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Post by dailey247 on Feb 19, 2022 17:07:31 GMT -5
Tommy Amaker is the coach you hire if you don't think your program can be a consistent contender, and just want to luck into an 8 seed every few years. If, on the other hand, you think the combination of money, facilities, location, and prestige your program already has could be turned into a championship-level team more years than not, you hire a young coach who has already proven he can build a winner at a lower level, and hand him the keys to the Ferrari in your garage to see what he can do with it.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 19, 2022 16:41:02 GMT -5
Does /protracted banshee shriek that nobody else can hear, and therefore must be contained within my mind/ count as "thoughts?"
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Post by dailey247 on Apr 5, 2021 17:49:20 GMT -5
Where has “keeping it in the family” by promoting a career assistant worked at a big time program? At North Carolina, where Bill Guthridge went to 2 final fours
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 27, 2021 23:13:16 GMT -5
Back to Q. I get the losing is bad and hurts his potential. But think we are going to be decent next year. Very likely tourney team. And he will be top option won’t he? He isn’t going to get usage anywhere else is he? No idea if this factored into the decision at all, but I doubt he would have been our top option next year. More of an offensive focus than he is likely to find elsewhere, for sure, but this is Dante and Aminu's team now regardless of who is at center.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 27, 2021 23:08:52 GMT -5
So, this is going to be the last time a mediocre Syracuse team barely sneaks into the tournament and then still makes a Sweet 16 or Final 4 because that's how far they have to go before they get matched up with a team that has a decent offense and more than 1 day to prepare for their junk defense, right? Buddy's going to go pro, Nosepicker Jim is going to finally retire, and then they'll never have another coach who can recruit any kind of talent to play in Siberia for the 9th most important program in the conference, yes? Program officially dead now? Cool, tks.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 7, 2021 14:50:32 GMT -5
Bananas can help with excessive looseness
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 6, 2021 15:38:19 GMT -5
It's not as simple as (a) Ewing is great! or (b) Ewing stinks!. One needs to take in everything that is out there when making an evaluation. My dude, are you ever in the wrong place. (Although, if you find the right place please tell me where that is. I would enjoy some middle of the road, things are looking up but let's not start sucking each other's popsicles quite yet discourse.)
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 1, 2021 2:53:50 GMT -5
For one thing the amount of turnovers this team gives up is mind blowing and the first culprit there has to be the guy running the offense. I mean, as a program we have been terrible with turnovers for years. We haven't been able to crack even the top (bottom?) 100 nationally in turnovers since the 07 Final Four team. Throwing the ball directly out of bounds several times a game just seems to be the Georgetown way. I'm definitely not ready to call a freshman PG the "first culprit" at this point. I'd bet on him cleaning that up over the summer, but then again I would have bet on a lot of guys improving over their first summers in recent years and that hasn't worked out so well.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 20, 2021 22:18:46 GMT -5
Somehow, I inhabit a blend of the Lifer, the Young Alum(nus - come on, we went to Georgetown, know your Latin), and the Old Timer. I think this pathology might be endemic to the classes of '03 and '03 (The Thompsonless Classes) and I understand the rest of the community having the urge to excise that entire period from reality, and therefore me along with it.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 10, 2021 0:57:30 GMT -5
96 is the answer and 89 is a close second. With respect to the greybeards around here, the 80 team racked up a lot of wins against an extremely easy schedule (like, softer than Ewing's first year easy), then went on a nice run in the last month of the season.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 10, 2021 0:40:25 GMT -5
20 wins and another good recruiting class signed
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 2, 2021 19:42:04 GMT -5
Ugly uniforms beget ugly play
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Post by dailey247 on Dec 11, 2020 20:13:58 GMT -5
We were so intense and locked in at the beginning of the game, and after the half we come out completely de-energized. It's been like that going on 20 years now, but still . . . would be nice to see 40 minutes of hell again one time before I die.
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Post by dailey247 on Dec 5, 2020 20:17:35 GMT -5
I don't see how you can separate recruiting from being a good coach. A coach who can't recruit isn't going to win at the NCAA tourney level at the college basketball level. You're literally correct, but I think there are shades to this. Being a good recruiter can mean convincing 5-star, 1-and-dones to consistently come play for your, or it can mean identifying talent that fits your scheme and fits well together. Successful coaches can be A+++ ace recruiters, and not great at actual in-game coaching and win (Calipari). Or they can be good recruiters of lesser talent, while also running a quality scheme and being a good tactician (Bennett, Wright). Or a blend of the two (Roy Williams).
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Post by dailey247 on Aug 4, 2020 20:37:42 GMT -5
A combination of waiting a year too long to admit defeat with JTIII and then not hiring an experienced recruiter to take over a program an empty cupboard. If Ewing is your guy, you can give him a roster with some depth in 16/17 to cover some of the growing pains. Or if you feel the need to give III one last shot with those guys, your next hire has to be the HC of a smaller program who can hit the ground running right away. In both cases, recruiting includes convincing guys on the roster already not to transfer. For years, we've had not enough horses in the barn to begin with, and we keep leaving the door open.
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 17, 2019 20:27:10 GMT -5
Who was the last Hoya to improve Freshman-to-Sophmore year? Otto Porter?
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 15, 2019 15:14:15 GMT -5
Where Potomac's tide is streaming, From her spires & steeples beaming,See the grand old banner gleaming: Georgetown's Fluorescent Teal & White!
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 23, 2019 13:50:08 GMT -5
What exactly is the process that we are trusting in this case? The original "trust the process" was the 76rs idea of tanking to give them the best chance of landing the best upcoming players. In college that is obviously not the case although trying to obtain the best upcoming talent is the goal. Most would agree on here that a couple of things attract recruits. The first being $/connections which we don't appear to be participating in. The second is winning which we haven't had much luck with lately. The third is playing an open style that gets guys numbers. Pat has definitley instituted this.
So far the results of getting the best players have been mixed. Pat has won a couple of contested recruiting battles with I think the toughest being the two late decommits. He appears to be a great "pick up the pieces" recruiter but he has yet to pull that traditional great player where he had to start from scratch. With Josh he had Owens who basically hand delivered him. Not having connections makes it very hard to land recruits so I'm not necessarily marking this as a blemish against Pat per se. The fact is if you aren't willing to play the "game" and you have no connections you're chances at success are greatly hampered. So what can he do to fix this and get better talent so we can start winning? I think #1 is getting new assistants. I have no idea what the point of having Orr is as he couldn't even deliver the one recruit we desperately needed. Waheed got us Greg which is good but not sure much else. Kirby got us Carter which is OK but not enough to keep your job. Wallace I assume was brought in to help the guards and while he is on the recruiting trail I don't think he has been responsible for any recruits. I may be wrong here but point is none have really delivered any impact players. As I. Let's early in the season none of these guys seem to be helping with in game strategy which we desperately need as well. #2 I think Pat may need to really focus on the transfer game. As I said he seems to be a great "pick up the pieces" recruiter so let's take advantage of that. He has already landed one big prize in Yurt7. I hope we get another few tramsfers this year and ever year from here on out. I have mentioned on here how much I love Musselman's approach and I think it would serve us well here as well. At the very least until we start should do it until we start winning although I think with the amount of transfers these days it's a viable strategy long term. I know there are those here that still believe in the build the team through traditional recruits but that is very hard these days because the transfer epidemic. This is moreso what my OP was in reference to. I think that Ewing could slow the game down and try to coach every possession like it's the last to fight to win every game. Of course our goal is to win every game and we aren't tanking on purpose but, playing uptempo, playing primarily man with the big hedging and recovering. He could coach this team differently to give it a better chance to win more games. Instead he is going with a style that would be more appealing to getting more talent in the door. To me it feels like "Trust the process" at the college level. In that case, yes I am trusting the process. We are playing an extremely fast pace, in the same neighborhood as Duke, and generally the more possessions per game the better it is for the more talented team which is usually...not us. With all that, we're 2-4 in conference but with only a -2 point differential. We've lost once by double digits all year, against LMU coming off a real grinder of a game previously at Illinois. A few of those close losses could have gone the other way based on sheer randomness, and we would be seeing a lot of (undeserved) "Georgetown is BACK" stuff from the media. Our true talent level this year is that of a mediocre team, who might squeeze out an NIT invite if things come together late in the season. BUT - at least we're fun to watch again, which was sorely needed. If Ewing's vision for the program is up-tempo offense - and if that vision is ever going to truly work - his recruits need to learn how to run that, and this season is going exactly the way it needs to. If LeBlanc takes the Pickett/Copeland memorial Sophomore-giant-step-backward next year then I might have to take up gardening, however.
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 2, 2018 15:46:30 GMT -5
www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2018-11-01/andy-katz-filled-out-preseason-ncaa-tournament-bracket-letsIn a completely pointless exercise, Andy Katz predicted the full NCAA tournament "based on everything he saw this preseason." Hoyas a 12 seed, in a play-in game against USC. Unclear to me who he predicts wins that, but either way the winner is beaten by 5 seed Purdue in the first round. Probably this is complete nonsense, although there is some research that suggests pre-season rankings are more predictive of tournament success than rankings done right before the tournament, so who knows?
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 1, 2018 15:39:51 GMT -5
Bad enough our team is a joke, now our court is a joke too. This will NOT age well. (Willing to change my mind if one 5-star recruit commits and says "I just love how that kente court looks.") (Which is never going to happen.)
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