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Post by bicentennial on Apr 23, 2011 8:29:00 GMT -5
I don't claim to have any deep insight into whether hollis will be coming back but it seems to me his decision may have to do with changes being proposed by the NCAA president's that would shorten the withdrawal deadline another 2 weeks, essentially making the option of a review and meetings with NBA scouts and the like impossible starting next year. Even now the May 8th deadline is about half the time Jeff and Roy had. While I think Hollis is unlikely to be a draft candidate this year, it is a weak draft and there is the perception that staying to your senior year lowers your chances of getting into the NBA. In that context particularly if he can graduate in 3 years it would make perfect sense to test the waters this year.
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Post by bicentennial on Apr 14, 2011 20:50:51 GMT -5
Not to start a new form of speculation but many of the teams we compete with including Syracuse last year had way more than 13 scholarship players on their team. Is there any reason an alternate team scholarship couldn't be used say from swimming, baseball etc. to allow more than 13 players on our bball team. From a statistical point having 4 or 5 players each year maturing into upperclassment might significantly increase the odds of having 1 or 2 players each year have a signficant jump each summer.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 10, 2011 17:29:23 GMT -5
Agree support and building up of team is the order of the week, not self recrimination. Thursday next week should be another chance for redemption.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 10, 2011 17:26:51 GMT -5
Doyel Article at CBS sports quite disheartening. Feels like he is attacking the integrity of our program. Doyel claims we will not be able to play Wright for at least 3 more weeks and that therefore we shouldn't be in the NCAA field. I feel that while JTIII is not very open to the media, our program is very straight forward and honest when they do make press releases. If JTIII says CW is likely to play in NCAA, then a weazel like Doyel should be called to task for questioning it. In the old days writers were told to eat their words on paper when they were false, perhaps Doyel should be asked to eat his keyboard or monitor next week!
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 10, 2011 17:21:06 GMT -5
If Henry didn't want to play in the Garden then the 8-0 run is truly a paradise lost.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 10, 2011 17:02:23 GMT -5
Bit worried by the tone that was set in the second half. While Sims play was clearly very bad, it seems as if JTIII has forgotten that players during games should be acting not thinking. Skills must be learned and refined in practice so they are second nature during games. Clearly by the expressions of Sims and Vaughn during the second half, they heard a fair amount during half time. We saw last year that when allowed to Sims will start over analyzing and become useless on the court. Not giving Sims an opportunity to learn from his first half error in the second half of the Big East Tournament game, may well make him useless to us in the NCAA tournament. While JTIII is a great coach and has brought our program back to life, I worry that he rebels against JTII's game of physical dominance and because he was a guard leans towards guards and short forwards. In the game against UCONN instead of getting Sims and Vaughn an opportunity to go back in to show they learned from their mistakes, he instead let them stew. Now perhaps I am overanalyzing and Sims still has an ankle that is sore or perhaps JTIII accepted that we could not come back from being down 15 and wanted to give Ayegba some minutes in the offense since we may need his fouls and minutes in the NCAA tournament, but I hope practices this week are more upbeat than what I saw on the bench in the game yesterday, since the mood on the bench looked like poison.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 5, 2011 22:43:45 GMT -5
Not to say this thread is wrong but Awesome Austin is a great scorer but he is a much better scorer than point guard. Chris Wright embraced his role as point guard fully this year, I believe the summer camp made him see that he didn't need to score to affect a game and he has made his teammates better this year. Clark has had 2 shooting slumps this year and he was only out of the slump 2 games and right back into his current one. That being said moving from scoring guard to point guard is a difficult transition, and while Austin has tried to do so for the good of the team, it has affected his quality of shots and the quality of shots everyone else on the team gets. Often times a good or great team is better than the sum of its parts and that is what we have seen in the wins and losses this year. That is also what we see looking at Pitt and Notre Dame. Can anyone seriously argue that the guards on Notre Dame or Pitt are better than Kemba Walker and Marshon Brooks? Of course not. What can be said is that the guards on Pitt and Notre Dame together are better than the guards together on Conneticutt and Providence. Ultimately getting quality minutes out of Markel and Vee and even Moses will make this team better if and when Chris can come back. If Chris cannot come back then we will never know how good this team could have been. The Big East Regular Season is done, the Big East Tournament is starting but more than likely we'll be done by Thursday without Chris Wright. On the other hand, I'm not sure that we may not do well in the NCAA's with even more practice, more rest and Chris Wright back with Vee, Markel and even Moses having played more than they ever would have. Ultimately CW and his friend and teammate AF have been our MVP together all season and to think otherwise sells this team short. Kudos to AF for his technical. I personally think JTIII should have gotten himself ejected to make a point after that one. If not then, certainly on the multiple holds and shifting screens Gates pulled in the second half. Everyone in the league knows neither AF not JTIII ever get upset by the little indignities...
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 5, 2011 10:42:45 GMT -5
On SNY on ATT cable in Chicago as well and of course ESPN full court etc.
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Post by bicentennial on Feb 27, 2011 14:50:47 GMT -5
I think the positive from the Syracuse game is we played Sims with Vaughn for the first time this year and Sims scored 6 points and Vaughn got double teamed every time he got the ball under the hoop. Playing someone like Gates with both Sims and Vaughn in the game at Cinci should significantly change the inside game. The difficulty with the press also would be solved by having Sims and Vaughn in the game together as Sims at half court has the height and speed to get balls thrown to him and both Hollis and Vaughn near the basket can score layups. Pressing the presser and punishing the press are good ways to win basketball games and we should be able to do both at Cincinatti. Finally, no one on this board seems to get why our team's 8-0 run started after a week off. Despite JTIII making the assertion that they're young kids and shouldn't get tired, our team has played one of the toughest schedules in the country and also a tough schedule in the big east. Looking at Pomeroy, RPI and Sagarin, no one has played as many top 50 teams as we have. A week off to practice defense, practice 3 point shots with only teammates blocking you, not having opponents who don't mind if they land on your ankle or knee when they come down does make a difference. When we play Cinci, we will have 7 days of rest and they will be playing their third game in 6 days. Finally if we do lose in the Big East tournament early, the additional rest may be very motivating for the NCAA tournament as well. I don't think this team is done, and I am sure many of the teams ranked above us both in the BE tournament and eventually in the NCAA will not want to play us. Having Markel step up and hit 3's against Syracuse was very positive, teams when he subs in will have to guard him out to 3 now. While a loss is not a win, Syracuse has made me look forward to our rematch at Cinci!
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 16, 2011 21:20:34 GMT -5
I had opportunity to meet him, lived near me in village A. I was class of 1989, he transferred I believe after his sophmore year. Should probably be around 42 or 43. He was as tall as Sims but thinner and less muscular.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 4, 2010 0:48:12 GMT -5
I was looking at their coaches stats and get the feeling this is going to be an emotional high for his team and so a huge trap game. This is the four hundreth game he has coached and if he wins he will be 300 wins and only 100 losses or 75 percent which is unbelievably good.
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 10, 2010 19:43:55 GMT -5
FYI the new KEN POM basketball site has a new feature called FanMatch which purports to predicted the funnest basketball games to watch on any given day. Perhaps the folks at hoya prospectus can tell us how he does it but regardless on the first real day of college basket ball, he predicts Georgetown ODU as the best game to watch!
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 8, 2010 18:12:45 GMT -5
Thank You for mentioning that it iw on CSN in Chicago, saved me some time this week. Greatly appreciated!
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Post by bicentennial on Jun 29, 2010 21:55:34 GMT -5
Is it just me or does anyone else think its really cool Wright was invited to both point guard camps and Freeman was invited to the shooting guard camp. Each camp has only about 10 college players.
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 7, 2010 10:32:28 GMT -5
If anyone is close to the team, Austin should probably discuss the pro's/con's of participating in a anti-anti-GAD trial with his diabetologist. I believe the one trial ongoing which has an open treatment arm is called TTEDD with trial number NCT 00451321. The data suggests that while it does not cure type 1 diabetes it may make it milder and easier to treat by keeping more of the pancreatic insulin producing cells alive if started during the honeymoon phase of type 1 diabetes which is usually the first few months after diagnosis.... Again something to relay to Austin/Team physician to discuss while it might be considered. I have no personal interest of any kind in this trial....
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Post by bicentennial on Mar 7, 2010 10:21:22 GMT -5
While I agree with everyone above that most of the time it is preferable to play team you know you can beat, I believe this season we can beat any team in the nation based on skilled players and our system/players who understand how the system creates opportunities. Unfortunately until the past 2 weeks, all our losses came against teams who we didn't take seriously enough (except Villanova and Syracuse.) I am sure we will take USF seriously, the greater risk might be DePaul if they can beat USF and we don't take them seriously....
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Post by bicentennial on Jan 23, 2010 15:56:43 GMT -5
Go Julian Vaughn and Chris Wright 2 more top 25 stats in reach at Syracuse, beat the orange and make the top 25!
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 6, 2009 0:47:43 GMT -5
Respectfully, we lose a close game it may mean little, but we lose with poor defense it suggests our defense was over-rated and we look better than we are after playing cupcake games. We lose with poor offense and defense, it suggests we have alot of work to do. Alternatively we win with good defense and keep them with low scoring, few rebounds and control our turnovers it suggests our defense is back. If we score with guard layups and big man layups and few but wide open three pointers it suggests we are back on our way to having fun as fans watching our team having fun playing the game the way Red Auerbach knew it could be played. Fun in winter and spring would be great after thinking fun was coming followed by a spring of depression last year. So while this is not a final game, it is and must be a stepping stone and all the fans on the board will be happy.
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Post by bicentennial on Dec 5, 2009 23:31:12 GMT -5
Today was a bad day for our competition in the big east. On an interesting note the high scorer for Charlotte in Louisville's loss was our old recruit Chris Braswell with 21 points and 14 rebounds. Anyone who has ever questioned JTIII's skills recruiting should recognize their error and apologize for their comments. Hopefully, all his awesome recruits in the future can get their academic house in order so they can attend GU. If they can, we will continue to do well. Also, Duke beat St. John's but it was a closer game than anyone predicted even in Cameron. Can you say 10 teams in the tournament!
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Post by bicentennial on Nov 24, 2009 13:42:34 GMT -5
SNY is carried by AT&T Cable outlets across much of the country including the US and they often pick ups MASN games that we would otherwise not get to see in parts of the country outside DC/Baltimore where MASN games are broadcast. Unfortunately more than half our games on SNY are on tape delay. Still delayed pleasure is better than no pleasure at all.
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