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Wash Times: 'Ice baths and sleep'
Projo: Friars can only blame themselves for bubble trouble
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HoyaSaxa.com Pre-Game Report
Georgetown Game Notes
Providence Game Notes
Wash Times: 'Ice baths and sleep'
Georgetown is adapting to the process.
“Ice baths and sleep,” Mosley said when asked about his recovery methods. “And eating right.”
Ewing said to accommodate, he has also tweaked his schedule. Film sessions are longer than they used to be, taking additional time to keep players off their feet and go over details. There’s also the issue of having enough bodies to practice, which has left Georgetown resorting to bringing back recent graduates like Trey Mourning and Kaleb Johnson to help field a scrimmage team.
But Ewing said he hasn’t experienced a situation like this before. Sure, there were times when as a player that the team he was on would be missing their best player — often him — and those squads found ways to win regardless. But he couldn’t recall another time having a rotation so thin that three players had to play all 40 minutes.
“When you’re in it, you can’t think about it,” Ewing said. “I don’t want (the players) to start thinking about it. All they should be thinking about is the next practice, the next game, staying focused, staying locked in.”
As for the workload, Mosley said he prefers playing all 40 minutes. Allen agreed.
“When you go out there, you’re just playing through the flow of the game,” Allen said. “You don’t really think about being tired. You just think about winning the game.”
“Ice baths and sleep,” Mosley said when asked about his recovery methods. “And eating right.”
Ewing said to accommodate, he has also tweaked his schedule. Film sessions are longer than they used to be, taking additional time to keep players off their feet and go over details. There’s also the issue of having enough bodies to practice, which has left Georgetown resorting to bringing back recent graduates like Trey Mourning and Kaleb Johnson to help field a scrimmage team.
But Ewing said he hasn’t experienced a situation like this before. Sure, there were times when as a player that the team he was on would be missing their best player — often him — and those squads found ways to win regardless. But he couldn’t recall another time having a rotation so thin that three players had to play all 40 minutes.
“When you’re in it, you can’t think about it,” Ewing said. “I don’t want (the players) to start thinking about it. All they should be thinking about is the next practice, the next game, staying focused, staying locked in.”
As for the workload, Mosley said he prefers playing all 40 minutes. Allen agreed.
“When you go out there, you’re just playing through the flow of the game,” Allen said. “You don’t really think about being tired. You just think about winning the game.”
Projo: Friars can only blame themselves for bubble trouble
It’s taken nearly three months but the Providence College Friars are back, somehow, on the national college basketball landscape.
Now we’ll see just how long this can last.
The Friars were deservedly left for dead way back in the first week of December after a miserable 5-5 start marked by awful shooting, horrific point guard play and a general malaise that left their fans more than shocked. Not much changed for weeks as a team that entered the season confident it could contend not only in the Big East but make some noise in the NCAA Tournament never could shake its offensive limitations.
But college basketball is a sport that offers many avenues to the Promised Land. Blessed to play in a strong, deep conference, the Friars are doing what they need to do against the Big East’s iron. At 7-6 with five games remaining, the Friars are making up for the grave hoop sins they committed way back in November and December.
How did coach Ed Cooley’s ninth team fall into this precarious position? How does a team with five seniors juggle such inconsistency and threaten to land short of the NCAA’s for a second straight season?
Many reasons. This is a team with Big East-level talent, but not nearly as much juice as some fans and media think. There are no sure-fire NBA pros, for example, or even all-league players. Diallo was destined to be an All-Big East pick but he’s turned the ball over way too much, made just 56 percent of his free throws and battled Cooley at times with a finicky attitude. David Duke, a promising sophomore, is the only other Friar who’ll be considered for first- or second-team All-League honors.
Most importantly, it’s a group whose parts don’t fit perfectly and that falls on Cooley and his staff. PC has struggled with subpar point-guard play for two years running and no one wins in college basketball without a strong quarterback. The answer was supposed to be once-touted guard Makai Ashton-Langford, but after two years, the staff (correctly, in my opinion) determined he wasn’t what the team needed. Cooley chose to plug graduate transfer Luwane Pipkins into the mix, mainly because he torched the Friars for two years while at UMass.
Pipkins is a good piece, but he’s not a point guard. At least not the point guard that makes this team better.
Now we’ll see just how long this can last.
The Friars were deservedly left for dead way back in the first week of December after a miserable 5-5 start marked by awful shooting, horrific point guard play and a general malaise that left their fans more than shocked. Not much changed for weeks as a team that entered the season confident it could contend not only in the Big East but make some noise in the NCAA Tournament never could shake its offensive limitations.
But college basketball is a sport that offers many avenues to the Promised Land. Blessed to play in a strong, deep conference, the Friars are doing what they need to do against the Big East’s iron. At 7-6 with five games remaining, the Friars are making up for the grave hoop sins they committed way back in November and December.
How did coach Ed Cooley’s ninth team fall into this precarious position? How does a team with five seniors juggle such inconsistency and threaten to land short of the NCAA’s for a second straight season?
Many reasons. This is a team with Big East-level talent, but not nearly as much juice as some fans and media think. There are no sure-fire NBA pros, for example, or even all-league players. Diallo was destined to be an All-Big East pick but he’s turned the ball over way too much, made just 56 percent of his free throws and battled Cooley at times with a finicky attitude. David Duke, a promising sophomore, is the only other Friar who’ll be considered for first- or second-team All-League honors.
Most importantly, it’s a group whose parts don’t fit perfectly and that falls on Cooley and his staff. PC has struggled with subpar point-guard play for two years running and no one wins in college basketball without a strong quarterback. The answer was supposed to be once-touted guard Makai Ashton-Langford, but after two years, the staff (correctly, in my opinion) determined he wasn’t what the team needed. Cooley chose to plug graduate transfer Luwane Pipkins into the mix, mainly because he torched the Friars for two years while at UMass.
Pipkins is a good piece, but he’s not a point guard. At least not the point guard that makes this team better.
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