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Post by OldHoyafan on Dec 12, 2020 1:40:05 GMT -5
Although disappointing loss in the end, the first half was a good building stone. Hopefully Ewing learned something too. Jalen, I am sure is a good kid and I am thankful that he came to the Hoyas when Ewing was trying to rebuild a roster decimated by transfers, but he is not a starting BE guard. He is a role player at best who should be limited in his minutes. Dante is young and will make a lot of mistakes but has shown he has the skills to develop into a BE pg. Someone said earlier in the thread that if Allen was on this team it would be a tournament team. I think that is a little too much hyperbole, but he would definitely make this team competitive with any BE team. The off guard position manned by Cary should be looked at also. He is supposed to be a scorer but passes up too many open looks and he is not a good defender. If Kobe Clark is healthy he should take a lot if not most of his minutes. Right now Cary has a better stroke than Kobe, but what good is a good looking jump shot if you don't take but 2 or 3 shots a half. Bile hashed his raw moments , but I attribute a lot of that being his PG Jalen not able to get the ball to him in order for him to make good decisions.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Dec 9, 2020 22:57:39 GMT -5
Dante Harris is a better option on offense than Jalen Harris. both in scoring option and seeing up offense. His deficiency is his defensive scheme awarenesses. His size does not help him either. He will get more comfortable as the season goes on. one of his faults on the offensive end is excessive dribbling. He seems enamored with his cross-over dribble. Does it with no plan of direction in mind. When he begins to use it to get to a spot on the court only, he will become a key player for the Hoyas. Jalen plays hard and has earned his time on the court in practice, but is lacking in scoring prowess or ability to penetrate the defense under control and either score or set up a teammate.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Dec 8, 2020 0:58:17 GMT -5
J. Harris has all of the qualities Mulmore brought to the Hoyas minus his speed.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Dec 8, 2020 0:38:22 GMT -5
I think Sibley has not seen any time for the same reason Berger has not and Holloway and Clark have seen little minutes, lack of knowing the defensive scheme. Ewing showed last 2 years he plays those who can function as a unit when on the court together defense. Sibley and the others must be behind the players who have gotten minutes so far. Hopefully Coppin State will not seriously give the Hoyas a challenge so that these players can show what they have to contribute offensively
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Post by OldHoyafan on Dec 3, 2020 13:03:47 GMT -5
With all the uncertainty that Covid provided for this year, we all were just ecstatic about getting to see the Hoyas play ball. I fell hard into the category. what I forgot was that my enthusiasm for this team team during the off season did not come from the present roster but from what is coming next year. The Hoyas already have a solid class that may get even better if Aminu or Patrick sign with the Hoyas. This team is like Ewings first ten, made up of stop gap transfers that allowed him to field a competitive team, not a winning team. This team is less talented than that first team, because that team at least hd Govan and Derrickson proven scorers to lean on. He had in that team a lack of a true point guard to lead his desired offense. someone who could push the ball don the court and challenge the defense in half court offense with penetrating drives and finish, He was forced to rely on Mulmore to run the offense. he could push the ball down the court but lacked passing skills to make the plays when available and could not shoot outside well enough to make himself a threat there. He now has J. Harris a backup for three years at Arkansas. He does not have Mulmore's speed but has all his deficiencies. D. Harris is a freshman that does not have the experience to run the team right now. Hopefully as the season goes on he will be more comfortable doing so. Blair and Pickett are good role players that are commended for their loyalty to the program and have been a big part in the success that the team has had in the last three years, but they are not frontline players on a BE winning team. I think we all will come to realize that Terrel Allen's transfer to Georgetown will be one of the greatest transfers for this program. His leadership helped the Hoyas stay respectable last year. The drop-off this year is tremendous. Again Ewing's offense is a running game with a penetrating pg and skilled big man with ability to run with the team. He has neither. I am a Ewing supporter but not an apologist. HE has some work to go in his half court offense and his defensive scheme. His defensive scheme is too reliant on the center being able to hedge and cover guard on pick and role. When you don't have nimble footed center to handle that , you have to do something else with efficiency and reliability. i.e. a zone. The year is barely, and last year the m-to-m defense got better as year went on. Players were able to keep their man in front of them un til the dreaded pick and role with center occurred. In all this year will be a tough ride for us Hoya fans, but hopefully we will see the maturation of the young players and more consistent play from the seniors so the we can look for better things next year.Buckle up everybody and stay safe!
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jul 1, 2020 12:37:49 GMT -5
Congrats Tyler! You are now in my backyard. I can come and watch your boys at Alcorn State. For those who may not know it’s pronounced “All-corn”.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jun 27, 2020 15:14:43 GMT -5
If there is no loss of eligibility then the only thing that makes sense as the reason for his going to Hargrave is the uncertainty of the state of college basketball this season. More than likely he has reason to believe that there will be high school basketball, therefore another year to hone his skills rather than pickup games at a college gym makes more sense. If he was thinking about reopening his recruitment, then some high school academy closer to home would make more sense. I will take the young man’s statement that he still remains committed to Georgetown as solid. I am very happy that he remains committed to the Hoyas because as I have stated I see him as the next big star for the Hoyas.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jun 27, 2020 11:59:33 GMT -5
Question for the board. If there is no college basketball this year, will those players who were to be freshman this year lose one year of eligibility even though they did not play conference basketball at all?
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jun 11, 2020 17:19:16 GMT -5
What the he## is going on! This is the guy I thought the team would be built around. Please tell me this is a vicious rumor.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jun 3, 2020 17:27:09 GMT -5
Did not a former Hoya play for the Pelicans? Was it Greg Monroe or DJ Owens?
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Post by OldHoyafan on May 18, 2020 12:16:39 GMT -5
Congrats young man! Now work as hard as you did while at Georgetown and success is a given. Best wishes to you and your parents who worked just as hard as you
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Post by OldHoyafan on May 16, 2020 23:13:13 GMT -5
We were not going to let Mac play point next year. We basically grabbed one of the best assist guys to run things for a season. For good or bad, Mac is a one man show. This is the whole story. McClung and AKinjo both had committed to other schools before they committed to Georgetown. Both came to the Hoyas because the team was in dire need for guards especially a pg. Both were used to having the ball in their hands the majority of the game. Akinjo was more of the prototypical pg who could also be a scorer if needed, McClung was more of a pg in the mold of Iverson. He was the show for his HS team and he wanted to be that at Georgetown. Ewing chose the prototypical guard over the Iverson model. With the guards recruited this year, McClung knew that Ewing had not changed his mindset, so the talk of skipping to the NBA began. Whether or not he seriously thought he was ready for the NBA is of little importance, he probably had already decided to move on if not to NBA then to another program where he could be that “main man” again with the ball in his hands the majority of the time. Every serious college player wants to find a way to the NBA so no one can blame him for that. Like others on this board I think his statement on leaving was not a good one. It sounded like Ewing had not given him the opportunity to be the player he was in HS and was not going to do so in the future so he had no choice but to leave. Unless Ewing promised him before he signed that he would be the PG at Georgetown no matter what, then this was unfair to Ewing. Ewing coached Kemba Walker in the NBA and I am sure would love to have someone like him now. Akinjo was closer to Walker-like than McClung so he got the nod at PG. Akinjo was not the finisher or distributor that Walker is so Ewing had issues when he would not get others involved as he wanted. McClung was a better finisher than Akinjo, but was even less of a distributor than AKinjo. So the Hoyas are without a go to guy at start of the season but I believe they will find one in short order and be ok at seasons end.
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Post by OldHoyafan on May 15, 2020 16:28:22 GMT -5
Given the transfers that happened this year, it will be necessary for Ewing and the team to have success the next couple of years for the Hoyas to get their “swag” back on the four and five star recruiting trail. With all that has happened only the die hard Hoya fans like us would say that their is not even a hint of instability surrounding the program. Given what Ewing and staff were able to accomplish last year with all the defections and injuries, I am optimistic about what they can do with the returnees and incoming players. Mac’s loss will be impactful because there will not be a go to person at start of season, but as I said before, the staff showed me they can make lemonade out of lemons so I expect someone to rise to the task of replacing his numbers. Everyone is thankful for Mac’s two years as a Hoya, but as AKinjo was able to be replaced with more solid play by Allen, so to will a replacement emerge for MClung.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Apr 23, 2020 21:18:34 GMT -5
Wonder if Walton and Beard have played any AAU ball together. If so, then he has seen what a a great complimentary lead guard he can be with talented scoring guards like his teammate that signed with Duke.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Mar 3, 2020 0:30:48 GMT -5
I want to say amen to that. I was not a fan of Jagan's game his first three years at Georgetown. I thought he was a small forward in a guards body. I thought he could not compete at guard in the BE because of his lack of a 3pt shot and he could not compete at forward because of his height. This year the young man has not only played both guard positions, but has started as the defensive guy on all the BE small forwards and done a more than adequate job at all three positions. The young man is a warrior worthy to take his spot as one of the great Hoyas, if for nothing else than his tremendous heart. Jagan, I apologize for doubting you. There are no Hoyas I respect more and enjoyed watching more.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 9, 2020 0:11:27 GMT -5
Great gutty win today. I know its Depaul but the team was getting open shots, they just were not going down. If the Hoyas ever get hot as a team(Mac,Yurt7,Pickett and one of Allen, Moseley or Blair), they could cause some damage in the BE tournament and the NCAA.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 4, 2020 19:12:55 GMT -5
Great pick up bY the Hoyas. The young man has a good handle, not afraid to go to the hoop and is willing to share the ball. Two potential pg’s to replace Moseley and Allen. Now for that power forward.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jan 23, 2020 21:30:29 GMT -5
Seems like some are forgetting that everyone agreed that after the transfers the team had zero margin for error. Last night that margin was quickly exceeded by Allen's two quick fouls leading to limited early playing time, and Yurtseven's terrible first half shooting. This team just can't survive when stuff like that goes wrong. Other teams sub-out those players and bring in comparable or at least experienced replacements. The Hoyas either can't effectively sub or have to bring in someone who can't play the same role and thus changes the whole scheme. In these situations if the opponent is playing well it becomes nearly impossible to make up the deficit caused by the exceeded margin. This team lives on a knife's edge and nothing that the coaches can do will change that this season. If everyone plays well they can beat any conference opponent. If there are any bad performances a loss is likely. This about sums up my feelings on the team. Very little margin for error either in the form of fouls to one starting five or subpar play by either Yurt7 or Mac. This is not a year where they will make a lot of noise in the tourney, but I still think a !5-16 game win season plus one win in BE gets them into tourney. Ok State, SMU and Texas Wins will help a lot.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jan 18, 2020 20:20:22 GMT -5
As a Hoya fan this was an enjoyable game. Someone said that it was their second most offensive game other than SMU game, and I agree. They just came up against a great player who was on and unstoppable. When he is hitting shots like today, your only hope is that your defense makes him work so hard to get open that he tires down the stretch and starts to miss a few. To have that type of defense on him you need one starter and his replacement off the bench to dog him everywhere he goes on the court. The Hoyas being shorthanded did not have the horses to do that. Yet they fought the whole game and it was only Howards ability to get to the foul line at the end that was the difference. That effort by the team would have defeated most if not all BE teams without a Howard or Powell. There are those who have said that Marquette did not play its best game offensively and I agree but that was due to the Hoya defense on all players not named Howard. Great effort by the team. It took everyone of Howard's 40+ points to get them the win.
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Post by OldHoyafan on Jan 11, 2020 23:01:49 GMT -5
I said after the four transfers that of the four Gardner would be the most missed. If he were still on the team he would give the Hoyas the flexibility on offense and defense they lack now. AT 6'6" he could provide the defense on small forwards like Bey, while at the same time play big guard giving Mac or Allen a break in the front court. The kid was also a good rebounder. Today the Hoyas were one man short and they could not overcome it. Yurt7 continues to dispel the rumors that he was some kind of rugged beast at NC State. We should have known better. The ACC is known for its finesse players. Probably the reason Yurt7 originally chose the ACC to play in. WE have to adjust our expectations of him and realize that he will not dominate most centers in the BE and will not be that defensive stopper in the middle that we wanted.
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