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Post by bmartin on Feb 3, 2012 15:08:57 GMT -5
Some swoons were not swoons and none were alike.
Last year's team started the Big East season 1-4, then won 8 straight from Jan. 15 through Feb. 13, including wins over St. John's, Villanova, Louisville, Syracuse, and Marquette. They were 20-5, 9-4, then lost to UConn and beat USF to get to 20-6, 10-5, and then lost to Cincinnati and lost Chris Wright and then Austin Freeman stopped making three pointers for the rest of the season. They were never a very good defensive team so without it top two scorers combining for 30+ they could not longer outscore teams.
The 2010 team had a previously unimaginable roller coaster week: beating Duke on Jan. 30, losing to USF on Feb. 3, and then beating Villanova on Feb. 6. They went from 8-4 to 9-8 and then 10-8 with Freeman struggling and then being diagnosed with diabetes. Then they had a great run to a last second loss in the BET final and then could not stop Ohio's guards from scoring at will.
The 2009 team was 12-3 after beating Syracuse on Jan. 14, then something happened at the Duke game the following Saturday. The team went 4-12 after the Syracuse win, including meltdowns that blew games against Seton Hall, Cincinnati, and St. John's. I don't think anyone will ever understand what happened to that team.
The 2008 team did not swoon. They went 15-3 in the Big East including wins in 6 nail-biters and then made it to the BET final before losing to Pitt. Then they beat UMBC easily and led Davidson for most of the game despite Roy's foul trouble but were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Feb 2, 2012 13:57:22 GMT -5
Post by bmartin on Feb 2, 2012 13:57:22 GMT -5
It's great that Nate sets screens and hustles and tips rebounds and all that, but if he is no threat to score that puts a hell of a lot of pressure on Hollis and Henry to be on all the time with the defense focusing on them.
Same goes for Whittington. If Nate and Whittington are left open they have to be able to score so teams have to guard them.
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Feb 2, 2012 11:12:53 GMT -5
Post by bmartin on Feb 2, 2012 11:12:53 GMT -5
Vitale also did one of his bits after Hopkins made a couple of plays, something like, "Hey coach, how about some more PT?"
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Post by bmartin on Feb 2, 2012 9:48:42 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Feb 1, 2012 22:11:08 GMT -5
Starks needs to shoot a pull up jumper or floater instead of taking the ball all the way to the rim in traffic.
Whittington needs to take it all the way to the rim instead of shooting the floater.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 1, 2012 21:47:02 GMT -5
That is my home territory. I went to the 1988 South State semifinals at Jackson State. JT Jr and LSU's Dale Brown were there recruiting Chris Jackson who had still not committed.
Chris Jackson and Gulfport lost in overtime to Pascagoula which had a sold balanced team including future NBAer Antonio Harvey and guard Dale Brown who later played at Kentucky and had a good game in the legendary Duke-UK regional final won by the Laetner shot. Future Florida & NFL quarterback Shane Matthews played small forward for Goula.
The other semifinal was Jackson Murrah led by James Robinson against Moss Point and Litterial Green. Everyone not from Pascagoula was disappointed that Gulfport lost because the crowd wanted the Chris Jackson vs. James Robinson showdown in the final.
Amazing that the guard play was so good in South Mississippi that year that a guy who ended up playing for Pitino at Kentucky was completely overshadowed.
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Post by bmartin on Feb 1, 2012 20:07:57 GMT -5
Definitely one of those games where 69 points wins easily.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 31, 2012 12:31:58 GMT -5
Losing at DePaul and losing to Rutgers by 23 at home are worse than losing to Long Beach State and Wagner.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 31, 2012 12:26:21 GMT -5
Two of the Syracuse losses were OT games there.
The 2005 game was the one Bowman tied at the end of regulation at 67 with what looked to be a game-winning three but his toe was on the line.
In the 2009 game Georgetown came back from 16 down with 8:11 left (10 down with 2:11 left) to tie at 83-all on a Wright three. Hoyas scored 18 points in the last 2:11 of the second half.
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Jan 31, 2012 9:54:37 GMT -5
Post by bmartin on Jan 31, 2012 9:54:37 GMT -5
Henry's big games against Memphis and Alabama in the nonconference schedule came when he was able to get Black and Green in foul trouble and then feast on their weaker subs. It also helped that those teams did not double him so he had room to make low post moves. Big East teams do more game planning and are more familiar with what Georgetown does. They aren't letting Henry get deep position so he is taking hook shots about two feet too far from the hoop. Nate's defender can come in and double Henry because no one is afraid to leave Nate unguarded.
It also doesn't help Henry that the guards are not good passers off the dribble so when he does get good position the passes often are too late or a little off target and the defense recovers and contests his shots.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 28, 2012 18:00:38 GMT -5
Man defense wasn't working. Couldn't guard the back screens.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 28, 2012 17:12:55 GMT -5
Henry starts every possession down low then comes to the high post if nothing is open and then cutters go low. Porter, Whittington, and Hollis can post up but haven't been able to finish.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 28, 2012 17:09:06 GMT -5
5 points from starters; 17 from Porter, Trawick, Whittington.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 26, 2012 18:53:33 GMT -5
Warren Buffet benefits a lot more from the government than his secretary does. Romney also. Most of what the government does benefits the capital establishment. Not saying anything is wrong with that but let's not pretend that the federal government is the enemy of capitalism. How exactly does Romney benefit more from the federal government than a nurse or a teacher? Does he benefit more to the degree that he should pay taxes at a higher rate (or pay more total tax dollars) than he currently does? Because the major economic work of the federal government: the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the Federal Courts, a lot of the tax code, the whole system of GSEs and federally backed secondary markets, investment tax credits, tax shelters, trade agreements, federal r&d, privatization of federal contracts, etc., etc., etc. are set up to make sure that investment markets don't freeze up and to give wealthy investors every available opportunity to use their money to make more money. And when investment markets did freeze up, then the government, led by the Fed, rushed in and protected the investors from taking their losses. If investors in Mortgage-Backed Securities or in idiotic derivatives based on those securities lose money, the Fed bails out AIG so that AIG can pay the idiot investors in its idiot derivatives. And then when the Asset-Backed Securities market froze up, the Fed and Treasury created the Toxic Assets Loan Facility to loan billions to investors to buy ABS with the securities themselves as collateral, so that if they lost money the federal government ate all the losses, but if the securities made money, the investors pay back the loans. The Fed and the Treasury didn't cut any slack for the small businesses or the credit card customers who were affected by the financial crisis. They only subsidized the big investors in securities backed by small business loans and credit card agreements by giving the investors no-risk, high-reward opportunities to make free money. I'm not an expert on Romney's history, but from what I have read Bain does not appear to be exceptional in any way. They put together a big pile of money to play with and they bought up companies and quite a few of their investments failed but they hit it big with a few others and made more piles of money. Good for them, but making money with money is not the hardest thing to do. As for Warren Buffett, this is a guy who filed his taxes with a $35 tax deduction for using his bicycle and watch on his paper route in NW DC when his dad was a Congressman. He is just a guy who knows how to make money. Paying taxes never stopped him from doing it. The most admirable thing about him is he is not like the rest of the jackasses who complain about the government while living luxuriously comfortable lives. For all the bitching about taxes, if Gingrich wants to take credit for the budget being balanced at the end of the Clinton Administration then let's just go back to those 1998 rates when the economy was great and the budget was balanced. Or go back to Saint Reagan's tax rates.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 25, 2012 19:59:41 GMT -5
Warren Buffet benefits a lot more from the government than his secretary does. Romney also. Most of what the government does benefits the capital establishment. Not saying anything is wrong with that but let's not pretend that the federal government is the enemy of capitalism.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 24, 2012 13:11:23 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Jan 23, 2012 13:24:31 GMT -5
They don't propose a budget because they are not stupid. Republicans would do to it the same thing that Democrats did to the Ryan proposal and that Republicans have done to anything from the Administration - pick out parts of it out of context and throw money into emotionally overwrought mischaracterizations of them.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 23, 2012 12:26:03 GMT -5
1. The Senate is dysfunctional, period. The only thing bipartisan in the Senate is the inability to do anything. No one wants to negotiate and when they have tried the House Republicans undercut the position of the Senate Republicans. No one can deliver the Republicans to vote for any compromise.
2. The issue blocking any budget agreement is extension of the Bush tax cuts and Republicans are not willing to consider any compromise. The spending issues could be resolved fairly easily, but not the tax hole.
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Post by bmartin on Jan 23, 2012 12:09:05 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Jan 21, 2012 15:08:39 GMT -5
Hollis went out after picking up his third foul. Whittington and Trawick were playing well on defense and getting good shots on offense so there was no rush to put Hollis or Starks back in.
Not a new approach by JTIII. He has always been willing to ride matchups that were working.
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