idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Oct 24, 2007 17:08:05 GMT -5
He also said he can't dance a lick and the Roy is a beast in practice!
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Post by jwp91 on Oct 24, 2007 21:28:06 GMT -5
Not to take anything away from Roy's honor, but I've never really understood what "Preseason Player of the Year" means. Does it mean 'this is how we see the season playing out, with this guy winning the POY at the end of the year' or is it more just a general 'this is the most hyped guy coming into this year'? It didn't make any sense to me either until I learned the point of doing so. It is basically a way to get people talking about the product in advance of the season. It is a college basketball league's version of marketing... Watch Preseason POY, Roy Hibbert, ...... Early season polls have the same purpose. |
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Post by wildhoya on Oct 24, 2007 22:37:08 GMT -5
Camille www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/24/AR2007102401906.html"I'm happy for him. Little Buddy needs to get some recognition," said Hibbert, who is more than a foot taller than the 6-foot-1 Wallace. "He does so much for everybody. The biggest part of my personal success is that we've had Jon playing well. People don't collapse down on me when Jon is hitting shots. I get the ball, and I look for Little Buddy over there in the corner so he can hit a three." and Pitino has been the most outspoken critic of the expanded schedule, mainly because he feels his team has one of the most difficult slates: home-and-home games with Georgetown, Marquette and Rutgers, as well as single games at Connecticut, at Pittsburgh, and at Providence. "I'm very close with Mike Tranghese and [senior associate commissioner] John Marinatto. They're both Italian. I was coaching at Providence when they both were there," Pitino said. "They like me a great deal; we're very close friends. But they like God more. They're much closer to the Catholics than they are friendships. They could care less if I'm floating in the East River. They just threw me into the East River, floating with a lot of my Italian friends, because that's the way that schedule was made." |
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Oct 25, 2007 5:54:28 GMT -5
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Post by Dhall on Oct 26, 2007 8:23:12 GMT -5
Calhoun has always been deeply respectful of Georgetown, both Coach Thompsons and our players. When they were a dominant team and we were lousy, I distinctly remember him not running up the score against us when they easily could have done so. Call him a whiner or whatever else, but he appreciates Georgetown, the Big East and he also knows what he is doing on the court as evidenced by his championships. I have no problem with him other than the fact that he coaches a team which has gotten the better of us for many years (until last year). |
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 26, 2007 8:30:16 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 28, 2007 12:24:37 GMT -5
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Post by prhoya on Oct 28, 2007 21:13:56 GMT -5
"They want us to be robots," Calhoun said. "All the colorful characters in this sport helped make the game a lot of money. Now they want us to be robots.
"I won't be a robot."
Oh, you'll be a robot. You'll do anything to win. If the league says jump, you'll say how high.
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Oct 28, 2007 22:14:09 GMT -5
Take a look at that list of Hoyas in the NBA! We used to have 10-12 guys. Now we have 5. Other than Jeff, the youngest is Iverson at 32. That about tells it all. Tons of NBA Hoyas for years. Now we see a huge gap from Iverson -- age 32 -- to Jeff Green, 21. The story of the last 10 years of Hoya history. Thank GOODNESS JT3 arrived to restore the program. Next year, we'll probably lose Dikembe and Zo, to be replace by Roy -- and hopefully no one else from the current team. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Oct 28, 2007 22:16:20 GMT -5
This is Deke's last season from what I understand, and I wouldn't be surprised if Zo was in the same boat. So, we may have fewer Hoyas in the NBA next season.
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