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Post by royski on Dec 29, 2009 0:05:40 GMT -5
Speaking of polls.... Are members of the Syracuse media a bunch of losers or what.? Check out the front page of Hoyasaxa. Asking members of the press that covers the Big East to do an updated preseason poll of Big East teams just to see how well thought of their Cuse team is now? Poor babies. I guess they must think the Orange is the only team of all time that was underrated going into a season. And we're also better than Syracuse.
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Post by royski on Dec 17, 2009 16:53:33 GMT -5
Jon didn't mess anything up. He knew Roy could knock that baby down and he was gonna force him to shoot it!
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Post by royski on Dec 17, 2009 16:20:59 GMT -5
Quinn told me he was interested in the Hoyas but Ohio State and UNC are definately leaders. Players at OSU develop injury issues. Does he want to spend significant portions of his career on crutches?
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Post by royski on Dec 17, 2009 1:00:17 GMT -5
You're all wrong, it will be Henry Sims on a putback.
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Post by royski on Dec 15, 2009 22:32:13 GMT -5
Don't know if you guys follow the CAA at all but if you like watching great offensive sets (which you must since Gtown runs the Princeton offense), you guys would love watching W&M. Blasphemy. There's nothing beautiful about the millstone better known as the Princeton offense. Haven't you ever seen VMI? Now THAT is offense!
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Post by royski on Dec 15, 2009 20:05:10 GMT -5
Speaking of Duke, thank god for the Worldwide Leader's coverage of Tobacco Road. What would I do if I couldn't see Duke play 3-4 Big South powerhouse Gardner-Webb on national TV in primetime?
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Post by royski on Dec 15, 2009 19:35:37 GMT -5
Omar's decision to leave had very little to do with pt. I'll leave it at that. Christmas has a spot available. Like damn said, he's the top target. Why wouldn't he be? GU needs bigs in that class and he's the top PF in that class, imo. You see Christmas as more of a 4 than a 5? Any elaboration on that would be appreciated.
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Post by royski on Dec 15, 2009 19:34:45 GMT -5
I won't say Cook isn't interested, but I think he's interested in alot of other schools too. ID, I feel like you were the first to mention Quinn Cook at all, so I'm taking your word as the most authoritative on his situation.
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Post by royski on Dec 15, 2009 19:33:18 GMT -5
ODU's solid, but top 10 teams win these sorts of games. Let's take care of business.
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Post by royski on Dec 14, 2009 12:55:15 GMT -5
Also jumping out is that Greg is our worst offensive player. That's actually a good thing imo, because if he can get back to where he was last year, with the increased possessions, we'll be even BETTER.
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Post by royski on Dec 14, 2009 2:21:47 GMT -5
Agreed. We are Georgetown. That means intimidating our opponents not being intimated by high expectations or high rankings. Fully agreed. We deserve to be top 10 based on the results on the court this season. Whether that changes in the future is irrelevent, right now this is a top 10 team and should be ranked accordingly. Anything else is just anti-Hoya pro-ACC bias. And we better be ahead of Nova. They have some ok wins over Ole Miss and Dayton and Maryland. We have wins over Butler and Washington and the team that just beat them, Temple.
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Post by royski on Dec 13, 2009 20:11:55 GMT -5
Temple, N-Butler, N-Washington is a pretty nice list of quality wins this early in the season. Those should all matter in March. As long as Butler can stay ranked for conference play, they'll win almost every game in the Horizon so they'll probably stay ranked all year. Same for Washington and that mid-major conference they play in.
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 18:23:50 GMT -5
For the record, there are 14 undefeated teams left in D-1 college bball.
5 of them are in the Big East. Too bad its such a lousy down year for the conference.
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 18:17:25 GMT -5
Agreed on all counts. I do think this was an adjustment (we didn't figure out how to play together over haltime). But what a welcome sight. Aggressive defense, big men scoring down low, and the key was we dropped the cliche of "5 basketball players." Julian Vaughn was not playing "guard centward" in the second half. He was a big man and played like it. Good. This team needs to know their roles and it looks like they're defining some right now. I agree with you Giga. It appears to me that JT3 has added another dimension to the "Princeton" by emphasizing inside play and rebounding and positioning more. We still have lots of spacing, passing, options for the guys to go choose from based on what the D is giving us. I asked Dan, but he thinks it is just running the "P. O." better. I think it is that, plus greater emphasis on the big guys and going inside. Today was also a great day for the D.... team D. JT3 is one heckuva smart and capable coach. You just new he would work and work to overcome last year -- not just chemistry issues. Everything. What, no credit to the coaching of the board?! We've been saying to get it inside forever! :-p
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 18:16:28 GMT -5
I haven't seen Julian play this year, so I am asking is he the second coming of Michael Graham? I'm too young to have seen Michael Graham at the time, but I've seen my share of games on tape from the era. I think Graham had a level of nastiness that Juilian isn't quite at. He was also a more explosive athlete. However, Julian is clearly a legit Big East big man, and the line-up of Wright, Freeman, Clark, Monroe and Vaughn just might be the most talented in the Big East.
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 17:54:16 GMT -5
Washington is #28 as of today according to Pomeroy, so this should be a bump in the more meaningful statistics as well.
Also, play of the day to me was after Austin missed the dunk when he just ran back, stole the ball back, then took it to the rack for the lay-up. If Austin played with that sort of anger and aggression all the time, he'd definitely get a shot in the league.
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 16:59:39 GMT -5
Ewing, Mutumbo, Mourning, Hibbert, Monroe, what else does the kid need to decide?
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 16:55:28 GMT -5
It's like a participation trophy. Everyone gets one. Wash U gets a smaller version congratulating them on their sportsmanship. Washington got a kiddie plastic trophy for trying?
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 16:54:41 GMT -5
Vaughn is also making me feel MUCH better about the front line next year when Greg likely takes his game to the next level.
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Post by royski on Dec 12, 2009 16:43:30 GMT -5
Outside of their stars, Poindexter and Thomas, nobody on Washington scored more than 5 points.
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