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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:55:09 GMT -5
I look at Fielder and see a potential Georgetown Laetner. So we’ve had Fielder compared to Laettner and Mack compared to Kenny Anderson in the last week. What’s next? Micah Peavy and Scottie Pippen? Jayden Epps and Damian Lillard? Thomas Sorber and Rasheed Wallace? This is the one I found amusing.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:39:10 GMT -5
Interesting... I still cannot believe we have/had a 7'2" player who had played some BE minutes and that the coaching staff couldn't/cannot make him a useful player. That player could've been a fouling machine in the paint (i.e., anyone that gets passed you gets fouled) for one of the NCAA's worst defensive teams. I agree but we are beating a dead horse. There has to be more to the story than that Ryan just wasn't good enough to be coached into at least becoming a decent rim protector by his junior year but I'm afraid we will never know why that was. Have to admit, this was very amusing. Sorry, please ignore. I inadvertently hit reply on the wrong post.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 24, 2024 19:23:18 GMT -5
I'm surprised that no one has posted on this thread yet that Supreme is out (although I imagine I'll find that elsewhere). Sorry to see him go, even though I expected his role to be much more limited next year.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 20:36:42 GMT -5
A Syracuse lean for Newhouse School since the young man is interested in broadcasting. I am at once both repulsed and so proud of his thought process. are you ready to start bleeding orange? You realize this is the ultimate challenge, right? Every good parent supports their child's institution - within reason.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 20:12:03 GMT -5
Selling himself to the highest bidder, yee hah. Can't blame him, that's the system we're stuck with these days. On the Williams signing, I was still holding out hope that we could find a strong shooting guard and make Epps the sixth man. That doesn't seem to be in the cards, so put that in the category of you can't have everything. If he's strong defensively then there should be a spot for him, as that's an everpresent need. You think we are going to sign someone above Epps and he is going to stick around? That is.............unrealistic. Yes, you're probably right, and I hope Epps is able to adjust his game, but I think he'd be ideal as a 6th man. And I agree that a rim protector is a bigger need.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 23, 2024 4:01:04 GMT -5
Buckley died in early 2008, or when Trump was still an itinerant TV host. Since WFB's Tory sensibilities expected the wealthy to exert a form of noblesse oblige in politics, he would have eviscerated candidate Trump as a charlatan and thus would have been relegated out of the party, much as George Will was. Sounds like thebin, no? Welcome to the fight.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:36:57 GMT -5
Jettison the racist Electoral College. After much public debate, a Maine law has brought the country closer to having the popular vote determine the winner of national presidential elections -- but it's unlikely that will happen before November or even at all. abcnews.go.com/US/state-law-takes-us-step-closer-popular-vote/story?id=109437887For centuries, white votes have gotten undue weight, as a result of innovations such as poll taxes and voter-ID laws and outright violence to discourage racial minorities from voting. (The point was obvious to anyone paying attention: As William F. Buckley argued in his essay “Why the South Must Prevail,” white Americans are “entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally,” anywhere they are outnumbered because they are part of “the advanced race.”) But America’s institutions boosted white political power in less obvious ways, too, and the nation’s oldest structural racial entitlement program is one of its most consequential: the Electoral College. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-originsWilliam F. Buckley really wrote that? Good God.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:36:04 GMT -5
Only suckers and morons aka "Republicans" believe the Grifter. For years, Donald Trump was among Twitter’s loudest and most inescapable voices: a brash, bomb-throwing businessman turned president who could capture the global news cycle with a single tweet. On Truth Social, he is serving up an even more extreme version of his online self. His following is diminished, but his posting has accelerated. He has traded combative tweets for even more belligerent screeds. Diatribes against his perceived enemies have drawn gag orders from judges in multiple cases. His media diet has become almost exclusively right-wing. And above all, he persists in spreading lies about his 2020 election loss, deep into his campaign for another term. Here on his company’s social network, the former president’s increasingly confrontational posting keeps his most ardent followers primed for action, helps him raise money and provides daily fodder for a media sphere that exists largely to amplify him. And he has reason to believe his efforts are paying off: Polling shows that Trump has convinced as many as 70 percent of Republicans that Biden won the 2020 election because of voter fraud. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2024/trump-truth-social-posts/?itid=hp_latest-headlines_p001_f014I think it's worth mentioning that a friend of mine sent me something about where the jurors in the NY trial that started today get their news. One said Truth Social. That sent a chill up my spine. How the heck did that person get on the jury?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:18:47 GMT -5
Not to be negative but going into the off season all I heard was we need a true pg. A pass first floor leader. Like the mack commit but is he a pg? Seems little like Epps. Little concerned we are a bit better overall but didn’t address a severe need. Mack is viewed as a point guard by virtually every expert and fan. Whoever said anything about a pass-first point guard is living in the wrong century. You rarely find guys like that. Point guards get their points now too, not too many John Stocktons out there. Rowan had some of that old school mentality within him and I would have loved if he had stayed, but even with Rowan on the court that ball was not moving and there wasn’t much creating for teammates. Mack is far more dynamic with the rock and has great passing instincts and capabilities. His ability to score helps keep defenses off balance. Defenders were not concerned in the least in BE play when Rowan was on the court; all of their attention was focused on Epps. Mack gives Epps at the very least a teammate who should demand the defenses’ attention just as much, taking some of that focus off of Epps. He can also take away most of the ball handling responsibilities from Epps, who last season had to bring up the ball across half court more than anyone else…and then be counted on to score too. Maybe Epps won’t like that so much but it will be better for him nonetheless. Also Mack through drives and kickouts may be able to get Epps better open looks during games. Hopefully all of this will make Epps more rested and more efficient in BE play. And with an improved front court Epps can show off some more of his own creativity by dishing to teammates for scores. I'll add that the very best point guard that I have seen in my years of watching college hoops was Kenny Anderson. He was not a pass-first point guard but he was a GREAT passer. He had tremendous speed and quickness with the ball and could drive around people or drive to the hoop using either hand. His midrange shot was money and you had to respect him from deep. And he made outstanding passes to teammates. All of this made it difficult for defenses to contain him because you never knew which tool from his toolbox he was going to pull out. Although not a that level, I see some Anderson in Mack's game. Thanks for reopening a very old wound, MCI. For those not aware, Kenny wanted to attend Georgetown, but Pops didn't pursue him, correct?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 22, 2024 19:12:38 GMT -5
Selling himself to the highest bidder, yee hah. Can't blame him, that's the system we're stuck with these days.
On the Williams signing, I was still holding out hope that we could find a strong shooting guard and make Epps the sixth man. That doesn't seem to be in the cards, so put that in the category of you can't have everything. If he's strong defensively then there should be a spot for him, as that's an everpresent need.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 20:24:49 GMT -5
I want to kiss this woman. That was great.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 19:59:13 GMT -5
Lots of rumors swirling that he is ours to lose. Let's give him a good visit and lock him down. Mack Epps Peavy Fielder / Sorber Omoruyi Cook, Mulready, Fielder/Sorber off the bench sounds pretty good. Probably need another guard / forward to step up to make us a true big east player I'm in SEC country and rumors here are that he's Bama's to lose. Unfortunately if he doesn't commit during/following his visit I think Bama will lock him up. We need to make him an offer he can't refuse. So a horse's head in his bed will get him?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 19, 2024 19:48:17 GMT -5
Playoff Jimmy wasn't much better, but I guess he had an excuse, and is now out for weeks. Speaking of which, how about LeBron and AD combining to shoot 12-36, which is a perfect match for Herro, but the Lakers still won.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 18, 2024 19:08:02 GMT -5
"Republicans" are seriously damaged people. Classic hypocrisy. No explanation for such irrational thought except their love of autocracy and authoritarianism. Barr, a vocal Trump critic, says he will ‘support the Republican ticket’ in November Former attorney general William P. Barr effectively endorsed former president Donald Trump on Wednesday, despite having previously criticized Trump’s conduct while in office and once comparing him to a “defiant, 9-year-old kid.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/17/barr-vocal-trump-critic-says-he-will-support-republican-ticket-november/Barr has been a piece off garbage for years. He seriously enabled Trump while he was AG. It appeared for a while that there might be a modicum of hope for him, but that has now proved incorrect.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 18, 2024 18:58:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure that coaches can afford to worry all that much about using playing time to incentivize players to stay with the program. reality seems to be that any upperclass (non-freshman) who does not think they will be starting the following season is fairly likely to transfer, no matter what kind of playing time they got the previous season. a coach will drive himself nuts trying to perfectly calibrate playing time so nobody gets frustrated and consequently decides to transfer I think the best a coach can do is to gather as much talent as he can, with as broad a set of complementary skills as possible. then play the guys who play the best/give you the best chance to win. When the season ends- you find out who wants to transfer, you look at the freshmen you have coming in, and you do the best you can to work the transfer portal to fill in the gaps. Coaches who try to cater to specific players to keep them around next season at the expense of winning games in the current season are playing a bit of a guessing game as to whether the increased playing time will encourage a player to stick around. I just don't think it is worth it to try to thread this needle between player development/satisfaction and on court performance/winning. there are always going to be players who got lots of playing time but still transfer because they think they could lose playing time to incoming frosh/transfers, and/or they think they can get more NIL money somewhere else - no matter how much they played the previous season. We were so bad the past two years that it is tough to use our experience for examples. But guys like Akok and Styles both got lots of playing time and still transferred because they feared loss of playing time and/or saw better NIL opportunities elsewhere. It is a tough system if your goal is to develop talent over time. But I just don't think there are many coaches who are going to succeed at a high level with this kind of player development model. Some have still done well this way,, but if the current free agent/NIL system holds - I think we'll soon see player development models struggle more and more. the best programs will be the ones that are best at recruiting the right transfers to complement their 2 or 3 returning foundation players. This is not intended to be a defense of Cooley, but rather a realistic assessment of the current program building landscape. Within these parameters - I think we are off to a good start this off season. But we could still lose someone like Fielder to a transfer if we bring in someone like Traore to compete with him for minutes. Does that mean we don't bring in Traore? I just don't think you can run a program that way anymore. If you think the player is good enough to potentially help your program, you have to bring him in. If the returning player would rather skip to another school than compete for a starting job - so be it. Because any player could decide to bolt for another school at every transfer portal opportunity these days. If you try to build a program from the position of protecting returning players from the risk of competing with other talented players for playing time for fear of them transferring - than it feels like you are coaching from a perspective that fears competition, and that just does not sound like a winning plan. This is very well reasoned, but it really makes me tear out my remaining hair as to what the game has become.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 18, 2024 18:56:30 GMT -5
Current roster doesn’t have a lot in terms of catch and shoot 3 pointers. Curtis had a bad season, but if he can be rehabilitated, then it could be worth the try. Fair. I’m just jaded by our three point specialists who cannot shoot spanning our last three coaches. Nikita Meshcheryakov, Stephen Domingo, Reggie Cameron, Kaiden Rice, Massoud. I guess at some point our fortunes need to turn around. And we do need some guys who can shoot. In defense of Rice, he did occasionally light it up, which we can't really say about any of the others. Of course, he was another defensive sieve.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 18, 2024 18:29:32 GMT -5
Does anyone know why Mack's commitment has not made the front page? Dan?
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 17, 2024 18:59:33 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 16, 2024 19:57:07 GMT -5
Booooooo! Well, I tried.
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Post by hoyarooter on Apr 15, 2024 20:02:32 GMT -5
This flat out stinks. What I don't understand is where Styles will go and get as much or more playing time than he got this season, with a greater NIL package. I guess he must think it's out there. I really hate this "everyone is a free agent" system. I'm sorry, but what we had before was far superior to this and better for the game. Hes going to NC state Can't begrudge anyone who decides that he wants to conclude his collegiate career near home, and I wish him the best, but would still have rather seen him stay here.
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