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Post by sweetness on Mar 5, 2024 22:30:12 GMT -5
Another painful loss, but agree it was a good postgame presser. I thought Cooley struck the right tone. Not overly sales-y, but positive in a more authentic way. His resolve was there.
Had high praise for Fielder. I didn't know he had been battling knee issues? Is that news? Anyway, he said Fielder was as healthy as he has been all year. Hopefully not a long-term issue for him.
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Post by thedragon on Mar 5, 2024 22:42:57 GMT -5
Tendinitis. Supposedly high school didn't take good care of his body. Was reported early in the season.
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Post by hsaxon on Mar 5, 2024 22:51:51 GMT -5
Another painful loss, but agree it was a good postgame presser. I thought Cooley struck the right tone. Not overly sales-y, but positive in a more authentic way. His resolve was there. Had high praise for Fielder. I didn't know he had been battling knee issues? Is that news? Anyway, he said Fielder was as healthy as he has been all year. Hopefully not a long-term issue for him. How does one view Ed's postgame presser?
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Post by sweetness on Mar 5, 2024 22:53:22 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaboya on Mar 5, 2024 23:12:51 GMT -5
Biggest takeaway from the presser is that Cooley called Epps “one of the best offensive players in the Big East”.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2024 23:14:38 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 5, 2024 23:16:16 GMT -5
Biggest takeaway from the presser is that Cooley called Epps “one of the best offensive players in the Big East”. Carter made him work very hard on the offensive end, but also got away with tons of grabs and shoulder pulls whenever Epps turned the corner on him.
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Post by guru on Mar 5, 2024 23:33:35 GMT -5
Another painful loss, but agree it was a good postgame presser. I thought Cooley struck the right tone. Not overly sales-y, but positive in a more authentic way. His resolve was there. Had high praise for Fielder. I didn't know he had been battling knee issues? Is that news? Anyway, he said Fielder was as healthy as he has been all year. Hopefully not a long-term issue for him. How does one view Ed's postgame presser? It's usually on Comedy Central, I believe.
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Mar 6, 2024 5:43:12 GMT -5
Better defensive effort despite some crucial breakdowns. Just a terrible offensive game. No ball movement. Only 6 assists as a team with 10 turnovers. Some wide open 3's missed when the game was still winnable. Very happy with how Drew played. Hopefully, the growth continues this weekend and in the BET.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 6, 2024 6:19:17 GMT -5
I am sick of the opposing team's supporters filling Cap One.
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Post by prhoya on Mar 6, 2024 6:49:28 GMT -5
I am sick of the opposing team's supporters filling Cap One. SS, did you go? Given that you go to most games, which would you say is the best travel opposing fan base? Worst?
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 6, 2024 6:51:25 GMT -5
I am sick of the opposing team's supporters filling Cap One. SS, did you go? Given that you go to most games, which would you say is the best travel opposing fan base? Worst? Yes, in my usual Section 101 seats. Best travel fans from opposition is UConn IMHO. Creighton and even SJU (relative to the storied history between the teams) the worst. Went to every home game last year as well as this year. Total Cap One conference victories: 4 in two years. Ugh. Will Coach Cooley send me another autographed basketball??
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Post by prhoya on Mar 6, 2024 7:13:06 GMT -5
SS, did you go? Given that you go to most games, which would you say is the best travel opposing fan base? Worst? Yes, in my usual Section 101 seats. Best travel fans from opposition is UConn IMHO. Creighton and even SJU (relative to the storied history between the teams) the worst. Went to every home game last year as well as this year. Total Cap One conference victories: 4 in two years. Ugh. Will Coach Cooley send me another autographed basketball?? At $6M, Cooley should pay for your tickets.
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Post by jwp91 on Mar 6, 2024 7:45:22 GMT -5
The measure of a coach is that the team is better at the end of the season than at the beginning. Is there anyone who believes this team is better? Can you name three players who are better today than they were in December? Maybe Rowan, perhaps Cook at time and possibly Fiedler if he had been given floor time. The way I see it, you have a core of three players, 4 with Styles and maybe, maybe 5 with Epps to build on. That is it! I will give the four recruits, that is 9, you still need 2 quality additions who bring experience, brawn and leadership. Fielder was pretty impressive tonight, nice to see him get minutes. I agree with your core 4 heading into next year. Sorber and Mulready will give good minutes, not sure we should expect much right away from the other two freshmen. Agree. Fielder looked pretty good against what I would consider a pretty difficult match-up. If he can continue his trajectory from there, he will be a supersonic, fit big with a sweet stroke. He just needs to add some strength and some improved ball skills.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 6, 2024 7:46:56 GMT -5
As forecast in the second post in this thread. Spring break left the place devoid of students last night. Not surprised that the majority of the crowd were PC fans, the ones in our section were surprisingly mostly sober and tame.
I agree with the coach that this was a very winnable game. Thought the guys did a better job on perimeter D than before (with the obvious lapses of the usual suspects not getting in proper guarding position on corner shooters).
There were few assists not because there wasn’t ball movement - it was mostly because of missed open shots.
Impressed with the development of Brumbaugh (victimized on a great strip of the ball on Oduro in the lane late in the second half when he was called for a foul be the mid court ref, who could only possibly see Brumbaugh’s a$$, not the actual play). That was part of the referee second half transition from allowing everything in the first half to calling everything in the second half. Did not affect the outcome but has to be incredibly frustrating for players in both teams. Even more impressed with Fielder, who defended Oduro very well and showed some nice moves in the lane. Also impressed with the team as a whole in terms of effort.
Good for the PC fans to celebrate. The Dunk will be a mausoleum this weekend after UConn steamrolls them, pushing them to the wrong side of the bubble. Carter landed hard a couple of times and hurt his back - he was getting stretched on the sidelines after one in the second half.
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Post by TC on Mar 6, 2024 8:16:36 GMT -5
Another painful loss, but agree it was a good postgame presser. I thought Cooley struck the right tone. Not overly sales-y, but positive in a more authentic way. His resolve was there. Had high praise for Fielder. I didn't know he had been battling knee issues? Is that news? Anyway, he said Fielder was as healthy as he has been all year. Hopefully not a long-term issue for him. Fielder's minutes seem like they have been constrained by two things : - the knee thing? There's been games where he hasn't played much and Cooley has mentioned in the post game that he didn't practice that week - I'm guessing that's because of the knee issues he mentioned last night? - fouls : averaging 9 fouls per 100 possessions, fouled out of multiple games, in deep foul trouble in others. Expecting that Fielder plays 25-30 minutes a game every game at this point doesn't seem physically possible and also doesn't seem possible from a fouls point of view.
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Post by jwp91 on Mar 6, 2024 8:27:27 GMT -5
Another painful loss, but agree it was a good postgame presser. I thought Cooley struck the right tone. Not overly sales-y, but positive in a more authentic way. His resolve was there. Had high praise for Fielder. I didn't know he had been battling knee issues? Is that news? Anyway, he said Fielder was as healthy as he has been all year. Hopefully not a long-term issue for him. Fielder's minutes seem like they have been constrained by two things : - the knee thing? There's been games where he hasn't played much and Cooley has mentioned in the post game that he didn't practice that week - I'm guessing that's because of the knee issues he mentioned last night? - fouls : averaging 9 fouls per 100 possessions, fouled out of multiple games, in deep foul trouble in others. Expecting that Fielder plays 25-30 minutes a game every game at this point doesn't seem physically possible and also doesn't seem possible from a fouls point of view. Agree. But there is clearly progress. And the way his shot goes through the net, he needs a couple of looks a game. He has the highest 3pt% on the team (scholarship players only)
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Post by thedragon on Mar 6, 2024 8:37:41 GMT -5
Pr, guru, boya and traversb should start a thread that only the 4 of you can access. Just be miserable in their together. Save the rest of us from looking up to see continuous jabs and unhelpful pot shots so that you can get your frustration out without making the board a cesspool. Just look up at this page in the thread. Boya from the top rope. Guru elbow drop. PR - Finish him. It's like a tag team of guys who seem to get joy out the pain that is Gtown basketball currently. None of us enjoy the losing or accept the status quo as OK in any form. But you 4 continue on a daily basis to make this forum less enjoyable for me and I'm sure many other diehards agree. If that's the goal - mission accomplished.
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Post by hoyaboya on Mar 6, 2024 8:48:54 GMT -5
I guess Coach Cooley couldn’t land the plane again.
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Post by rhw485 on Mar 6, 2024 8:55:47 GMT -5
I'll admit it's been tough to post in game threads but there's only so much to say when results are same. So instead I'll try focusing on individual plays that hold us back. An "anatomy of a loss" if you will. While this team shows glimpses, there's just 4-5 plays every game that just limit their ability to finish: - Whatever the heck happened on that last defensive possession of the first half. Cooley was apoplectic. They had two fouls to give, I dont know if his anger was at the ref for not calling the foul he wanted, or for Styles for leaving the shooter with such little time left. Either way you were down 1, can't give them that look esp with fouls to give
- Epps letting Carter stand at the top of the key, not having to dribble, and bombing away a 3. We were in a zone and Carter was 3-4 feet behind line. But know your opponent. He's the one guy you can't let shoot that
- Heath and Bristol messing up a simple exchange, leading to wide open 3 and Heath then fouling shooter for 4 point play because he was so out of position. Will never know who's "at fault" but i have a guess
- Brumbaugh missing front end of 1-and-1 with chance to cut it to 3. We had ton of momentum and Provy in bonus. We miss, they come down other end and push it back to 7.
- Bristol and Styles missing uncontested catch and shoot corner 3s with chance to cut to 4. Nothing to do, just shots that have to go down when you have catch and shoot in corner. Provy comes down other end and I think it was Barron hits a 3 and its back to 10 and curtains
I will say I don't think it's a coincidence our best defensive performance of BE season was when Fielder played his most minutes and Cook played his least. He does a much better job of fighting around his man to offer resistance. And it won't show up in his stats necessarily (which is why individual defensive metrics are bad imo). He held up ok on Carter in isolation. There was one possession where he helped and forced Carter to travel. And at least defenders had to think about him going to the hoop. And while we didn't have a great offensive game as a team, I thought the sets Cooley ran with Fielder initiating dribble hand offs was much more interesting and led to quality shots.
It does beg the question of Cook's potential role next year. Fielder is going to be a factor, Sorber is coming in. It's clear the staff is adding someone in the portal. Last night he played 16 minutes, is that sustainable even next year? Maybe its 10 min. Fielder seems like he could shift to the 4 but the fact we haven't done that at all this year is maybe telling on Cooley's view. I like Cook because I appreciate he hustles but I could see him out of the rotation pretty easily.
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