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Post by hoya95 on Mar 20, 2022 22:55:23 GMT -5
But I know people who cover college basketball who have seen Ewing's practices. They are well organized and detailed. He can coach. However, putting square pegs into round holes with a makeshift roster is never going to work. Bruce Pearl buys players, and that's about it. He gets exposed regularly when talent alone isn't good enough. I concede, Patrick Ewing is a mastermind in secret practices we will never see, he's just bad in the televised games, and the press conferences afterwards where he throws his players under the bus and never takes any responsibility, and bad in the W-L statistics, and bad in the recruiting. Just made it awfully clear that there is no reason to believe that this can be salvaged, and I am stunned that they are trying to run this back for a lame duck year. I've been a Georgetown basketball fan for longer than I can remember. Made it to nearly every home game this year, and I caught Covid at the only one we won. Being a fan of a lousy sports team is no fun at all, but there are things you have to suck it up and deal with. Or you all can spend the next 12 months putting stigmata on your hands and writing endless posts to highlight your suffering. Up to you.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 20, 2022 22:04:32 GMT -5
Did you watch the second half of that game? Auburn played like chickens with their heads cut off. It was completely disorganized and embarrassing. Pearl either had no control or no idea what to do. Maybe both. Ewing has not been able to build a roster and/or retain his players. But if you gave Patrick Auburn's players tonight, there is no way they'd look that bad. Are you trying to gaslight us? You know we went 0-20 this year in the Big East and most of the time the opposing team would demolish us with a 28-2 run, and then we'd score 10 points against their subs in garbage time because we'd leave the starters in. This is recency bias to it's most extreme - our last game the team played decently against a Seton Hall team without it's best player, and it's second best player was playing one handed and coughing the ball up left and right in unforced turnovers because he couldn't even dribble, and suddenly Patrick Ewing is a gritty motivator like the other 20 games never happened. It's insane. Patrick Ewing is a terrible coach. You should be forced to rewatch the 2022 season for writing stuff like this. We made the tournament last year in a fluke and absolutely got blown out of the building. Ewing constructed a dreadful roster this year, and he hasn't been able to keep his rosters together when he had decent ones. That's problem #1. Problem #2 is that he is the inverse of Steve Spurrier as a coach. Spurrier tried to bring his college system straight to the NFL, and elite athletes ate him apart. Ewing is trying to run NBA sets with NBA defenses when his players aren't talented enough to do it. As Raftery said in the Seton Hall game after watching our huddle: "See the problem? He thinks he's talking to Patrick Ewing." College basketball and the NBA are two different animals, and Ewing either can't or won't adjust. Since he's never worked in college basketball before, we were really taking a risk here, and it has backfired. But I know people who cover college basketball who have seen Ewing's practices. They are well organized and detailed. He can coach. However, putting square pegs into round holes with a makeshift roster is never going to work. Bruce Pearl buys players, and that's about it. He gets exposed regularly when talent alone isn't good enough.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 20, 2022 21:37:08 GMT -5
I don't care what the records say, Ewing is a better coach than Bruce Pearl. Now that you can buy players above the table, maybe Bruce will spend some of that money to buy an assistant who will actually coach the team. While I would not want Bruce Pearl at Georgetown, and he has questionable character given previous violations, Pearl as a basketball coach is much better than Ewing and it's not even close. Now, if you want to talk about honor and integrity, it's another story perhaps. As an aside, I've been saying this for years, but people make way too big a deal out of single NCAA games. Miami was 24% going into this game to win. That means if you ran 100 simulations, they'd win almost 1 out of 4. While that's a big upset, of course, those types of upsets happen nearly every year. It doesn't mean that Auburn is horrible, nor does it mean that Miami is some giant killer. Upsets like that are fun for fans, but people usually make way too big a deal about them on both sides. Did you watch the second half of that game? Auburn played like chickens with their heads cut off. It was completely disorganized and embarrassing. Pearl either had no control or no idea what to do. Maybe both. Ewing has not been able to build a roster and/or retain his players. But if you gave Patrick Auburn's players tonight, there is no way they'd look that bad.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 20, 2022 21:05:06 GMT -5
I don't care what the records say, Ewing is a better coach than Bruce Pearl. Now that you can buy players above the table, maybe Bruce will spend some of that money to buy an assistant who will actually coach the team.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 12, 2022 12:18:45 GMT -5
People will scream forever that John Thompson is controlling the program from the grave, but it’s pretty clear that the star ex-players are in charge right now. Maybe JTIII would still be the coach if he let Trey Mourning take as many ill-advised threes as he wanted. Either way, there is no desire to run Patrick out of here, and he’s not going to be held to anything close to the same standard. I assume there still has to be dramatic improvement next year for this to continue, but who knows at this point? I hope we have a miraculous recovery, but it’s hard to see how it’s possible.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 9, 2022 15:07:40 GMT -5
In that case you must be a Thompson because there's no way to refute anything substantive that he's saying. Name one thing incorrect in that post. It's a litany of insults. If you find that entertaining, go ahead. But from the title, I was expecting actual inside info about corruption, not lack of success, or incompetence, or even nepotism. Craig Escherick was not fired as a secret plot to give JTIII a job. This thing is just a rant.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 9, 2022 15:02:51 GMT -5
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 9, 2022 12:41:19 GMT -5
Meanwhile in Brooklyn, Buddy Boeheim just sucker punched a guy in the stomach, and nothing happened. No foul, no review. Nothing.
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Post by hoya95 on Mar 4, 2022 11:30:55 GMT -5
Can we add Coach K’s quote to the inscription on the statue at the TAC? I mean, he is saying this in response to a book that showed that he overruled Duke’s President to choose his successor. He’s also keeping his office in Cameron. If he was moving back to Chicago, maybe he could say with a straight face that he’ll have nothing to do with Duke basketball. But he will still be there, and he hired every single person who will run Duke basketball. Come on now.
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 25, 2022 1:24:51 GMT -5
The late Vitas Gerulatis lost 16 straight matches to Jimmy Connors before he finally beat him. In the post match press conference, he bellowed, “Nobody beats Vitas Gerulatis SEVENTEEN times in a row!” I was so hoping to use a variation of that joke tonight if our losing streak ended at 16. Unfortunately, we’ve proven Georgetown CAN be beaten seventeen times in a row. What can you do at this point? Feel badly for the players. It was clearly a desperate effort at the end, but that kind of desperation rarely gets you out of quicksand.
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 19, 2022 15:52:56 GMT -5
Tommy Amaker is absolutely going to be pushed on us by the media like leftover meatloaf the cafeteria has to get rid of. He lost out on the Duke job publicly, he may be near the hot seat at Harvard after missing the tournament since 2014-2015, the Duke media apparatus and the David Falk-iverse is going to push him on us and gaslight us about how he'd be a great fit. I don't think this reaction is wrong... It's been 50 years. Do an open minded search. My recollection is that this guy didn’t have any idea who the new coach would be five years ago. Unless the tiny circle of decision makers are inexplicably confiding in Casual Hoya about a the outcome of a job search that hasn’t even begun yet, why would we think he has a clue now?
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 18, 2022 19:04:24 GMT -5
If the administration wanted to go well outside the box and make a different form of history, I wonder if they'll ever give Becky Hammon a call.
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 18, 2022 12:34:42 GMT -5
I was one of the last defenders of JT3 left on HoyaTalk to the bitter end. As I noted at the time, I thought he was a previously successful coach, and because getting one is so difficult it would be easy to do much worse (which has happened). So, I advocated giving him another year at the time. But, I acknowledge he was in a tough spot, and I am not sure that he would have turned it around anyway. Clearly, there is zero chance Georgetown would hire him back, and even I, as a big defender of him, would not advocate that (it might be a little different if he went somewhere else and had huge success, but even then it wouldn't be feasible). But, he was/likely is a better coach than Amaker. As far Amaker, hiring him would be about as uninspiring a choice as one could get. He did have a nice run at Harvard from about 2011 to 2015 (teams ranked 71, 41, 93, 32, 75), but his performance has declined significantly since then (171, 112, 141, 114, 110, 201). And, while Amaker has some limitations at Harvard given the Ivy League, at Michigan before Harvard, he did not make the tournament over 6 years, and had teams ranked 128, 61, 44, 128, 28, 59. So, better than Ewing but not great either (and as TC says, worse than JT3, by a good bit). He had one Sweet 16 at Seton Hall, but wasn't great there either. I fear that the university, if it needs to replace Ewing, is going to pick someone like Amaker as a "solid" but uninspired choice. I see no reason to choose Amaker in this instance. He hasn't had recent success, his Harvard teams are about the same level as Ewing's teams, and he likely would not turn things around quickly. Sure, he might be a better coach than Ewing but that's not a high bar at this point. Amaker was a stronger candidate in 2017 than now. But the years since 2017 have not been kind to him. I would certainly like to do better than “solid but uninspired.” What I fear is going for the hot assistant with no track record who turns out less than solid. We need someone who is as a close as possible to being able to resuscitate things. This is an inflection point. No gambles. We're like a bad football team that has to draft the best QB available and hope for the best, even though so many don't work out. It's either going to be a coach from a smaller conference or an assistant getting their first chance. "Sure things" are not going to leave big programs and come here. It is what it is. Welcome to the roulette wheel!
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 9, 2022 1:52:03 GMT -5
We are less than one month from the Big East tournament and Georgetown has not reached out for ticket orders to hoop club members/season-ticket holders. This seems abnormally late. Am I wrong? I got an email about a week ago saying tickets were going on sale this past Sunday. Not sure if it’s for this year only, but you don’t place orders through Georgetown. You have to click on a link in the email, then you buy directly through Ticketmaster after you sign in to your MyHoyas account. There may be some tickets left, but there was very little notice or instruction this year.
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Post by hoya95 on Feb 3, 2022 19:59:54 GMT -5
I'm not opposed to playing a full game where only Donald Carey is allowed to shoot.
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Post by hoya95 on Jan 25, 2022 23:27:57 GMT -5
I realize this would defeat the purpose of the internet, but there is zero need to moan on social media, and God knows there is no call to cause any ugliness at the games. Barring a miracle on the court, there is going to be a change next year. No one needs to say a word.
I hated to the Nth degree how pointlessly mean-spirited it got before the last coaching change. I can't imagine people would do that to Patrick, but you never know. He is the greatest/most important player we've ever had. By all accounts, he is an extremely nice man. He grinded for years as an assistant to finally get an opportunity, and it does not look like it will work out.
I'm going to do everything I can to make it to every game the rest of the season, and I'm going to make as much noise as possible. I don't care if I'm by myself. I don't care if we're down 40. If the only role we have left is to play music on the deck of the Titanic, then that's what I'll do. Gallows humor is more fun anyway.
In the end, you try to repay those who have been good to you. On the court, Patrick gave us more joy than anyone else. Off the court, he has represented the University and us as a fan base extremely well. So did his predecessor. People can do what they want, but I'm going to try to go down with the ship with as much fun as we can have.
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Post by hoya95 on Jan 7, 2022 23:52:52 GMT -5
There was two feet of snow. I really doubt there were many busses running that day. It was a few days after the nearly 3 feet of snow and when things were opening up. Students were stir crazy. If I remember correctly it was the third day after the storm and everybody was relieved the game was going to happen. But, busses were running as I was at that game and was caught in the crowd of students going in from the busses. Currently students are home as dorms don't open until the 11th and the first two weeks (at least) of classes are going to be virtual and Georgetown has been encouraging students to stay remote. I’m not sure how many busses were running that day since I took the subway to that game, but the snow had either just finished up or it might have stopped as the game was going on. I remember that just after the game ended, I found out that my parents had lost power and would be without it for days. I had to go rescue them from a freezing house the next morning on totally unplowed roads. Things were a gigantic, dangerous mess in the area that day. Still, was a hell of a game and a great atmosphere.
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 27, 2021 21:57:44 GMT -5
I couldn't get a PCR test to confirm it, but I'm really confident that I caught Omicron at the Syracuse game. Wouldn't shock me if a whole lot of people did. I had gotten my booster 10 days before and was wearing what I thought was a really good mask, but it wasn't enough. So whenever we get restarted, just be careful if you're going back to the arena. This thing is contagious as hell.
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 21, 2021 14:18:36 GMT -5
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Post by hoya95 on Dec 4, 2021 22:45:56 GMT -5
I can't lie: it's a little alarming that Fox won't even mention that Georgetown-Syracuse is part of next Saturday's tripleheader in any of its promos during the Big Ten title game. They're only promoting the last two games. They can't even toss us into the graphic somewhere? That rivalry doesn't even have any name value anymore? That stings a bit.
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