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Post by This Just In on Feb 4, 2018 21:25:30 GMT -5
Starting PG and SF score zero in a game that goes into OT. Backup PG scores 3 points. How can you win? I think you meant the starting PG and SG, Mulmore and Kaleb Johnson the starting back court scored 0 pts As Pickett the starting SF scored 21 pts. |
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Post by TC on Feb 4, 2018 21:27:26 GMT -5
Starting PG and SF score zero in a game that goes into OT. Backup PG scores 3 points. How can you win? By not fouling a three point shooter while up 4 and only 30 seconds left? |
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Post by sleepy on Feb 4, 2018 22:08:26 GMT -5
Starting PG and SF score zero in a game that goes into OT. Backup PG scores 3 points. How can you win? By not fouling a three point shooter while up 4 and only 30 seconds left? Can people relax with this. He was going to make the three pointer and we were going to be up 1 with 30 seconds left. We easily could have lost the game in regulation. |
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Post by dchoya72 on Feb 4, 2018 23:36:38 GMT -5
Thanks...it's true!
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Post by Problem of Dog on Feb 4, 2018 23:59:56 GMT -5
Just to hammer the point home about talent:
We not only do not have an NBA guard on this roster, I don't know if we have a single guard on this roster who will pay his bills playing basketball. We have management consultants and insurance salesmen at the guard spots right now.
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Post by TC on Feb 5, 2018 0:00:15 GMT -5
By not fouling a three point shooter while up 4 and only 30 seconds left? Can people relax with this. He was going to make the three pointer and we were going to be up 1 with 30 seconds left. We easily could have lost the game in regulation. I don't really want to dig in on this, my point really was only to point out that the argument of "how do you win when Mulmore and Kaleb don't score" is dumb because they should have won that game up 4 with 30 seconds to go. But if you're going to make me argue it: Hoyas are shooting 78.8% from the line. They are fifth in the nation in free throw percentage. A Blair/Derrickson/Kaleb lineup gives you three options to inbound to that are rock solid shooters. If Mosely doesn't make that idiotic play, Xavier basically has to hit another three just to tie the game. Mosely's play gave away the Hoyas one real advantage - strong free throw shooting. Funny thing is, I remember thinking at the end of the DePaul game, that Mosely was really smart and was very careful *not* to foul the three point shooter unnecessarily and I thought that was a very heads up play: |
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Post by OldHoyafan on Feb 5, 2018 1:33:08 GMT -5
One of the things from yesterday’s game was the Hoyas constantly beating Xavier downcourt such that they were able to get baskets before the defense could set up. Mind you that Xavier is a deep veteran team and Mack was substituting a lot to keep his players fresh and the personnel limited Hoyas were still out hustling them down court. This is one of the things that tells me that the players are listening to and believing in Ewing’s up tempo system. Even though I think Dickerson’s play is a net negative, I see that Ewing likes the idea that he hustles the ball up court putting pressure on the defense. If these Hoyas can go 40 plus minutes like that, with basically a seven man rotation, think what they will be able to do next year when they will be able to play 9 legitimate players. Not to make excuses for the players but mental errors usually increase when the body is fatigued.
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Post by the_way on Feb 5, 2018 9:10:46 GMT -5
Starting PG and SF score zero in a game that goes into OT. Backup PG scores 3 points. How can you win? The game isn't just on offense. Just ask the Patriots last night. Their PG threw for 500 yds last night. We had 4 players in double figures against Xavier. You have to make one or more stops defensively in crunch time too. Just ask the Eagles. |
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 5, 2018 10:08:22 GMT -5
One of the things from yesterday’s game was the Hoyas constantly beating Xavier downcourt such that they were able to get baskets before the defense could set up. Mind you that Xavier is a deep veteran team and Mack was substituting a lot to keep his players fresh and the personnel limited Hoyas were still out hustling them down court. This is one of the things that tells me that the players are listening to and believing in Ewing’s up tempo system. Even though I think Dickerson’s play is a net negative, I see that Ewing likes the idea that he hustles the ball up court putting pressure on the defense. If these Hoyas can go 40 plus minutes like that, with basically a seven man rotation, think what they will be able to do next year when they will be able to play 9 legitimate players. Not to make excuses for the players but mental errors usually increase when the body is fatigued. Kuddos to Dickerson. He is in a strange spot. A 5th year guy playing on a non-tourney team and coming off the bench for spot minutes. He has played much better the last few games and has been a spark plug when in. There is obvious improvement in Pickett & Blair and Jessie had a nice bounce back game. It would be great to get a a few of these next four as this team could cause problems in NYC with how they are playing. A Nova upset (by someone else) and we could go streaking! |
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Feb 5, 2018 10:12:53 GMT -5
It would be great to get a a few of these next four as this team could cause problems in NYC with how they are playing. A Nova upset (by someone else) and we could go streaking! Of course, to make waves in NYC we would need to actually win a game against a team that’s not St. John’s or DePaul. |
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Post by drquigley on Feb 5, 2018 10:19:53 GMT -5
One of the things from yesterday’s game was the Hoyas constantly beating Xavier downcourt such that they were able to get baskets before the defense could set up. Mind you that Xavier is a deep veteran team and Mack was substituting a lot to keep his players fresh and the personnel limited Hoyas were still out hustling them down court. This is one of the things that tells me that the players are listening to and believing in Ewing’s up tempo system. Even though I think Dickerson’s play is a net negative, I see that Ewing likes the idea that he hustles the ball up court putting pressure on the defense. If these Hoyas can go 40 plus minutes like that, with basically a seven man rotation, think what they will be able to do next year when they will be able to play 9 legitimate players. Not to make excuses for the players but mental errors usually increase when the body is fatigued. Kuddos to Dickerson. He is in a strange spot. A 5th year guy playing on a non-tourney team and coming off the bench for spot minutes. He has played much better the last few games and has been a spark plug when in. There is obvious improvement in Pickett & Blair and Jessie had a nice bounce back game. It would be great to get a a few of these next four as this team could cause problems in NYC with how they are playing. A Nova upset (by someone else) and we could go streaking! I agree with everything you said except the Nova upset. Did anyone watch Nova beat Seton Hall? Seriously, I've been a college ball fan for 60 years and every time I watch Nova I tell myself that this is the best team I've seen since the Alcindor/Walton UCLA teams. I thought before this season that Nova was beatable this year. Nope. I can't believe they have one loss. I say this as someone who hates Nova probably more than anyone on this board. But believe it or not they are actually getting better as the season progresses. Baring a serious injury to Brunson I see them easily winning it all this year. Now if only we can figure out their "secret". Been noted that part of it is their judicious use of redshirting. Also, their ability to recruit quality, but not blue chip, players and develop them and keep them for 4 years. And of course there's Jay Wright and his staff. |
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Feb 5, 2018 11:09:18 GMT -5
To put it into perspective (and feel free to ignore this if you don't like KenPom type stats), St. John's was 15% against Duke going into Saturday. So Duke was a huge favorite. Right now, KenPom puts us at 2% to beat Villanova. To put than in perspective, FGCU was about 11% to win against us in 2013, and Ohio was about 14% against us in 2010. 2% is the lowest chances of winning KenPom has ever given us that I can remember. Villanova is exceptional, and it's even harder to beat a team like that away.
That said, if we can play like we did on Sunday, there are winnable games. We aren't a favorite in any remaining game, but we are 47% against Providence at home, 44% against Marquette at home, and 35% against Seton Hall at home. Even though we aren't favorites, all of those are winnable games if we play well.
And even against Providence on Tuesday, we are projected 24% to win. That means, on average, we would project to win 1 out of every 4 games, so winning is certainly possible.
In my mind, best case scenario might look like: beating Providence/Marquette at home, and then stealing one from the following Providence (away), Seton Hall (home), Xavier (home), Butler (away). That would put us at 6-12, which would be better than I would have thought we would've finished, and one game better than last year.
If we continue to play better on offense and not turn it over, I think that's feasible and realistic - though perhaps not the most likely outcome.
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Post by daveg023 on Feb 5, 2018 12:33:30 GMT -5
I’m happy with the progress, don’t get me wrong, but the key to me is does this continue or so we revert to some bad habits down the stretch? If we play like this the remainder of the schedule there’s certainly a win or two to be had. But the glass half empty perspective says we’ve played as well as we’ve could the last two games (except for the ends of both halves in both games) and have nothing to show for it. It just feels like our margin for error is so small. If our guards aren’t able to keep this up and/or Pickett and Blair cool off, we just aren’t good enough to stay with most teams in this conference. Everyone keeps preaching offense and guard play but to me the defense has to improve. We seem to be incapable of making any team uncomfortable or getting a key stop late in the game. Our best defense seems to be hoping for an off shooting night yet outside of the St John’s games and maybe the Seton Hall game, I’m hard pressed to think of a game where a team truly shot poorly against us. And that has to be more than coincidental. We have played well enough these last two games on offense to win with semi-component defense. To me I really thought Patrick would instill that in this team sooner than anything else as it’s primarily attitude and effort. But outside of Kaleb I don’t think we have one above average defender on this team. So in summary, the growth of the freshman and reduction in turnovers is great. But it’s only made us competitive in these games rather than losing by double digits. I’ll gladly trade some struggles on the offensive end at times if we are able to at least play average defense. Defense will be the only way we can beat the Novas and Xaivers of this league. |
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Post by hoyazeke on Feb 5, 2018 12:45:56 GMT -5
Kuddos to Dickerson. He is in a strange spot. A 5th year guy playing on a non-tourney team and coming off the bench for spot minutes. He has played much better the last few games and has been a spark plug when in. There is obvious improvement in Pickett & Blair and Jessie had a nice bounce back game. It would be great to get a a few of these next four as this team could cause problems in NYC with how they are playing. A Nova upset (by someone else) and we could go streaking! I agree with everything you said except the Nova upset. Did anyone watch Nova beat Seton Hall? Seriously, I've been a college ball fan for 60 years and every time I watch Nova I tell myself that this is the best team I've seen since the Alcindor/Walton UCLA teams. I thought before this season that Nova was beatable this year. Nope. I can't believe they have one loss. I say this as someone who hates Nova probably more than anyone on this board. But believe it or not they are actually getting better as the season progresses. Baring a serious injury to Brunson I see them easily winning it all this year. Now if only we can figure out their "secret". Been noted that part of it is their judicious use of redshirting. Also, their ability to recruit quality, but not blue chip, players and develop them and keep them for 4 years. And of course there's Jay Wright and his staff. DrQ I only see one team that I think can beat Nova and that's UVA. I haven't seen a team play D like they do in Charlottesville. And to make matters worst, with the development of Hunter and Diakite, they can put pressure with athleticism on the offensive end of the court..... |
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Post by the_way on Feb 5, 2018 12:46:03 GMT -5
Kuddos to Dickerson. He is in a strange spot. A 5th year guy playing on a non-tourney team and coming off the bench for spot minutes. He has played much better the last few games and has been a spark plug when in. There is obvious improvement in Pickett & Blair and Jessie had a nice bounce back game. It would be great to get a a few of these next four as this team could cause problems in NYC with how they are playing. A Nova upset (by someone else) and we could go streaking! I agree with everything you said except the Nova upset. Did anyone watch Nova beat Seton Hall? Seriously, I've been a college ball fan for 60 years and every time I watch Nova I tell myself that this is the best team I've seen since the Alcindor/Walton UCLA teams. I thought before this season that Nova was beatable this year. Nope. I can't believe they have one loss. I say this as someone who hates Nova probably more than anyone on this board. But believe it or not they are actually getting better as the season progresses. Baring a serious injury to Brunson I see them easily winning it all this year. Now if only we can figure out their "secret". Been noted that part of it is their judicious use of redshirting. Also, their ability to recruit quality, but not blue chip, players and develop them and keep them for 4 years. And of course there's Jay Wright and his staff. Hyperbole, much?  Nova has pretty much looked like this since the New Big East started. They've bounced out early in the 2nd round 3 out of 4 times too. Could see that happening again this year or making it another run for a title. You never know. Wright's style of play and recruiting really benifitted with the new college basketball landscape. Small ball and lack of sure-fire NBA players. Kyle Lowry is probably his best NBA player/talent to come out of NOVA? The change in college basketball landscape really helped a program like NOVA. Before they were good, now they dominate. Jay Wright's time at NOVA is really compelling. Because twice during his career he was on the hot seat. While he was building his program with a talented recruiting class, some felt he was taking too long to get NOVA off the ground with that recruiting class. Wasn't until his 4th year they finally reached the tournament. Then after much success and a Final Four , a sweet sixteen and an elite 8 with NOVA,the program took a dive and he had a losing season. Then they have a resurgence and start to dominate the New Big East. However,before the title,people were complaining his New Big East era teams choked in the tournament. It just goes to show you what time and patience with a coach can do for your program. Also, in spite of one's success, you are never above reproach from the fans. I'm sure Coach K is catching hell right now from Duke fans for losing to St. John's over the weekend. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 12:55:04 GMT -5
A few thoughts on the game. First off, I think this thread has been overall extremely positive, with only a couple of exceptions - so I am not quite sure why so much time has been spent pretending otherwise. In any case, it's silly to talk about a coach's career, etc. after one game. Ewing is our coach and will be for the foreseeable future, so those discussions are really pointless. I do think there was a lot of good about the game (at least before the last minute and overtime). Our offense clearly worked better than in other games - more ball movement, more off-ball motion, etc. I also think Ewing did a good job of getting Govan looks that were not post shots, and I think that's a major reason why he did so much better. I really hope Ewing continues to do this with Govan rather than parking him in the post (obviously some post play is fine, but I had been thinking there was too much), because that's going to work better. And finally, we didn't turn it over a lot. I admit that if all these things continue into the future, that will definitely be a sign of some improvement. But, I'm not quite there yet. Is this a trend of better play, or simply an outlier? Keep in mind the Tre Campbell Xavier game where the not-great 2016 team beat Xavier away, yet had a lot of bad games after that. It's simply too early to say. I certainly hope it does, though, as it would give me more confidence in our offense going forward. The one area where I am most skeptical is turnovers. We turned it over 10 times, which was great, but this team has been awful in this area all season. It's more likely just a good game, but if Ewing can manage to get these guys to continue to turn it over less he will definitely deserve a lot of credit for that. So, there was a lot of good stuff, but I do think the Hoyas' colored glasses are causing people to gloss over some of the same things that would have had HoyaTalk erupting if the coach's last name ended with III rather than Ewing. Here's some of what concerns me. Let me first say that I do think the players' have a ton of responsibility in blowing the end of the game. Obviously, no coach is going to tell Mosely to jump on top of a three point shooter and yield a 4 point play. A coach isn't going to tell Govan to commit a lane violation, or a moving screen that causes him to foul out of the game in overtime. No coach is going to tell Mulmore to commit stupid fouls in overtime. That said, I do think there are some tactical decisions that merit consideration. - Lineup Decisions. I question Ewing's decision to have Dickerson out there on the last possession of regulation. While Dickerson's play wasn't as bad as normal, he simply isn't a scoring threat in a situation where you need to score. If he was some sort of great floor general, I might understand it, but he isn't. - Tactics/Plays out of Timeouts/End of Game: This was one of JT3's biggest weaknesses, but I haven't seen anything to indicate that Ewing is putting us in a great position with the plays we are running at the end of games or out of timeouts. Again, what was Dickerson doing out there? Maybe there was a brilliant play that simply wasn't executed by our players - some of that falls on them, but some falls on the coach too. - Team Defense. I still haven't seen improvement of this team on defense throughout the season. Maybe we were slightly better last night than on some other nights, but we still allowed Xavier to shoot 50% from two and 36.7% from three. Yes, Xavier is a very good team, but we have been awful on defense all year, and I haven't seen improvements - or any significant improvement. - Fouls. We did badly on fouls last night, but this is an aberration - we've been pretty good on this all year, and Ewing improved on JT3 in this respect pretty significantly. I am not worried about it, though Mulmore, especially, merits a discussion about not making stupid fouls in crunch-time situations. Again, I think that we did a ton of good things, and I am happy about that, and I hope to see those things continue. I do think a lot of people are a bit more optimistic than results merit at this point. I mean, our best win is against a bad St. John's team. But if we continue to keep playing like we did in this game, that will be a good sign of improvement and probably yield a few wins, which would be great. I think that's a bit unfair because that person doesn't exist on this roster. Coach has to go with who he feels gives him the best shot at the current moment. I don't think it's at all controversial for a coach to put players out there at the end of the game based on feel/their performance in said game. Don't think anyone is going to argue Trey's had a great year, but what was the issue with his play on Saturday? His minutes where pretty positive in my view. The JT3 vs Pat thing is kind of weird to me also. You're not going to hold a first year coach to the same standard as a coach in his 10th. The same things happening year after year is why folks soured on 3, not because he had one season of this, or that. I liked 3 and wasn't one of the people pushing for his ouster, but it's different standard because of that fact. Defensive issues are more a result of personnel in my view. I think Kaleb does a fine job, but is there a plus defender on this roster? |
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Feb 5, 2018 14:32:40 GMT -5
I think that's a bit unfair because that person doesn't exist on this roster. Coach has to go with who he feels gives him the best shot at the current moment. I don't think it's at all controversial for a coach to put players out there at the end of the game based on feel/their performance in said game. Don't think anyone is going to argue Trey's had a great year, but what was the issue with his play on Saturday? His minutes where pretty positive in my view. The JT3 vs Pat thing is kind of weird to me also. You're not going to hold a first year coach to the same standard as a coach in his 10th. The same things happening year after year is why folks soured on 3, not because he had one season of this, or that. I liked 3 and wasn't one of the people pushing for his ouster, but it's different standard because of that fact. Defensive issues are more a result of personnel in my view. I think Kaleb does a fine job, but is there a plus defender on this roster? I agree, Dickerson had an okay game. But in most of the possessions where he was a net plus, he got out running and managed to pass to someone/get an assist. On that last possession, we were just inbounding the ball and running something in the half court, an area where Dickerson didn't excel even in that game. My biggest point is that you need someone to score there with a limited clock (19 seconds), and you're putting the ball in the hands of someone who has not shown good ball IQ generally, who has not shown much proficiency shooting, and who turns it over a ton. I believe the lineup there was Dickerson, Blair, Pickett, Derrickson, and Govan (Johnson had fouled out). To me, you've got to have Mosely out there, who has been head and shoulders better than Dickerson offensively. I get these are judgment calls. I don't think it's "controversial" that Ewing put in Dickerson, I just disagree with it and thought it was a bad move. I never want Dickerson on the floor in crunch time, and I think it was a mistake. It's my opinion, that's all. Finally, I agree that defense is hard without better personnel but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement too. If it was simply a matter of getting beat by more athletic players, etc., I would totally agree. But consistently, we've had guys lose their man, fall asleep (Mosely, in this game), and leave opposing three point shooters wide open because we miss or botch rotations. As a team, you'd hope those things would improve after several months of playing together. Ewing did do a great job of getting us to foul less, so I think that's great. I would just like to see them work together better as a cohesive unit on defense - I have no doubt Ewing and the staff are working on this, I'm just not sure it's paid any dividends yet. |
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Post by BigmanU on Feb 5, 2018 14:38:13 GMT -5
I think that's a bit unfair because that person doesn't exist on this roster. Coach has to go with who he feels gives him the best shot at the current moment. I don't think it's at all controversial for a coach to put players out there at the end of the game based on feel/their performance in said game. Don't think anyone is going to argue Trey's had a great year, but what was the issue with his play on Saturday? His minutes where pretty positive in my view. The JT3 vs Pat thing is kind of weird to me also. You're not going to hold a first year coach to the same standard as a coach in his 10th. The same things happening year after year is why folks soured on 3, not because he had one season of this, or that. I liked 3 and wasn't one of the people pushing for his ouster, but it's different standard because of that fact. Defensive issues are more a result of personnel in my view. I think Kaleb does a fine job, but is there a plus defender on this roster?
My biggest point is that you need someone to score there with a limited clock (19 seconds), and you're putting the ball in the hands of someone who has not shown good ball IQ generally, who has not shown much proficiency shooting, and who turns it over a ton. I believe the lineup there was Dickerson, Blair, Pickett, Derrickson, and Govan (Johnson had fouled out). To me, you've got to have Mosely out there, who has been head and shoulders better than Dickerson offensively.
I get these are judgment calls. I don't think it's "controversial" that Ewing put in Dickerson, I just disagree with it and thought it was a bad move. I never want Dickerson on the floor in crunch time, and I think it was a mistake. It's my opinion, that's all.
Finally, I agree that defense is hard without better personnel but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement too. If it was simply a matter of getting beat by more athletic players, etc., I would totally agree. But consistently, we've had guys lose their man, fall asleep (Mosely, in this game), and leave opposing three point shooters wide open because we miss or botch rotations. As a team, you'd hope those things would improve after several months of playing together. Ewing did do a great job of getting us to foul less, so I think that's great. I would just like to see them work together better as a cohesive unit on defense - I have no doubt Ewing and the staff are working on this, I'm just not sure it's paid any dividends yet. I agree with the part wholeheartedly. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2018 15:10:56 GMT -5
I think that's a bit unfair because that person doesn't exist on this roster. Coach has to go with who he feels gives him the best shot at the current moment. I don't think it's at all controversial for a coach to put players out there at the end of the game based on feel/their performance in said game. Don't think anyone is going to argue Trey's had a great year, but what was the issue with his play on Saturday? His minutes where pretty positive in my view. The JT3 vs Pat thing is kind of weird to me also. You're not going to hold a first year coach to the same standard as a coach in his 10th. The same things happening year after year is why folks soured on 3, not because he had one season of this, or that. I liked 3 and wasn't one of the people pushing for his ouster, but it's different standard because of that fact. Defensive issues are more a result of personnel in my view. I think Kaleb does a fine job, but is there a plus defender on this roster? I agree, Dickerson had an okay game. But in most of the possessions where he was a net plus, he got out running and managed to pass to someone/get an assist. On that last possession, we were just inbounding the ball and running something in the half court, an area where Dickerson didn't excel even in that game. My biggest point is that you need someone to score there with a limited clock (19 seconds), and you're putting the ball in the hands of someone who has not shown good ball IQ generally, who has not shown much proficiency shooting, and who turns it over a ton. I believe the lineup there was Dickerson, Blair, Pickett, Derrickson, and Govan (Johnson had fouled out). To me, you've got to have Mosely out there, who has been head and shoulders better than Dickerson offensively. I get these are judgment calls. I don't think it's "controversial" that Ewing put in Dickerson, I just disagree with it and thought it was a bad move. I never want Dickerson on the floor in crunch time, and I think it was a mistake. It's my opinion, that's all. Finally, I agree that defense is hard without better personnel but I still think there's a lot of room for improvement too. If it was simply a matter of getting beat by more athletic players, etc., I would totally agree. But consistently, we've had guys lose their man, fall asleep (Mosely, in this game), and leave opposing three point shooters wide open because we miss or botch rotations. As a team, you'd hope those things would improve after several months of playing together. Ewing did do a great job of getting us to foul less, so I think that's great. I would just like to see them work together better as a cohesive unit on defense - I have no doubt Ewing and the staff are working on this, I'm just not sure it's paid any dividends yet. I guess the point is you're asking why he was out there like it's a coaching error and using past performance as to why he shouldn't be, but on Saturday he was playing well enough to earn that slot. My guess is he was probably out there because he had played well up until that point and he probably wanted a guy capable of breaking his man down off the dribble if things broke down. At the end of the day it didn't really matter either way imo.. |
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Post by drquigley on Feb 5, 2018 15:29:15 GMT -5
I agree with everything you said except the Nova upset. Did anyone watch Nova beat Seton Hall? Seriously, I've been a college ball fan for 60 years and every time I watch Nova I tell myself that this is the best team I've seen since the Alcindor/Walton UCLA teams. I thought before this season that Nova was beatable this year. Nope. I can't believe they have one loss. I say this as someone who hates Nova probably more than anyone on this board. But believe it or not they are actually getting better as the season progresses. Baring a serious injury to Brunson I see them easily winning it all this year. Now if only we can figure out their "secret". Been noted that part of it is their judicious use of redshirting. Also, their ability to recruit quality, but not blue chip, players and develop them and keep them for 4 years. And of course there's Jay Wright and his staff. DrQ I only see one team that I think can beat Nova and that's UVA. I haven't seen a team play D like they do in Charlottesville. And to make matters worst, with the development of Hunter and Diakite, they can put pressure with athleticism on the offensive end of the court..... I haven't seen UVA play but with all Nova's shooters I'd be surprised if they can beat them just with great defense. Just too many scores on Nova.. That said I'll try to catch a UVA game this week on TV. |
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