Georgetown @ Providence 2/6/18 Discussion

[SaxaCD]

Feb 6, 2018 22:55:57 GMT -5 sleepy said:

Feb 6, 2018 22:54:52 GMT -5 SaxaCD said:

Unfortunately, it was called one, I guess. But still, DISH THE BALL

To who?

Jessie, who looked free for a moment, or kick it out, like everybody else on the planet does.

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Feb 6, 2018 22:55:44 GMT -5 glidehoyas (Inactive) said:

Hoyas blow this game and give it away. Ewing gets outcoached period. No disrespect.

Some posters don't want to hear this but it is true, the 4th consecutive game lost with under a minute left
For JTIII it was the NCAAT losses
For Ewing it is end of game coaching

Even the analysts are talking about the continual end of game execution problems.

[dchoya72]

Poor decision. Making throwing the game away....All of you, what does Ewing need to do?? None of our guards handle the situation..none of them!!!

[DFW HOYA]

Feb 6, 2018 22:59:23 GMT -5 glidehoyas (Inactive) said:

Lavin on the Hoyas. Guard play. Simple. Yup yup yup. Decision making Jackson says. Yup yup I've said the same things.

Well, it's what they don't (or won't) say. "Ewing has no late game strategy." Yup yup yup.

[augustusfinknottle]

Also Mosely was in bounds way before the ball was touched. So that's a turnover anyway.

[saxagael]

Nice post game wrap-up from the studio talking about poor guard play (but we know that) and Mosely committing to the line too early on the inbound with 4 seconds left.

[mfk24]

Feb 6, 2018 22:58:00 GMT -5 sleepy said:

That was a crazy play.


But, this team is well coached. Anyone who watched this team last year and this they aren't well coached is either willfully ignorant or has an awful memory.

Ewing does need to work on his end of game situational coaching though. That last play was crazy.

I honestly do not believe that that’s what was drawn up. Jagan was about to step over the out of bounds line and had to heave it. But still don’t know why Ewing had him throwing the ball in, so I’ll put some blame on him for that.

[SaxaCD]

Feb 6, 2018 22:59:23 GMT -5 glidehoyas (Inactive) said:

Lavin on the Hoyas. Guard play. Simple. Yup yup yup. Decision making Jackson says. Yup yup I've said the same things.

Yep.

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Feb 6, 2018 22:56:10 GMT -5 madgesiq92 said:

We are watching the most poorly coached team in college basketball.

No true.
The coaching is good up until the last 4 minutes, then it goes to "hell in a hand basket".

[hoyainla]

And most of you thought we wouldn't have found a way to blow a 1 point lead with 28 seconds left lol.

[aleutianhoya]

You would think we would have won one of these by accident at this point.

A lot wrong that game (including FTs and Marcus incredibly missing an uncontested layup and then fouling). But what the hell were we doing on the last two possessions? When I saw Dickerson on the last one, I assumed we were going to use him to rush it up court, which at least makes some sense. But why is he in the game for that play? And why throw deep. You've got four seconds. Doesn't make any sense.

Ugh.

[SaxaCD]

Feb 6, 2018 22:59:51 GMT -5 dchoya72 said:

Poor decision. Making throwing the game away....All of you, what Ewing need to do??

Get a few guards who can create one on one and finish.

[glidehoyas (Inactive)]

Feb 6, 2018 22:57:52 GMT -5 dchoya72 said:

Feb 6, 2018 22:55:44 GMT -5 glidehoyas (Inactive) said:

Hoyas blow this game and give it away. Ewing gets outcoached period. No disrespect.

How! What should he have done from your perspective?

You should've just heard what Lavin and Jackson said lol. Plus we had two timeouts didnt freeze the free throw shooter. Man we got outcoached big time in the last two games.

[GUJook97]

Feb 6, 2018 22:59:51 GMT -5 dchoya72 said:

Poor decision. Making throwing the game away....All of you, what Ewing need to do??

We didn't use our TOs until the game was tied. This is a team that's blown several games in the last few minutes, and we have a 5 point lead and he sort of just lets them wing it. Long term, i get it, but he coached poorly in this particular game when the object is to win.

[prhoya]

Feb 6, 2018 22:57:41 GMT -5 DFW HOYA said:

Ewing subscribes to the Chris Mullin School of coaching. Ed Cooley does not.

Keep it in the family.

[calhoya]

Hard to find words for the way this team collapses in every tough situation. Mosley, Kaleb, Mulmore it really changes from game to game. Having ripped JT III for his inability to coach these situations, I have to say I have no idea what Ewing was thinking at the end there. With Govan, Blair and Pickett out there we have Mosley again trying a wild runner. Turnover on in bounds play. Kaleb with yet another failure to finish. MD played poorly. Missed FTs. And poor officiating was a factor but that goes with home court advantage, something which the Hoyas will never experience if they continue nuke to choke away games.

[SFHoya99]

This game was lost when Ewing put Kaleb out there down the stretch. He's been a complete zero on offense, a complete liability on the line, and unlike Mulmore, he doesn't seem to realize it. That absurd attempt that led to the three on the other end killed the team.

There's no reason to put players out there as defense only. The defense isn't good no matter what; putting Kaleb out there puts us 4 on 5 and gives Providence someone easy to foul who is going to miss the FTs. Turns out they didn't need that, but we need to stop playing for defense down the stretch and focus on scoring. Take a lesson from the Eagles -- we don't have the horses on D; we should be getting the ball to the few guys we have who can hit a shot.

Special thumbs up to refs who think every tussle under the basket is a foul, and Govan, who despite superficial stats, could not have played softer. I feel like someone needs to slap him between plays because he seems scared whenever anyone gets near.

Just disappointing to lose another one. If we had lost gunning, I would have been okay. But watching Providence defend half the court and letting Kaleb basically travel and airball against no one while Jessie softly misses another vaguely contested shot is disappointing.

Run a play for Pickett or Blair off a curl. At least they will attack. I don't even mind the Moseley play -- we have no creators, but what the heck was that in bound? Four seconds isn't a small amount of time.

[SaxaCD]

Feb 6, 2018 23:01:07 GMT -5 hoyainla said:

And most of you thought we wouldn't have found a way to blow a 1 point lead with 28 seconds left lol.

"Most"? like how many, 5%?

[bamahoya11]

Feb 6, 2018 22:58:02 GMT -5 SSHoya said:

HOYAS COVER! HOYAS COVER! HOYAS COVER! I'm disgusted. But will be there Saturday.

I'll be there too. Hopefully I'm over this loss by then. Don't know. I do think Ewing was out coached tonight. The plays out of timeouts were consistently bad, and the final play was uniquely awful. He's also clearly struggling to make the series of adjustments that coaches have to make throughout the game to win in this league. Providence kept tweaking and, late in the first and second halves, their changes showed.

That being said, I'm trying to resist the urge to treat this as more than a frustrating loss. We were so bad earlier in the year that we had to just focus on getting better, not the nuanced type of things that a team needs to do to win a close game. We are also really hurting for depth, especially at the guard spots. Even so, the late game execution was at its worst tonight.

I'll be ready to go on Saturday but man this is tough.

[sleepy]

Feb 6, 2018 23:00:21 GMT -5 DFW HOYA said:

Feb 6, 2018 22:59:23 GMT -5 glidehoyas (Inactive) said:

Lavin on the Hoyas. Guard play. Simple. Yup yup yup. Decision making Jackson says. Yup yup I've said the same things.

Well, it's what they don't (or won't) say. "Ewing has no late game strategy." Yup yup yup.

You are a crazy person.