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Post by professorhoya on Jan 30, 2020 14:14:28 GMT -5
Powell plays 34.1 mpg for 1st place Seton Hall in big est games Gillespie plays 35.6 mpg & Bey 35.9 for 2nd place Nova Alexander plays 36.4 mpg, Ballock 38.3 & Zegarowski 35.5 for 3rd place Creighton Mac plays 33.3 & Omer 29.4, If they're fatigued at the end of games then we really have to question the conditioning & nutrition program for Gtown... Absolutely have to question it and have been for some time even stretching back to JT3. It's been a long time since we were a physically imposing team. Not in terms of length or height, but knock people backwards and occasionally put people on their ass. I see GU hoops Instagram touting all the hard work they put in over the summer and players/reporters saying Ewing works them much harder in practice than the previous staff. Means crap if you continue to get bullied in the paint and the gas tank is on empty more often than not in the second half. If you're tired on 3 days rest now in January how are you going to play 3 days in a row in NYC? I also don't buy the exhaustion excuse because we haven't played a first half worth a damn on the road yet in conference play. No one should be tired that early in the game. The fatigue is more going 6.5 players deep. And a significant drop off after that. Then Mac and Yurt have to do so much because there isn’t A consistent 3rd scoring threat to take the double teams and heat off them. It’s the combo of those two things.
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Post by RockawayHoya on Jan 30, 2020 14:46:35 GMT -5
Absolutely have to question it and have been for some time even stretching back to JT3. It's been a long time since we were a physically imposing team. Not in terms of length or height, but knock people backwards and occasionally put people on their ass. I see GU hoops Instagram touting all the hard work they put in over the summer and players/reporters saying Ewing works them much harder in practice than the previous staff. Means crap if you continue to get bullied in the paint and the gas tank is on empty more often than not in the second half. If you're tired on 3 days rest now in January how are you going to play 3 days in a row in NYC? I also don't buy the exhaustion excuse because we haven't played a first half worth a damn on the road yet in conference play. No one should be tired that early in the game. The fatigue is more going 6.5 players deep. And a significant drop off after that. Then Mac and Yurt have to do so much because there isn’t A consistent 3rd scoring threat to take the double teams and heat off them. It’s the combo of those two things. Agree that Mac and Yurt have played more "stressed minutes" because they've been asked to shoulder the scoring burden, but part of the way to alleviate that is by them finding opportunities to find the open man. They were both extremely poor in creating for others in the Butler game, even when those opportunities presented themselves. But in general, I do agree we need some 3rd threat (Pickett is the obvious choice for most but I think it's more Allen or Blair at this point) to take some pressure off of them. The second thing, and I think most on this board would agree, is that that 6.5 man rotation needs to go to 7 immediately. Q has earned his role in the regular rotation and needs to be treated as such. Really need to be pushing his 11.5 mpg closer to 16-18 mpg at this point. The extra 5-7 minutes he can buy for the starters, even if distributed amongst 2-3 guys, could really make a noticeable difference down the stretch in games. Using him simply to spell Yurt or to give him rest of relief from foul trouble is lowering the ceiling for this team, and it needs to stop.
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Post by rlo24 on Feb 2, 2020 14:21:30 GMT -5
I saw some Mac stuff here so here's my take on that: I don't think he played well by any means last night. Just Pickett and Omer might've been worse. People are expecting him to be more of a distributor and that's just not his role on this team. This team needs someone who can score the ball. They need someone aggressive. Much like Blair in his freshman season, this team needs someone who's aggressive and will shoot the ball. It's just he takes some forced shots that he doesn't need to. If he took the same number of shots, just without the forced contested jumpers, I'd be 100% fine with what he's doing. Like the Oklahoma State game, he was open just about every shot and used his freedom well. But today, he forced too many from mid-range with 18sec left on the shot clock. I understand wanting to shoot quicker to force Butler to speed up the game, but that's not going to happen if you miss. You have to be smarter and value the ball more against these teams. But, in general, I'm completely fine with him shooting aggressively as this team with Allen and Mosely in, two more passive players, need someone being aggressive. But if we still had someone like Akinjo, who could create for himself, I would like to see him facilitate more. Can I bump this in reference to today's game? I think you nailed it.
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