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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 7, 2022 15:26:53 GMT -5
This game and the next one are impossible games to lose. These teams make 2021 Dartmouth look like UCLA from the 60s.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 7, 2022 15:17:11 GMT -5
Nothing about what the Xavier guys said demonstrated any hate. I doubt they care enough to hate GU. Our team has taken the image of its head coach and is nothing more than sad and pathetic.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 7, 2022 12:47:05 GMT -5
"Xavier Musketeers basketball 2022-23 game-by-game preview and predictions The season tips off today, finally. We’ll know in a matter of hours how it will start; here’s our best guesses at how it will go from there... Fri Dec 16 - at KP #102 Georgetown KenPom: W, 77-73, 63% win prob Brad: W. Lads, it's Georgetown. Joel: W. On the road for just the second time in the year, Xavier takes care of business because Sean Miller is good at this and Patrick Ewing is not. Bryan: W. Georgetown has lost 19 in a row in conference for a reason. Braydan: W. Even the return of Qudus doesn’t make Georgetown a good team... Sat Jan 21 - KP #102 Georgetown KenPom: W, 80-70, 82% win prob Brad: W. You just have to win these if you want to be a tournament team. Joel: W. A baby born on the day Georgetown last won a regular season Big East game will be almost ready for potty training by the time this game tips. Ewing is in over his head. Bryan: W. They’ll probably have a win by now, right? Braydan: W. Is Patrick Ewing a good coach? No, he isn’t." www.bannersontheparkway.com/2022/11/7/23444307/xavier-2022-23-game-by-game-preview-and-predictions-big-east-basketball-musketeersKeep posting that Hater-ade Which part isn’t true?
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 4, 2022 10:22:22 GMT -5
Nope.. In that conference success is judged by reg season titles or conference tournament titles... He never took any of those teams to even a conference tournament semi final game.. Correct - if Nickleberry was any good, Howard wouldn't have fired him. He was, at a best, a mediocre coach at close to the lowest level of D1 basketball. He’s not exactly John Wooden and many Hoyas fans are setting themselves up for disappointment with this guy.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 3, 2022 21:17:37 GMT -5
Etomic I don't think Ewing should have the luxury of using a late run that gets him to 7-13 as a way to claim progress. Barring some really bad luck health wise Ewing needs a 11-9 record or better in conference record to claim progress. This team has the studs to compete so I'm not giving him many excuses. I’m sure you’ll find some excuses if necessary.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 3, 2022 11:35:59 GMT -5
Hopefully, for his sake, his next coach is a good instructor. Yes there are quite a few good instructors in the NBA, double97. If he doesn’t get a better college coach ASAP, there will be no NBA.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 3, 2022 11:26:46 GMT -5
Losing one of Harris/Heath was fine and maybe even beneficial in the long run as I don't think lose much on team performance and would provide more time to keep Anglin happy and around since he has the highest ceiling. I was worried there were going to be too many mouths to feed and Anglin would be too far down the pecking order. Losing both means Anglin is the backup PG which is not his best position as you mention. If last year holds true Primo is very inconsistent but now we are forced to roll with him nless Denver proves he can handle extended PG minutes. I envisioned Heath getting a lot of PG minutes this year. Also Mozzone goes from what I think would've been limited to minutes to a starter roll. I am not very high on him but we will see how that goes. I hope Bristol shows well and takes that spot since he will likely be here next year and beyond. Do we really want to extend Akoks minutes by making him the starting 4 and backup 5? That seems to be asking for trouble based on past history. I think EZ will get the backup 4 and 5 role to start and if engaged may even eat into Q's minutes. I think Ryan will be improved and if his outside shot has developed he could be a weapon. I just don't think the staff thinks that or else they wouldn't have made the moves they did. He seems to redundant to Q to get meaningful minutes and we know Ewing will always defer to Q in the situations that call for a traditional big. Anglin at 6-2 will have to play pg at the next level anyway. Too small for wing or two guard in the pros. So might as well start the transition/learning now. Hopefully, for his sake, his next coach is a good instructor.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 3, 2022 9:53:00 GMT -5
Amazing that Georgetown fans are in a place where being picked to finish 8th in an 11 team league is a sign of optimism. O.K., it's not where we want to be, but it's where we are. Always start where you are. Time spent grumbling and being bitter about where we once were or where we would be if things were done differently is time wasted and time you can't get back. Once you get it all out of you, let it go. Who wants to be that guy, you know? Sure, if you presented me with a projected 8th place finish 15 years ago, dang 5 years ago, I would have been screaming for heads to roll. I still don't think it's great, but I can only get upset if I totally ignore reality, the context of where we are. After an 0-19 BE record and last place finish last year, 8th place is o.k. 9th-11th place would be unacceptable. 5th-8th put us in the position for possible post season play. Then we build on that -- better recruits each year, more fan support for a team trending toward winning, etc. But first, we give this group a chance to play real games together before we stick a knife in them. We have a roster that is 2-3 steps above what we finished last season with. We have heard PE take responsibility for last year (something I would have thought impossible last year) and work hard to come back this year with a better team. Am I all rosy and feel good about every aspect of the MBB program? Of course not. Am I optimistic about the season ahead? Gotta be! That being said, I am keeping all fingers crossed and wishing good things for this bunch of players and coaches. Let's get behind them and support them this season. Hoya Saxa - let's go! Can you really “take responsibility” if you also suffer zero consequences for the failure? Seems to me that the people held responsible were the coaches fired and players kicked out of school. Ewing is still here with his huge salary, absolute rock solid job protection, and, inexplicably, tons of people still defending him.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 3, 2022 6:33:20 GMT -5
This is terrible not good.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 1, 2022 10:20:31 GMT -5
I would think it would be hard to go from MVP of the BET as a freshman to a reserve and accept that role. He simply couldn’t do it…and I empathize with him. He had his chance to run the team last year and we see how that went. Clearly, there were many issues with last year’s team, but Dante was one of them. I really wish the kid well. I loved how hard he played. Thank you for the perspective, blueandgray. Assuming all of this is accurate, why wait until now? I'd think he'd have been able to figure this out and transfer somewhere else in advance of this season starting. Doesn't seem like a wise career move to just sit a year when you don't have to, given the current rules. Ewing probably strung him along til now and wasn’t straight up with him earlier when he had more options. It’s important to remember that Ewing is a desperate and selfish person who cares nothing about these people beyond what they can do for him. Their lives, future, education are all irrelevant if they don’t help Ewing keep his job.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 31, 2022 19:00:58 GMT -5
I don’t think we see Dante this year…so there is that. I hope he doesn’t lose a year of school.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 26, 2022 13:27:14 GMT -5
This “take responsibility” thing would have some meaning if Ewing had suffered any consequences at all for five years of total failure.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 25, 2022 11:04:08 GMT -5
I'll say this, I don't see myself clapping for Q this year. Call me petty, but transferring to UMD or Cuse is a lifelong ban in the fan kingdom I live in. Carey transferring there for a sixth year has a different feel though vs. a kid who had a good year and then bounced for some unknown reason. Agreed. Don Carey is a grown as man, who was team captain. Should have known better than transferring to College Park of all places. Not much of a leader or a man. He went to a better situation with a better coach and got to stay close to home which may have been an important factor. Not sure how you can criticize that decision.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 25, 2022 8:00:27 GMT -5
There is zero chance that 4-16 is anything but dead last.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 18:43:48 GMT -5
Last season the Hoyas were good at trailing by large margins throughout play only to end losing by 9ish. Of course we have no idea. Hope they play an exhibition at some point in the future Others may have a differeing recall but the reason for that was because Coach Ewing would leave our starters in while our opponents would put in its second string. We never gave any run to our own second string resulting in losses that were worse than the final score but appeared "respectable." The team probably ended up 50 spots higher in the Ken Pom rankings because of this.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 14:56:56 GMT -5
I wonder how many points Murray had to score in the last 5-7 minutes to make it just a 9 point game?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 12:55:43 GMT -5
A bit disappointed to hear that Ryan only played about 3 minutes but maybe with Wahab ill, Patrick decided to see how small ball would work out. Glad Akok stepped up. Keep in mind with all scrimmages, take them with a grain of salt. That's not what I did Etomic? I didn't say either were scrubs or bad players. I said that not one singular player being missing affects competitiveness of Temple. I always later cleared up by saying GTown may have 1. I simply used DC as a example of the type of a average to good college player. So you think Temple’s best player makes a negligible impact on the team?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 10:27:12 GMT -5
SHOCKER!!!! TC, Boya and 9797 agree on a thread topic. That never happens on Hoyatalk🤣🤣🤣 How often have we been wrong?
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 10:24:44 GMT -5
Why does it make a difference in how good he is beyond his team? It's another suck optimism away angle. It doesn't really matter who won if it was competitive and Temple doesn't have 1 single player that affects the competitiveness level🤷🏾♂️ What if it wasn’t competitive? And, in any game, any team missing its best player will impact their competitiveness.
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 24, 2022 9:45:14 GMT -5
To be fair, it was reported Temple was without it’s best player yesterday… Can we ease up on this Temple was without its best player angle. This isn't a Mark Macon situation. Probably closer to a DC situation🤷🏾♂️ Why not mention it? Doesn’t the full context matter?
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