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Post by deacon on Apr 9, 2013 13:53:16 GMT -5
It could be viewed as an oversight, but more than likely he views this past year's team as a one-man gang, and without Otto, we're at best a bubble team heading into the season.
*shrug*
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Post by deacon on Apr 5, 2013 0:22:02 GMT -5
Heard Thompson do an interview with the Sirius College Sports station today. No news here - The radio guys (Mark Packer and and Bobby Cremins) asked "who was graduating" from the team. Thompson said "no one, but we might lose one to the NBA." He then followed up with the generic "Otto and his parents are discussing his decision". The one note I found interesting - after each coach they spoke with, Cremins made a point to say something like "good luck on the recruiting trail". I think it is hard for fans to fully understand how all-encompassing the recruiting aspect of the job is, and it was interesting to hear Cremins focus in on this aspect of the work so intentionally with each coach he interviewed The Sirius College Sports station has been great listening during college hoops season. Once football is over, they talk about pretty much nothing but college basketball all day, every day. their hosts are not the real big names, but they do a nice job. Jeff Goodman (CBS writer) is one host, and they have ex-coaches like Cremins, Steve Lappas, Tom Brennan (funny guy), Bruce Pearl. mateen Cleaves is also on a lot - seems like a great guy, although he is still developing as an interesting broadcater. If they replaced Goodman with a better host and just had him on for news of the day segments, then it would be perfect for college basketball junkies.
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Post by deacon on Apr 4, 2013 15:05:42 GMT -5
From a local scout:
He's a solid floor leader and distributor, but not much of a shooter. He'll get some high major nibbles I would guess. I have John as a mid/high major type prospect.
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Post by deacon on Apr 3, 2013 18:24:24 GMT -5
I never saw RDF opine on the subject, but have to say I really think this a kid we should go after. He said it in private, my bad.
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Post by deacon on Apr 3, 2013 13:48:58 GMT -5
RDF used to rave about this kid. Said he was exactly the kind of guard Georgetown should be going after and the family was receptive to the program.
Doubt we pursue him though.
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Post by deacon on Apr 1, 2013 9:26:47 GMT -5
Miami is on him HARD and would offer the kind of playing time he wants off the jump.
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Post by deacon on Apr 1, 2013 9:25:18 GMT -5
It's gonna really depend on how hard Indiana comes after him. If they make him a priority, it's a wrap. If they don't, it's between us and Villanova. But from what I hear, all he talks about is Indiana.
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Post by deacon on Mar 31, 2013 19:30:58 GMT -5
@jamieshaw5
@isaac_CurlJuice Keeps getting more comfortable n his skill set everytime out Stroke working today kncking down 5+ 3s n each game #GetLooks
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Post by deacon on Mar 30, 2013 20:25:48 GMT -5
I watched the same game everybody else in this thread did and we can talk about how much Syracuse forced Marquette to play a certain way because of their defense but again, Marquette missed WIDE OPEN looks the entire game. I'm not talking about rushed shots at the end of the shot clock, contested shots at the basket, etc.. I'm talking about high-major guards and forwards missing WIDE OPEN looks all game. They make a few of those, you soften up the zone, it's an entirely different ball game. I don't care about percentages, you're a guard at this level and you're given WIDE OPEN looks at the basket and you miss the entire game, I'm not gonna give the other team credit for playing "great defense". I hope to God Syracuse plays Duke and plays the same "great defense" they played today. They'd get beat by 30. We have been one of the better 3 point defenses in the country for the past few years, I would venture that at least 50-100 of the threes taken agsinst us were open looks. It's part of the game. When you force a team to play around the perimeter and take a shot because they have nothing else, that's good defense. Especially, when said team sucks at shooting 3 and have done so all season. If making open 3s agsinst a 2-3 was so easy, teams would just shoot 40 3s a game. A 2-3 is basically designed to make you shoot from the outside. Right on.
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Post by deacon on Mar 30, 2013 19:37:14 GMT -5
Marquette is not a good 3 point shooting team, so they forced them to take those shots, and that's basically all they did...and they missed. If you want to say that holding a team to 39 points is not about defense, so be it. Exactly Jook. Look, lets not let our hate for Cuse lead us to lose any and all rational thought. Cuse is playing GREAT D right now. Marquette has been scoring well, but couldnt hit anything today. That is great defense in my book. It would be like saying our defense against Cuse in the booth was not the reason they scored the fewest points in a game in Boeheim's history. That would be idiotic. We played smothering defense that day that took them out of what they wanted to do. That is what Cuse did today and against Indy. I watched the same game everybody else in this thread did and we can talk about how much Syracuse forced Marquette to play a certain way because of their defense but again, Marquette missed WIDE OPEN looks the entire game. I'm not talking about rushed shots at the end of the shot clock, contested shots at the basket, etc.. I'm talking about high-major guards and forwards missing WIDE OPEN looks all game. They make a few of those, you soften up the zone, it's an entirely different ball game. I don't care about percentages, you're a guard at this level and you're given WIDE OPEN looks at the basket and you miss the entire game, I'm not gonna give the other team credit for playing "great defense". I hope to God Syracuse plays Duke and plays the same "great defense" they played today. They'd get beat by 30.
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Post by deacon on Mar 30, 2013 18:50:49 GMT -5
That wasn't good defense by Syracuse, that was one of the worst shooting performances I've ever seen by a high-major college basketball team in my life. They got GREAT looks at the basket the entire game and damn near missed every single three-point shot they attempted. I want to vomit after watching that game. As a conference moving forward, we have to do a whole lot better than that, whatever that was. That's just not true. I know i am not going to get any sympathy on a pro Syracuse position, but they slaughtered Marquette and Indiana with defense. I was at both games, and neither team did anything. Sure, the 2-3 needs to be solved, but it wasn't. So, therefore, they played good defense. They took the fight to and suffocated Indiana, I'll give you that, but Marquette just missed. There's a difference. It doesn't matter if you were at the game, we all saw the same you thing you did. Indiana looked like they didn't have a clue how to attack the 2-3, Marquette did, they just missed the entire game. It had nothing to do with Syracuse playing spectacular defense.
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Post by deacon on Mar 30, 2013 18:34:35 GMT -5
Syracuse proved that its bs to say we can't win in the tourney with defense. They won 61-50 and 54-39. And went thru long stretches without scoring. Just like we did all year. Lets face it. We just played like crap. There isn't some magic formula where we need to change a, b and c. We just need to play better in march. That wasn't good defense by Syracuse, that was one of the worst shooting performances I've ever seen by a high-major college basketball team in my life. They got GREAT looks at the basket the entire game and damn near missed every single three-point shot they attempted. I want to vomit after watching that game. As a conference moving forward, we have to do a whole lot better than that, whatever that was.
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Post by deacon on Mar 29, 2013 15:41:43 GMT -5
Had a long convo with Big John back in November of 2010, and he admitted that the Iowa loss was the toughest of his entire tenure at Georgetown. Said it still stings to this day.
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Post by deacon on Mar 28, 2013 23:16:35 GMT -5
i know MCI and some others will hate me for saying this, but i will gladly trade the two wins we had over cuse in the regular season for elite 8 instead of bouncing out in the first round This shouldn't even be up for debate.
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Post by deacon on Mar 28, 2013 21:53:18 GMT -5
Kenny Smith and Greg Anthony nailed it at the half. The size of Syracuse's guards have essentially made Hulls and Farrell non-factors and Zeller has to be able to make plays at the high post.
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Post by deacon on Mar 27, 2013 12:02:12 GMT -5
UNLV.
On to the next one.
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Post by deacon on Mar 26, 2013 14:00:43 GMT -5
In all seriousness, wouldn't you agree that the four most memorable Cinderellas since George Mason are Davidson, VCU, Butler, and FGCU? Heck no because FGCU is not a Cinderella team...the committee put them at 15 for the story and $$$$ they know they're not a 15 seeded team they beat Miami, Florida and almost Duke ... know the game!!! The committee put them at 15 because they deserved to be at 15. And Duke beat them by 21 points.
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Post by deacon on Mar 25, 2013 23:53:45 GMT -5
From somebody in College Park who would know regarding Terps chances:
"Not happening, not a big loss."
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Post by deacon on Mar 25, 2013 18:04:54 GMT -5
True, and for anyone who's watched us this season, this is obvious. The only reason we're still alive in the Morgan hunt is because of the freedom allowed Otto this season. However, I think the operative word in the statement above is "more". More isos for players like Morgan/Copeland and less of whatever JTIII wants to call our base offense these days. Deacon... do you have any idea of what our chances might be? Even locals believe he'll end up at UNLV, but MD wouldn't surprise me one bit. Georgetown has made up a lot of ground but would still surprise me if he chose us.
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Post by deacon on Mar 25, 2013 12:57:02 GMT -5
True, and for anyone who's watched us this season, this is obvious. The only reason we're still alive in the Morgan hunt is because of the freedom allowed Otto this season. However, I think the operative word in the statement above is "more". More isos for players like Morgan/Copeland and less of whatever JTIII wants to call our base offense these days.
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