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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 27, 2015 19:59:38 GMT -5
I once told my wife (during a discussion about the calendar the upcoming months) that "the Big East Tournament is non-negotiable." That went well.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 27, 2015 19:18:26 GMT -5
Yeah, living in NYC, nothing really beats the BET experience. I agree with this, but even being at the 2010 final that we should have won (I also attended every game in 2007) didn't soften the blow of losing to Ohio a few days later. Trust me I understand (and agree). I was at both games in person, and was in a very dark place on the drive back to Boston from Providence. Tough 1/2 punch to end that season.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 27, 2015 15:17:06 GMT -5
This thing is counting our November game with Butler as a conference game, which is annoying.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 27, 2015 15:12:36 GMT -5
Reading the articles link it is obvious that this is an absolute must win game for them. They will have trouble at Marquette (is Carlino available?) and unless Nova decides to lay down since they will probably have the conference title clinched in a week I don't see St John's beating them either. Their only hope of getting a bid is if they beat us and win at least one BET game. As I keep saying, and everyone keeps knocking me for saying, this St. John's team is just repulsive and doesn't deserve an NCCA bid. Tons of talent but lack of cohesion, smarts, selflessness and of course horrible coaching (which probably is the cause for the aforementioned). But like a cornered animal they are very dangerous when their backs are up against the wall. My first thought is not to get in a running game with them but we saw in our win at home if you do and can pound them early they will quit. I expect them to hang tough longer tomorrow because they need this win so badly but I would love for us to slaughter them and put both the players and coach out of their misery. Your posts are all over all of the SJU message boards - and the ones about a team being deserving of an NCAA bid are of couse appropriately being ridiculed. Everyone is of course entited to their opinion (and this is, after all, a message board), but your over the top rants come off as a bit bizarre and of course do not reflect the views of most Georgetown fans. I despise SJU when we are playing them and at certain other appropriate times, but generally hope they turn the program around because that is good for Georgetown and the Big East.I again recognize that you are entitled to your opinion and to express it here, but I wish you would just stop.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 25, 2015 16:11:48 GMT -5
I was feverishly searching through the NCAA tourney rules for the regulation directly tying your NCAAT performance to your performance in your conference tourney; have not yet found it, but will keep you all updated Obviously we would ALL prefer a strong performance in the NCAA's to one in the BET if we were given only that choice. Then again, there is nothing in our inconsistent track record this season to suggest winning more than a game, maybe two at most in the big tourney A BET title is something the players will always remember. So let's scratch and claw for that first, then see where we go from there. This two games in the last two weeks thing has turned several threads into baseless potpourri. Whether it's nonsensical conspiracies about the selection committee, empty platitudes like beating a team three times in one season, or ill-founded ideas about rest/fatigue or rust/momentum from the BET affecting our NCAA performance, it's all here. The I Like Ike may be my favorite avatar in the history of HoyaTalk.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 25, 2015 12:57:55 GMT -5
On the other hand, the relative lack of cupcakes this year seems to have really helped our RPI. Anyone care to take a quick stab at how much lower it would be with a couple of 200 RPI teams added in? I plugged 2 200+ RPI games into our schedule using the RPI Wizard site. Not positive this is accurate but here's what I got. Currently our expected RPI is 21.5. assuming we won both games. adding home games against RPI #201 UC riverside and #202 Colgate would not change our predicted RPI of 21. adding home games against RPI #250 Hartford and #251 St. Peters would not chage out predicted RPI of 21. adding home games against RPI #298 Hampton and #299 SE Lousiana would drop us to a predicted RPI of 23. Even losing one of the worst games at home would've only dropped us to 27th. Losing both would get us down to 33rd. So yeah looks like we would've benefited from adding these games. Or we could add UMCP and GW instead of the 200+ RPI teams
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 25, 2015 12:47:53 GMT -5
In terms of getting a top 3 seed, would be nice if Marquette could find a way to win @ Butler tonight. At this point I'd rather have the good teams in our conference crush the bad teams to improve their NCAA seeding. That is a very fair point and I dont disagree. But I confess to being single-mindedly focused at the moment on getting the 2 or 3 seed in the BET. While I have no quarrel with those who say the NCAAs is what really matters, I also have a long-standing love affair with the BET. As those who have been to one in which the Hoyas were playing on Sunday afternoon or Saturday evening can attest, it can be a very memorable few days in NYC. Manhattan, MSG, basketball, beer, pizza, pretzels, old friends, laughs, wins, beer, memories. If we are playing in the finals (or even the semis in some years), it is almost guaranteed to be one of my favorite weekends of the year (despite the fact it has actually ended in such horrific heartbreak so many times). Just to reiterate and be clear, I would rather have success in the NCAA Tournament than the BET. But since the BET comes first, my plan is to hope we win that and then see what happens the next few weeks.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 25, 2015 12:02:31 GMT -5
In terms of getting a top 3 seed, would be nice if Marquette could find a way to win @ Butler tonight.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 24, 2015 10:25:39 GMT -5
St. John's loves to run. They have no patience in the half court game. So don't turn the ball over, don't miss a lot of shots and make them work for every score and usually with about 10 minutes left in the game they will collapse. Especially if we are playing tough defense and work on Harrison. Get in his head and he will do some really ridiculous things later in the game. Reason we can beat St. John's and not Xavier is Xavier is so much better coached and so much more comfortable playing our style of game. They don't need to score a lot in transition and they don't panic when they get down 6-8 points late in the game. I posted earlier that I hoped St. John's would lose last night because I hate to see them represent BE in NCAA tourney. Point made that we should want as many BE teams in the tourney as possible. While it looks great to have more teams in the tourney it looks even better if the teams we get in do well. Granted coming from a Hoya fan this sounds ridiculous. But I'd rather have 5 good teams (Nova, Providence, Butler, Xavier and us) than have St. John's and/or Seton Hall get in and stink up the joint. Face it, only those 5 have a chance to make it to the sweet 16 and probably only Nova has a prayer of going to the final four. Yes miracles can happen and maybe St. Johns gets a good seeding and suddenly learns how to play as a team. But I hate to have to pull for them in the tourney just because they represent the BE. As you note, that 3rd paragraph is embarassingly ridiculous coming from a Hoya fan in 2015.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 23, 2015 20:14:02 GMT -5
Johnnies with a nice start. Down 11-0 at first TV timeout.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 22, 2015 22:38:37 GMT -5
I have no respect for St John's especially under Lavin. Very streaky and very disorganized. Inevitably, when things get tight they revert to playground. I want us to beat them just so they don't wind up representing the BE in the NCAA tourney. We want as many BE teams as possible in the NCAA tournament.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 22, 2015 12:24:39 GMT -5
I'm probably the exception here but I'm not worried about the Hoyas getting the "easiest " matchup possible for the BE tourney. If they get a supposedly easier opponent, great. If they get a matchup nightmare like Xavier, then that will be a great opportunity to exorcise some demons and to hopefully improve against a tough opponent prior to the NCAA tourney. It might be just the medicine they need for a deep March run. Agreed. I sweat this every year, but we could stress about playing a team we beat twice or a team we lost to twice, Last year we played a team we had never lost to in the history of the BE...and lost. It's useful to see how the BE standings will play out, but I could care less who we play in the BET. Another factor to consider for many that head to NYC for the BET is the bracket/schedule. The 2 or 3 seed is obviously much better than the 4/5 based on the Thursday quarterfinals schedule. 2 and 3 play in the night games - 4/5 play at 230 p.m. - in addition to most likely having to face Nova on Friday night (no thanks). Count me as someone who will be tracking this very closely the next two weeks and very much hoping for the 2 or 3.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 22, 2015 12:17:18 GMT -5
Agree with this. I thought the students did a good job at turning out on a snowy Saturday night. The season ticket holders, coming from who knows where, seemed to have abandoned attempts to attend the game. Few of the regulars in Section 101 near me were there. Pretty much. The roads were a disaster, and alums who have season tickets (aside from the Young Alumni/Stonewalls contingent) tend to live out in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, where driving to even just the nearest Metro station would've been unquestionably hazardous. Heck, even the DC government was flat-out telling people: stay off the roads unless it's absolutely necessary. Given the variety of Metro mishaps, just getting to and from Verizon would've turned into a multi-hour affair for them). Students had no such disadvantage, and the buses were running from campus to Verizon. Younger alums tend to live closer-in and/or within walking distance of Metro (or within reasonable Uber-fare of Verizon). Granted, we haven't exactly had a lot of Saturday night games against which to make a comparison, but I thought the attendance was about as good as could be hoped for, given the circumstances. I third all of this. I was actually pleasantly surprised by the crowd last night considering the conditions. Student attendance was the best since the Butler/Nova long weekend. Tough night for the cheerleaders though.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 22, 2015 0:02:25 GMT -5
That's not right on Smith-Rivera. He sat for a minute or two in 2nd half. EDIT: But maybe if it is for lews than 1 minute of actual game time it shows 40. Official box now up shows him with 40 minutes. I think if he comes out they have to show him with 39, but my memory of that rule is dim at this point. www.guhoyas.com/sports/m-baskbl/stats/2014-2015/022115.htmlMaybe I am wrong. I thought for sure I remember him sitting for a short time.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 21, 2015 23:15:32 GMT -5
Tonight's plus/minus, as calculated from the play-by-play at guhoyas.com: Copeland +11, Smith +11, Trawick +7, Smith-Rivera +5 (he played all forty minutes), White +1, Campbell -3, Bowen -4, Peak -5, Hopkns -6. All others were DNPs. That's not right on Smith-Rivera. He sat for a minute or two in 2nd half. EDIT: But maybe if it is for lews than 1 minute of actual game time it shows 40.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 21, 2015 23:13:35 GMT -5
Predictably uninspiring, but unpredictably close. I do think DePaul played tough and made shots at the exact times when it looked like we were about to close it out. But that all too standard mix of missed free throws and ugly turnovers made this one tough to watch. That said, a win and a week to fix things has me just as optimistic as I was 3 hours ago. One thing I really liked this game was adjustments that Josh made. The whole year he has been doing two things that have made me crazy (and made me wonder why the coaching staff wasn't fixing it): he picked up silly fouls setting screens and he failed to really seal off his man and get deep position to receive entry passes. Tonight, he did both of those things very well. Solid, strong screens that didn't give the officials a chance to blow the whistle. And a really good job of getting deep position. He didn't let guys push him out or poke the ball away. He was also very careful heding at the top of the key on the defensive end. Effective without the usual 1 or 2 unecessary fouls.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 20, 2015 10:50:31 GMT -5
So I guess you disagree, great reasoning, thanks. If you think Duke is that great, we will agree to disagree. They are soft and play no defense, two things that matter in the tournament. Sure, they can shoot and if they go nuts from 3, oh well. They are easily the #1 seed I would want in my bracket because so much of their success is based on playing in Cameron. Okafor is great, but we have enough bodies to keep him on FT line. Not sure why people fear Duke so much. And as has been pointed out, they cannot play zone defense. Away from Cameron, Duke has beaten Michigan State, Temple, Stanford, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Louisville, St. John's, Virginia and Syracuse. I wish we struggled away from home like that.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 17, 2015 21:06:51 GMT -5
Tremendous defense tonight.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 17, 2015 20:32:52 GMT -5
They shoud review that. Looked like foot was behind the line.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Feb 17, 2015 19:54:36 GMT -5
St. John's has 3assts vs 9to's Gtown has 4assts vs 7to's Going into halftime The game is on national TV.
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