kettlehill
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Post by kettlehill on Mar 10, 2019 16:51:43 GMT -5
Imagining what Patrick was telling Mac when he took him aside mid way through the second half and put his arm around his shoulder, Mac listening intently: Patrick: “ listen Mac we need some offense here and to get some fouls on their guys so I want you to take it to the rack every damn time you can. They are going to nail you, you’ll end up flat on your ass, their bigs will want to hurt you, but you will get to the line and get us some points”. Mac: “ sure Coach”.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Mar 10, 2019 19:01:58 GMT -5
Who do you think are the best players on our team and who would you like to see on the court in the last 5 minutes of a tied road Big East game? Please answer that question. Who should be on the court? It would depend who the PG of the other team was but some mix of James/Greg/Jagan at 1-2 but defineily Josh, Kaleb, Jessie at 3-5. Face it. You screwed up in your pre-Hoya career evaluation of Mac. It happens, even to coaches (JT3 with Bolden, etc...).
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Mar 11, 2019 6:46:20 GMT -5
One of the best Hoya games in ten years. So happy for the team. Take that Wojo!!! Also amazing coaching by Patrick and great contributions from Trey.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Mar 11, 2019 10:10:37 GMT -5
I do think having McClung drive and attack the basket was a really smart move at the end of the game. It's not the most sophisticated strategy, but an extremely effective one when officials are going to call a foul nearly every time, and McClung is clearly the best on the team at doing that (it's also a strategy that was used extremely effectively against us in the latter JT3 years, when our guys were very foul happy, something JT3 never solved).
On the subject of fouls, though, LeBlanc needs to be careful. He's averaging nearly 4 fouls per 40 minutes, and he's had five Big East games with 4 fouls, and five games with 3. Despite the foul trouble he's seen a lot of minutes anyway (in part because in some games his foul trouble has come late), but he's got to avoid some of those early fouls so he can stay on the floor.
That's actually where we will miss Kaleb. When LeBlanc needs to sit, Kaleb is a very capable replacement. When Kaleb was out against DePaul we missed that, and we may miss that next year since there's nobody who will slide into that role.
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prhoya
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Post by prhoya on Mar 11, 2019 10:26:19 GMT -5
On the subject of fouls, though, LeBlanc needs to be careful. He's averaging nearly 4 fouls per 40 minutes, and he's had five Big East games with 4 fouls, and five games with 3. Despite the foul trouble he's seen a lot of minutes anyway (in part because in some games his foul trouble has come late), but he's got to avoid some of those early fouls so he can stay on the floor. I’m more worried about Govan. He has just a few games to go in his career and he’s still fouling with his manhood near mid-court. Against MU, he had one very stupid one like that and then he had a second one where he extended his arm for the foul because the MU guard had gone around him. The commentators were all over it. Just very lazy. We need Govan to play smart and value his fouls.
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hoyarooter
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Post by hoyarooter on Mar 11, 2019 19:43:22 GMT -5
I salute the team for having the intestinal fortitude to produce an effort like that on the heels of the DePaul DeBacle. I certainly didn't see it coming. Major props to everyone, from the coaching staff on down. I think the job they did on Howard has to be noted. He got his, but they made him work really hard for his points. I will take 8-25 from him any time we face him.
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