HoyaChris
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 2, 2023 21:45:16 GMT -5
You cannot grab a contested rebound in traffic, advance the ball up the court and get a shot off inside the 3 point line. There is no way that is happening under any circumstance. Yes the guy made a ridiculous shot and was out of bounds. But if you intentionally miss, the ball doesn’t even get across halfcourt. That’s just an error in coaching. I disagree, in order to contest you need to be close enough to potentially foul. They are in the double bonus. Two makes and you lose the game.
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HoyaChris
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Post by HoyaChris on Dec 1, 2023 16:16:51 GMT -5
[/quote]So Rutgers, which is shooting 28.7% from 3-point land for the season, shot 37.5% against us. That's going to, um, hurt TC's argument that we're some sort of awesome 3-point defending team...[/quote]
This is the flimsiest argument I have ever seen to try and prove a point statistically - I use hyperbole so that I can better fit into the conversation. Rutgers is a poor 3 point shooting team, but even a 28.7% 3 point shooting team will have many random walk instances where they will shoot 37.5% over any 24 shot period. Take away 2 makes and the shooting percentage would fall to 29.2%. We should be a better 3 point defending team than the Ewing years because we don't overhelp as much.
This in no way makes us remotely good defensively. Akok Akok was the only clearly good defender we had coming into the summer and he is gone. Supreme Cook plays OK position defense. Massoud, Bristol and Styles look promising. Neither Epps and Brumbaugh can stay in front of their man and Heath has gone from average last year to very slow with all the foot/ankle issues.
Of course, the biggest issue we currently have is with uncontested runouts resulting from live-ball turnovers. And getting a defensive rebound or two might help as well.
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Post by HoyaChris on Nov 25, 2023 14:18:48 GMT -5
Obviously my expectations have been managed way down, but this was a great team effort from a really, really, really shorthanded team.
To recap -
Akok Akok - Very late transfer from the program Ish Massoud - Broken (shooting) hand Rowan Brumbaugh - Out (illness) Jay Heath - Turf toe, limping around the floor Jayden Epps - Dislocated Finger (shooting hand) Cook, Styles and Bristol - Four fouls each
This game made me really proud to be a fan.
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Post by HoyaChris on Nov 19, 2023 20:29:11 GMT -5
Not the best comeback ever, off the top of my head I've got
-Syracuse to close down Manley - 2007 elite 8 to beat Carolina -Kentucky in the 1984 semi -At BC to come back from down 3 pre shot clock with almost no time on the clock -Down 22 to Manhattan with 9 minutes left, no three point shot and no shot clock
But maybe the best last 4 or 5 minutes (of regulation) I have ever seen a Hoya play
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Post by HoyaChris on Nov 19, 2023 19:39:09 GMT -5
I wrote this 17 years ago, but there is a reasonable case that Reggie's 86-87 season was the best season ever for a Hoya.
2. Reggie Williams (1983-87) - If choosing a greatest Hoya is easy, sorting out numbers 2 through 5 is largely impossible. I lean to Reggie as #2 because of his big game impact and his sublime 1986-7 performance as the leader of "Reggie and the Miracles."
Reggie was the consensus #1 player in his high school class, one of four - Patrick, Reggie, Zo and Othella - to have signed with the Hoyas (A.I. probably would have also been #1 had he played his senior year in high school). Listed at 6-7, he played taller, with the wingspan of a 7 footer. As a player he arrived with his game fully formed, complete with the soft mid-range jump shots, the silky smooth drives, the sneaky-quick weak side rebounds and the dagger-like 3-pointers. As a freshman he was the MVP and best player on the floor in the 1984 championship game win. His scoring average rose year by year (9.1, 11.9, 17.6, 23.6) not because his game developed dramatically, but rather because he was asked to do progressively more.
Few players have been asked to do more and fewer have responded in as spectacular a fashion as in Reggie's 1986-87 senior season, the year of "Reggie and the Miracles." In what was supposed to be a rebuilding year, the Hoyas were Big East regular season and tournament champions and lost in the regional final to a Providence team that they had beaten twice earlier that season. By the end of the season, the line-up most often on the floor for the Hoyas was both very young and very short, featuring three guards (FR. Mark Tillmon, FR. Dwayne Bryant and SO. Charles Smith), a 6-4 center (JR. Perry McDonald), and Reggie.
Reggie's 1986-7 season ranks with Allen Iverson's 1995-96 season as the greatest in Thompson era history, as can be discerned by a review of the relevant statistics.
AI slightly outscored Reggie (25.0 - 23.6) while Reggie was responsible for a slightly higher percentage of his team's points (.303 to.300).
Overall, their shooting percentages were almost identical (Reggie .482, A.I. .480) with Reggie shooting better from beyond the arc (.386 to .366) and AI better from 2 point range (.546 to .532).
The entire difference in scoring average was accounted for at the free throw line where A. I. made 59 more free throws, but needed 123 more attempts to do so. Reggie had a far better percentage (.804 to .678).
A forward, Reggie outrebounded guard A. I. by more than 2 to 1 (294-141) while AI had almost twice as many assists as Reggie (173-92). Defensively, AI was the superior player, setting a single season record for steals (124 to Reggie's 71) and recording almost as many blocks (16 to Reggie's 19).
If an edge were to go to Reggie in choosing a greatest season it would be based on a category that is admittedly hard to measure - leadership. In addition to A.I. the 1996 team featured three frontcourt players (Othella, Jerome, and Jahidi White) who have gone on to have longish NBA careers and Victor Page, who certainly had NBA skills. That team finished with a somewhat disappointing 29-8 record, a close loss in the Big East Final and a 9-5 record against ranked teams. Like the 1996 team, the 1987 squad lost in a regional final. But playing with far less talent (only reserves Jaren Jackson and Ben Gillery ever played in the NBA) the 1987 team finished 29-5, won the Big East tournament and was a stunning 9-1 verses ranked teams that were in every case much bigger and generally much more experienced. The lasting memory from 1987 is Reggie gathering in his younger teammates for on-court huddles that seemed to take place after every whistle - and for that team to come out of those huddles and execute at a higher level than any Hoya team since.
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Post by HoyaChris on Nov 11, 2023 7:12:08 GMT -5
That article mentions a few pertinent facts about that game but leaves out a few others: (1) was a big-deal-at-the-time regional tv game, (2) was our second rout of HC that season— beat them by 14 innthr Holiday Festival in the Garden when HC was a Top ten team, and (3) great bedsheet sign in one end zone “Nail the Loss on the Cross” (complete with a Spraypainted Cross). Fails to mention the game started at like 4pm and doors opened at noon with 25 cent 20 ounce beers for sale Ah, those were the days. Finished undefeated at home on the year with the win, on the heels of two epic one point comeback wins earlier that month (1) over Detroit (with three future NBA players) which had like the nation’s longest win streak of 13-14 games at the time, and (2) an OT win over GW earlier tgat week after Esherick tied it with about a 40 footer at the buzzer. Sadly the day after the HC win we spit the bit at Fordham to blow any real chance of an ncaa bid and then were routed by VCU at Smith Center in the ECAC South game (star Derrick Jackson couldn’t play because an ulcer acted up) that could’ve provided a path to an automatic bid had we won and then beaten the winner of the ECAC North game (as we did in ‘75 and ‘76). My wife hates that this stuff I remember and yet other “more important” things are totally lost in time… You forgot Dick "wearing plaid pants" Vitale coaching Detroit, and Craig Shelton dunking over Terry Tyler in that game. Esherick hit that shot right in front of my spot at the scorers table. Trust me, hoyajmw will forget his wife's name before he forgets that Big Sky dunk.
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Post by HoyaChris on Oct 17, 2023 2:48:03 GMT -5
I am confused. This is posted way in advance. It is almost as if other events will be taking over your life sometime later this month. What could it be? ?
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Post by HoyaChris on Aug 22, 2023 22:33:47 GMT -5
As I read through DFW's latest post I found myself in fierce agreement with his thoughts.
Then came this, "In Premier League terms, FSU has become Everton." As an Everton fanatic I was deeply offended but also in complete agreement.
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Post by HoyaChris on Jul 1, 2023 20:47:51 GMT -5
No three in his day but Derrick Jackson. I absolutely disagree. Derrick might have been the best mid-range shooter the Hoyas have ever had, but his shot was way too flat to be effective from three. The winner against West Virginia to put the Hoyas into the NCAA in 1975 might be the longest shot he ever hit.
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Post by HoyaChris on Jun 29, 2023 20:38:21 GMT -5
Sleepy from the corner, easily.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 21, 2023 16:29:38 GMT -5
Three things that Brandon Bowman brought to Georgetown.
1.) An epic nationally-televised destruction of Duke that signaled the rebirth of Hoya hoops. 2.) The throw dribble. 3.) Ed Cooley
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 21, 2023 16:20:19 GMT -5
It's much harder to argue against someone choosing millions of dollars. Going with the "it's not you, it's me" narrative brings more questions & anger in my opinion It almost certainly brings more questions and anger from Providence fans, but Hoya fans should be excited that the money was a relatively minor part of the move.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 20, 2023 13:49:33 GMT -5
From my email to Lee Reed
Dear Lee –
Congratulations on a great hire. I am both excited and optimistic and will be increasing my hoop club donation back to former levels.
Having said that, might we invest in somebody to proof read our press releases? Getting a new coach's won/lost record seems kind of fundamental to communicating the hire.
Go Hoyas!!!!!
Chris.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 15, 2023 0:40:25 GMT -5
The 1979-1980 G-town team says hello. Nobody asked, but my favorite G'town team of all-time. But then you knew that from the handle. Kicked Terp a**. For those who weren't there, we kicked their a** twice that season.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 13, 2023 12:05:11 GMT -5
Is there any evidence that Lee Reed or the rest of athletics or even the Board (who seem to be trying to level up Lee Reed) see Ronny as a positive? They allowed him to lord over the basketball program this entire season, literally sitting/standing in the corner a few rows from the Hoyas sideline at every Verizon Center game. Ronny was very prominent at NIL get-togethers with the rest of the team prior to the season. Ronny was the lead guy bringing in new assistants this past season, which led to us hiring Ronny crony Kevin Nickelberry, whose ethics/resume were extremely questionable. Ronny reportedly had signs that he didn't like confiscated from fans at the Verizon Center. If Lee Reed or JDG wanted to put a stop to all of that, they could have. Lee Reed has had absolutely no power over the basketball program historically. Any assertion to the contrary is flat out wrong!!!!!
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 7, 2023 12:00:39 GMT -5
The paranoia about us going on a run and winning a Big East title, somehow saving Patrick's job is beyond misplaced. Two years ago we were 6-4 in our last ten conference games and had a KenPom in the low 70s. We were a good three point shooting team, despite not having an offense that created open spot up threes and we had improved through the year. We shot well in the Garden and caught a little luck with Nova's injuries.
Our Kenpom is currently 219 and we are horrific from 3. According to Kenpom the math to get to 4 wins is approximately 5,300 to 1. I will be fervently rooting for four Hoya upsets. I doubt that we will even get one. And Ewing will be gone.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 7, 2023 11:11:25 GMT -5
Anybody rooting for Nova to beat our Hoyas really need to question their loyalty. Let’s go Hoyas beat Nova! True fans are more focused on the future of a program in crisis rather than one meaningless game. I am congenitally incapable of rooting for a Hoya loss. I do resent, immensely, anyone suggesting that I am not a "true fan" because I will not root for Nova.
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Post by HoyaChris on Mar 1, 2023 21:39:11 GMT -5
Hard to believe that our embarrassment could keep getting worse. Is it my imagination, or would a more consistent whistle in the post have meant that we could have held the lead to under 25
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 22, 2023 23:13:34 GMT -5
Fun thought, can you imagine this current Hoya team trying to bring the ball up against the 83-84 Hoyas?
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Post by HoyaChris on Feb 22, 2023 23:10:08 GMT -5
In 49 years of watching Hoya Basketball this is the most clueless I have ever seen a Hoya team play.
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