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Post by guru on Jul 7, 2022 9:03:17 GMT -5
Let us be clear: until proven otherwise, we have the worst men's basketball program in the Big East. Write the president and the chairman of the board.
The President and the Board signed off on a three year extension which was objectively unnecessary in terms of Ewing's position in the market (he did nothing to deserve it, he had a year left, and would not have been offered any other comparable job in college or professional basketball) and they will not buy it out because they will have egg on their face. They maintained radio silence all throughout last year. I would write them, but what's the point? Rooting for Georgetown at this point is like waiting in line at the DMV. It's not enjoyable, it's going to take a long time, the people in charge do not care, and your only option is to wait this out. At least you found a new way to say what you've been saying over and over and over and over on here for months. It's important to reiterate your stance on things. Well done!
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Post by guru on Jul 3, 2022 0:24:19 GMT -5
I can't tell you how excited I am just to see comments about our players -- and positive, encouraging stuff! I live far away, but I will be checking here for anything anybody has about Kenner -- video would also be crazy great. Thank you! You mean you prefer it to the endless stream of hoyasaxa2003 repetitive soliloquies and hoya9797 blather? Yeah, same.
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Post by guru on Jun 21, 2022 20:50:14 GMT -5
It would not matter the same people that are complaining about Ewing not accepting responsibility for the team debacle last season will continue to decry his coaching. If he were to admit his failings, he would get credit for acting a bit more like a grownup and less like the terrible selfish person he seems to be. But, this is unrelated to his historically bad coaching which will be roasted for as long as he's a coach. What would you know about acting like a grownup? By all evidence, you’re a 13 year old kid with way too much time on his hands.
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Post by guru on Jun 18, 2022 14:08:54 GMT -5
No idea if the hiring of Baldwin will pay off, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. There is talent on the roster so let’s see what the staff can do about moulding this players. But to me, not hiring another local coach with deep connections in the DMV, is a mistake. The only thing I can think of is that no one who fits the needs (defensive system coach, DC area recruiter) wants to say yes to this job because the writing is already on the wall. It'll take 2-3 years for the extension to burn off, but the writing is on the wall. He's a body on the Coaching staff, but we're demoting the most successful coach on staff for the least successful (Orr .500, Nickelberry .378 but if you include his women's coaching record it bumps to .409, Baldwin .383, Ewing .447). That can't be "the only thing" you can think of, can it? Maybe it's the only thing you can think of that fits your agenda, perhaps? But you thinking can't be so limited that it's the only possibility you can actually imagine.
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Post by guru on Jun 18, 2022 9:19:16 GMT -5
I don't know....maybe discuss the upcoming season. Maybe wait to see how things turn out before considering it a failure. On your job do you only talk about the negative? All day. Over and over? Not even new negative things. The same negative issue over and over.🤷🏾♂️ I get 9797. He isn't a GTown fan. He's a infiltrator/troll whose only purpose is to make our life miserable on this site but others have followed his lead. I understand that things have been bad but isn't the definition of fan to be hopeful of better results? Ewing has done everything possible to put a better product on the court except resign. We know that's not happening. So as fans we should be in watch and see mode...imo But I am and I care about the entire university not just the basketball team. And what Ewing is doing is bringing disgrace on the school and making it a worse place. This APR thing should be the last straw but I guess it will be excused away like everything else he does. The only productive thing he can do now is resign but we know that’s not happening. Talk about making something a worse place - pot, meet kettle.
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Post by guru on Jun 17, 2022 16:21:07 GMT -5
We all know the Ewing/Thompson fanboys will come up with excuses when they have to - I expect some combination of injuries, unexpected departures, the negative impact of outside influences, and lack of NIL engagement by alumni compared to other programs to be among the excuses we hear over the course of the next year. How can poor old Ronny Thompson and Patrick Ewing be expected to succeed when they aren't competing on a level playing field? Who are these fanboys and what could they possibly number? I'm thinking hard and can come up with maybe 2 posters who would qualify? You're boxing against shadows, my man.
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Post by guru on Jun 8, 2022 12:26:57 GMT -5
I’m surprised someone so old would still be a D1 prospect. Agreed - don't you have to be over 65 and grumpy at the world to live in the Villages? Assuming you have your deposit down already?
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Post by guru on May 31, 2022 12:54:58 GMT -5
This thread is becoming Peak Hoyatalk material.
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Post by guru on May 27, 2022 10:25:05 GMT -5
It's strange that this type of behavior is allowed but people like YaBoy are run off by something silly. He left because he didn’t like the rules. He left because he couldn't stomach watching JT3-coached teams any longer, if I recall
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Post by guru on May 27, 2022 10:24:03 GMT -5
Asks the serial harasser, in yet another pointless troll.
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Post by guru on May 26, 2022 13:07:39 GMT -5
As we have all seen, attempts by FB and Twitter (among others) to monitor and moderate social media discourse reveal a minefield of challenges. I don't envy anyone who has volunteered to take on the excessive and negative (borderline abusive, harassing) posting. Where to draw the line and how to make those difficult judgments always run up against exceptions to the rule that try even the most fair-minded moderator. One suggestion I have made in numerous threads is this: when a post is clearly off topic and becomes part of an exchange that is snarky & mean-spirited, the poster(s) should be directed to take it elsewhere. "Elsewhere" for me can certainly be the creation of a separate thread dedicated to those who want to snipe at each other. There they can do their thing and the rest of us can be spared repeated posts that are just deflating and annoying to have to wade through. I don't want to restrict free speech, but I do want to encourage civil conversations and the need for every poster to self-monitor and be responsible. You all know the adage "With great power comes great responsibility". (Uncle Ben? Spiderman? Anyone? Buehler?) We shouldn't need a moderator or a set of policies, but since we have shown that we do, exercise your right to free speech but always with the idea that you have to take responsibility for what you put up. If you can't control yourself and act like a big boy/girl, take a break and go somewhere else where that kind of snark is appropriate (is it ever appropriate? really?), and then come back and share your thoughts about Georgetown basketball, the thing we all love and come here for. Civic lesson concluded. Go Hoyas! No one banned YaBoy - he left on his own accord, and he's welcome to come back. I'd be in favor of banning of few of our most repetitive posters, however. For good.
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Post by guru on May 26, 2022 13:03:03 GMT -5
I don’t believe in banning people, and, in fact, support letting everyone have their say. But this is a pretty good example of why a number of people (not just 2 or 3) are fed up with you. Oh no, a bunch of anonymous people on a message board are unhappy with me. What will I do? Hmmm. Would that be the same bunch of anonymous people with whom you are obsessed with sharing your opinion on one subject ad nauseam? Get a life, pal. You are the saddest poster on this board.
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Post by guru on May 24, 2022 17:20:49 GMT -5
Honestly a winning season would be a nice bar imo. We know we already have 3 pretty difficult non conference games in addition to the game at Syracuse, which leaves 7 non conference games to play with. We then have 20 Big East games in what will be a very deep and competitive conference. Let's go 8-3 in non conference and 8-12 in conference. I'd take that and the NIT bid that comes with it in a heart beat and anything better than that indicates some actual coaching occurred. I expect Ewing to schedule one of the easiest OOC schedules in the country in a desperate attempt to stack wins given what happened in 2021-2022. I’m pretty sure no one cares what you “expect” given that you are consistently wrong about everything. March 13 was a long time ago.
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Post by guru on May 24, 2022 10:02:39 GMT -5
The formula not only has us last in the conference on defense. But last by NINETY-TWO (92) spots. Seems a bit optimistic. You and hoyaboya need to start playing bridge together. Or start a book club. Do volunteer work. There has to be a better use of your time than endlessly posting the same thing every day here.
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Post by guru on May 23, 2022 20:07:05 GMT -5
He's limited but we were more limited without him, and when he was here he was productive. Not your modern skilled big man but there's nothing wrong with a bruiser who can grab boards and be a bully on offense. The roster for next year is more of a Big East roster than last year by a wide margin. Last year just wasn't even close. I still don't see more than 6ish conference wins due primarily to the lack of depth and still a talent gap with the top or even middle of the league, but it's a step in the right direction. The big questions to me revolve around who plays on the wing (small forward if you like) and if we can rely yet again on freshmen to play a much bigger role in the Big East than they should have to. We're going to need Anglin and Bass to play at least 10 minutes a game each and it's just so rare in college basketball, especially with the covid year and portal, to have recruits outside of the top 30-40ish that can play a lot of minutes on a good major conference team. Big East caliber for each position, in my OPINION: PG: none (unless Anglin is way ahead of where most guards his age would be. He'll be an awesome player for us down the line though) SG: Murray, Heath? SF: none PF: Akok Akok C: Qudus I think Mozone is a massive reach and I would so much rather Ewing pursue guys transferring from high majors that average 5 a game than guys from borderline division 1 conferences who light it up, because it's so much more of a known commodity. I do think he can help us but relying on him for as big a role as we will be is not something you would ever catch UCONN, Provvy, Nova, etc. doing. Feels like a DePaul type get which we've had way too many of. We also just seem to be continuing our habit of recruiting consistently inefficient transfers and then expecting to have an efficient offense. Spears was incredibly inefficient last year, and Heath wasn't great either, offering little outside of modest scoring on a modest shooting average. Cmon now. I understand being pessimistic but this is wild…. No idea how the talent gels and there are a ton of things that have to happen But strictly talent level, this will be easily the most talented Georgetown team since 2013….easily….now that doesn’t guarantee wins at all…but the talent level is absolutely there Really? I mean, that seems really optimistic. Seems like most of our new faces are either mostly unknown to us and/or mostly unproven. And we know they won’t get coached up. I’m not sure it’s pessimism. It’s just reality after five years. I hope they all end up being great, but anyone who says they have a bead on this roster is kidding themselves, and Ewing needs to prove he’s not as bad as he has looked for 90 percent of his tenure. It’s a lot to ask. Who knows?
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Post by guru on May 20, 2022 7:43:47 GMT -5
The young man is a hard worker, no doubt. And he more than likely play somewhere in the NBA. However, I firmly believe a second year at Georgetown would have made him a lottery pick. Premature. Perhaps some bad advice. Don’t get me wrong, I like Aminu as a player. Want the best for him. Just wondering if wouldn’t have been better served by staying and polishing his game some more. I don't disagree in theory. It's just that players have many more options at this point where they can develop and also get paid to do so. If a player doesn't really care about the college experience or a degree, there are better options that allow them to focus solely on basketball. For the poster here that has acted like he knows what Aminu's plans have been since day one on the Hilltop, it's very likely that he knows next to nothing and just went all in on the most probable option as evidenced by his near silence in the past month plus. Many more guys than will make the NBA believe they will coming into college. Now, they can get paid playing college ball (which, IMO, is only fair). But, it doesn't change the fact that most of them will never sniff an NBA contract. Aminu has a shot but he has a lot of work to do all on his own on fundamentals before coaching becomes an issue. He's not a good shooter. That's an empirical fact. He has all of the tools to be an above average shooter. But, IMO, his physical gifts have allowed him to dominate right up until he got to college. His strength and motor were still plus skills in college but his skill level in several areas are below average. He could dominate without those skills as a kid. Those advantages have expired. He's not a freak athlete even at the college level. So, moving forward, he's going to have to work very hard on things that shooting guards are expected to do. Ya know, like shooting. Considering the season he endured with the Hoyas, I don’t think anyone should be surprised he’s going pro after just one year. Nor should anyone blame him. Given all the evidence we have, he’ll benefit far more from a year in the G League if that’s what happens. Good luck to him.
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Post by guru on May 17, 2022 11:07:03 GMT -5
Exactly. I remember how excited the students and fans were before the Dartmouth game. It went downhill from there. Not pretending that last year wasn't a dumpster fire, I put some hope in the crowd at the Syracuse game. It was like the old days. I have a kid there and if we start putting up wins, those kids will fill those seats again. People love a winner, and college kids love a winner with players they see on campus and go to class with. Win and they will come. True. The Syracuse game was fantastic. The best home game atmosphere since early in the JT3 years. Gave me some hope, which was quickly dashed.
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Post by guru on May 15, 2022 17:25:59 GMT -5
Yes, of course. Absent an ethical violation, why fire a coach one year removed from a BET victory and a top 15 recruiting class? It's not like he punched a Providence graduate assistant I truly don't want to argue with you, but...0-20, perhaps. No at large bids in 5 years. Roster upheaval nearly every year. A defense that was ranked in the 200s, and has been awful every season except perhaps one. The worst season in Georgetown modern history. Nearly the worst high major team in all of D-1. And, of that vaunted recruiting class, 3 of the 5 guys are gone, and one of the remainders is Mutombo who isn't going to leave probably under any circumstance. I get it, you think that BET/top 15 recruiting class is enough. But to act like there's no reason to fire a coach like that is ignoring a lot of facts. If you don’t want to argue with someone (and “truly” no less!) there’s a very easy way not to …
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Post by guru on May 15, 2022 12:59:50 GMT -5
Yes, let’s not believe Ewing with the mic in a party… What was he supposed to say. No, I don't want you back, you aren't a leader and aren't clutch so we want to give the Captaincy to somebody else? That’s what we have. Ronny Thompson, aka a Larry Burns.
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Post by guru on May 13, 2022 16:56:22 GMT -5
We went 0-20 in the league last season. It was a massively flawed roster (not the players fault, obviously). I’d rather we have gotten a new head coach, but I’m certainly not going to moan and wail about losing *any* of the players from that group. An entirely new starting 5 would be good by me. Anyway, I wish Don well - seems like a good man.
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