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Post by Hoyas4Ever on Nov 10, 2019 9:31:12 GMT -5
Finally got a chance to watch yesterday's game. I then went back and watched the first game vs Mount Saint Mary to see why Blair is struggling so much with his shot. Then went back and watched video from games where Blair shot it well. Blair whose never had text book shooting mechanics (probably why he can be very streaky), but so far this season his mechanics are completely inconsistent and all over the place. His feet, his core & his shot (follow through) are all fighting against each other pointing different ways.
On his baseline midrange jumper he missed towards the end of the game yesterday, his feet were pointing directly towards the baseline, while his midsection is pointed more towards the top of the key.
On the 3FGM from near the top, his feet & torso were more aligned pointed more towards rim. His follow through was still off (towards the sidelines) but he did enough things right on the shot to knock it down.
Blair has gotten himself into a mechanical shooting funk. Just fixing his feet (have them pointed to the rim on the jump, release, and landing) would start to improve everything else. He has to work to straighten out his mechanics better & streamline them to get better more consistent results...
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Post by practice on Nov 10, 2019 9:40:56 GMT -5
Are any of coaches recognized shooting and ball handling gurus? Blair is a junior now and still a liability handling the ball. Hoya4ever with great take on his shooting mechanics or lack there of. Jamarko’s handle still somewhat scary in a bad way. Like Gardner but he’s going to clearly need a lot help with shooting mechanics and ball handling to become a real contributor.
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Post by seaweed on Nov 10, 2019 9:57:37 GMT -5
Are any of coaches recognized shooting and ball handling gurus? Blair is a junior now and still a liability handling the ball. Hoya4ever with great take on his shooting mechanics or lack there of. Jamarko’s handle still somewhat scary in a bad way. Like Gardner but he’s going to clearly need a lot help with shooting mechanics and ball handling to become a real contributor. The new guy Coach Crouch is. Might be in the midst of a Blair overhaul
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Nov 10, 2019 11:00:38 GMT -5
By the time you hit college, you can either pat the rock or not. The coaching staff can help, but are not miracle workers.
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Post by Hoyas4Ever on Nov 10, 2019 11:24:20 GMT -5
Are any of coaches recognized shooting and ball handling gurus? Blair is a junior now and still a liability handling the ball. Hoya4ever with great take on his shooting mechanics or lack there of. Jamarko’s handle still somewhat scary in a bad way. Like Gardner but he’s going to clearly need a lot help with shooting mechanics and ball handling to become a real contributor. The new guy Coach Crouch is. Might be in the midst of a Blair overhaul Almost impossible to do an overall of someone's shot mechanics in season. You can try and make minor tweaks. With Blair, the staff just focus on his feet...for now.
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Post by professorhoya on Nov 11, 2019 11:11:43 GMT -5
By the time you hit college, you can either pat the rock or not. The coaching staff can help, but are not miracle workers. Agree on the statment their's only so much one can do when years of bad habits have been ingrained. Just look at Lubick. However with these two I think it's a matter of tweaking a thing or two here or there and not a complete overhaul like Lubick had to do.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Nov 11, 2019 14:28:59 GMT -5
What’s so odd about Lubick is that his dad is a coach and has probably had a ball in his hands since in the womb.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Nov 11, 2019 14:44:33 GMT -5
What’s so odd about Lubick is that his dad is a coach and has probably had a ball in his hands since in the womb. And he was a top 50 recruit. I'm not sure what the recruiting services saw that became different once he started playing in college. I think sometimes he gets a bad rap around here, but he definitely did not live up to his ranking.
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Post by CTHoya08 on Nov 11, 2019 17:44:21 GMT -5
I used to joke that the announcers always said "his dad is a coach" but that they never specified that he's a basketball coach.
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Post by professorhoya on Nov 11, 2019 17:49:17 GMT -5
What’s so odd about Lubick is that his dad is a coach and has probably had a ball in his hands since in the womb. And he was a top 50 recruit. I'm not sure what the recruiting services saw that became different once he started playing in college. I think sometimes he gets a bad rap around here, but he definitely did not live up to his ranking. Someone on here evaluated him while still in high school and said his shooting form was strange and that even at the high school level he seemed afraid to shoot but this was masked by him always looking to pass the ball instead of shooting and that passing was looked on as a strength. And Lubuck’s dad was a 6-6 center who played at low level D3 university of Chicago so there was probably no shooting technique that was transmitted. It’s not like Dell Curry imparting his rainbow jumper to Steph Curry
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 9:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by Hoyas4Ever on Nov 18, 2019 10:09:12 GMT -5
I like how Coach Ewing is calling his number at times giving him so Iso looks. Also like to see him come off some motion like some pin down curls for him.
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Post by HoyaRejuveNation85 on Nov 18, 2019 16:05:43 GMT -5
I very much like what I see out of Jamorko. He's around the ball and looking for his shot. Still helping on defense.
We're still waiting on Blair. Ewing is giving him run, but he's not hitting. I heard he worked hard all summer, so I hope it starts to show soon. We could use a sharpshooter on this squad.
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Post by hoyasaxa2003 on Nov 18, 2019 20:47:10 GMT -5
It is a small sample of only 4 games, but so far Pickett has been a lot better. His offensive efficiency is 115.3, compared to 87.7 last season, and 89.2 his first season. His two point shooting is 9-15 (60%), whereas his previous best was 41.6%, and he's made 3-7 threes (42.9%). His rebounding is slightly better too.
As someone who has been fairly hard on Pickett, it is good to see his progress. It's too small a sample to say he's a different player, but all indications are that he's made improvements, and that's great to see.
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Post by jwp91 on Nov 18, 2019 20:51:54 GMT -5
It is a small sample of only 4 games, but so far Pickett has been a lot better. His offensive efficiency is 115.3, compared to 87.7 last season, and 89.2 his first season. His two point shooting is 9-15 (60%), whereas his previous best was 41.6%, and he's made 3-7 threes (42.9%). His rebounding is slightly better too. As someone who has been fairly hard on Pickett, it is good to see his progress. It's too small a sample to say he's a different player, but all indications are that he's made improvements, and that's great to see. Has he had a positional change this year vs. last?
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Nov 23, 2019 12:18:33 GMT -5
I was disappointed that we didn't work harder to get Blair shots after he nailed the deep 3. We all know he is a streaky shooter; a shot like that should get him going.
There was one transition where he ran to the arc and was wide open - and either Mac or James tried to take it to the basket and missed an awkward shot. Only time that I actually yelled at the screen - "get it to Blair".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 12:37:46 GMT -5
Yeah. If there were ever a time for Blair, it was that 2nd half.
- Mac in foul trouble - Expanding deficit - Refs calling touch fouls at each end.
Instead, we got a healthy dose of Gardner. I like his tenacity, but he's limited in a game called like that and not a great shooter. And he's not really quick enough to deal with quick wings on the defensive end.
Seemed like a odd choice from Pat.
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Post by blueandgray on Nov 23, 2019 17:06:03 GMT -5
Pat called in gardener in place of Allen who could even come close to handling the level of athleticism duke had on the court at the time. They were literally jumping over the kid. After one such play ...Ewing looked at gardener and said “get in there” not evening having to name who he was subbing in there. gardener helped stop the bleeding.
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Nov 23, 2019 18:01:26 GMT -5
Yeah, Allen didn’t have a great game. I had hoped his maturity would have helped. Airball three was disappointing, but he’s not a shooter. I still hope for solid minutes as a ball handler, distributor and defender.
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Post by dchoya72 on Nov 23, 2019 18:09:40 GMT -5
Whatever you may think of Chris Mack, he knows talent. And after seeing Pickett in person when the Hoyas almost upset Xavier at Xavier, Mack made an unprompted statement in which he said Pickett would be one of the very best players Georgetown has ever had. Now so far that prediction hasn't come close to being true and perhaps it never will. But that is not as important to me as WHY Mack said such a thing in the first place. I feel the reasons are because of the tantalizing possibilities Pickett, in theory at least, presents. Before last season longtime DC sports writer Ben Standing thought it was only 50-50 that Pickett would not leave Gtown for the pros after his second year. Of course Pickett wasn't close to being in that position after this previous season ended but why had Standing made such a guess? At the time he said he had just gotten back covering the NBA summer league and that Pickett had the type of frame that NBA GMs and coaches saw as ideal; he based that on all the new, young players on NBA team rosters for that summer league. This is true in that Pickett represents the type of potential two-way guys that NBA teams can't get enough of. He is not just tall, he is long with a ridiculous wingspan. He is a faceup player who can hit long threes but also cover opponents on the perimeter as well. He can pass, block shots and when inspired even rebound. And while some on this board dismiss him as being an average athlete, he is actually better on that front than they give him credit for. I'm now 3/4 of the way done on season edits for Pickett, after finishing DVDs for Akinjo, McClung and LeBlanc. Pickett's highlights are far fewer so the process is going faster but what it impresses me as I keep pouring through all of these game clips is just how effective Pickett often was on defense. He is a difference maker on that side of the ball. He has tremendously quick feet to keep up with opponents and great reaction speed to help him alter shots. He has quick hands and his long arms are not just useful to obscure clear views of players trying to shoot over him, they also can help him deflect or pick off passes from opposing teams. There was a moment at Providence when Diallo slipped behind him and received a pass right under the basket. It was a clean look for Diallo, a gimme. Even though he was in traffic every other Hoya was either distracted or not close enough to stop a would-be point blank layup. Pickett notices it, closes in like a speed-demon and from behind goes above an extended Diallo's right shoulder to spike the ball cleanly off the backboard. He did this without his block even coming close to looking like a possible foul because his reach is so insane; it all comes across as so effortless. Diallo is quite long himself, at least 6-6, perhaps 6-7 and he would make that same shot against virtually any other player assigned to guard him. But not against Pickett. Pickett has given him fits every time out so he knew he had to get that shot off quick, but still it was to no avail. You have to understand I’m far more interested in player’s offense capabilities than their defensive ones, but that play by Pickett, and several other of his defensive showings, stood out to even me. I think he may have better timing and reactions with his blocks than LeBlanc but Josh gets to show his worth on that end more because as a four he is more likely to be in the paint. Having too guys of that caliber and length on the defensive end is a luxury not many other teams will have (and the fact the Hoyas stunk so much on defense demonstrates how bad some of the other guys were on D or how Pickett being on the bench could affect outcomes). LeBlanc is a more explosive leaper on defense but Pickett has quicker feet and more reach. I genuinely think the kid is roughly around 6’9. Looking at some of the clips I notice he does things on defense that he won’t statistically get credit for. He can stick to his man and be such a disruptor it leads to the other player turning the ball over or taking a shot that is way off. What has held Pickett back is his mentality and a certain skill that he would probably have refined far more if he had a more assertive/alpha-male personality: dribbling . His dribbling can be inconsistent, non-existent and at times downright horrible. He doesn’t get the opportunity to display the fluidity or agility on the finish because too often his ballhandling skills can’t properly take advantage of his quick first step to get him to the hoop. He should be better at that by now. Its an easier thing to shore up than height, quickness or other qualities that can’t be taught. Undoubtedly his sometimes bone-headed decisions that lead to unnecessary turnovers don’t help matters. It’s also fair to say that he can seem allergic to contact . But its unquestionably his ballhandling that negatively affects the rest of his game. If opposing players feared it more they would lay off him a bit instead of crowding him when he is looking to launch three-pointers. If his handle was better he would be able to be more comfortable and thus more assertive at driving to get easier close-in shots like midrange pullups or layups at the hoop. And he is such a gifted passer, based upon closer observation, that improved ballhandling would give the Hoyas another starter who could create for his teammates. The good news is that all of these weaknesses, even the mentality, can be corrected. The negative is that they haven’t been already and there is realistic danger that he will never fully take advantage of his God-given gifts. So, no he isn’t at this time one of the top four or so guys on the team going into this season. But I stand by my claim that he has the POTENTIAL to be as good if not better than anyone on this team. The ball is in his court. I was so impressed with him Thursday night against Texas. It seemed that he had crossed a threshhold, passed a great milestone never to look back. Somehow, even while watching, I missed whatever egregious mistakes he made that would park him on the bench. A lot was at stake, and I couldn't tell if he was hurt or what happened....he just wasn't out there, and Gardner was playing hard nosed defense getting minutes!
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