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Post by bmartin on Apr 19, 2015 11:11:46 GMT -5
I don't understand the criticism of our recent guards. Guard play generally and guard scoring specifically have not been the weakness of recruiting or the team. With DSR, Trawick, Starks, Clark, Freeman, Wright our backcourt has been the most consistent strength and won the matchup or held its own for the past five years. Our limitations and matchup problems have been at some combination of the 3, 4, 5. We had to play 3-guard for offense but suffered on defense. We had to play Hollis out of position at the 4. Vaughn, Benimon, Lubick, Hopkins, 3 of Sims seasons, and Joshua Smith all had holes in their games that presented trade-offs that burned us against better front courts.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 7, 2015 6:22:54 GMT -5
Let's be honest either team would have dominated Georgetown tonight. We almost beat Wisconsin early in the season because they couldn't guard DSR any better than they guarded Jones or Allen. We benefited from them missing shots but so did Duke.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 5, 2015 22:18:29 GMT -5
Who are you talking to? Not me. Your opinion has no fact either. It's just an attack on someone who has a different opinion from yours. Being selected as the pre-season POY does not mean DSR will be drafted into the NBA or will become a good NBA player. As you can see, he was not selected as POY at the end of the season, based on his performance. Pre-season selections are just a guess of what might happen. Again, grow up, stop making personal attacks on other posters. We have a right to our opinion too! Right, other posters? The part of your "opinion" that everyone rejected is your claim that DSR was not a good college player and not a good shooter, yet now you are pretending that people are arguing that he will be an NBA player. The facts that DSR was a good college player and is a good shooter are indisputable by any metric.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 4, 2015 13:01:48 GMT -5
The reason why Greg Monroe was not included is that he never won an NIT or NCAA game before leaving where as Iverson and Green showed in the NCAA's that the team's they were on were on the cusp of something really special. But that is not how it works. Teams do lose in the first round and then go to the Final Four the next season and vice versa. See Duke for example. If Monroe had returned the 2010-11 team with Freeman, Wright, Clark, Hollis, Vaughn, Sims would have been a Top 10 team and a threat to make a deep tournament run if they figured out how to play better defense.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 4, 2015 12:45:45 GMT -5
If you want to let private entities pay players then just take the operation out of colleges entirely and go with a professional minor league system.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 19:53:15 GMT -5
We have had great shooters. Not 20 shot per game gunners, but very good shooters. Your whole premise is unfounded.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 15:02:31 GMT -5
Here is the problem with magnifying a half-baked perception about a weakness in one season:
Back when we had Freeman, Wright, Clark, and Hollis and shot and made a lot of threes, almost everyone on HoyaTalk complained that we settled for threes too much, were too dependent on threes, lived and died by the three and so on and the big complaint was that Vaughn, Sims, Lubick, and Benimon proved that JTIII could NEVER recruit elite centers and forwards. Of course that was the year after Monroe left and the year before Porter arrived.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 13:23:20 GMT -5
Hollis Thompson hit 128 threes in three years. He's not even on the same planet as Curry and Reddick when it came to being a three point threat. You're kidding yourself if you think he can be legitimately compared to those two. Hollis could hit threes, but I would not call him a pure shooter. Hollis did not take more shots his first two seasons because Freeman was taking them.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 13:20:13 GMT -5
Well, when everyone else refers to 2008, they are referring to the 2007-2008 season that ended in the 2008 NCAA tournament. You and your source apparently are using 2008 to refer to the 2008-2009 season. The 2007-2008 team made 38.4% of threes, with Wallace 71-159 44.7%, Sapp 62-151 41.1%, and Freeman 40-100 40.0% at or above 40%. Summers was 51-149 34.2%. Hibbert famously was 3-3 1.000%. Rivers, Ewing Jr., and Crawford brought the team percentage down a bit.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 13:11:33 GMT -5
Hollis 128-291 .440 Wallace 240-554 .433
Curry 414-1004 .412 Reddick 457-1126 .406
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 13:06:48 GMT -5
Three point shooting percentage ranking by year for the last 7 years: 2014: 118th 2013: 222nd 2012: 98th 2011: 158th 2010: 115th 2009: 22nd 2008: 206th Those number are not right. 2008 was 38th 2010 was 21st
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 13:03:07 GMT -5
Other than DSR, Starks, Porter, Hollis, Clark, Freeman, Sapp, and Wallace, I can't remember the last time we had a shooter who made more than 39% from 3 with more than 100 attempts in a season.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 12:46:14 GMT -5
Do we have a shot if he is granted a release? Will be interesting to see if a kid who committed to a school with a system named "havoc" could be swayed by what we run. Havoc is a defense. Shaka Smart doesn't run an offense. When they don't create turnovers for easy baskets they lose.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 12:27:31 GMT -5
NCAA tournament wins are not the only or the most important measure of a coach's value to a university. He got a big raise after the Final Four, but not just because of the result but because it brought Georgetown millions more dollars from donors, season tickets, merchandise sales, and more applicants and national publicity. JTIII is still taking care of that part of the business, raising funds for the new facility, engaging with alumni donors, scheduling Kansas and Syracuse and UConn to enhance the season ticket draw after the conference realignment. A coach is overpaid if the major program donors stop writing checks. Not because a few grumps show up every March to rant about him. Appreciate the optimism but the examples are flawed. 1. Season tickets have declined over the last 2-3 years after the Big East downsized. Average attendance was higher in 2006 than 2015. 2. Georgetown's rank in merchandise sales (royalties) have been flat for years. Football visibility drives merchandise sales and Georgetown is uncomfortable with doing this. 3. More applicants? Different subject, but...no. I guess you did not read my post.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 3, 2015 10:43:37 GMT -5
NCAA tournament wins are not the only or the most important measure of a coach's value to a university. He got a big raise after the Final Four, but not just because of the result but because it brought Georgetown millions more dollars from donors, season tickets, merchandise sales, and more applicants and national publicity. JTIII is still taking care of that part of the business, raising funds for the new facility, engaging with alumni donors, scheduling Kansas and Syracuse and UConn to enhance the season ticket draw after the conference realignment. A coach is overpaid if the major program donors stop writing checks. Not because a few grumps show up every March to rant about him.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 2, 2015 23:24:12 GMT -5
What was the point of your original post? Georgetown does not have a coaching vacancy.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 2, 2015 23:17:14 GMT -5
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Post by bmartin on Apr 1, 2015 13:42:38 GMT -5
My take on DePaul is that they were not going to be able to recruit elite players in the short term no matter who they hired, so they are better off with someone who can coach the level of recruits they can get to play some defense and get some rebounds. They actually shot the ball fairly well this season, 5th in the Big East in eFG% in league play, but they were last in defense and last in offensive rebounding.
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Post by bmartin on Apr 1, 2015 9:19:21 GMT -5
Guards:
Wallace 136 games, 136 starts, 1258 points, 240 3FG, 318 rebounds, 378 assists, 129 steals (43.4% 3FG%, 82.0% FT%) Sapp 135 games, 101 starts, 960 points, 148 3FG, 463 rebounds, 308 assists, 147 steals Wright 110 games, 94 starts, 1369 points, 127 3FG, 317 rebounds, 442 assists, 140 steals Freeman 129 games, 128 starts, 1761 points, 187 3FG, 462 rebounds, 274 assists, 108 steals Clark 130 games, 99 starts, 1363 points, 183 3FG, 475 rebounds, 206 assists, 170 steals Starks 126 games, 90 starts, 1246 points, 165 3FG, 201 rebounds, 300 assists, 100 steals Trawick 126 games, 74 starts, 851 points, 74 3FG, 340 rebounds, 205 assists, 100 steals DSR 97 games, 64 starts, 1386 points, 177 3FG, 393 rebounds, 263 assists, 117 steals
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Post by bmartin on Apr 1, 2015 8:46:36 GMT -5
Peak and Johnson were already going to be two-guards even with DSR here.
If Peak is going to have a shot at the NBA it will be as a guard not as a forward.
What little I have seen of Johnson on video he plays more like a guard than a forward already.
So all we really need is a back up point guard.
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