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Post by dailey247 on Feb 14, 2017 11:23:06 GMT -5
The only thing that matters at this point is the next game. They really need to keep that "one game at a time" mentality if they are going to have any chance. They have shown over the last few weeks the ability to compete with, and beat, pretty much any team in the conference. They have also shown earlier in the year the ability to play really poorly for extended periods. Stay focused and locked in on defense and thing might work out for the Hoyas. Start looking too far ahead and they might end up being lucky to end up in the NIT!!! At this point the only game that matters is Sunday!!! Well, that may be a good strategy for the players, and if so I hope they follow your advice, but I'm going to continue taking all the games for the rest of the season at the same time, and there is literally nothing anyone can do to stop me. I'm thinking the other people reading and posting in this thread titled "Tournament Chances" are going to be doing the same.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 13, 2017 14:37:20 GMT -5
Looking at all the power rankings, bracket projections etc. that are coming out, I'm struck by the respect given to the Pac 12. Oregon, Arizona, and UCLA are undoubtedly good teams, but MAN is the bottom of that league garbage. I'm a KenPom devotee, so looking at his numbers the Pac 12 has 5 teams outside the top 100. These would be considered "bad losses" by the committee. The Big East only has DePaul outside the top 100. Basically the entire rest of the league would fit comfortably in the upper half of the Pac 12. I haven't done a deep dive into each team's schedule, but I have to think these guys are padding their records with cupcake conference games. Now, I much prefer that Georgetown play in the most challenging conference, but we might miss the tournament and Cal might make it this year, not because of a difference in talent but only because they get to play the equivalent of low-major guarantee games straight through their season. (Snark pre-emption - "Yeah, but we can't even win our guarantee games." That's an excellent point that I can't really rebut.)
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 7, 2017 19:35:55 GMT -5
For a "motion" offense, we sure spend a lot of time with 3-4 guys standing still.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 6, 2017 16:42:39 GMT -5
I went to high school in Connecticut, and since my first contact with UConn fans then I've sincerely wished that program to wither and die. I'm sure the America East will take them.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 26, 2017 14:14:11 GMT -5
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 23, 2016 18:50:08 GMT -5
Our best 5 is DSR/Peak/Ike/Doc/Govan. If not starting or benching some of them will make them play better, fine, that's something JT3 should know better than any of us. But as much as people who wish sports worked like a morality play like to pretend otherwise, you win more basketball games with your most talented guys on the floor, and there's not a lot of season left to teach lessons.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 16, 2015 9:17:56 GMT -5
Don't forget we could also get hosed by geography. Could get stuck playing someone like Wofford in Charlotte. No, thanks. Selfishly, I'm hoping we get sent out west at some point. Ideally, playing in L.A. in the elite 8. The Hoyas haven't played in California since 2009, the West coast alumni could use a home game every once in a while. Here are the two relevant portions of the NCAA's procedures for creating the bracket, as it relates to geography: To recognize the demonstrated quality of such teams, the committee shall not place teams seeded on the first four lines at a potential “home-crowd disadvantage” in the second round.
Teams will remain in or as close to their areas of natural interest as possible. A team moved out of its natural area will be placed in the next closest region to the extent possible. If two teams from the same natural region are in contention for the same bracket position, the team ranked higher in the seed list shall remain in its natural region.The second round = the Round of 64. That rule was the same in 2008 btw...you don't get home-crowd disadvantage protection in the Round of 32, and much to 2008 Gonzaga's dismay a 7-seed doesn't get it in the first round. One theme I picked up in the accounts of the annual media mock-bracket exercise was the committee this year is going to pay more attention to keeping teams in their general geographic area where possible, to cut down on travel and costs. I don't necessarily mind that, because I think the sites are more fun when the teams top to bottom are more regional--it's weird that we've played at regions in Providence, Columbus, and Philly with San Diego State, and shocker...they didn't travel well. What's weird is IMO if our seed gets better, I think it increases our odds of playing somewhere far from DC. The 6-seed line has lots of 3-seed pairs like Maryland (a heavy favorite for Pittsburgh right now), Notre Dame (ditto for Columbus), and Iowa State and Oklahoma (I've seen both in Louisville and Columbus). The 4-seeds tend to be getting the leftover random cities w/o good teams nearby--namely Jacksonville, and the Portland and Seattle pods not occupied by Arizona and Gonzaga. Glad my fears were completely unfounded. I think we take care of business against EWU anyway, but Utah is a terrifying team and way underseeded. BUT, I expect decent fan support for our boys, when we played in Eugene a few years ago there was a strong fan contingent that made the trip.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 10, 2015 11:59:21 GMT -5
Don't forget we could also get hosed by geography. Could get stuck playing someone like Wofford in Charlotte. No, thanks. Selfishly, I'm hoping we get sent out west at some point. Ideally, playing in L.A. in the elite 8. The Hoyas haven't played in California since 2009, the West coast alumni could use a home game every once in a while.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 6, 2015 14:31:07 GMT -5
It's unclear, as they have the option to maintain all their scholarships next year and roll the punishment out to 5 years from now. This is actually a decent thing for the NCAA to do, as it allows kids already offered scholarships to keep them. But, knowing the program, you might see kids forced to transfer out to free up their scholarships for better recruits. Is the old "We'd like you to walk on, but the track coach wanted to talk to you about a pole vault scholarship that's available" loophole still a possibility?
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 6, 2015 12:28:42 GMT -5
What I'm most interested in is if, whenever Magoo finally does leave/get forced out, who takes over? Will it be a Roy Williams>Bill Self smooth transition, or will there be a Bill Gutheridge/Matt Doherty type interregnum. What's our old pal Esh up to these days? Does he have a relationship with Syverud?
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 5, 2015 11:37:30 GMT -5
I saw something in yesterday's performance that hadn't gotten much mention in the game thread. A lot of credit has to go to how well we played offensively as a team. And by that I mean the team has started to implement what they've been coached. Things we saw yesterday: 1. Attacking the zone from the right corner. Several first half plays started with White at the top of the key feeding Copeland in the corner who used the angle to feed Josh or Mikael. Josh was able to seal his defender up high as the ball moved. Very well executed a number of times. 2. High - low. A number of times Copeland flashed to the free throw line where he quickly dumped it down to Josh or Mikael. The difference yesterday: no hesitation on the dump down. 3. Attacking the zone off the dribble. Copeland was able to get into the lane with a quick first step from the wing. This is because our ball movement was better (faster). He got shots, Bowen got shots coming from the corner, and Jabril was able to dish to an open shooter as the zone collapsed. 4. Double low post. Earlier in the game, both Josh and Mikael posted on opposite sides of the paint making it difficult to double team. Mikael got an open look at the rim. 5. Finding cutters off the double team. Josh found a cutting Copeland and later Mikael dished to Bowen. These came when they were both double-teamed on the baseline. Our post players know where to look and our wing players know where to make that cut. After enduring a lot of criticism about our hesitant approach to attacking the zone, we put up 95 points against an aggressive zone defense. This came from a team effort and demonstrated that we were well-prepared and knew what to expect. Mikael was receiving the ball right at the basket where he could go straight to the rim and draw fouls. Same with Josh. Fewer turnovers were the result of more decisive play initiating the offense and moving the ball effectively out of traps and double teams. We got good looks breaking down the zone with better ball movement than we've shown before. I've recently felt that zone was our kryptonite. But yesterday's performance shows that we can thrive on it. If we can execute like that consistently over the rest of the season, this could be a very special year. Want to bump this to highlight how we did the exact opposite last night. Copeland got 2 looks in the short corner, going 1 for 2, and a nice cut to the soft spot for a jumper. Plus there was one high-low action to Josh for a dunk, but the zone wasn't completely set up for that one. Other than that, we did not do the things that 50 years of basketball have shown to be effective against a 2-3 zone. Which we basically haven't done since Sweetney graduated. Otto was a natural zone killer, and we had good success against zones with him in the soft spot. Maybe Copeland has the same natural aspect to his game, and as he grows into a leadership role on this team he'll demand the ball in the weak spots. But for the last 2 minutes of the game last night, we did the same pass-around-the-perimeter;-run-a-few-diagonal-cuts;-PUT-NOBODY-IN-THE-SOFT-SPOT-AND-HOPE-THE-DEFENSE-FORGETS-TO-ROTATE-ON-ONE-OF-THESE-PASSES BULL$#!T we always do, and we lost a winnable game because of it. You can beat a zone with 6th graders and 20 minutes of practice, but we don't ever seem to do it unless a player takes it on himself to do LITERALLY THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS. Maybe we can just bump this every time a zone makes us look like a team that has never seen the game of basketball, but only had it described to us. It'll hit 100 pages by the end of next year.
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 26, 2014 0:01:50 GMT -5
Anybody watching this year's Maui Invitational? There's a big mural at one end of the LCC (used to be big windows there where other teams would watch the current game if anyone remembers that far back) with a bunch of players and coaches on it. Looks like JTIII is pictured at the far right, but I'm not sure.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 24, 2013 20:08:52 GMT -5
Anybody watching FGCU dumptruck the Aztecs? Maybe the problem is that the Committee always gives us drastically underseeded teams. FGCU is significantly better than Montana. That team is a 15. FGCU is athletic and has a specialty they know how to play to. Davidson and VCU went on big runs after they beat us too. Can we get some cupcakes, please?
At this point, you're getting ready to respond with any number of good rebuttals like "No matter how cohesive they are, we should be able to beat a >100 team." For my response to all rebuttals, please read the thread title.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 9, 2013 20:30:43 GMT -5
Indiana/Michigan tomorrow is going to affect things too. I'm guessing we stay at 5.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 1, 2013 17:46:39 GMT -5
lets beat Rutgers on Saturday. Why get caught up in these hypothetical scenarios. One damn game at a time. Because this is an internet sports fan message board, and many of us enjoy speculating about the future of the team? Would it be better if the whole board was a black screen with "Win the next game!" in 50 point font? I'm wondering why you clicked on a threat titled "#1 Seed?" if you don't enjoy thinking about anything beyond the next game.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 1, 2013 17:35:56 GMT -5
This whole experiment was Fox's idea, not Gus Johnson's. They needed to find something for him to do--sixth-tier NFL games and Iowa-Northwestern games on BTN weren't really helping them get their money's worth. There's no reason to attack him for attempting to take on an enormous task for which he will be ridiculed for some time (and in some corners forever) for doing what his bosses asked him to do. The initial reviews of his debut put him in the B-/C+ range, which I think is pretty good given that he knew nothing about soccer 3 months ago. Given that Fox's World Cup isn't for five more years, he'll have lots of time to improve, and won't be so insecure about showing that he'd prepared hard for the gig. Now maybe from here the feedback will be so negative that they'll switch gears and bring him back to do their new signature hoops league, or maybe after this initial soccer run they can adjust his soccer schedule enough to allow him to do hoops next fall. But right now, Fox is devoted to going all in with him on soccer (and he was good enough the other day to justify continuing the experiment) so I think we're looking at other options. I just don't like it. It ruins the game for me to hear him speak. As a soccer fan you want the authentic thing. Not some guy who just picked up the game 2 years ago and knows less about the game than the viewer does. It would be like having a British guy who just started watching basketball a couple years ago announcing NBA or Hoyas games. It just wouldn't fly with the basketball fanbase. (In British accent) "That's a foul!" "Hoop and the Harm!" It would just be silly. I know less than nothing about soccer, but I'd like Fox to hire this guy to call some Hoyas games...
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 7, 2012 20:46:08 GMT -5
How the hell is an 18 team Big East Tournament going to work? You can't have 6 games in one day at the Garden. Maybe 3 in Philly and 3 in the Meadowlands on Tuesday?
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Post by dailey247 on Dec 28, 2011 21:16:50 GMT -5
Never look past an opponent. You would think a mature coach like Rick Pitino would understand that by now. What a great win - with umpty million turnovers AND Hollis, Henry, and Jason shooting poorly from the floor they still gutted it out. Let's not make the same mistake and look past PC with Marquette coming.
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 28, 2011 20:12:40 GMT -5
Not nearly enough UConn guys getting mentioned. How angry do you get when you read these names:
Doron Sheffer Ricky Moore Travis Knight Charlie Villanueva Rip Hamilton Hasheem Thabeet Khalid El Amin and my number one non-cuse ****bag player ever: Jake Voskuhl
Also, I think I'm Preston Shumpert's least favorite Georgetown fan.
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Post by dailey247 on Sept 18, 2011 6:24:29 GMT -5
2 cents: 1) No matter what happens, we need to distance ourselves from Providence, Seton Hall, and DePaul. Sucks to be them, but they bring nothing to the table right now. 2) I don't think ND administration or alumni WANT to do this, but if 2 years from now there's a PAC 16, SEC16, and ACC16, and the MichiganOhioState conference is looking to add more teams and then the 4 SuperConferences are going to form a new NCAA, the Irish won't hesitate to join a conference if it becomes the only way they can compete for a national title. Don't count on them for the long term in to any Catholic League plans.
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