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Post by bmartin on Dec 12, 2015 22:22:38 GMT -5
At the end of the 3rd quarter, Otto Porter has a career high 26 points at Dallas.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 9, 2015 20:48:35 GMT -5
Trey is more of a forward than a center but the pt at forward is even harder to come by than at center.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 9, 2015 15:00:32 GMT -5
Nobody plays their third team center regularly at an level of basketball. Starter plays, backup plays, starter returns, halftime, then repeat. Yet Trey has played in 6 of 8 games from 3 to 14 minutes. Good for Trey, the staff and the team!! "Play Trey!" Although I know your statement re: "nobody plays their third-team center regularly" is incorrect (and I just proved it with Trey), I could turn it around and say everybody with the luxury of having 3 or more centers does it. But, I don't care about anyone else's roster usage. Recent GU history has shown us that even a Nate Lubick got plenty of minutes at the 5, by design or necessity, with Hops, Smith, Moses and Bradley (and Caprio ) on the roster. Go Hoyas!! Trey played when we had foul trouble and Hayes was ineffective against Duke and he played when we had big leads over cupcakes. He won't play much in conference and every Tim we lose or win close somebody will come on here and say he would have scored and rebounded and defended better than whoever struggled in that game.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 8, 2015 20:01:45 GMT -5
He was the third team center, and third teamers do not play unless there is foul trouble or garbage time. This is the same issue that limited Vee Sanford, Aaron Bowen, and several others who showed they were good enough to play more but were behind other guys at their positions. The question of playing time is whether Hayes should have been the second team center and the answer is no. Smith was the better offensive player. Hopkins was by far the better defensive player. Again, 5 mpg is not starter or secondary minutes. It helps in various ways, but read the last few pages because we're going round and round. Nobody plays their third team center regularly at an level of basketball. Starter plays, backup plays, starter returns, halftime, then repeat.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 8, 2015 13:32:45 GMT -5
The lead was 29 with 8 minutes to go and then JTIII went with Peak, Copeland, Govan, Derrickson, and Johnson and left them out there awhile together even though Peak, Derrickson, and Govan were getting frustrated with foul calls and non-foul calls. That lineup gave up an 13-4 Brown run with 8 of the points at the foul line. In a competitive game, he would have subbed them out, but I thought he was challenging them to play through it. Then in the last 3 minutes, Campbell, Cameron, White, Mourning, and Williams played out the end of the game and gave up more free throws. Brown won the last 8 minutes 21-9 with 14 of their points from the line.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 8, 2015 13:11:40 GMT -5
He was the third team center, and third teamers do not play unless there is foul trouble or garbage time. This is the same issue that limited Vee Sanford, Aaron Bowen, and several others who showed they were good enough to play more but were behind other guys at their positions.
The question of playing time is whether Hayes should have been the second team center and the answer is no. Smith was the better offensive player. Hopkins was by far the better defensive player.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 6, 2015 22:02:02 GMT -5
*sigh* I'll try one last time, then give up on penetrating the wall. It was a mistake, and a small one, based on a usually reputable source, DFW's posting of the box score. It was not a "lie" or a "biased analysis". And one rebound vs. zero does not really change the assessment - with which you allegedly agree (which logically means your assessment must be biased as well?). To suggest - no to state with certainty - that this proved that I was driven by "bias" and "emotion" smacks of a "biased" agenda. Bradley has been a huge factor this year. He has been one of our best 2 players. Just not against Duke. My point is if you had actually watched what he actually does on the court you wouldn't have to rely on a box score to make your analysis. It's faulty because it's apparently not based off of actual performance, just stats. Hayes started the second half against Duke and had a basket, a turnover and an assist, but Duke went on a 21-7 run that turned the game in their favor during that six minutes. That was the key stretch of the game. Plumlee had all four of his points and two rebounds during that run with Hayes on the floor, so it is hard to believe that Hayes would have grabbed all the rebounds and taken over the end of the game if he had been in there.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 4, 2015 23:45:29 GMT -5
Read the article in your link. Inner-city violence is what has declined the most since the 1990s. The crack killings stopped. The other big factor in the reduction of the rate of violence is demographic. The baby boomers got old so old people are now a larger share of the population. Stupid males in their teens and twenties are a smaller percentage of the total population than they used to be, so violence per capita has declined. As for guns, localities that have more guns have more gun homicides, so arming everyone will not reduce gun deaths.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 4, 2015 9:37:33 GMT -5
I love Roy,as most of us do. However, he does NOT get enough rebounds, especially for a guy who barely scores. I understand the concept that he is out looking for blocks. That may reduce the number of boards, but he should be getting more than 6.8 per game. Guys like Drummond and even Whiteside at Miami get lots of blocks AND lots of rebounds. Will be real interesting to see what kind of contract he gets next year, especially with the league going small, more and more. I see defensive rebounding as a team stat more than an individual stat. Julius Randle was able to get 19 rebounds Wednesday night in part because Roy was consistently blocking out Gortat, the only offensive rebounder on the Wizards. Randle also is always in good defensive rebounding position because he never helps on defense. When Roy has to hedge or switch on a pick and roll dribbler/shooter, the rest of the Lakers just stand there and watch a lob to the rim for a dunk. Fortunately for the Lakers, a lot of NBA guards would rather try to shoot over Roy than pass the ball, so there are defensive rebounds to be had. Roy plays better than his stats. Drummond's stats are better than he is. Roy puts up better stats when he plays Drummond and other centers who camp out on the block than when he plays small ball teams. One of the Lakers other wins this season was against the Pistons. When they were on the court together, Roy put up 12 & 7 while Drummond had 9 & 13 with a lot more touches.
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Post by bmartin on Dec 3, 2015 23:05:23 GMT -5
Roy is the MVP of the Lakers. He is the only defensive player on the whole team, single-handedly is preventing them from giving up 120+ points every night, and the only consistently effective offensive play they have is Roy setting a screen. When Roy is in the game, it becomes a jump shooting contest, which is usually not in the Lakers favor, but it is better than the lay-ups, dunks, and free throws they give up when he is not in the game. And if you watch the games, Roy really does focus on blocking out his man and lets his teammates get the rebounds. Roy did that at Georgetown and Indiana as well. But also when he is contesting shots on one end and setting high screens on the other, he is not going to be in great rebounding position.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 30, 2015 11:16:23 GMT -5
He needs to drive into the seams of zone defenses more often looking for pull-up jumpers. If he has 12 field goal attempts per game, I would rather he take 7 two-point attempts and 5 three-point attempts, not the other way around.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 28, 2015 18:19:11 GMT -5
Wow. A week later and now the post position is the problem? People are calling hayes limited? The opinions around here change so rapidly. Been pretty consistent in my view that the post position is a point of weakness for this team at least until Govan develops. Also been consistent in saying that Hayes is a great story and a player who has exceeded expectations, but remains a limited player. Considering where he was a year ago that is not surprising. Hayes does not do a very good job of denying passes into the lane. He is there in the right place but offense players just slide in front of him to get the ball without any resistance. He gets away with it some against Bryant and other smallish teams but they still got several too easy baskets in the paint.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 28, 2015 13:01:19 GMT -5
We can't play man to man because the off ball defenders do too much ball watching and lose track of their men. When we stop the ball there is always an open pass to someone in the paint or open on the three point line.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 24, 2015 22:29:20 GMT -5
Mourning played well in the first half when both Hayes and Govan had two fouls. Hayes did little of note in the first 6+ minutes of the 2nd half during a 21-7 Duke run. Plumlee outscored and outrebounded him. Govan played better for a while but then committed two turnovers, and JTIII went with Mourning for 4+ minutes and then went back to Govan except for a couple of defense/offense subs with Mourning to save Govan's fouls when we were intentionally fouling. Nothing Hayes had done previously in the game suggests that he would have played better than Mourning or Govan.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 23, 2015 18:42:49 GMT -5
Govan and Mourning were playing better than him.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 20, 2015 21:59:50 GMT -5
Dajuan Summers highlights against Greg Whittington:
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Post by bmartin on Nov 18, 2015 16:49:35 GMT -5
D League Update: Dajuan Summers is with the Knicks' D-League team in Westchester and is averaging 29 & 10 after two games. Henry Sims is with the Pistons' D-League team in Grand Rapids and is averaging 18 & 8.5 after two games. Joshua Smith is with the Rockets' D-League team in Rio Grand Valley and is averaging 13 & 5 after two games. Jabril Trawick and Greg Whittington are both with the Heat's D-League team in Sioux Falls. They have only played one game. Whittington had 18 & 11 in 41 minutes. Trawick scored 5 points in 1.5 minutes according to the boxscore, so he is playing at a pace of 160 points per 48 minutes.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 13, 2015 10:34:31 GMT -5
Let me get this straight : Maureen Dowd is skeptical of this because she thinks it's a given that Hillary Clinton would have definitely put her own career on the backburner for Bill's? Or that their engagement/marriage would have stopped her looking for ways to further her political career? Or that a 21-year-old marine recruiter would have been dismissive of an anti-war Wellesley grad? We are talking about Hillary Clinton, right? It is at least plausible that she might have inquired about being a JAG in the Marine Corps Reserves, the kind of National Guard/Reserves position often used by Southern politicians and their family members to establish military/veteran bonafides. In fact, it sounds like something Bill might have suggested for her to look into in order to help his political career in Arkansas.
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Post by bmartin on Nov 11, 2015 12:21:42 GMT -5
Well, now you are changing the whole thing. Your first statement implied that Summers was singled out and benched. Now you are talking about the starters being subbed out en masse in one game when the team was playing poorly. That is not related to the topic of Dajuan Summers being criticized unfairly on HoyaTalk. Do you bring up this one-time benching as a significant event in the careers of Wright, Freeman, or Monroe, or is Summers the only one who is defined by a poor start in one game?
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Post by bmartin on Nov 11, 2015 10:21:53 GMT -5
Wasn't he benched by JT3 during his junior year? Yes, he was. You must be thinking of Jessie Sapp. Summers started every game that season.
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