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Post by jester on Jan 11, 2009 23:25:36 GMT -5
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Post by jester on Jan 8, 2009 22:30:08 GMT -5
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Post by jester on Jan 6, 2009 21:33:27 GMT -5
...Bring back Marc Egerson, who is Top 10 in NCAA this year in rebounding?
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Post by jester on Jan 5, 2009 21:37:16 GMT -5
Per Freeman, several times he had position on his man 10 ft out and was looked away by our guards...don't know if that was a trust issue or just part of the offense that he didn't get the ball when he asked for it.
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Post by jester on Jan 5, 2009 21:29:26 GMT -5
Threes are hard to come by so far for this team...some ball fakes could help to drive to the basket. ND used fakes very effectively in the first half. Austin has a good midrange game...unfortunately some didnt fall but he also wasnt as effective this game posting up or three pt shooting (but had a couple of good passes).
Both at the end of the game and UCONN we seemed to have a much better tempo and shot early. it took way too long to get some shot off today. I'll attribute that somewhat to "less active" cutting.
Hard to swarm to Hargondy...not the best passer but ND is good from outside and we had to respect that.
There were several defenses lapses that more veteran would/should not make. We need consistency...and Duke may or may not be as good as their ranking, but we can't give up some of the jump shots we did.
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Post by jester on Jan 5, 2009 19:52:48 GMT -5
Clark had some last second drives and converted...we need to make Hargondy play defense.
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Post by jester on Jan 5, 2009 19:20:36 GMT -5
Sims! Discovers he actually is better than dunking than 3-pt shooting...that's good.
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Post by jester on Dec 31, 2008 20:47:29 GMT -5
Yeah obviously the keys for us (other than playing at our pace) when we play ND is preventing transition buckets, staying in the face of their stand still shooters, and denying the ball to Luke Hargondy. Interesting to see how Monroe handles an actual big man who can shoot and has touch. Guarding Blair should tell us a bit more...
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Post by jester on Dec 29, 2008 16:41:40 GMT -5
I doubt he makes the game and I doubt Oden starts. If Oden starts it's pure politics. He's not outplaying Marc Gasol or Brook Lopez, who should be the two centers going.
Sorry, my bad - forgot about Gasol, who has been great. Looks like Roy will have to spend that weekend working on his footwork.
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Post by jester on Dec 29, 2008 10:43:49 GMT -5
I think Rasho was playing ok, and maybe the coach felt Roy would be too tentative with 5 fouls...
Any chance Roy plays in the rookie-sophomore game All-Star weekend? I assume Oden is the starter, but maybe since Roy is one of a handful of rookies currently starting for their team, he will play...Jeff vs. Roy would be fun to watch.
Also, too bad Ewing Jr won't be a dunk contest participant as an NBA player (this season)...Dwight is good, but I could watch Pat's behind the back dunk again and again.
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Post by jester on Dec 8, 2008 23:07:56 GMT -5
ANd, at the 1 minute mark, of course:
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Post by jester on Dec 6, 2008 22:46:43 GMT -5
Some thoughts from watching my first game in person this season...
It didn't seem to me that we played that well...a lot of possessions that ended up in scores, but not as a result of the plays being drawn up. A lot of scores were breaks, Sapp shooting three pointers, Summers actually rebounding and cleaning up misses, etc. A few times were I could tell the play developing, the would be assist was just off, or the player was not fed in time...
I saw Thompson screaming at the team and calling a time out after several made buckets by us - clearly the scoring would be there, but the manner in which it came was not what he was looking for.
Greg tried hard today to post up and get in position (feed the big man). American would send two players to double team him - sometimes this would end in Greg kicking it out for a good shot, more often the guard would get the ball back and swing it to another guard...Greg seemed to try to score though now and again when he was rewarded for posting up, unfortunately he just doesn't have the feel yet to convert when having two player son his backside (ie, Hibbert had the hook shot down where he could at least spin around them and make room). Greg would have to try to dribble and shoot at more awkward angles, resulting in a quiet game. That said, the respect players gave him opened up shots for everyone else and he didn't try to force too much - we'll see what happens as the competition gets tougher. He also is vastly superior to Hibbert when he does have space and can use his ball handling skills to drive to the hoop.
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Post by jester on Dec 3, 2008 9:59:09 GMT -5
Excerpt from the Crimson...doubt GU will be much better off...
Harvard Endowment Fell 22 Percent in Four Months Decline dwarfs University's previous worst single-year loss
Harvard Crimson Published On Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:41 PM
Harvard’s endowment—the largest in higher education—fell 22 percent in four months from its June 30 value of $36.9 billion, marking the endowment’s largest decline in modern history, University officials announced yesterday.
The precipitous drop will require Harvard’s faculties to take a “hard look at hiring, staffing levels, and compensation,” wrote University President Drew G. Faust and Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82 in a letter informing the deans of Harvard’s losses....
The decline, which amounts to more than $8 billion, is larger than the endowments of all but four other universities—Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT.
In the same period, the S&P 500 fell 24.6 percent. The index has fallen an additional 12.4 percent since then.
The estimate of 22 percent may not fully capture the actual losses from this period, Forst said in an interview yesterday, as some of Harvard’s money is invested with external managers that have yet to report their latest figures. Faust and Forst wrote in yesterday’s letter that the University should plan for a 30 percent drop-off in endowment value for the year ending June 30, 2009.
The news comes during the worst economic turmoil in decades. University endowments across the country have begun announcing unprecedented losses and instituting hiring or construction freezes in an effort to save funds.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences placed a freeze on staff hiring last week, following a cautionary letter from Faust a month earlier that warned of cutbacks ahead.
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Yesterday’s figure dwarfs Harvard’s worst single-year endowment loss of 12.2 percent in 1974. The endowment has clocked only three years of negative returns, all under three percent, in the subsequent three decades.
Forst said University leaders have delayed setting the endowment payout rate for the next fiscal year—a figure generally announced the December before—until Harvard’s schools can reevaluate their budgets.
“Given the extreme volatility in the markets, I don’t expect [the payout rate] will be set until we have a much more concrete sense about financial plans and endowment performance,” Forst said. ....
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Post by jester on Dec 2, 2008 22:53:16 GMT -5
The Purdue student sitting in the Purdue student section whose name is Duke and is dressed as as Duke fan really does not make me like Duke any more.
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Post by jester on Dec 2, 2008 22:35:09 GMT -5
Singler vs. Summers will be an interesting matchup...Summers needs to box him out, he is really hustling and looks stronger than last yr.
On the other hand, that leaves Monroe vs. Zoubek.
It seemed we should have beaten them last yr having Hibbert in the middle - no game is a given. But I'll have more faith in Monroe (not as foul prone so far this yr) and our increased athleticism. Beat their press this time around, give a clinic on backdoor cuts, and we should be up to the challenge.
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Post by jester on Nov 27, 2008 16:07:36 GMT -5
We need more rebounds like that one Monroe just got.
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Post by jester on Nov 13, 2008 9:45:05 GMT -5
From Yahoo! Sports...
Jeff Green has no reason to hang his head after a stretch of tough defensive assignments. The small forward quartet of Richard Jefferson, Ron Artest, Mike Miller and Paul Pierce averaged just 15 points against Green and the Thunder. "It's a learning process having to guard some of the best forwards in the game," Green said. "It's still more to come. I just go back, look at tape and see how I played them, and the next time we play them I just have to come back with a little more different approach because they'll probably be expecting the same thing."
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Post by jester on Nov 1, 2008 19:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by jester on Apr 23, 2008 21:18:05 GMT -5
Was Jr Giddens the last McDonalds All American to transfer after two years? Why did he end up transferring (pretty productive at KU...)?
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Post by jester on Apr 13, 2008 19:12:15 GMT -5
And to what end? A better basketball team? That's important, but it's not everything. Really? It's not? What kind of elitist are you?
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