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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 4, 2024 9:44:51 GMT -5
Providence 87, Hoyas 88
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 4, 2024 9:44:24 GMT -5
Know we’re hoping for opposite results, but just hoping for an entertaining game Entertaining game! Entertaining game!!! I'm with your Raleigh. Xavier was disappointing but a fun watch until the last three minutes. Losing tendencies come out when the game gets tight.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 26, 2024 8:51:28 GMT -5
Nova 73 Gtown 62
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 22, 2024 10:27:11 GMT -5
Good for MD and area hoops. We need a rivalry and with Sorber/Queen, maybe these two programs can provide it in the years to come.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 22, 2024 10:20:27 GMT -5
I don’t care how many points he scored tonight, I would be very happy not to have Epps on the team next season. I understand but disagree with this. I think with more talent, it will be easier to get him to defer. Right now you can't even afford to put him on the bench when he makes a dumb play. He is only a sophomore and his bad habits can still be coached out. THe lack of depth this year hurt the ability to do that. His end of game chuck vs. taking the 2 was dumb. His live ball turnover when we were making a run was a killer. On the plus side he was getting to the rim most of the night. I like Epps long term and we need retention. He also needs to learn how to play defense. He can't be as slow on D as he showed last night on a few occasions. That to me is more "want" vs. ability. Hard to coach the "want". When he sees everybody who he aspires to be getting paid in the league plays both sides of the ball, he may get it.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 22, 2024 10:17:05 GMT -5
After the St. John’s loss: It’s hard,” Coach Ed Cooley said. “I don’t know the last time we’ve won a game. Right now, we have to coach their heart a little bit. We have to coach with some love and compassion and empathy. We all want to win. ... It’s just not in the books right now.” “I want our men to feel good about the process ... we are going through, because we have improved,” he said. “It hasn’t been a seismic improvement, but we got better today, and that’s what I’m going to go off of.” Cooley is trying to build a culture of retention - if everyone got up and left (again) and it's the freshmen and eight transfers, there is no progress, so he's got to refrain from calling them out. By contrast, Pitino's mea culpa is an acquisition strategy--he loses five fifth year players in Soriano, Dingle, Ledlum, Alleyne and Conway and will need 5-7 new transfers just to compete. His tirade may have cost him with the coaches and transfers considering SJU, which is why Repole's comments read as a backstop to concerns that Pitino is scaring off recruits. I don't think anyone on Cooley's staff would have predicted how this team regressed on defense the way it did, but it needs to hold together. There are a lot of seniors and 5th years at Creighton, Marquette, Villanova, and Xavier that will need to be backfilled next season, so there is plenty of room to move up the standings IF there is a culture that welcomes and retains players. I'll be interested to see if Pitino can hold Dunlap, Wilcher and the younger pieces of their roster. You can't have all new pieces every year. Pitino also took on too many players. You can't keep everybody happy. Jenkins is there best returning piece. They'll need to go big again on the transfer wire.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 22, 2024 10:14:40 GMT -5
Cook needs help as the helpside big. His on ball isn't bad.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 22, 2024 10:13:29 GMT -5
Gtown 78, Depaul 68.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 21, 2024 11:03:46 GMT -5
Cooley is Gtwn's highest paid employee by a lot and most high profile one. I would expect that Jack spends or certainly should spend some time on it (that doesn't mean micromanaging but it does mean some level of review/scrutiny. If Jack DeGioia spent meaningful--and quality--time on the program, he would have never given Ewing the extension he gave him after the BET win season. Frankly, I think we are best off if DeGioia ignores basketball other than at the highest level, because his decisionmaking is at best questionable. DeGioia's negligence/poor decisionmaking is costing us $4 million a year on Ewing for the next two years, meanwhile Ewing is appearing in ads for Draft Kings and whatever else he's doing to make more money. Good on Patrick for making moves. It's not his fault they gave him an extension. He gave it a shot and didn't sit on his hands the way Mullin did. He just wasn't a fit for a college job and that is on the admin. The money sunk on Patrick is moot relative to the thread, "Current state of our program". The money going to Patrick isn't effecting our ability to win currently. Let's look forward. We all know the problems of the past.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 21, 2024 10:18:52 GMT -5
Must win 2 of these final 6. They are all against mid to low tier big east teams. 3 would be a massive victory. 3 would be 11-21 for the year assuming we lose first round big east game. That is rough.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 20, 2024 13:19:32 GMT -5
I'm not sure we have an answer for Joel inside. We didn't last year and I can't see Cook able to hold him down. That will be the key.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 20, 2024 9:53:19 GMT -5
The top 50 incoming Big east portal guys this past cycle included Ashworth, Bamba, and Dingle. Oduro, Styles, Luis, Epps, and McKnight were all 50-100.
Looking at the prior cycle, it was Hopkins, Curbelo, Diarra, Akok, Locke, Murphy, in the top 50 with Murray, Carter, Bates, Wahab, Davis, and Dawes from 51-100.
What that tells me is fit is likely more important then hype. It also tells me there are some kids who probably transfer for a reason (Curbelo, Wahab, Murray) who you shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. The GM job in modern college basketball is huge. Butler put together a good transfer class without much money but where the fit mattered. They aren't world beaters but they are competitive. Building from within is still going to matter and we need to get old with the Brumbaugh/Fielder/McKenna/Sorber/Mulready/Williams classes.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 19, 2024 14:47:15 GMT -5
I've been talked into not wanting either. I liked Dug in high school and thought he would be a good college player. I haven't watched enough Michigan to see if he can be the solution. I just hope we aren't looking at the shiniest object as that seemed to be Ewing's downfall with no idea what pieces fit together.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 19, 2024 13:57:07 GMT -5
Hoyas 68 St. Johns 66
Kids are likely already looking for their next free agency post after that Pitino rant.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 14, 2024 11:02:13 GMT -5
Hoyas 73 Nova 71
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 14, 2024 8:42:49 GMT -5
Despite stinking this year, I don't hate this team as much as last year. Maybe it was because we clearly needed to cut the chord. Maybe it was because the lazy & poor body language of Murray just drove me insane. Styles & Cook play hard. Brumbaugh & Fielder are learning. Epps really needs to take a deep look at what he wants to be because his play has been really discouraging.
The other players are who we thought they were. Bristol plays hard but is a good MEAC player. Heath doesn't play a smart game and Mutombo must not be bringing it in the off season as two separate coaching staffs have spoken. Massoud is a long ball shooter who needs to be set-up and despite his height, isn't capable of defending inside. That's on the coaches evaluation, not Massoud. Kenner & free agency can't get here soon enough so I can hear about how our marquee transfer is a sure fire pro and how all of our freshman are one and done.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 13, 2024 15:03:05 GMT -5
Yeah this is potentially problematic. Not as bad as the A's in Las Vegas situation, but Teddy two-step might find it will take longer to get the Potomac Yards arena built given the myriad of possible roadblocks, political, environmental, financial, etc. I would assume DC would extend the lease (just to keep the revenue for awhile longer), but if they don't his options for the bball team are UMD's Comcast Center, Patriot Center or the old Baltimore Arena (CFG Bank). Baltimore Arena has also hosted minor league hockey, so I guess the Caps could play there. The lease runs through 2047--the simplest answer is that Leonsis does not initiate the exit clause ($36 million) until he is ready to leave; therefore, the lease continues in the interim. Neither Bowser nor Leonsis are honest brokers in this, so there are a number of things that could also go wrong: 1. DC wants the Mystics to stay at ESA until 2037 or else. Leonsis offered to move them downtown but could simply sell or close the team and they go away altogether. 2. An environmental impact study could drive this to a halt. Anyone wondering how building on an abandoned rail yard might have long term consequences? 3. As columnist Rick Snider pointed out today, if the $1.3 billion deal fails in the General Assembly, Bowser could then negotiate a portion of the RFK land as a fallback to a larger Leonsis project, but Leonsis could still get Ted's Town built in VA with a larger private contribution, either from selling shares in Monumental or a sale of one or both clubs. The "G word" continues to be out of the discussion. You can't throw out the Mystics. The NBA wouldn't allow it. These franchises are tied together. It's like title 9 for pro sports. The Mystics & ESA are a perfect fit. It is a good basketball venue and the right size.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 12, 2024 16:30:57 GMT -5
My wish is this dies a quick death. Ted still uses it as negotiating power to change Cap one so we can get a smaller arena long term.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 12, 2024 16:29:57 GMT -5
A one year big, a 2 year PF and a 1/2 year 1 to 2. So I'll go Mack, Hopkins, Onyenso, Power.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Feb 12, 2024 10:19:58 GMT -5
Creighton 90 Gtown 68
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