whatmaroon
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 23, 2009 20:52:59 GMT -5
My main beef with Huggins is that, IIRC, he graduated NO players at Cincinnati. None. He has no business being at an academic institution. I will grant, however, that he is good at basketball. This gets dragged out from time to time, and, while his record isn't good, this is also misleading because of the way the NCAA counted graduation rate: 1. Transfers out didn't count, even if they left in good standing. 2. Transfers in didn't count, even if they graduated on time. 3. A couple guys graduated in the 7th year after spending 1 or 2 years trying to go pro. Since they were outside the 6 year range, didn't count. In terms of academic weight, I'm glad Huggins is coaching at WVU and not 37&O NW, but I'm not convinced he's any worse than 50 other guys coaching D1 basketball.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 22, 2009 22:50:23 GMT -5
RB when the 3s were falling like they did at UConn I said great what an offense. After the win I questioned what are the chances that this team will run on all cylinders like this again. That was my concern and remains my concern. Ding ding ding! There's a reason Lavin's breakdown at halftime of last night's game was kicking the ball out for the open 3-that's a lot of what the offense runs around. And, look at who's shooting the 3 compared to last year-Summers is up in terms of accuracy, probably because he's taking the ball inside more, but Freeman and particularly Jessie are off last year's personal rate in terms of 3-point accuracy, and Jason Clark has replaced PE2 as the player who makes you groan when he shoots from beyond the arc. When the outside shot isn't falling, like it did at Pitt last year or tonight, this team will struggle offensively.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 22, 2009 22:38:39 GMT -5
I was futzing around with KenPom today and noticed for the first time that WVU was the #12 team in the country, which really surprised me. I don't think I'd seen the Eers play for more than a couple minutes, but let's not pretend the Hoyas were the only reason the Hoyas looked bad tonight-that's a danged good team Huggins has, and they make you work for almost every point out get. When the outside shots weren't falling, the Hoyas were sunk.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 19:29:51 GMT -5
Quick non-officiating related notes from the quickie tempo-free box: We did pretty well on the boards the first half, grabbing 35% of our misses and limiting Duke to 17% of theirs. The second half, we lost even worse-15% of our own and Duke got 42% of theirs.
Duke was absolutely lights out from the floor the first half-all their FTs, 46% on 3's, and 64% on 2's. Hoyas made 2/3 of their 2's the second half, and 58% for the game, but weren't good on 3's or FTAs.
I'm sure CO will run his normal excellent and detailed post later.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 15:38:35 GMT -5
The major problem with this game has been the inability of the Hoyas guards, especially Sapp, to control the game on the defensive end. I think Wright has been out for defense (in favor of Wattad) but Clark is not ready to run the offense and the offense has really missed Wright's creativity. Defense is losing this game. I've whined about the refs a lot, but they haven't been the only reason-the guards really have struggled defensively, and Clark has not been able to handle the ball.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 15:05:10 GMT -5
I do have to give Anthony some credit for mentioning, when he was talking about it being a "learning experience" for Monroe to get hit with some questionable foul calls. Not much credit, mind you, but it is something. Also, if "learning experience" = "go to the NBA, where the good players get the calls", then that's not the sort of learning experience I as a Hoya fan want Greg to get.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 14:55:38 GMT -5
The foul on Sims for the push was actually legit-I didn't think so at first, but it looked right on replay. The tech, on the other hand...
Hoyas really needed that TO. Hopefully JT3 can calm them down.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 14:51:29 GMT -5
Really liking the way the team has played the first couple minutes of the second half-scoring from somebody other than Summers/Monroe/Freeman, better defensive, better rebounding.
Maybe I just have a bad memory, but has there been any other game where JT3 has done the everybody back on D thing for FTs this early in a game?
Greg Anthony finally provides useful information-Hoyas +11 with Monroe on the court, -15 without him. Got that, refs?
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 17, 2009 14:28:17 GMT -5
JT3 should request that the refs wear Duke unis, and Coach K get his extra 3 guys off the court.
"Loved" Seth Davis's little smirk when he mentioned Monroe's 3 fouls will be trouble for Georgetown in the second half.
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Post by whatmaroon on Jan 7, 2009 16:56:52 GMT -5
The Hoyas turned the ball over on 12.7% of their offensive possessions against the Irish. That's the least they've turned the ball over all year. In fact, they haven't turned the ball over on 20% of their possessions in the last 6 games. In fact, that's the best such streak since the 7 game stretch in 2007... which just happened to be the 3 BET games and the 4 East Regional NCAA tourney games. Wright individually also has the best TO Rate of any Hoya ball-handler so long as KenPom has stats. Yeah, my attitude towards his drives to the basket is often "No, no, no, no, no, yes!", and sometimes without the "Yes", but the record is saying his decision process is pretty danged good.
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Post by whatmaroon on Dec 11, 2008 14:23:14 GMT -5
1985 National Semifinal Winner: 68 1985 National Semifinal Loser: 61
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Post by whatmaroon on Dec 9, 2008 0:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Dec 8, 2008 22:18:55 GMT -5
The Hoyas had 27 first half possessions that didn't end in a turnover. I don't think I'm going much out on a limb when I say that any time you can average over 2 points on every non-turnover possession you're probably going to have an excellent chance to win the game, even when the other team does break 18% on its 2-point FGAs.
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Post by whatmaroon on Dec 7, 2008 11:35:56 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Dec 7, 2008 11:15:15 GMT -5
At least half of the American offense rebounds were us just bobbling the ball to them instead of grabbing the ball. Rather then them out rebounding us. Good call-6 of their offensive rebounds, 3 in each half, were dead ball rebounds. That's an unusually large number, 1/6th of the total rebounds on AU missed shots. You normally do see a couple a game, but those are usually off blocked or deflected shots. Yesterday, though, I noticed during the game there were a number of balls the Hoyas had their hands on that went out of bounds to AU, and those dead ball rebound numbers back that up.
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Post by whatmaroon on Nov 30, 2008 21:49:45 GMT -5
Quick numbers on today's game: OR 45.8%, Maryland OR 31.7%. The margin was especially glaring in the first half-OR 46.2%, Maryland OR 22.2%. Just one element of a thorough domination.
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Post by whatmaroon on Nov 30, 2008 21:30:09 GMT -5
I didn't want to post anything during the game, but it's long since over and I feel no such restraint.
I was running the NCAA pool at work in 2001, and wrote something to annoy all the Twerp fans about how future Georgetown-Maryland games would surely revert to the karmic perfection that was the first meeting. Given that 58-3 was never a realistic possibility, today's game was about as satisfying as possible. This was in doubt about as long as the Titans-Lions game I was fortunate enough to see on Turkey day, and the end result just as satisfying, even if the insane benchmarks for Totally Awesome Victory weren't reached (50 points, doubling their score or at least 30+).
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Post by whatmaroon on Nov 22, 2008 8:44:17 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Nov 19, 2008 19:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by whatmaroon on Mar 23, 2008 18:36:06 GMT -5
20 turnovers -- that's ugly. But the remarkable thing is that the turnover story to me is really more about a missed chance to put the game away than a description of the comeback. If I'm not mistaken, we only committed two turnovers in the last 10 minutes of the game...we had an incredible 18 in the first 30 minutes, and yet still led at that point. Looking at the PBP, it looks like you're right. 20 TOs: 8 in the first half 10 in the first 10:15 of the second half (4 on fouls) 2 in the last 9:45 of the game
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