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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 15:38:31 GMT -5
Well, that was fitting, if nothing else.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 10, 2009 13:39:45 GMT -5
That would be an offensive foul on Greg if we were in Cameron. I think the circle helped us get the call, and I'd like to see that on a regular basis.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 7, 2009 22:24:38 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 7, 2009 21:47:52 GMT -5
Very preliminary Pomeroy-based log5 prediction: 18.82% chance of winning 3, 7.35% chance of a finals run, and 2.19% chance of an auto-bid. Those odds will drop after today's game; I'll post tourney chances Monday, probably over at Hoya Prospectus.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 7, 2009 20:37:50 GMT -5
48 points? This game sent basketball back 20 years... We still had a ways to go to catch up with Penn State-Illinois. 48-40 >>> 38-33, and that game was 56 possessions v 58 today. I bailed the TV broadcast midway through the second half at 31-29, only checking for score updates after that. I'll probably watch it when I bring myself to burn the DVD. Two teams that didn't look much like they cared about the game's outcome, or at least not enough to do anything that'd be effective in achieving the outcome. Hidden positive from this season: Hoyas are one of the best teams in the country inside the arc, at 54.5% before today, when they shot 56.5% (13-23). 12 assists on 17 made baskets, including 7 of 9 in the first half, ain't bad either.
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 4, 2009 23:56:40 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 3, 2009 22:02:58 GMT -5
In a year of disappointing results, this has to be the most disappointing, for any number of reasons.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 26, 2009 20:40:12 GMT -5
I was re-watching, on and off, the Memphis game lately burning it to DVD, and we got away with some of the stuff that went on to cause us problems. I didn't pay attention to the whole thing, but in the time I saw, I didn't see a single pass go from Jessie to Chris or vice versa. They shot 1 of 9 in OT, yeah, but that was because they were missing shots. Anderson had an open 3 to tie the game with :45 left because . . . we didn't rotate quickly enough off of a screen. If he hits that, we may be talking about a different outcome, just like we would if Dajuan had hit the game-winning 3's at the end of regulation at Syracuse and against Cincinnati.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 25, 2009 20:53:57 GMT -5
UConn recognizes Hasheem Thabeet isn't very good at playing basketball, at least on the offensive end, so why can't Dookie V recognize it?
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 24, 2009 0:28:10 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 22:08:09 GMT -5
Kansas is one of the 10 least experienced teams in the country. They lost a ton from last year, but Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich are both putting up very good numbers and the freshman class is pretty deep. If you think that the Big 12 and the Big East are in any way comparable, I can't take you seriously. This team is a top 3 team in the Big 12, the SEC, the Big 10, and maybe the Pac 10. Even in the ACC, they are top 5, maybe 4. Our 8-man rotation includes 2 freshman and 4 sophs (3 of which either didnt play or were injured all last year, 1 of which transferred in). Our starting lineup has 3 guys who played a combined 10+ games last year. I don't know how you can possibly argue we're not an incredibly young team. When did I say the B12 and the BE are comparable? The question was whether or not there were any good teams that were as young as us. Among guys who played appreciable minutes, Collins and Aldrich are it, but Collins has been a great ball-handler and go-to guy for them, and Aldrich has been an incredibly efficient post player. They're playing the roles we'd like Sapp and Summers to be playing, but aren't. That's why they're going to be a 4 seed or so, and we're where we are. And I strongly doubt we're among the top 3 teams in the B12. Challenge Texas for 4th? Yes. Better than any of Kansas, Mizzou, or Oklahoma? I don't think so. But it doesn't really matter-we're in the Big East, so we play a number of decent teams, and we keep losing to them.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 21:47:52 GMT -5
Tempo free notes, pending CO's normal fine work: --73% on FG in the first half (8-11), but Hoya shooting other than that was awful (9/24 on FG in 2H, 3/16 on 3's), overall 42.2% eFG compared to 63.6% for Louisville. --TOs and rebounding were pretty even-Louisville slightly won OR%, but had 1 more TO. --7 assists on 20 made baskets for the game. That's not how the offense is supposed to work. By contrast, Louisville had 17 assists on 24 baskets (71%). Kind of easy to identify the good defensive team.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 21:12:57 GMT -5
Watch the way we play, and then you watch other teams in college basketball around the country, including ones with a majority of youth players. Who are you talking about? I have been thinking about this for a few minutes and literally cannot come up with a single other high-performing team with a core of first and second year players. Kansas is one of the 10 least experienced teams in the country. They lost a ton from last year, but Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich are both putting up very good numbers and the freshman class is pretty deep.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 20:58:08 GMT -5
Why do you think we'd be able to move and rotate well enough to play a full-court pressure defense when we can't even do it in the half court set?
Mike Patrick is not just an incredibly annoying PBP guy, he also seems to bring out the worst in his partners on a consistent basis. See, e.g., the old Sunday night comedy of errors.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 13:36:09 GMT -5
That was done by the NCAA in their annual demonstration for media people of the difficulties involved in putting a bracket together-sometimes a team on or even off the bubble puts together an excellent stretch of games and surprisingly wins a conference tourney-South Carolina nearly did it in the SEC a couple years ago, Cuse did it in the BET with McNamara, and Iowa did it in the B10 a while back.
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Feb 23, 2009 13:24:15 GMT -5
Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 13:24:15 GMT -5
Let's not look at "what ifs" - we need to win all four and at least two - maybe three in the BET - unlikely but possible - if we are not .500 in the league we do not deserve to be in - no team does. Whatever your platonic ideals of team quality are, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee doesn't share them. Going 4-0 and losing Wednesday to a bubble team would leave us 9-9 and 18-12 overall. Compare that to Arizona (8-10) or Villanova last year-9-9 in a weaker BE, with nothing non-conference.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 11:54:48 GMT -5
In my mind if we win three of the next four and win at least one game in the BET...because of our SOS and quality wins, I think we are in. I'm having a tough time seeing this. We haven't beaten a Tourney team, even a bubble team, since Syracuse-7 losses in a row. Even if we go 3-1, we could be playing Tuesday as a the 9/10 team, and a win against St. John's or DePaul doesn't really help our resume. I think we need at least 2 wins against legit opponents, or else we're on the outside looking for a lot of help. For the record, Utah State is not getting an at-large bid. Their resume is incredibly thin, and losing to St. Mary's on Saturday killed any minor hopes they had.
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Feb 23, 2009 0:07:01 GMT -5
Post by whatmaroon on Feb 23, 2009 0:07:01 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 22, 2009 17:13:59 GMT -5
Excellent as always, FL, thanks.
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Post by whatmaroon on Feb 21, 2009 21:58:27 GMT -5
Box notes, pending CO's normal excellent and highly detailed runs: Hoyas struggled inside the arc in the first half, under 50%, but 3 point shooting kept them in the game. We made 2's in the 2nd half (10 for 16), but not 3's. Quette struggled from the field in the 2nd half, too-under 50% on 2's and only 20% on 3's.
The stat story of the game, though, was turnovers and offensive rebounding in the vesper half: Quette turned the ball over once in the last 20, while the Hoyas did it 8 times. We also rebounded 15% of our missed shots, while they got 42%.
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