lichoya68
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OK YOUNGINS ARE HERE AND ARE VERY VERY GOOD cant wait GO HOYAS
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Post by lichoya68 on Feb 24, 2007 20:07:09 GMT -5
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vcjack
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Post by vcjack on Feb 24, 2007 20:21:52 GMT -5
I believe someone on the Cinci post game thread said if we give up as many TO's as we did in that game we would lose. Well we had some absolutly awful TO's and fought it out into a win
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 24, 2007 20:30:46 GMT -5
After the first 5 minutes or so we actually turned the ball over only a few times and were pretty good at that.
Loved PEJr today and Jon's floating shots.
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Feb 24, 2007 20:32:06 GMT -5
Yes, that was Aaron Gray. He played about 20 minutes which is about 8-9 minutes less than his average. That makes a little more sense. In any case, from what I saw they needed two or three more Aaron Grays out there and a lot less Jeff Green.
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hifigator
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Post by hifigator on Feb 24, 2007 20:34:48 GMT -5
One more thing that jumped out to me was the touch which Hibbert now has in the paint. He is much more versatile and less (don't take this the wrong way!) clumsy than he was at times last year.
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Filo
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Post by Filo on Feb 24, 2007 20:52:43 GMT -5
All of this has been said but bears repeating...
By far, Jeff Green was the difference in that came. Some huge plays down the stretch.
The Pitt bench was definitely getting a bit, well to put it nicely, overenthusiastic there.
Despite the early TOs and the poor rebounding, this team just finds ways to win now. What a special team. (I think the rebounding thing drives me nuts most -- it just seems like the guys don't know how to box-out, and I have been noticing that all year. Doesn't matter, though, if they keep finding ways to gut it out and win.)
Awesome.
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Post by staggerlee on Feb 24, 2007 21:18:44 GMT -5
Does anybody know who that guy was with the "go pitt" scream during the half time presentation. Was he a GU doc ? Thanks
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Feb 24, 2007 21:18:54 GMT -5
Dan, the Mike Wise column is up now as well at washingtonpost.com
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Feb 24, 2007 21:25:56 GMT -5
MCI: thanks - but that column is the print equivalent of the student section chanting "one more year".
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Feb 24, 2007 21:28:08 GMT -5
I agree, but at least it wasn't more of the "JT3 is the son of JT2, who did well at GU" baloney. I wish they had shown Carrill on the Jumbotron. He's one of the greatest basketball minds ever.
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mit0313
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Post by mit0313 on Feb 24, 2007 21:36:57 GMT -5
Anyone catch comments on the nighttime College Gameday?
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MCIGuy
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Post by MCIGuy on Feb 24, 2007 21:43:51 GMT -5
MCI: thanks - but that column is the print equivalent of the student section chanting "one more year". That's a JTII creation. He was always overly paranoid about stuff like that. Its funny how JT acts as if the students chanting it would suddenly trigger Jeff considering going pro. Hey, Joe the Fan, I'm sure Jeff and his family have thought about it for awhile.
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FLHoya
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Post by FLHoya on Feb 24, 2007 21:44:39 GMT -5
I don't even care what's in this thread...I'll read eventually.
Been waiting 'round 7 years for a game that meant this much for us in the Big East...for us to take the punch in the second half (a 18-3 Pitt run) and respond at the end...well that was pretty cool.
I'm happy.
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HealyHoya
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Victory!!!
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Post by HealyHoya on Feb 24, 2007 21:47:33 GMT -5
Great, great win.
Hats off to the students...more of you than I've ever seen before, loud, enthusiastic, supportive, and got the ENTIRE arena invloved. you all played a major role in this game. good for you.
I love the fact that ending the season with 'Cuse and UConn means ending the season with two possible spoilers...SPOILERS...I love it.
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dikembe
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Post by dikembe on Feb 24, 2007 21:51:44 GMT -5
Although unavoidable because well most people are dumb. Lets just finish the season go as far as we can, hopefully ending with another championship banner in McDonough. No matter what happens, lets just enjoy the ride. How long have we all waited for this moment, this feeling again. Its been a long long time. Jeffs future is of his own making, whether he is here next yr or not, we will be a formidable basketball team. Ofcourse with him were all the more better, but til that all happens it be nice to just talk about the season in the NOW, and enjoy it for what it is instead of losing any sleep over what might happen or what might not happen. Just enjoy it.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 24, 2007 22:09:18 GMT -5
WOOO HOOO!!!!!
Let me start from now and go backward, Memento style.
I'm sitting at my girlfriend's place watching some hoops and reading some headlines. The pictures are great, the love for Jeff feels so good -- and so deserved for a guy who does so many little things and so many BIG things-- and the recaps are gushing for the Hoyas. I have the kind of buzz that says I've had a few but I want more. What happened?
I'm sitting at the Tombs, at a table downstairs, telling old stories with old friends, a couple pitchers of the cheap stuff looking empty, a plate of fried cheese gets eaten before it even hits the table. We're all messy-haired and wearing WAG shirts. Everyone around us is happy and jubilant. The waiter was at the game ... wait, what game?
I'm standing at the bar at the Tombs, doing a shot with a bartender who just got off work, fist bumping with a fellow HoyaTalk poster who has taken over bar duty, playing a little The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with a friend who couldn't get tickets so he spent the whole day Down Under. We sing a rousing version of the fight song (and a friend of mine -- hoyadrummer -- sublimely suggests a variation of the fight song: changing "the proud old Princeton Tiger is never at a loss" to "the proud old Princeton offense is never at a loss"). The pitchers are half finished, the mugs are half full. Smiles all around. Someone at the Chimes table starts yelling "Hoya Saxa" and the bar crowd joins. New friends are made. Something great happened today ...
I'm walking out into the sunlight. I have to adjust my eyes a little. I feel slightly tired, like after a run or a lift or a game of pick up football; bodytired but with that "high" that comes from accomplishing something physical. The cops have the streets closed off like after the Duke game and people are cruising around with the carefree spirit of a Dewey Beach Saturday in the summer. Hoyas all over the place greet each other's glances with smiles, hand shakes, hugs, and cheers ...
I'm looking up from the floor to the scoreboard. Jessie just grabbed his eighth board (rebounding MACHINE!), game over. Is it real? Did we really come back from 8 down in the vesper half to take sole control of the Big East Conference? Did we overcome poor freethrow shooting in the first half, turnovers, less-than-our-average-shooting, foul trouble for our Big Two, and some seriously questionable officiating to beat the BEC co-leader at our house for our 11th straight win? Is this not what I've always dreamed about as a Hoya fan? Am I really hugging the dude to my left who I only know because we're both season ticket holders and die-hard Hoya fans, but it doesn't matter because friendship is made in these kinds of ways?
I'm holding my arms up in the Victory pose, yelling until my lungs burn, jumping up and down until I feel like I have shin splints. The west side of the student section is chanting "Jeff Green's Mom", the east side is boucing around HoyaBlue-led, the young alums are on their feet, the not-so-young-alums are on their feet, the G'town bench is trying to contain themselves. There are 18 seconds left on the clock and Jon Wallace, the game high scorer (17 Jon!!!), our hardwood quarterback, just hit his final freethrow of the game, perfect 8-for-8 for the game from the stripe. It hits me. This game is won. We won a horribly officiated, sloppy at times, not well shot, not well rebounded, tough tough ball game against the presumptive BEC powerhouse, a legit team with a great coach.
And it really hits me for the first time this season, even though I've thought it, I've said it, I've believed it: WE ARE FOR REAL.
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SirSaxa
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Post by SirSaxa on Feb 24, 2007 23:03:16 GMT -5
Very nice piece COAST! Well done.
And yes, WE ARE FOR REAL!
We have the big time center We have the big time, crunch time star and we definitely have THE BIG TIME COACH!!!
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Post by Triplehoya on Feb 24, 2007 23:33:15 GMT -5
Gupta is not a georgetown doctor...he works for inova fairfax and the fact that it is the worst transplant program in the area, Georgetown is the best, makes it even more disturbing that he was out on the court today. Local fans should think about this when they choose inova (bloated community hospital) over Georgetown.
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Post by KRUKSTER on Feb 24, 2007 23:45:40 GMT -5
From an article in Fox sports (posted 8 hrs ago)... JTIII is to cool for his own skin!
First place in a conference offers some bragging rights and prestige, but more often these days it's simply seen as a means to an end. It means the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, where the official conference champion is crowned. It means a more favorable look from the NCAA when the seeds are dished out for the big tournament.
But when Georgetown coach John Thompson III was coaching Princeton, it meant even more. The Ivy League doesn't have a tournament, so the regular season winner also was the conference champion.
With the Hoyas, Thompson's focus on a game for first place hasn't changed - if Thursday's meeting with reporters is any indication. The coach was so distracted by his preparations for practice that he had to ask reporters to repeat questions because he wasn't paying full attention. He kept an eye on his players warming up on the court and interrupted the session several times to handle one matter or another.
His answers, needless to say, weren't very illuminating.
"I think everyone's goal in every conference is to win the conference," Thompson said. "Is that a goal? Yes."
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tal1286
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Post by tal1286 on Feb 25, 2007 0:23:08 GMT -5
I've been on the road all day (hello Bay Area Hoyas - I am back!) and just heard about the game. Looks like we won it with our wonderful FT% defense. Margin of victory between shooting 100% and 50% for the Pitt Panters! haha, I was all about the free throw defense today when PITT was shooting towards us. Coast - Great post. This easily rivals the Duke game for craziest I've seen the Verizon Center. I also love that for 2 straight saturdays we've been down and I haven't even once thought that the game was over. This is AWESOME! HOYA SAXA!
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