balla
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Post by balla on Apr 24, 2008 1:39:55 GMT -5
I forgot to mention...I don't know if anyone knows but Coach Thompson isn't shy at all in holding back his utmost feelings. Vern was TOLD Monroe would start over him. Ty was also told earlier in the year that he wasn't one of the best 8 he had and that he wouldn't be in the rotation. I never though this was the perfect marriage. I honestly believe Vern in more of a free flowing system would be a beast somewhere else. The princeton offense isn't really for guys who rely solely on their athleticism and nothing more like Vern. Put Vern in a system where he gets to run up and down the floor and he would live up a little more to those expectations. So Vern might be telling people that he doesn't like the offense but there is more to it than that. I was not going to bother posing in this crap called a gtown thread, but I know for a fact that III NEVER told Vern that Monroe would be starting over him. You are flat out lying now and talking out your arse. Kids say a lot of things to rationalize why they are leaving. Vern leaving does not have crap to do with the offense. This team will be running a lot more next year and in the future. Wish Vern the best in life and move the F on. Speculating EDITS.
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balla
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Post by balla on Apr 24, 2008 2:43:19 GMT -5
Drunk posting is cute. You are a flat-out liar. All of these post speculating about if/why Vern is transferring should be deleted until the school or Vern has released a statement. Then HoyaAtheart/eighties Hoya/Hoyafoeva can crawl back to his moms basement.
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royski
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Post by royski on Apr 24, 2008 3:12:40 GMT -5
Is he joking? How thick is this kid? We've developed him for 2 years in order to be our franchise big by his senior year. There's a good chance he starts this year. The guy came to the PERFECT program for him to develop for the next level. He needs to learn how to play the f'ing game, not run up and down the floor like a deer looking for putbacks. Does he have rocks in his head? He spent the last two years earning his time for these 2. He's the center for Georgetown basketball! Doesn't he get that!?!?! Jesus Christ, I'm so frustrated. What an atrocious decision.
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moe09
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Post by moe09 on Apr 24, 2008 3:35:51 GMT -5
(The following is all hypothetical, if the reason he's transferring is because of the system).
I second that Royski. He picked the best program for developing him into a skilled big man, and decides to throw it all away for a lame excuse. If his reason is that he doesn't like the Princetown offense, quite frankly that's just a poor excuse for the fact that he couldn't cut it, was afraid that he was going to be overshadowed by the freshmen, and didn't want to put in the hard work to become the skilled big man he could have been. Instead, this says to me, that he just wants to rely on his athletic ability to get by, but his problem is that he doesn't even the base skills to get by. Georgetown was his best chance to get those skills, and more.
At the next level his basic basketball skills are just not going to cut it. If thinks he can get away with heading to a program where he can depend on his athletic skills like I imagine he did in high school, he's just deluding himself (unless maybe he transfers to a CAA team or something of the sort).
If he does indeed have the basketball skill to compete at this level then you stay at Georgetown because you're not going to find a program that ONLY runs up and down the court. Eventually, you're going to have to play a half court offense, and for a majority of the time at that, at which point you'll be exposed. If you want to get somewhere in basketball you've got to be willing to put in the hard work. Just like Tyler Crawford, you don't quit, you keep on working hard to get get better and better. Getting by on sheer athleticism will not work for anyone. I think JTIII saw in Vernon an athlete with a head on his shoulders that he would be able to groom into a great fit for the Princeton offense, but if you don't want to keep on plowing through the work, and you want to quit, you're not going to get anywhere. Macklin could have been working hard at Georgetown, but if you're not going to continue it, what's the use? And why waste it all at this point?
There are no Cinderellas.
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2008 5:23:28 GMT -5
This thread had some fairly objectionable posts overnight and needs to be closed for now.
Given that no other media sites corroborated Fox Sports' account and Thursday's Post says no decision can be confirmed, this needs to put on the side for now.
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