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Post by dailey247 on Nov 30, 2010 12:22:39 GMT -5
What the hell happens with the Big East Tournament when there are 17 teams?
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Post by dailey247 on Nov 29, 2010 10:54:21 GMT -5
It would be great to see that story from Tarik. We dont play 3 home games in a row the entire season. Some top programs dont even play a true road OOC game...at all. COUGHsyracuseCOUGH If I were Emperor of Earth, not going on the road before the New Year would mean automatic disqualification from postseason play.
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Post by dailey247 on Apr 5, 2010 15:07:19 GMT -5
Just wanted to give a visual representation of one of the ideas kicking around this thread... If the new 1st round matched up teams evenly in every game, such that the top 8 seeds would still play their first game against an opponent of similar quality to the matchups from the first round of the current format, here's what the Midwest would have looked like this year: tinyurl.com/y9ehj2p
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 23, 2010 11:52:27 GMT -5
So, do CBS and ESPN start picking their games before the NBA/NHL schedules are out? If not, once those schedules are out and we know that we have 3 open Saturdays in Jan/Feb, why can't we (or the Big East, or ESPN, or CBS, or whoever is in charge of these things) say "this date is cuse, this one Duke, this one Nova," and then go from there? I guess I'm worried that nobody in the decision making process even cares about GU-cuse. As a California resident who can only make one game a year, and only on a Saturday, I'd really like to go to another cuse game someday.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 23, 2010 11:29:36 GMT -5
Tangent question: Why is it that we haven't hosted cuse on a Saturday since 2006? In 07 we only played at the dome, and the last three years have been on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I know that we get last choice on dates at the booth, and the Big East TV contract has a lot to do with it, etc., but is there something someone should be doing to get us a weekend game?
Tangent-to-the-tangent. How come we never play the orangewomen, home or away, during "Rivalry Week" on ESPN?
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Post by dailey247 on Apr 16, 2009 8:57:42 GMT -5
You seem to be equating leadership to having just won a game. Do you have any evidence? Can you prove that NJIT didn't have a strong leader last year? What about DePaul? Did they throw up a bagel in the regular season because Dar Tucker is a bad leader, or because the rest of his team couldn't crack the starting five at Dallas Academy? Furthermore, can you prove that Tyler Hansbrough's teammates don't find his antics as annoying as we all do, but won in spite of him? I don't know if other players think Chris Wright is a super swell guy and would follow him into a burning building. I do know that the only things he can do to make them play better are draw double teams and make accurate passes. We will go precisely as far next year as the intersection of talent and execution takes us.
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Post by dailey247 on Apr 3, 2009 13:42:22 GMT -5
I'd feel a lot better about Sparty if they hadn't gotten waxed on that same floor by the Heels back in December. They were tired and banged up, though. Suton didn't even play. Of the other three teams, I dislike Nova the least by a wide margin. I'll definitely be rooting for them to give Tyler Heartsbrough another Final Four humiliation. Even the little teams in the Big East should abuse an ACC "frontcourt." UConn winning would be a national disastrophy on the scale of the AIG collapse or the Loma Prieta quake.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 16, 2009 11:47:19 GMT -5
Even though I knew it was coming since they won their quarterfinal ACC game, it still makes me sick to my stomach that Maryland is in this tournament. I need to throw things. BC inspires similar, if less intense, feelings. San Diego State, Florida, Auburn, Baylor - these are all better teams. And I know that arguments can be made for BC and MD based on their quality wins, but it seems like these breaks ALWAYS fall for the ACC team.
Now, I realize with the three 1-seeds this year has to be considered a success for the giant Big East. (And let's just not talk about the 7-bid Big Ten. Their non-tournament teams were so bad that it made the rest of the league look better than average instead of mediocre. This is a one-year thing.) I just hate that EVERY team in the ACC gets this little prestige bump because EVERY team in the league, except UNC, is a little bit overrated.
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Post by dailey247 on Mar 10, 2009 15:40:01 GMT -5
1 - Hustling in practice 2 - Cheering from the bench 3 - Directing traffic at 37th and O ... 5293 - Shooting a guarded jumper with a post-season game on the line
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 5, 2009 12:37:22 GMT -5
@frazier First of all, I may have been picked last, but my teams usually won. And triple-b was always picked first, so stow that garbage right now. Call statistics "geeky" if you must, but you're only showing your willful ignorance of something that explains and elucidates what happens on the court. This is tantamount to me saying I don't watch the games because the players move too fast and it gives me a headache, but I know who the best guys are because I check who scored the most points in the paper the next morning. If you're not doing both, you're only getting half the story.
Furthermore, I'm not applying to replace the coach, but I'm not going to say that everything he does is beyond reproach. I think that he's an offensive genius who has learned to coach elite defensive basketball. In this one case, I think he might - not is, might - be putting too much emphasis on having players who smoothly run the offense on the court, and is thus losing out on the defensive upgrade that the numbers demonstrate we get when Sims is out there. Reasonable minds can disagree, but I'm seeing at least some support for this idea from a group of people who clearly spend a good portion of their time watching and thinking about basketball.
Now I'm going to use some of your own words against you. I never suggested "replac[ing]" Jessie Sapp, just changing his role to one that can better help the team. Were you opposed to having PE Jr. become our sixth man? Isn't the concensus that his leadership, intensity, and experience was a great help to us coming off the bench? Jessie Sapp is a tested senior, no doubt. He's been tested and shown to be a slightly above-average major college basketball player. Henry Sims is untested. He may be a complete disaster. Or he may be an amazing talent. The only things I have to decide what I think is the truth are 1)the performance I've seen on the court in the games I've watched and 2)the statistical record of those performances. In this case, both suggest - to me - that, in many situations, our defense and rebounding would be improved and our offense would not suffer much if Sims played more. So I'm going to let the staff decide who plays, because that's their job. I'm going to keep doing my "job," so to speak, as a fan, which is to follow the team, learn as much as I can about it, and occasionally bloviate about it on some message board.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 4, 2009 15:54:12 GMT -5
For the record, my use of the word "PROVES" was sarcastic. Following 2 long paragraphs' worth of APBRmetrics, I wanted to highlight a simple coincidence that also favored my argument. I know that this is in no way definitive. I just wanted to throw it out there.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 4, 2009 14:14:19 GMT -5
First off, I guess my joke at the top is a little clunky. It was a simultaneous swipe at the SFS, for not knowing about numbers, the MSB, for working in groups, and those smart enough to get admitted to the College, but still majored in English or something else that didn't have final exams, and instead wrote papers about their feelings. And for the nurses - Are you doing anything this weekend?
Also, excellent point about Sims not being able to guard some people. We could play a little more zone to help with this, or sub in Sapp or Clark for Freeman or Summers more against this kind of lineup, or just play Sims less against teams like that. However, given how lifeless we've looked recently, my main thesis is that we need to try a major change. There will always be tradeoffs.
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Post by dailey247 on Feb 4, 2009 13:26:51 GMT -5
Some of these points come up in passing in other threads, but I wanted to lay out my entire case and invite you jackals to tear me apart. Call me an idiot if you must, but please leave my mom out of this. (N.B. to any SFSers out there - I will be quoting numbers in this post, or as some like to call them, "facts." If this frightens you, set up a "group project" thread to talk about how it makes you feel.)
My starting five (minutes per game they should be getting)
Wright (30) Freeman (28) Summers (33) Sims (22) Monroe (30)
Bench, in the order in which they should enter the game
Sapp (19) Clark (19) Vaughn (10) Mescheriakov (8) Wattad (1)
Let's start with the most dramatic change: Henry Sims, and a lot of him. I love what happens to this team when Sims is on the floor, especially when he's on the floor WITH Monroe, and not INSTEAD OF Monroe. Sims is the second best defensive rebounder on the team, coming in with a DR% of 13.4, behind only the 15.0 mark put up by Monroe. This is far from an elite figure, but beggars can't be choosers. With Greg and Henry on the floor at the same time, we might sometimes resemble an actual basketball team that collects a loose ball once in a while. Sims also leads the team with a 7.5 Block%. He's no Thabeet out there, but he certainly helps the team on defense. Given that, prior to the Rutgers game, we were on a streak of 6 bad-to-brutal defensive performances, I think this is one area we might want to focus on improving. You may be thinking to yourself that Sims has the worst Offensive Rating and Effective FG% on the team, and only 4th on the team in Offensive Rebounding%, and thus might be considered a liability on the other end of the floor. I have three rebuttals to this. First, early in the season Sims was spending a lot of time drifting around the perimeter shooting jumpers that did not fall. In 2009, however, he's 8-16 from the field, a much more respectable FG%. Also, now that he's spending more time around the rim, I suspect - but can not prove - that he's been more efficient on the offensive glass. Finally, I think he's much easier to stop when he's the lone big man out there. But when he plays the high-low with Greg - especially against a zone - he really becomes a factor. See the play against Rutgers when Monroe got the ball in the soft spot, the D moved up to challenge, and Sims slipped in behind them, caught a perfect Monroe-brand bounce pass, and scored. So, while I am definitely not arguing that Sims should be our primary option, I at least think we need to give him some run in situations where he can be an effective contributor. Finally, one last stat that PROVES Sims should be playing more: Georgetown's record in 2009 when Sims plays >10 minutes: 3-1 Georgetown's record in 2009 when Sims plays <10 minutes: 0-6
Moving on - Jessie Sapp. "He's our only senior! We need his leadership! He's tough as nails! You can't bench him, that would be a slap in the face and ruin his confidence, sour him on the team, lead to him intentionally throwing inbounds passes to the other team! Grumble, grumble, rabble, rabble!" Save it. Not only is Sapp struggling, he's not terribly productive at his best. His O Rating last year, when he was not struggling, was 105, which would still trail Monroe, Summers, Wright, Freeman, and Clark on this years team. The current model, which only manages a 99.5, simply does not deserve to play 27 minutes a game. And if he really is the mentally tough leader that we think he is, he won't let coming off the bench bother him. He'll be ready to contribute whenever we need him. I think he could benefit from playing with Wright less. A Sapp-Clark or Sapp-Freeman backcourt lets him handle the ball more and look to drive, instead of trying to be the catch-and-shoot guy who has been missing all those jumpers. TAKE IT TO THE HOLE JESSIE!
Vaughn. Some people don't think he should play much. I think you've got a touch of the Nikitis. He rebounds well at both ends (only player on the team with double digit OR% and DR%), and blocks a few shots. When Monroe is out and Sims is in, Vaughn should be in too. He's a role player. Let him play his role.
Mescheriakov. It's cool that we have a Euro jump shooter on the team. He doesn't take dumb shots, and he knocks down his share of threes. He is not Dirk Nowitzki. Anything he gives us is gravy.
Wattad. My camel's back broke last night when he drove into three defenders backward and threw the ball away. I'm just not seeing the benefit to him playing much. Anything he can do, Nikita can do taller.
OK, that's it. Fire away.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 23, 2009 13:26:18 GMT -5
I loved that Doris Burke was either not paying attention to that waste of airtime at all, or didn't understand a word of it, because when they threw it back to the table the first thing she said was "But what is a Hoya, that's what I want to know?" Hilarious.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 23, 2009 13:21:58 GMT -5
I'm not trying to say anything negative about Omar. Apart from a few jump shots that were just way off, he hasn't done a thing to hurt this team. I just don't think he has the chops to be a real impact player. Chris Wright has his faults, but he DOES things on the court. Things that make me say "Wow. He's good at basketball." Omar just sort of exists.
Clark needs to take his foot off the accelerator just a little bit - the ball seems to fly out of his hands 2-3 times a game - but he's also a guy who makes me sit up and take notice when he's on the court. The jump stop layup he made in the first half yesterday was stupid good.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 23, 2009 12:58:02 GMT -5
OMFG this team is so bad, I'm just disgusted! None of these people deserve to call themselves Georgetown basketball players! THEY HAVE NO PASSION! Fire JTIII, disband the team, and beg Vern and Jeremiah to come back! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Just kidding.
We played an ELITE defense last night. If you don't think that WVU is a good team because they're not ranked as such by a bunch of beat writers or SID's who have probably seen them play 1 game this year (a loss to Davidson, in which they held Steph Curry in check for most of the game), then you don't deserve to call YOURSELF a college basketball fan. Getting shut down, even by one of the best defenses in the country, is, of course, still troubling. We're one of the best offensive teams in the country, and should be able to match up with a team like that. But this is basketball, and sometimes their strength beats yours.
Sapp's play is also a real concern. I think this is just a slump, and he'll snap out of it and be vintage model Onions for the stretch run, but we'll just have to wait and see. He's clearly not getting minutes while he struggles, so it seems like the staff has a handle on this. Don't fool yourself, though - at his best he's still our 5th option.
I'm not sure I understand coach's fascination with Wattad. He's definitely earned 5 minutes a game, but he's out there for long stretches in crunch time recently, when I think more Vaughn or Sims might be helpful. I'm willing to trust the professionals for the time being, but I still get a little uneasy when I see a Clark-Wattad backcourt out there.
My overall opinion of this team has not changed at all since the beginning of the season: We are a top 10 team, with an extremely talented first unit, fronted by the best player in the country. Our bench is thin, but passable. We beat teams by running a ruthlessly efficient offense, and forcing teams to take difficult shots, which they miss. This plan will not work every single night, because we play in the best conference ever, and thus play a brutal schedule, and also because THIS IS COLLEGE BASKETBALL! These are teenagers. They have off nights. They will not play this poorly very often. They might play this poorly in a second round game, and we'll all be frustrated by the wasted potential. Or, they might string together 4 solid games in March, and 2 inspired games in April and I will literally lose my mind with happiness. Either way, I am really enjoying this ride. Hoya Saxa.
(...or is it "We are Hoya Saxa?")
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 21, 2009 13:51:36 GMT -5
GUY IN THE STEELERS HAT SPEAKS
My brother used to work with the infamous fan behind the bench, and talked to him about the incident today. The transcript:
Dailey the Elder: What happened?
Steelers Hat: all i can say is I was wrongly blamed by Monroe pointing at me
DE: Who is responsible? Who are you protecting?!
SH: the ref was really Edited off at one of the asst coaches and blamed monroe for some reason
DE: I see. So did you hear the offending comment?
SH: not really, but i saw the asst get warned
DE: And you have no idea who actually uttered the offensive comment?
SH: i really dont think there was one. the ref was just Edited from before -------------------
So, there you have it. Still seems like shoddy officiating, but our bench should probably have been a little more composed.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 21, 2009 12:20:14 GMT -5
I don't work for ESPN or anything, but I'm pretty sure that what these pages are trying to tell us is that the game will be shown on the channel ESPNHD (724 on Comcast Bay Area) but will not be in high definition. So, prepare yourselves for some black bars on the screen.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 20, 2009 15:33:28 GMT -5
I think we come out angry for this one. I'm glad I didn't have to go to practice with JTIII this week. That said, going 9 minutes without a bucket will sink our chances, just like Saturday. Avoid long cold spells, and we win by double digits.
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Post by dailey247 on Jan 15, 2009 11:19:42 GMT -5
I'd be willing to give up 15 apiece to Singler and Henderson if it means we are also getting out and guarding the three. Also, it is quite fortuitous that we've shown the ability to go to a big lineup right before this game. They would have to go zone to keep us from pounding them inside, and then the game comes down to making open jumpers. I like our chances.
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