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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 13, 2015 13:34:09 GMT -5
Dan - this cant be good for the RPI! If only that crazy stubborn TAMCC coach would go 2-for-1 at the end of the halves, for heavens sake! There goes the season. Ha Ha! My apologies for really wanting to make the NCAA Tournament! And on the 2 for 1, I dont believe anyone refuted the point about the 2 for 1 with 1:08 on the clock. Could it be that everyone agrees?!!
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 23:54:16 GMT -5
*- home team FINAL SCORE Lamar 66, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi* 64 Dan - this cant be good for the RPI!
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 23:52:54 GMT -5
No different with the Pac 12, which ordinarily plays games only on Thursdays and Saturdays. This week, the Big East has games televised four out of seven days; that's not bad at all. Surprised that you actually spent the time to take issue with my simple statement! I don't care about the Pac 12. Not counting the first short week of the conference season, of the remaining 9 weeks in over half of them there are games on only 3 days. Just like to watch BE basketball.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 15:18:40 GMT -5
It may not help rankings wise, where our rep is below the Big 12, but the schedule allows for plenty of top 50 wins for selection sunday. It will take a while for the BE to play out, esp as road wins are hard to come by. We have the same RPI than AP ranked Texas and Baylor, and all of us have no top 50 wins at this point, but no bad losses either. If we get some league road wins, this helps us tremendously. More reminders of how brutal it was to give that away on Saturday.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 13:56:59 GMT -5
Not sure we need to worry about Rutgers and big wins. Agree, but I believe Wisconsin was on our schedule this year.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 13:51:17 GMT -5
One negative of the 10 team league is that there are so many nights with no BE games.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 13:49:22 GMT -5
Many good points made here. Zone offense aside, it seems that many of our players seem to lose confidence if they miss a shot or two. Thislosss of confidence gets worse as the game goes on. If the shot is open, take it. Peak seems to have lost some confidence in any shot except the drive to the basket. Just shoot that ball, guys. The shots will fall. Agree. Maybe the young alumni section should do a tifo for Saturday that says "Just let it fly Hoyas ..."
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 13:45:54 GMT -5
Easily the most frustrating loss of the season for me. - White and Copeland have to be in against the zone. A line up that has hopkins and smith has no chance. We need guys who can flash to the FT line, catch the ball and turn and shoot. White and copeland are the two that fit the bill. Once that gets going you will get smith open down low and open 3 point looks. Passing around the perimeter, you get nothing. - Remain very excited about the freshman class. - Trawick needs to be less aggressive but more assertive on offense, if that makes sense. Basically, I mean he needs to look for his offense more, but in a controlled fashion. He needs to take the shot when he has it, and slash to the hole when he has a lane (but not jump up in the air after two steps without a plan). - Hopkins is a quandary. The defense played very well on the whole, which is largely attributable to Hop. But that offense.... - DSR should force the issue. I only recall once where he got his own shot -- it was a cross-over, drive to the left, step back jumper from about 12 feet. They showed a replay it was so smooth. We didn't see it again. If the offense is bogging down, or if he is on the floor with an offensively challenged line-up, I would like to see DSR force his own game and not let it come to him. Same goes, to a lesser extent, for Peak. - Time outs. I thought that JT3 had a few chances when providence started to get some of the momentum back late in the second half to call a time out and decided to play on. He should use the time outs. Late in games we are better just playing out anyways (see Florida), so we might as well use them early. I'm not panicking, but we are going to have to get some road wins to make the tourney and this one was prime for the taking. Agree with all of this 100% (except dont feel that strongly about the timeouts). This one really hurt.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 12, 2015 0:52:48 GMT -5
*- home team Higher-ranked team losses are in boldFINAL SCORES North Carolina State* 87, #2 Duke 75#15 Wichita State 67, Loyola (Illinois)* 53 Villanova women* 69, Georgetown women 57 Rutgers* 67, #4 Wisconsin 62 Oregon State* 58, #7 Arizona 56Tough weekend for us. These results are bad. For the most part, we want top 10-15 teams to win (for obvious exceptions related to, eg, BE standings, teams on our schedule). Hate to see these other teams picking up big wins.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 15:23:37 GMT -5
I tend to agree with SF, we played pretty well against the zone. I am really surprised to hear you guys say this. Maybe I am just focusing on and remembering the negative. I know there were a handful of strong offesive possessions against the zone, but it felt like we had a lot more uninspired passing around the perimeter with little movement.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 14:26:18 GMT -5
When this team is in the NIT again this March, it will be losses like this game that will be one of the reasons why. This is exactly what I am concerned about as well.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 14:24:45 GMT -5
This was a game I did not feel good about going in, but to lose like that is horrifically painful. We really need games like this come March and we gave it away.
Can someone who is against the 2 for 1 concept explain to me why it would not have been the right strategy when we have the ball with 1:08 left in regulation down 1? We could have taken 23 seconds (ie not rushed) and still left a 10 second differential.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 14:18:06 GMT -5
If JTIII and the Hoyas can pull out a win, will anyone apologize for the JTIII negative comments? Of course not, just go into hiding until the next game. I love III and think he is a great coach. But I agree this has been a horrtibly coached game. Is that wrong?
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 14:08:35 GMT -5
Why wouldn't we got two for one? Exactly what I was thinking Dont get me started ...
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 14:04:09 GMT -5
I hate to jump on the negative JT3 bandwagon, but this is a bad one. Agree. Hate to say it but this was a horribly coached game.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 13:25:21 GMT -5
ESPN's bx has Josh with 3 PFs. Is it right or does he have 4? 3
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 12:58:38 GMT -5
I think the biggest difference between the teams is that Dunn is getting his guys easy baskets and we don't have that. That kid is a good point guard. Especially if you overlook the carry on every dribble!
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 12:57:27 GMT -5
*DSR needs to step up. This is getting ridiculous. And he needs to do it ALL game. He needs to look back at Porter's sophomore year (DSR's freshmen year) and see how he carried the team. *Hayes can't rebound very well, but he wildly outplayed Hopkins that half, so Kudos to him! *Love White's aggressiveness so far. I'd like to see him play 20 minutes in the second half if he can. *We can't shoot. It's a huge problem and at this point, I don't know if it gets better. Some changes can help, but at the end of the day, we're actually not getting awful shots... not great shots, but not awful shots. Exactly spot on on each of the 4 points. Agree 100%.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 10, 2015 12:56:03 GMT -5
Nice to take advantage of the perfect 2 for 1 opportunity at the end of the half. Passed up 3 wide open shots in the process so please stop with the "would rather wait patiently for a good shot argument".
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 7, 2015 15:21:56 GMT -5
We are now going to have to rethink the all-Hoya name team.
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