skyhoya
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Post by skyhoya on Feb 16, 2013 12:19:26 GMT -5
bet we don't get 8000 in the booth.
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Feb 16, 2013 12:30:54 GMT -5
bet we don't get 8000 in the booth. You're worth 8000 all by yourself.
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Feb 16, 2013 14:38:34 GMT -5
I think the trap game was at Rutgers
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Post by GUMBA on Feb 16, 2013 15:27:09 GMT -5
Trapper John, Trapper Keeper, Trapezoid, Trap Shooting, Trap Game -- It's all the same. Just keep grinding and finding a way to win. Stopping the Blue Demons' Cleveland Melvin from Baltimore will be the first order. Hop, Nate and Moses should be up to the task. Do we have another new road jersey to assure victory? I guess the camo-unis were unproven on the carrier (amphibious assault ship) but the others seem to have gone well.
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idhoya
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Post by idhoya on Feb 16, 2013 15:31:59 GMT -5
How about white tops and gray shorts?
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rosslynhoya
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Post by rosslynhoya on Feb 16, 2013 16:09:48 GMT -5
TRAP!!! My prediction is that there will be more people in section 118 then in the student section. We need to make the final four to have a real home court advantage. [Insert rolling eyes emoticon] You don't understand how hard it is for kids today! It's a school night, and the metro system is hard to understand, and the team hasn't been very good lately, and no one wipes their bottoms and transports them directly from their dormroom to the student section entrance for free, and Depaul isn't even very good, and they don't know anyone else who is going....
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Feb 16, 2013 19:37:10 GMT -5
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birdman
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Post by birdman on Feb 16, 2013 19:38:00 GMT -5
bet we don't get 8000 in the booth. You're fun. Do you do kids' parties? deleted.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Feb 16, 2013 19:53:33 GMT -5
TRAP!!! My prediction is that there will be more people in section 118 then in the student section. We need to make the final four to have a real home court advantage. [Insert rolling eyes emoticon] You don't understand how hard it is for kids today! It's a school night, and the metro system is hard to understand, and the team hasn't been very good lately, and no one wipes their bottoms and transports them directly from their dormroom to the student section entrance for free, and Depaul isn't even very good, and they don't know anyone else who is going.... You forgot to mention how difficult it is for undergrads to even find access to booze these days. Chinatown is like SOOO far too. Are they supposed to, like, walk or something? Jeez. It's not like they can't just go any time whenever. They'll totally have the same access after graduation and it'll be just as convenient and they'll have so much less to do when they don't have to do homework every other night. When they're just out of college and their lives are freed up because they don't have to go to class 3 days a week, then they'll find time for the games. Not to mention, $150 is a lot of money for premium seats. Who wants to cheer for one's classmates to succeed anyway? That's such a state school thing. Georgetown is competitive damnit.
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Post by unclebeets on Feb 16, 2013 21:29:45 GMT -5
If I were a student with other things to do I wouldn't walk 30 yards to watch DePaul play anybody. Give it a rest.
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Post by jwp91 on Feb 16, 2013 21:47:18 GMT -5
My wife's Georgetown roommate is visiting this weekend. The thought occurred to me to try to figure out how many home games missed while I was in town. I can't remember missing any though I must have.
And I distinctly recall hustling through a Winkler Statistics final on a Saturday morning in December so I wouldn't be late to the game - probably against UDC or St. Leos. Prof. Winker had an unusual practice of not providing a time limit on his final. Thus, as I was returning after the game from Landover, some of my classmates were just finishing up the exam. Some clearly didn't have their priorities straight.
It is hard to imagine that others find better things to do than support one of the premier programs in the country.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Feb 16, 2013 21:57:30 GMT -5
If I were a student with other things to do I wouldn't walk 30 yards to watch DePaul play anybody. Give it a rest. Would you walk 30 yards to watch the Hoyas play anyone? Nice apathy.
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Feb 16, 2013 22:00:27 GMT -5
I remember that about Winkler. That's one of the reasons I was Editeded I had Guerrero. Brilliant guy though. And, in fairness, he was entirely fine with the students bringing beer into his class on the day of the block party.
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Post by McBricks on Feb 16, 2013 23:19:49 GMT -5
If I were a student with other things to do I wouldn't walk 30 yards to watch DePaul play anybody. Give it a rest. Why on Earth are you even spending time on a Hoya discussion board? if I were a student now, I would take every chance I'd get to live the student life. And at GU, that includes loving the basketball experience. Good year or bad. And man did I watch way too much suckitude. But hey, that's why I'm a fan. What's the most important thing I learned at Georgetown? Well, it certainly wasn't found in a book or a classroom. So maybe, just maybe, you might find it at a hoops game. I did. It's called friendship. Hoya Saxa!
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 16, 2013 23:28:37 GMT -5
uncle beets in case you didnt notice that awful depaul team took nd and st johns to ot. lost some very tight games and JUST FREAKING BEAT RUTGERS yup i thinks this will be a war. no gimmes in the big east big game huge game to stay on top........ the studs should get out and FILL THE BOOTH ....... CAUSE their student athlete classmates have two full time jobs school and lots of bball practice travel and game......... and bust hump to represent THEM and us alums and the university............. come out you all this game might be a little closer than some of you on here think!?!?!?!? BIG GAME....... cant look forward nope.............. must look to wed . BEAT DEPAUL ;D ;D
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Post by HoyaPride on Feb 17, 2013 7:33:57 GMT -5
It's winning time!!
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skyhoya
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Post by skyhoya on Feb 17, 2013 8:30:25 GMT -5
LIC, agree. Dan, thanks. Will you be braving the elements on Wednesday? We need your physical support, this game is not as easy as the board thinks. Go VANILLA.
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Post by johnnysnowplow on Feb 17, 2013 10:51:11 GMT -5
Good article. Our D really has been a thing of beauty to watch for most of this year. Kind of surprised though that there's no mention of us doing this without our best defender.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 11:09:18 GMT -5
We need this W against Depaul, gonna be tough...
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Post by Deez Scruggs on Feb 17, 2013 11:41:56 GMT -5
Some pre-game notes:
After Marquette's win over Pitt yesterday, KenPom predicts us as the 5 seed. Ironically, in a 2-day stretch that included a fantastic road victory, our predicted finish got worse. In short, what happened is that Marquette and Pitt flip-flopped between the 3rd and tied-with-us-for-4th seed. We would have likely won a tiebreaker with Marquette, but will not vs. Pitt.
Notre Dame's loss (and Cincy's, to us) means the 5 seed is fairly secure. That means a Wed. night game. But I'm tired of being the 5. I want that double bye.
What does this mean?
1) Just keep winning, baby. We control our destiny. 2) Root for Pitt to lose.
Another interesting point - looking only at conference performance, we have the 2nd-best D in the Big East (after Louisville). That's driven in large part by our elite defensive eFG% (forcing opponents to take bad shots). But that's driven in part by opponents' very low 3P% against us. As KenPom and others have shown, opponents' 3P% is not predictive - it's essentially luck. So we should expect teams to hit more 3s against us in the future. On the other hand, you can't chalk up any of our conference losses to opponents finding their stroke from 3. Pitt shot well but didn't need to. USF and Marquette were just OK. Turnovers killed us against USF and, as you may remember, FT shooting did it in Milwaukee. It does explain how Rutgers was able to hang with us. Their 3P% was ridiculous in that game until they started chucking it at the end.
Our opponents' 2P% is still very low (3rd in the conference and 11th nationally), so it's not like our defense is just 3P luck. But it's a big part. A good comp is Marquette - their opponents are shooting only about 1% better from 2 than ours, but almost 7% better from 3 (and better from the line - I love our elite "free throw defense"). The only reason that hasn't killed them is that they have the best offense in the conference.
Sample size caveats apply since we're only looking at conference data.
In short, and as always: watch out for tourney teams that can shoot 3s.
We also have 3 of the top-10 most efficient players in the conference. Boost Nate's usage! Otto (2) and Markel (7) are also in the top 10 for 3P%. Big leap for both from last year.
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