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Post by jld54 on Jan 18, 2019 10:54:29 GMT -5
I am a lawyer and was trained that person making a claim must prove it. Under your rationale I can buy data from an outfit like GPS Fusion they alleges that you conduct yourself in a corrupt and unlawful manner. When you question this and ask me to prove it I tell you the the burden of proof can shift as one wishes in “the court of public opinion” and that you should disprove my claims. Is this appropriate? As for Lawfare, Comey’s close friend Wittes is a key player and he wrote an article in 2016 stating how the country must resist in the then unthinkable event of a Trump win. So much for an objective news source. Again, just think if the shoe was on the other foot. Trump buying oppodtion reasearch, which was not verified, feeding it to the DOJ, FBI, etc., and spying on the Democratic candidate via FISA warrants.
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Post by jld54 on Jan 18, 2019 10:17:11 GMT -5
Is our system of American justice such that the incumbent administration should start a criminal investigation of the opponent and his campaign based upon unproven political opposition research? If the Orange Man does this to the 2020 Democratic nominee how will you feel? You Trump haters fail to back and and realize that this goes beyond him.
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Post by jld54 on Jan 18, 2019 10:15:51 GMT -5
And that sets aside the fact that nothing in the Steele dossier has been proven false. And it started as opposition research by a Republican. So, under your standard of justice, and allegation has to be proven false rather than the allegation having to be proven true? This sounds just like the system of justice in the old Soviet Union. Ironic that those who are using Russia as a club adhere to old style Soviet tactics.
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Post by jld54 on Jan 18, 2019 4:18:54 GMT -5
IF this allegation can be proven, then the President is a criminal. And if we get to that point, Republicans in the Senate will let us know if we have a government of laws or of men. If, if, if...
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Post by jld54 on Jan 17, 2019 22:28:00 GMT -5
Interesting that you do not respond directly to, or rufute, the proven Clinton collusion cited above... You have Google for that. Still have not stated whether you agree that the Clinton collusion with Russians - via Steele, a foreign national— occurred. The silence is deafening.
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Post by jld54 on Jan 17, 2019 21:56:17 GMT -5
The Trump haters are in peak delusional status. The real and proven collusion with Russia was DNC/HRC-> Perkins Coie->Fusion GPS->Steele -> Russian sources. All to influence the election, with the added bonus of use of Obama US intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. And the MCCabe/Strozk/Page insurance policy morphing into Mueller investigation. Thank you for verifying hoya9797's point. Interesting that you do not respond directly to, or rufute, the proven Clinton collusion cited above...
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Post by jld54 on Jan 17, 2019 20:41:29 GMT -5
They’ll all vote for him again. The Trump haters are in peak delusional status. The real and proven collusion with Russia was DNC/HRC-> Perkins Coie->Fusion GPS->Steele -> Russian sources. All to influence the election, with the added bonus of use of Obama US intelligence and law enforcement apparatus. And the MCCabe/Strozk/Page insurance policy morphing into Mueller investigation.
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Post by jld54 on Jan 16, 2019 10:37:34 GMT -5
Akinjo’s decision on the final play was atrocious, even if it had been the play that was called. Consider this - we were all repeatedly frustrated with Jagan last season, but at least he got the ball to the rim. Going 1-on-2 and getting it shoved down your throat when you’re 1-for-10 and have already had a disastrous game can’t happen. So Akinjo - F Pat - waits far too late to switch Pickett onto S Hauser, draws up a play that doesn’t feature Mac on the final play, allows a second half of offense with zero flow to lose to a Marquette team without Howard and its top reserve - F Pickett - Defense is great, offense is awful. Has to understand his role and stay in his lane. Every time he tries to impose his will offensively, he makes a mistake. Not occasionally; EVERY time. - D- Mourning - just why? Ever? It’s like playing 4 on 5 - F Kaleb - Fantastic game - prob best of his career, managed to impact game without overplaying - A+ and gameball Mac - Great start, superb shooting early masked some dubious shot selection. Missed a huge free throw late and struggled on defensive end. Along with Govan only player who should have even been considered for final shot given game flow/hot hand. - B+ Jess - foul trouble thanks to some very dubious calls. Never got anything going in post but shot well from deep on secondary drag 3s. MUCH better defensive work rate than typical even if that didn’t show up. Offense completely melted down when he left floor midway through second half. - B/B+ LeBlanc - Played hard as usual but continues to look lost offensively and struggle defensively against bigger, quicker BE athletes. Expect him to take the biggest sophomore jump on team - C GregM - Played nice stretch late - impacting comeback, but generally has moved back toward expected mean after pleasant Butler aberration. Very loose with ball. Small sample vs UM. - C Jagan/Blair/Carter - All had pos and negs in brief time. Carter couldn’t handle big kid at all. Jagan critical no-call/boxiut on Hauser was a push off not a flop. Blair made his only 3 when his feet were set, took another awful one and gets bullied defensively - C for group Overall, much better game defensively, much worse offensively. Govan never established himself inside and Akinjo particularly did a dreadful job of stabilizing and facilitating any offensive identity. Should have beaten a Howard-less UM every time. That’s on Pat. Overall - D Yikes. Harsh much? We almost upset a ranked team. With or without their best player, we were in it until the end. I wonder what difference Marquette's +3 would make on your scorecard. By no means was it a good game and one we should have won but...let's not overreact either. The point that gets me the most though, and makes me think you're just looking for every reason to be critical despite facts, is blaming Pat for that last play. Everyone except you seems to have gotten that Pat didn't draw that up, Akinjo just went rogue. I'm not sold on Pat's in-game coaching yet, but clearly that was not what he had planned. I do not want to hear anymore about PE ability to coach ax’s and Os. Last night he had a PG with an 8:1 A/TO ratio but shooting poorly from the field. MU ‘s length bothered him all night on drives. He called a play for the PG to go to the top scorer senior Govan or MAC who was hot al night and was doing well with his matchup. So the PG blows off the called play for the second time in two close games, ignored the top scorers and gets blocked again. There is a chemistry problem with these guys...
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Post by jld54 on Dec 23, 2018 7:31:23 GMT -5
What I like: We are winning many close games. What I don’t like: Our starting front line is not athletic, slow as and can’t bend to pick up a damn lose ball. Get a pulse. Now that is funny!!! We all must put the level of this program in perspective. This program right now would get blown off the floor by most top 20 teams. This is a five year rebuild. In the meantime we may as well watch from game to game and see if we can improve.
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Post by jld54 on Dec 10, 2018 16:07:45 GMT -5
Wahab is looking for a really personal connection with a coach. He wants a father/son type of relationship. Which program has provided that atmosphere the best wins out in his recruitment. That's why I think it's very important for Coach Ewing to reach out to Wahab like he did to Stewart and emphasize the personal connection. The one thing that we can say after a year plus of Patrick on the job is that he is working very hard on the recruiting front. He was left with a virtually bare cupboard except for Jesse and Marcus, and minimal wing or backcourt players. When he took the job, I believe that it would take three recruiting classes to judge the success of the hire.This is playing out as such.
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Post by jld54 on Dec 9, 2018 15:07:56 GMT -5
Watching on TV I also sensed a flatness not seen at Cuse games over past decades. To be fair, the teams recently have not been that good, and the good players leave early so it is hard to figure out who is who on the Cuse. Plus the move to the ACC must hurt — the decades old BE rivalries were great, even with the mintier teams. Sorry, Ga Tech or Clemson at the Dome means far less than a St. John’s or Hall game.
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Post by jld54 on Dec 6, 2018 16:24:18 GMT -5
Everybody is scrambling to get in front of Qudus. It seems like the Hoyas may have backed away a little bit on Wahab. I think I saw that Coach Ewing was at one of his games not that long ago, but the other teams involved seemed more engaged than Georgetown right now. I realize it is impossible to really know what is happening from a handful of tweets, and maybe the Hoyas are still very involved, but it seems like Wahab may not be a priority for them now. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. There are two centers recruited in the 2019 class, and there is a solid experienced player in Yurtseven that is coming in next year. While many think that he will only play for one more year, one never knows. That’s, center is the most well – stock position on the roster, and if this guy goes elsewhere, it is understandable given the depth.
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Post by jld54 on Nov 30, 2018 16:28:25 GMT -5
Pickett was way too slow on both cuts. Very slow on first and late and slow on second. To bet a comfortable open shot Pickett had to be much more aggressive .And Jesse did not set an aggressive pack at all. The play at 50 seconds in that video really demonstrates some of the weakness in the offense, and nobody is really dynamic: - Govan sets a half-hearted screen and is pretty stationary until he moves for the rebound. - Mourning also sets a half-hearted screen at the high post, puts his hand up for the ball when he's not open (he's been stuffed by smaller guys, so the mismatch isn't that appealing to me anyway given that he's not close to the basket), then sort of nonchalantly moves to the low post - At least Pickett does move, but way too slow. - McClung also doesn't move at all after he passes off to Akinjo. - Akinjo takes, and makes, a shot with a hand in his face. If the purpose is to generate open shots, this was a poor one. I definitely think our defense is a good bit worse than our offense (at least it feels that way), but we need more dynamism to get open shots and force bad rotations, etc. from our opponent. Agree 100%. The entire team looked lethargic on that set. Not to make excuses, but it would have been pretty hard to get fully up for an injury-riddled team like Richmond in front of about 4,000 on a Wed. in early December. Hopefully this will pick up — if not we are in for a long season.
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Post by jld54 on Nov 30, 2018 12:11:19 GMT -5
Several times vs. Richmond Coach Ewing would run a weak side staggered screen set for Pickett with the ball never getting into Picketts hands as he came open off the screens. An example is at the 50 second mark of the video below where Akinjo holds the ball, probing and then taking a very tough challenged shot which he makes but the play was ultimately called for Pickett and Akinjo never even looked Picketts way as he came off the staggered screen. It's an excellent point. That set you reference specifically is interesting for a variety of reasons. It's a horns-type set and James makes the correct first pass to Mac and then James comes off a classic UCLA screen from Trey. Richmond switches so the cut isn't open (although no one looks for Trey, who presumably has a mismatch and knows he has a mismatch because he asks for the ball...to be fair the spacing isn't really there to get him the ball, so everyone else would have had to have broken off the play and cleared out). Meanwhile on the weak-side Jesse sets a screen for Jamorko to curl toward the hoop and into the post. It's an incredibly lackadaisical screen by Jesse and Jamorko doesn't cut hard at all. So...that action is completely wasted and the fact that it's slow probably throws everything else off to boot. Meanwhile James is on to the next action in the play, which involves his reversing sides and popping back up to the top off of a screen from Jesse (again, it's a screen that Jesse doesn't even really try to set correctly). Through all this, Mac hasn't dribbled and he's looking in the right spots -- his eyes are first toward the basket as Jamorko starts to cut but he quickly (and correctly) moves on to James. Mac is handling this precisely correctly...in pure PG mode. The next action, as you note, is a staggered screen for Jamorko, but before he gets there James takes a bad shot (that happens to go in). Jesse's screen on that action is pretty weak too (though Jamorko at least comes off it hard). So...the first real action was for Jamorko but he and Jesse didn't execute it nearly well or quickly enough. And then the third action was for Jamorko again but James wasn't quite patient enough to wait for it. There's still north of 10 seconds on the shot clock when he fires. To me, the biggest issue with the sets is that Jesse utterly fails to even try to set good screens. It's one thing if the screens don't work (and I don't mean he should move into the defender and risk an offensive foul), but he's not even trying. Pickett was way too slow on both cuts. Very slow on first and late and slow on second. To bet a comfortable open shot Pickett had to be much more aggressive .And Jesse did not set an aggressive pack at all.
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Post by jld54 on Nov 18, 2018 13:31:17 GMT -5
Totally out of control, playground ball. I understand the guards are freshman, but they have to be playing with some type of structure.
A total disgrace and embarrassment.
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Post by jld54 on Nov 18, 2018 13:04:44 GMT -5
The absolute out of control mindless turnovers and shots has to stop.
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Post by jld54 on Nov 17, 2018 10:58:49 GMT -5
One issue is that the season now starts ridiculously early. The season used to start at about Thanksgiving week, giving teams a month plus of practice. This is a group that came off a weak year and is incorporating 3 frosh. The returning vets with the exception of Govan and possibly Pickett are role player types.
It will take time for the talented frosh to mature and learn the college game. My one potential concern is Pickett -- he does not seem to mesh and I do not know if it is caused by limitations in his game -- his handle mainly -- or if he is in a funk...
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Post by jld54 on Oct 16, 2018 15:45:42 GMT -5
Wish him luck. It looks like we are on multiple players that we like better at the position for '19. If we get Ledlum this player would be superfluous.
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Post by jld54 on Sept 11, 2018 18:49:12 GMT -5
My goodness, Patrick has been all over the country with much more aggressive recruiting that we saw from the past regime. So much for the Washington Post article regarding Patrick not wanting to fold his 7 foot frame into an airplane seat!😁😁😁 FWIW The post writer didn't say that PE did... No, the author merely implied it. Why do you continue to defend that fake news article?
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Post by jld54 on Sept 11, 2018 16:44:40 GMT -5
Don't think he starts over Moses Brown if Moses in fact does comes back. Depending on the kinda yr he has. he could be one and done. Not sure who ucla has at the four... dont think moses brown is one and done to be honest... He is nothing like any of the bigs that got drafted even spellman is better than moses. he might end up like billy preston ... and for our benefit i really hope brown stays My goodness, Patrick has been all over the country with much more aggressive recruiting that we saw from the past regime. So much for the Washington Post article regarding Patrick not wanting to fold his 7 foot frame into an airplane seat! 😁😁😁
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