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Post by Elvado on Feb 1, 2023 19:11:11 GMT -5
Primo with a real El Stinkowski at this point.
At least Murray is rebounding and managed three assists.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 1, 2023 18:50:49 GMT -5
Spears and Murray are shameless gunners.
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Post by Elvado on Feb 1, 2023 8:41:31 GMT -5
Is there a good reason he never operates at the foul line?
With his size and skill set he should be good there.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 31, 2023 18:47:58 GMT -5
The reason that Ewing can't be fired now is because he has an employment contract with the university. Typically if you are negotiating a "resignation" you give the employee an opportunity to save face. For Ewing, that probably means coaching out the rest of the season ... he has some leverage particularly if there's a chance that he'll accept less than every dollar owed to him. Nickelberry's HC run at Howard was a disaster. The program is actually probably better off with Ewing just taking losses than risking Nickelberry, Baldwin -- another failed HC, or RT -- another failed HC, winning a few games and making a case to be hired. Also, any new HC worth hiring is going to clean house ... there should be no pressure to keep anyone associated with this season or last season employed by the basketball program. You will grow a unicorn horn out of your forehead before Pat foregoes one red cent. In that regard, he is Big John’s third son.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 31, 2023 17:57:12 GMT -5
We can win this game - if not why compete at all.Because we are contractually obligated to compete Maybe Pat can add a forfeit to his lofty list of achievements…
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Post by Elvado on Jan 31, 2023 7:24:15 GMT -5
hilltophoops.substack.com/p/bye-for-now-georgetown?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webI keep reading people being scared of DeGioia waffling, and I don't understand why. If the above has occurred, the decision is outside of DeGioia's hands - he can win 3 or 4 games, but DeGioia does not have the power to change the outcome, he controls the PR and when it happens. The Board would have to recant and give Ewing a new lease on life, and why would they do that? Has Ewing improved the attendance? Has Ewing improved the APR scores, which are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off, that the board can get ahead of by firing Ewing? Has Ryan Mutombo - whose Dad is smack dab on the board subcommittee for athletics - gotten out of the doghouse? Winning 5 games does not change anything. Ewing is a dead coach walking. This is my thinking as well....it's not if, it's when and when meaning in season or immediately after. However, it wouldn't shock me if JDG waits way longer than he should at the end of the season to act and then we miss out on the best candidates. Leaving “One and a half” to ride in and save the day….
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Post by Elvado on Jan 30, 2023 10:21:14 GMT -5
So real progress and a rationale for bringing back the staff?
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Post by Elvado on Jan 30, 2023 7:34:45 GMT -5
Omaha 91 Oh My Lord 72
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Post by Elvado on Jan 30, 2023 7:24:04 GMT -5
The thing I don't love about this quote is it is basically saying "I don't care, losing is no big deal" and that whoever the "y'all" is cares much more about winning than Patrick Ewing does. Ewing’s quote translated: “Screw you—I’m getting $4 Million, what do I care?”””
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 18:49:31 GMT -5
It was interesting being at the game this afternoon. I haven’t been to a Hoyas game at home this year but the crowd was loud about firing Anderson. I was actually impressed overall with the atmosphere at the garden. If they are able to pull Pitino they are a sleeping giant. 11,455 announced attendance - pretty impressive for two second division Big East teams up against the NFC Championship game. That’s 3 home games for us these days.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 16:42:52 GMT -5
Can it really only be 37 years since we met them 1 v 2?
Might as well be 370.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 15:02:00 GMT -5
Well, the kids some here write off as "mercenaries" playing hard and playing well in the first half. Fanta and Turner also called out the player one poster here continually dogs the most as being the first one on the floor working in warmups before the game. He know he plays next to Primo and might not see the ball during the game….
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 15:00:50 GMT -5
And the two chuckleheads keep prattling about this being a “good one”.
This is a crap game between two awful teams lead by terrible coaches.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 14:41:57 GMT -5
No one who watches the way this team plays can possibly believe Ewing is a capable head coach. Our games are a Chinese menu of bad traits.
Tonight I’ll have column A of bad defense with a side of column B bad shot selection and column C ridiculous turnovers for dessert.
This madness must end.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 14:25:32 GMT -5
Why would you ever, ever, put Murray on the ball?
Good lord the coaching is putrid.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 29, 2023 10:31:58 GMT -5
I’m sure as a professional assistant for all those years there was zero time spent on fundamentals. Players that make it to the NBA should already have these. May account for his absence of emphasis. Not adjusting after this much time though denotes stubbornness and poor insight. MOVE!!!! REBOUND!!!! Repeat
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Post by Elvado on Jan 26, 2023 10:33:06 GMT -5
I haven't watched St. John's yet. Soriano vs. Wahab is definitely a St. John's W. If Murray is good Murray and we can get continued D out of Riley & Bristol, I really can't see why we can't win this one. Watched a bit of the St. John's-Creighton game last night. The Johnnies have some talent, but they are very poorly coached, don't play cohesively/don't seem to run anything on offense, and play absolutely no defense whatsoever. This should be a win for us, seemed last night like Mike Anderson is fully checked out. So it is us vs our mirror image. Bad coaching Bad defense Bad offense Can there be a tie?
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Post by Elvado on Jan 26, 2023 9:57:16 GMT -5
I don’t. I firmly believe if we get a good candidate it will be dumb luck or over the loud objections of the idiots who got us here. The primary person who got us here is dead. No argument here. That said, there is one major player still worshipping at the altar of Large Father…
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Post by Elvado on Jan 26, 2023 7:22:41 GMT -5
Does the consensus of posters believe that Administration will do the right thing and clean house with basketball staff promptly at the conclusion of the season ? Is it realistic for me to hope that the Administration will bring in Pitino to right the ship ? Let’s hope that Reed doesn’t screw this up. Thanks I don’t. I firmly believe if we get a good candidate it will be dumb luck or over the loud objections of the idiots who got us here.
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Post by Elvado on Jan 24, 2023 21:09:18 GMT -5
They won’t lose but boy is this awful end game.
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