if Pitino waits for Cooley to make a move first before deciding on SJU, I do think there is still a chance to have a conversation with him if Cooley says no. It would mean we haven't closed the door on him and likely just decided not to talk to him until after Cooley made a decision. I'm guessing that GU leadership is being sensitive towards maintaining the optics that they are prioritizing Cooley that they don't even want to appear to be courting other candidates until he's made a decision.
Game 3: Providence v. Kentucky (Fri. 6pm)
Let's assume that Cooley is the guy Supreme Dictator Degioia and friends have zeroed in on "for weeks." And assume that it's the godfather deal ($5-6M/year, top 3-4 nationally) that would be required to convince Cooley to leave everything he's ever known at Providence and take on a ground zero rebuild. Cooley would have to know that this is the best deal he's ever going to get compensation-wise for the rest of his career and likely his best opportunity at moving up (there won't be any blue bloods ever dialing him up and I don't think he'd do well at a big state school that can just Edited away football money). My guess is that he's had enough time to privately make a decision and provide one to Georgetown pretty quickly after Providence is out of the tournament. So unless they win, that answer likely comes as early as Friday night / Saturday morning.
What definitely complicates things is that if any of these 3 teams win their opener, it becomes a question of who will be willing to wait and who won't. I do think a worst case scenario has PSU/Iona losing and Providence winning. If Shrewsberry/Pitino make their decisions early and we still haven't gotten a commitment from Cooley, there is significant risk that we will be left picking from the bottom of the barrel if Cooley has a change of heart.
Although I don't agree with it, I at least understand the strategy that GU admin is likely trying to employ. I just hope their supposed high level of confidence is justified, because it's certainly risky for the reasons I mentioned above. If you're a fan of GU, root hard for an early Providence exit so we can get some clarity ASAP.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 25, 2023 17:16:52 GMT -5
My favorite play of the season, by far - was the back pick Primo set for Akok at the foul line. With Wahab up at the foul line on the other side of the lane, Primo's good screen freed up Akok to catch a pass on the move to the hoop for an easy basket It was an actual basketball play! I honestly cannot recall one other such play this season, at least one that was successful. It has all been Pick/Roll, drive and shoot/kick (usually shoot!), post ups, and baseline out of bounds plays that free tip 15 foot mid range jumpers. Why we run plays designed to get 15 foot jump shots is a good question, but the play does work sometimes. But the only real play, designed to produce an open shot at the rim through player and ball movement - was this back screen play last night. The other question - why would Wahab's man possibly follow him out to the foul line, rather than lay back in the lane to help defend the exact kind of play we ran? If Wahab could shoot - sure, his man comes out to guard him. But there is zero reason to come up on Wahab there. If he gets the ball - let him shoot the wide open foul line jumper, that is exactly the kind of shot the opponent should want us to take. Most teams try to run plays like this on pretty much every possession. We have executed such a play successfully once all season, at least that I can recall. I wonder what got into Ewing to inspire running this play last night? It's not like we ran many other real plays. Our offense was the same as it always is last night, outside of this one almost stunning exception. Im sure if you looked off the ball there is secondary action akin to this at least at times. But we run it so haphazardly and the guy with the ball (whoever it is) is so ball dominant they it never goes anywhere. The other thing that occurred to me last night is how often Primo gets a screen and ends up with a switch and then they re-screen and his original defender is on him. I realized last night that he doesnt want the big on him because it's harder to get his shot off. If I'm right and if that's the case, why are we doing it? Exactly right, and this again goes back to scouting and preparation. Who is the greatest mismatch on the other team that I can exploit defensively? And how do I get my best player(s) in a position to take advantage? I don't think there is much thought given by the staff to figure out the answers to these questions. It's just, I want Primo with the ball... big, go set a screen for him. And then whatever happens, happens. I trust him to make the best decision because well... the other option I like is forcing it down to black hole Q, so it's one of those two. Conversely, how do other teams want to attack us? And how do we avoid being put in bad situations where guys we don't want shooting the ball are getting it in spots that are advantageous for them? Again, not a whole lot of thought being put there either, as far as I can tell.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 25, 2023 10:47:15 GMT -5
I said I wasn't going to post until Ewing was fired, but I actually made sure to watch this game in full as it felt like the best chance for the streak breaker. So lets do some actual old school game recap stuff: - For me the takeaway was Jordan Riley's impact on the game. He was credited with two steals, but also caused two other turnovers by fighting through dribble hand offs to get moving screen calls. He was able to drive and get to the basket and either convert or draw fouls (Free throw shooting aside). We built the lead up with him on the court, and let 9 get back to 1 while he was out and we reverted to settling for jumpers. And then re-established the lead when he was back on the court. The fact that he was buried early in the year was criminal but glad to see him stay engaged and impact the game
- Akok is the other obvious standout. The team actually ran *gasp* off ball screen action to get him some good touches going to the basket. One was a nice cross screen to get him a touch on the block. The other was a nice cut from the top of the key with a back screen from Primo and a lift from Q to vacate. I think it adds to the frustration that these types of actions were always available, but was nice to see them executed. Our attempt at continuity ball screen action? Less so.
- We played our better defenders and our defense was...better? Riley and Bristol getting more minutes than Mozone is almost too logical to work for a team that struggles with defense. 1.09 ppp isn't going to win any medals but its better than what we've done recently.
- There's been a lot of chatter about Primo long 2s...but has anyone actually done the math lately. Primo has shot 46% on longs 2s (very good for long 2s) so that's .92 points per shot. That also makes the breakeven 3 point FG % to be better than that at 30.6%. Want to guess what our season long 3 point shooting is? 31.4%, well within a margin for error where it's indifferent imo. But that includes Heath's 38% (not to mention Murray's 36% so in the Xavier game neither of those guys played). Guys shooting less than or basically same to 30.6% from 3: Primo, Akok, Anglin, Riley, Mozone. So maybe Primo's 2's aren't that crazy for this team given he can create them at will and the 3s are tougher to generate. Just a thought
- Did we get the benefit of the whistle last night? Sure. Does DePaul normally foul a lot (287th in free throw rate)? Yes. Did Tim Donaghy ref last night? No. Did the vegas spread move in hoyas favor? No. Should Ewing still be fired? Yes. Should I stop writing rhetorical questions to make my point? Probably
Hoya Saxa
Great writeup and agree with everything you've said. Couple additional quick thoughts: Really happy for the players. You could see the emotional toll it was taking on the players, even if largely an entirely new group from last year. No one wants to be associated with historical marks for futility, so glad it's over and done with and they can move on with the rest of the season without it continuing to come up in pressers, the media, etc. Agree with RHW that there was considerably less me-first / my-turn play on the offensive end last night. Looked a lot less selfish out there and the shot selection overall was far better than we've seen for most of the year. Last night may have created some trust amongst the players on the offensive end that we've not seen to date. Hoyas repeatedly shot themselves in the foot by losing Gibson in transition (both off misses and turnovers), which is kind of hard to believe considering he had 31 in the first game and lit us up from deep then too. Huge scouting report and preparation fail IMO, which is even more inexcusable since you just saw it 4 weeks ago. We did a better job of it later in the game, but still to allow it as much as it happened in the first place is a primary reason why this team consistently struggles. That graphic showing us at 30% FG and 10% 3PT in the final 8 minutes of conference games is a clear indication of tired legs and not buying enough minutes with the bench during the course of the game. Some guys looked a little fresher towards the end last night. Need to continue leveraging the bench and calling smarter timeouts (and not of the dumb variety to break up 4-0 runs) to steal minutes where possible. Do I have a whole lot of faith this will happen? Not really. But you'd hope that someone makes the staff aware of those stats so that they realize how much damage they are doing by riding the starters to exhaustion every night. Then again, did we look fresher down the stretch because of a more reasonable minutes distribution, or was it because our guys saw some shots finally fall in crunch time? We have a couple of guys who are notorious for allowing their offensive woes impact their defensive intensity and effort. You could see the energy level pick up when we saw a couple of shots go down, which is good. But it can't be acceptable to allow that to drop when shots aren't falling. End-of-game execution. 6 missed FTs (none of them 1 and 1) in the final 2 minutes of the game will usually come back to haunt you. Luckily it didn't. And I think we can scrap that football style inbounds play; its on the opposing teams' radar and isn't fooling anybody at this point. So yes, happy with the result for the players. But still a long way to go to iron out existing issues on a number of fronts, and unlikely they will be.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 23, 2023 13:06:55 GMT -5
Obviously not posting nearly as much as I normally do mainly because in my view, there's not much value in repeatedly pointing out the obvious and that nothing is being done on a number of fronts to improve. But I did have two things from the weekend that came to mind.
First, outside of a career game from Spears, that was another woeful overall performance from us on Saturday. Not surprising. Also not surprising, but probably even more worrisome, was Ewing's blatant instruction from one of the live-look in huddles that we needed to "stop taking bad 3s and take more good 2s." If you're wondering why our guys pass up lightly contested 3s for open 18 footers they aren't making a high percentage of anyways, look no further. We've known for quite some time now that from a coaching perspective, this staff is a lost cause. But it's still damn infuriating to see our players literally get incorrect instructions during a timeout. They deserve better.
Second, there were a lot of similarities drawn in the past few years on this board with the respective downfalls of the New York Giants and our Hoyas. Both proud franchises/programs with previous success but severely hamstrung in recent times by stubborn leadership and a refusal to hold anyone accountable for failure. Well, we've seen now what one of those two teams can accomplish simply by being willing to go back to the drawing board, starting from scratch, hiring and enabling a good coaching staff and front office, and letting people do the jobs that they were brought in to do.
An immediate turnaround and competing for a championship was never in the cards for this year. But by changing the culture, instilling confidence, focusing on the fundamentals, figuring out how to quickly build a cohesive unit while integrating a substantial number of new players in a short period of time, and most importantly putting the players in the best possible situation to succeed... that's how the Giants went from 4 to 9 wins and a road playoff victory in the span of a season despite arguably a downgrade in overall talent. There was a willingness by the Maras to say, we screwed this up and we've been screwing it up for quite a while, but now we are going to be serious about fixing this moving forward.
Not seeing how the above couldn't apply to the Hoyas next season. But the onus is on Jack to be willing to say, I screwed this up and I need to fix it the right way. And if he doesn't... well you can't fire an owner, but a president should not be immune.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Dec 16, 2022 15:04:06 GMT -5
Sad to hear this news. It is fairly evident reading all the tributes and messages on social media from former Hoya players, parents, prospects, colleagues, etc. that he was very well respected by many. He will be missed.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Dec 16, 2022 10:50:07 GMT -5
The following comment isn't meant to be tongue-in-cheek at all.
How do you force out a dictator?
Dictators consolidate power over time by surrounding themselves with people they can control. Dictators will do whatever it takes to remain in power, even if it means making unpopular and/or harmful decisions that aren't in the best interest of the people they serve (or is preside over in this instance?). They make sure that any challenge to their power will be quashed and met with some type of consequence. And that's just the nature of any coup; you can't have a revolution without shedding some blood.
There is a laundry list of grievances that I won't go into detail here. The state of the basketball program is just one of them.
I'm sure there's a lot of people that would like to speak up and voice displeasure. People in high places, people in low places. But I'm legitimately asking, what do you need to do to force out a dictator? Because that's what we have here, not a "university president." And I'm afraid the problem facing the program won't be solved by simply replacing the current staff.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Dec 14, 2022 16:16:06 GMT -5
appreciate the kind words. I used to write recaps of each game but I really can't stomach that at this point. If there's a particular topic you or other posters would like to focus on, feel free to send out the bat signal and I'll do my best. I know you did. I’d usually sift through all the noise to get to your recap. You and RockawayHoya. Not sure if he’s still writing them or if he’s basically thrown in the towel too. Don’t blame you for not writing them anymore. I basically stopped watching the games and reading the game threads. Until the decision is made to gut the program and rebuild from scratch, it’s hardly worth it for you or I or anyone really to devote any time to this flaming trash barge. I’d rather spend the time with my kids. I am still around; was out of country on vacation for the better part of the last 2 weeks and work has been crazy. If being abroad saved me from having to waste 2 hours watching whatever it was that happened Saturday, it was worth every dime. Agree 100% with rhw485 that your #1 focus has to be: what are we going to take away on the defensive end? You can't be awful at both giving up shots at the rim and from 3... take one away and live with the other. I would much rather see Q get abused in the post in single coverage vs. giving the other team 30+ lightly contested or open 3pt attempts. The math speaks for itself. The other thing I'd like to see is some understanding of opposing personnel. What is it that the other team likes to do? How can we take it away? The staff almost always seem surprised when some rando goes off against us when our penchant for overhelping leaves that guy open. A quick glance at a team's stat sheet should help you figure it out. And it's even less excusable for conference opponents who you've already seen 2-3x a season. With the proper defensive scheme in place and someone who can both properly motivate from an effort standpoint and educate from a player development standpoint, count me in the camp that thinks the current roster could be in a lot better position. None of that is there at this point.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Dec 3, 2022 14:34:31 GMT -5
I would love to be 22-10 on Selection Sunday with 15 crappy wins and a SOS in the 300s so that the Selection Committee chair details why we were snubbed out of a bid. Would LOVE it. Unfortunately, we are so far from that right now that any talk about schedule difficulty is meaningless. It is a monumental struggle to beat just about anybody at this point. There is literally no game on the current schedule, conference or OOC, that I can point to right now and say, yep we're definitely winning that game. Terrifying position to be in. We will kill South Carolina. Could be a Green Bay-style beatdown. The Gamecocks just lost by 24 to GW. I also think there are plenty of winnable games in the Big East. DePaul currently in OT against Stamford and Providence was destroyed by TCU tonight. We should also beat Siena and Syracuse without much problem. I stand by my original statement.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Nov 30, 2022 23:12:52 GMT -5
I would love to be 22-10 on Selection Sunday with 15 crappy wins and a SOS in the 300s so that the Selection Committee chair details why we were snubbed out of a bid. Would LOVE it.
Unfortunately, we are so far from that right now that any talk about schedule difficulty is meaningless. It is a monumental struggle to beat just about anybody at this point. There is literally no game on the current schedule, conference or OOC, that I can point to right now and say, yep we're definitely winning that game. Terrifying position to be in.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Nov 30, 2022 23:05:40 GMT -5
Give a lot of credit to Ezewiro coming in and giving us some positive energy on both ends of the floor. That coinciding with a short hot streak by Good Primo got us back in the game. But man, if the ceiling to get frontcourt minutes is to simply play hard on both ends of the floor, what the hell is Q doing? Akok didn't have a good game by any means, but at least the effort was there. Q has a lot of soul searching to do at this point. Do we want to Editeding play basketball this year, or is it time to pack up the bags and earn a living take up space in some Eastern European paint? At this point, I'm tired of talking about playing with pride.
Liked what Mozone brought tonight. Something to be said for hitting open shots and shooting with confidence when in rhythm.
Our backcourt runs so hot and cold, it's maddening. But regardless of how many points they put up, their success will be defined by their ball security. 13 turnovers between Murray, Spears and Heath is just not going to cut it. The traditional Hail Mary press down double digits actually worked tonight and both sped up TTU and forced some turnovers, but if you're still basically even in the TO column after forcing 19 of your own, that's not good enough.
41-23 on the boards. Batcho absolutely gouged our frontcourt. It's one thing to die by the 3 as we often do, but the game wasn't lost there tonight. It's about doing the dirty work necessary to earn extra possessions and not be forced to shoot 55-60% from the field to win. Akok not a great matchup for someone with the size and strength of Batcho, but again Q can't show up for light cardio for us to have a chance to beat a good team.
At this point, I'm not looking for signature wins. It's nearly 1/3rd of the way through the season. Staff needs to figure out a rotation that works and where people know their roles by now. The constant strategy of throwing whatever you can against a wall and seeing what sticks and then riding with that group until total exhaustion is not a viable strategy. By now, they should have an idea of who can contribute and who can't and what combinations are more effective than others. That they can't even accomplish that has been and remains a massive failure.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Nov 15, 2022 22:34:33 GMT -5
Very disappointing loss, more than just the result. I will readily admit there will be be some growing pains as the guys continue to adapt and adjust to each other. There's something to be said for familiarity and playing together, and you can chalk up some mistakes to not having those things. Fine.
But the reasons we lost tonight were not those things at all. Effort, fundamentals, and basic scheme: all things that don't require guys to play together for 4 years to expect to see on the floor. The next time Brandon Murray sulks and literally STOPS PLAYING after the next miss, I want his ass on the bench until it gets through to him that it's not acceptable. The complete disinterest in playing defense after things don't go your way on offense. Sorry, but the switch can't just turn off every time you miss a shot. Aminu had plenty of 2 for 13 type games but at least I could count on him to give a crap on the defensive end and keep trying. It needs to be made crystal clear that effort and not talent rules the day and earns you PT and keeps you on the floor.
And Q... if the ability to catch an entry pass and either face up or take one dribble before going up strong without traveling is too much to ask of a 4th year player, then what have we been doing the last few years? Him and the frontline just got their lunch taken away by schoolyard bully Nicholson (he of the robust 1.8 PPG, 1.3 RPG averages last year) all evening. It was just sad seeing them get out-efforted and out-muscled by a far less skilled player that just happened to be doing nothing but playing hard.
Agree with everyone that the 3 point defense remains unchanged... it's just still monumentally bad. Just such poor fundamentals on closeouts (how many time did guys just not even put a hand up?). Too many guys consistently out of position with unnecessary helps and the inability to recover. And probably just as alarming, little to no effort (pride?) in staying in front of your man and just allow blow-by after blow-by when perimeter defenders stay at home. Really had hoped that the new coaches would have been able to help at least a little bit in this regard, but I've seen nothing to date that would suggest there's either a change in philosophy or that we've upgraded anything on defense outside of Akok's rim protection. Whatever shot blocking Q provides is negated by him being out of position 80-90% of time. And to get beat like a drum on the glass by a team like that (-17!!!) is shameful.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Nov 8, 2022 23:25:45 GMT -5
Made it a point to reserve comment until we got a first real data point. It'll be difficult for most people, myself included, to not overreact but there was a lot to unpack here.
In a vacuum, we definitely upgraded in a couple of key spots. For all of the frustrations with foul prone Q and his continued unwillingness to pass out of the post, 11 and 11 is not anything close to what we were getting out of Tim/Malcom/Wilson last year. Akok was the best player on the floor IMO tonight and a giant plus at the 4 compared to Rice/Holloway. And if in fact Dante's return ends up not happening, it's not hard to see why. Spears will be a polarizing figure all year; the ability to finish at the rim with regularity and hit the midrange is not something we got consistently from the PG spot last year. But ball security has to improve both at the PG position and across the board or our ceiling isn't going to get much higher. Was also pleasantly surprised with Mozone; far less of a gunner than Rice (who isn't) but more importantly the rebounding and shooting efficiency should at least improve. Will be interested to see if that translates as the competition improves.
Murray came in as advertised. Aggressive and confident, able to impact a game with his activity. Being asked to do a lot more than he did last year at LSU and it remains to be seen if he can do it efficiently without the turnovers, which he didn't do tonight. But anytime you can add a guy who can create for himself when needed, it's definitely not a bad thing. Decent game with room to improve based on tonight's performance.
On the negative side, still a lot left to be desired. You can blame slow defensive rotations, overhelping, not recognizing shooters on a bunch of new guys not having gelled yet. But you could also pin it on a defensive system that still relies on principles / preparation to allow those things to happen. Time will tell which it is. And that end game execution... yeesh. Kudos to I would think the new staff for unveiling a new inbounds play towards the end of regulation. But you have to know who you want to inbound to. Drawing up an inbounds to go to Murray vs. Spears (who is the better FT shooter and had already hit several in a row down the stretch) proved to be almost very costly. Freezing your own FT shooter by calling a timeout between the first and second FT... even worse? And then not fouling up 3 and allowing 2 open looks to tie the game... let's just say I didn't come away from that sequence with any sense of increased confidence that our revamped staff will equate to better in-game strategy on gamedays.
Need one of Bristol, Anglin, or Riley to really emerge and solidify that 6th man role. IMO Bristol didn't really do anything for me in terms of adding anything with his minutes. Can't evaluate Anglin or Riley off the token minutes but did like Denver's drawn charge and Riley's late block. Don't blame the Coppin kid Steers for getting a little Editeded with some extra after the whistle stuff from Riley, but you also can't peg a guy. Riley needs to stay away from those; in a closer game, that could be costly. Good leadership from Mozone for diffusing that quick.
A win is a win, and it's been way too long since the last one so this was an important one to get. Think there is room for improvement, but the major takeaway I took from this game is that this new staff still needs to figure out how to put its players in the best position to succeed. Would have liked to see much better improvement in that department vs. what we've seen the last few years, and that didn't show tonight.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jul 18, 2022 14:25:40 GMT -5
This is obviously a great get. Very much appreciate getting the work done and closing on a top target early as opposed to settling for plan C/D/E/no plan in late spring like we have been in recent years. Nickelberry paying immediate dividends and there may be more on the horizon for '23, so definitely exciting times and cause for optimism right now.
Just hope the player development and in-game coaching have a similar uptick to recruiting moving forward with the revamped staff so that we can be truly on the up and up by the time Allen hits campus.
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Post by RockawayHoya on May 24, 2022 10:41:36 GMT -5
First off, congrats to the staff for significantly upgrading the 5 from where it was last year. It could not have been easy given how badly burned the bridges appeared to be at one point. Glad to see that both sides came to the realization that they are better together than apart. That being said, HH's article does shed some light on one particular issue that may have caused the relationship to break in the first place. And it is particularly damning. In talking to those that know him, Wahab never felt truly comfortable at Georgetown, both on and off the court. While his relationship with Ewing wasn’t bad by any means, Wahab was disappointed at times in what he felt was a lack of individual coaching from Ewing outside of regular team practices.
In Wahab’s mind, he envisioned a tighter bond with Ewing in which more individualized attention was given to him to help him improve his game as a center for Georgetown. He didn’t feel he got that attention, and that was a source of mild discomfort for Wahab that contributed to him leaving Georgetown.I'm not going to pretend if I know if it was a bandwidth issue, COVID, effort on the part of the coaching staff, proactiveness on the part of the player, etc. But I do know that if we are going to continue to market ourselves as Big Man U, the head coach better damn well provide individualized attention to the big men, especially the starter. And that should be happening without the player explicitly asking for it, because for big men it's got to rank among the top reasons why they even choose to attend GU in the first place. We get a rare second chance here to right a wrong, and it better start happening ASAP.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 21, 2022 12:08:40 GMT -5
Yes please, can we correct the name of the thread?
Tremendous news. Was hoping for the Nickelberry/Brooks combo from the outset. Really had hoped they would have announced it last night at the banquet to drum up some good feels, but with the staff now complete, Antoine Davis and MAM on campus today, and Omier hopefully visiting in a few days, this is some serious positive momentum. Fingers crossed that some commitments are imminent.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 18, 2022 9:38:15 GMT -5
Promising weekend on the Hoya front with the Jahmir Young visit, rumored positioned of strength with Akok Akok, and most importantly a potential Jordan Brooks sighting in DC. Ward's announcement as of right now is 4/29, so we have roughly ~10 days to make this happen on the current timeline.
Hoping there is a wealth of good news to announce at the banquet on Wed.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 15, 2022 15:38:52 GMT -5
I can convince myself that elevating Crouch is acceptable as long as Orr is moving to a non-recruiting role. This I can agree with. Whatever the plan is, they are clearly not moving quickly enough. Important decisions will be made by impact kids in the next 2 weeks. It's imperative we have a full staff in place ASAP to give us the best chance at adding others to go along with Murray.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 15, 2022 15:22:40 GMT -5
Looks like we struck out on our other assistant targets.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 14, 2022 14:24:12 GMT -5
I understand we want things to move much faster. But I rather wait for the right assistant coach who fits Gtown. Maybe that potential assistant is with a NBA playoff team or college team seeking a better offer. I have a feeling “ the right asst coach” will be someone who has no other major D1 options at this point. Probably not a wise move to be waiting on an NBA guy to finish the playoffs or a college guy worth their salt that hasn't already landed on their feet somewhere else... all during peak transfer season which has arguably become the most important 4-6 weeks of the year outside of the games themselves.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Apr 12, 2022 8:56:24 GMT -5
Disappointing news on Pegues, but appreciate that it was broken here first. As was discussed at length last night on the HH Twitter space, I don't think Pegues was any savior, but he was certainly one of the best of the remaining viable candidates out there. Side note fullcourtpress, Bangura was on that Twitter space as well so if anyone is paying attention at McD, it might be worth a phone call at the very least. Here's what annoys me about all of this. We really do need to get away from the mindset that we can only talk/negotiate with one candidate at a time and put all of our eggs in one basket. They repeatedly do this. Xavier finished up the NIT on 3/31, Caputo landed the GW job on 4/1. We couldn't have started discussions with both Pegues and Brooks on 4/1? At least make it seem like there's competition for the opening to make it look more desirable. Instead, we don't and here we are, nearly 2 weeks later, with no firm Plan B after Plan A falls through. We negotiate off the court like we play on it. Maybe they prove me wrong and we're announcing Brooks later this afternoon. But given the agility of our "front office," I wouldn't bet on it.
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