sleepy
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Post by sleepy on Mar 11, 2009 3:31:14 GMT -5
I do, I also see some differences though. This team got markedly worse in comparison to it's peers as the season went on. That wasn't really the case with that UConn team, they just didn't play anybody so they started off hot by out-athleting teams. This team beat a great UConn team and a great Memphis team early, and by March looked like an NIT bubble team. There are similarities, but it's not the same season, and I don't think we've laid the same type of groundwork for future success as they did. I hope I'm wrong. You say that as if that Uconn team got any better as the season went on. They may not have gotten worse, but they certainly got no better. We showed potential this season that they never showed. This whole collapse from us was all mental. Anyone who doesn't see that is fooling themselves. If we just played this season instead of thinking and playing scared, we could have easily been .500 in the league. In the begginning of the season I said we were either going to be really good, or really bad because with young teams is usually one or the other. It turned out we were both, we just choose the worst part of the season to be really bad in. I am not exactly sure how they set the ground work to be really good and we haven't. A sophomore point guard that didn't play in the Big East the season before, a freshman center that has a ton of potential but is still kind of raw, a power forward that underperformed and didn't take on leadership duties, a shooting guard that was our of control too much during the season and a small forward that is playing out of position and had a lackluster season. No, didn't just describe the 2008-2009 Georgetown Hoyas, I described the 2006-2007 Uconn Huskies. Pg- Price, Sg- Dyson, SF-Austrie, Pf-Adrien, C- Thabeet. Does it mean we will have a similar next two season as them? No, I don't think we will for a variety of different reasons, one of them being I don't see Thompson forcing players out to bring in new ones or players getting arrested and failing out of school just yet. But I do think there is room for similar improvement that that group of players showed, and to act as if there was some obvious framework set for them that this group doesn't have is just revisionist history.
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Bando
Golden Hoya (over 1000 posts)
I've got some regrets!
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Post by Bando on Mar 11, 2009 10:32:44 GMT -5
I do, I also see some differences though. This team got markedly worse in comparison to it's peers as the season went on. That wasn't really the case with that UConn team, they just didn't play anybody so they started off hot by out-athleting teams. This team beat a great UConn team and a great Memphis team early, and by March looked like an NIT bubble team. There are similarities, but it's not the same season, and I don't think we've laid the same type of groundwork for future success as they did. I hope I'm wrong. You say that as if that Uconn team got any better as the season went on. They may not have gotten worse, but they certainly got no better. We showed potential this season that they never showed. This whole collapse from us was all mental. Anyone who doesn't see that is fooling themselves. If we just played this season instead of thinking and playing scared, we could have easily been .500 in the league. In the begginning of the season I said we were either going to be really good, or really bad because with young teams is usually one or the other. It turned out we were both, we just choose the worst part of the season to be really bad in. I am not exactly sure how they set the ground work to be really good and we haven't. A sophomore point guard that didn't play in the Big East the season before, a freshman center that has a ton of potential but is still kind of raw, a power forward that underperformed and didn't take on leadership duties, a shooting guard that was our of control too much during the season and a small forward that is playing out of position and had a lackluster season. No, didn't just describe the 2008-2009 Georgetown Hoyas, I described the 2006-2007 Uconn Huskies. Pg- Price, Sg- Dyson, SF-Austrie, Pf-Adrien, C- Thabeet. Does it mean we will have a similar next two season as them? No, I don't think we will for a variety of different reasons, one of them being I don't see Thompson forcing players out to bring in new ones or players getting arrested and failing out of school just yet. But I do think there is room for similar improvement that that group of players showed, and to act as if there was some obvious framework set for them that this group doesn't have is just revisionist history. Exactamundo. We are eerily similar to that UConn team. This doesn't mean we'll be good next season, but it does mean that we're not necessarily damned for all time, as other posters are saying.
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lichoya68
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OK YOUNGINS ARE HERE AND ARE VERY VERY GOOD cant wait GO HOYAS
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Post by lichoya68 on Mar 11, 2009 10:42:14 GMT -5
YUP IT DID AND NOT SURPRISING AT ALL WITH LAST TWO MONTHS GO HOYAS beat george mason and lets practice SHOOTing yup and remember IS ALMOST NOVEMBER it CANT get any worse nope
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