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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 29, 2021 7:31:57 GMT -5
"I heard that Ham Sandwich is staying and PBJ is coming to the Hilltop." It was a joke.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 29, 2021 7:19:10 GMT -5
CONFIRMED
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 27, 2021 15:10:50 GMT -5
Good luck to him.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 23, 2021 7:51:28 GMT -5
I liked what I saw from this young man and believe that he can contribute over time with lots of hard work.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 22, 2021 16:21:53 GMT -5
Of course.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 22, 2021 8:09:26 GMT -5
Good luck Jahvon, and thanks for the memories!
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 21, 2021 12:35:02 GMT -5
Too bad- while I know he was not a prototypical Big East player, I am pro having role guys who sit for a few years. I thought there was a chance he could help us a shooter as an upperclassman. Best wishes to him.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 21, 2021 10:59:21 GMT -5
BREAKING NEWS:
Pickett and Baldwin to form own team, each play 100+ minutes a game
Details to follow
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 11:04:04 GMT -5
The folks who have evaluated him as an excellent shooter with superb technique are exactly right, but I am skeptical because I coached against him a ton in AAU ball, and he’s a pretty limited athlete. Normally, I would say that’s not a show-stopper, but this is a kid who was the coach’s son at a top tier tiny prep hoops factory, so he literally lived in the gym. He’s as close to a finished product as you’ll ever see offensively as a college freshman. I just don’t see him ever being able to cover Big East guards. We tried to isolate him in summer games with decent success. He’s got a decent ceiling on the offensive end, and a remarkably low one on the defensive end. That’s my opinion. If he was a 6-6 guy, I think you could get away with hiding him on the wing in some sets, and he might grow into a Buddy Boeheim type...if the Hoyas played more (any) zone. But I can’t see him staying in front of anyone at the 2 playing man. As I said, teams iso’d him on that end with guys who aren’t even JUCO players. And he either needs two more inches or another step to get his shot off against most decent defenders. I'd be hesitant to make absolutes on how a kid is going to develop in college based off of what you saw on them in high school. Development isn't always linear. There was a poster here in 2004/2005 who saw a lot of Georgetown Prep games - many more than anyone else on the board - and insisted that Roy Hibbert had no business being on a Big East roster and that he was an Ivy League player - if even that. He was so, so, so convinced of it and constantly got in fights with people about Hibbert being an absolute recruiting mistake. I'm sure he saw a lot of the same things from Hibbert that you are basing your opinions on Berger on, and in his mind Hibbert getting beaten by guys who weren't going to be college players in high school disqualified him from ever playing or competing in the Big East. I'm not trying to compare Berger to Hibbert here - I'm trying to say that I think you are missing the positives in his game (his shooting) and I think we've seen already that he can get that shot off and hit it. I agree he's never going to be a defensive stopper, but I don't think he needs to be to be in order to run a competent backup point or hit threes. He and Carey are the only players on next year's team who can hit threes, and it's very likely that he's a lot better at it than Carey. My recollection for why Jerry Nichols couldn't stay on the floor wasn't that he lacked athletic ability. It's kind of the opposite - he got benched for doing a windmill 360. Most of the time Jerry Nichols couldn't hit wide open threes in an actual game, which Berger seems to have the ability to do. If your value proposition is going to be three point shooter, you have to be able to actually hit three point shots. Nichols was a 30% 3PTFG shooter which is not good, but my recollection is that even that is kind of inflated because a lot of it was against the MEAC. Berger reminds me much more of Jonathan Wallace. Great call on the good old days of Ignatius attacking Hibbert, and the older days of Jerry Nichols throwing down that sick 360, on Morgan State I believe?
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 8:18:48 GMT -5
Well said.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 8:17:32 GMT -5
Inexcusable that there was no ejection there. Pat almost should have gone all Big John circa Syracuse 1990 on those refs. Pops egging on the Syracuse fans as he walked back to the locker room after his ejection was classic. lol I watched in awe as a kid. Big John was The Man.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 6:56:35 GMT -5
Inexcusable that there was no ejection there. Pat almost should have gone all Big John circa Syracuse 1990 on those refs.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 6:13:29 GMT -5
I agree that he likely will struggle on defense for the foreseeable future. Berger and Carey need to be doing every drill with jump ropes and every other trick in the book to gain as much quickness as possible. But put me in the camp that sometimes having a really good shooter makes up for a lot. Few opposing teams have five horses on offense. We will see how it works out.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 14, 2021 6:11:02 GMT -5
So what do you see as his ceiling at Georgetown. The floor is never becomes a rotation player or starter. The folks who have evaluated him as an excellent shooter with superb technique are exactly right, but I am skeptical because I coached against him a ton in AAU ball, and he’s a pretty limited athlete. Normally, I would say that’s not a show-stopper, but this is a kid who was the coach’s son at a top tier tiny prep hoops factory, so he literally lived in the gym. He’s as close to a finished product as you’ll ever see offensively as a college freshman. I just don’t see him ever being able to cover Big East guards. We tried to isolate him in summer games with decent success. He’s got a decent ceiling on the offensive end, and a remarkably low one on the defensive end. That’s my opinion. If he was a 6-6 guy, I think you could get away with hiding him on the wing in some sets, and he might grow into a Buddy Boeheim type...if the Hoyas played more (any) zone. But I can’t see him staying in front of anyone at the 2 playing man. As I said, teams iso’d him on that end with guys who aren’t even JUCO players. And he either needs two more inches or another step to get his shot off against most decent defenders. As I said, great family and I’m sure he’s a good kid. But there were lots of kids with higher ceilings in the Philly area in my opinion who didn’t sniff high D1 offers. I’m not claiming that’s anything but my opinion, but I just got rankled when Rock acted like I hadn’t really “seen” what others were seeing. I’ve seen him a ton, and I know he has a nice stroke. I’m just not seeing the requisite athleticism to play the 2 in the BE. He reminds me of Jerry Nichols...for those who remember that kid from @30 years or so ago. Now Nichols was much more touted out of HS. Maybe even like Mr. Bball in Arky or LA. Kid could really shoot. Just was not a good enough athlete nor defender to get on (stay on) floor for Pops. Same height and length as Berger in my head. Jerry Nichols, who threw down a 360 dunk in a game, was not athletic enough? Now I have seen it all. Jerry never turned into the player Hoya fans hoped he would be, but to compare Berger and Nichols as athletes is not apt. And I like both players.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 13, 2021 11:54:07 GMT -5
Interesting...
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 12, 2021 13:40:46 GMT -5
I fully expect Sibley to get well over ten minutes a game.
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 12, 2021 11:42:57 GMT -5
Great pick up!
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 12, 2021 11:17:19 GMT -5
So bizarre...
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 9, 2021 13:25:07 GMT -5
Yawn...
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Apr 8, 2021 14:05:32 GMT -5
* FIT *
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