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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 7, 2015 15:19:15 GMT -5
This post says he's applying for a redshirt and -- if granted -- would have three more years of eligibility. Nebraska HoopsIf he pulls that off, would be an even bigger coup...seems like a stretch but stranger things have happened. When can he start playing for us - or does that depend on whether he gets the redshirt?
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 7, 2015 14:40:58 GMT -5
Hello from RI, It will be interesting to see how the Friars come out on Saturday after last night. Cooley sent a message sitting the starters outside of Henton and Dunn for the second half and used a former walk-on, a frosh center, and a role player. The teams has yet to find a consistent third/fourth scorer this year. Tyler Harris has regressed and his shot has gotten real flat. The freshman have their good games and bad ones so they are not that reliable. If you can shut down Henton or Dunn, then a team has a good chance of beating us. I cant believe it is coming up on a year that Louie's was shut down. PC will never be the same.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 7, 2015 0:32:20 GMT -5
Ed Cooley basically benched three starters in the second half tonight at Butler. Instead of Carson Desrosiers (15 minutes), Ben Bentil (9 minutes) and Jalen Lindsey (16 minutes), he gave significant playing time to Junior Lomomba (21 minutes), Ted Bancroft (20 minutes), Paschal Chukwu (23 minutes) and Tyler Harris (15 minutes), and the Friars came back to win at Butler. After the game, an assistant coach told reporters that they went with the subs because they wanted to use their five "toughest" players. Both LaDontae Henton and Kris Dunn played 38 minutes. It will be interesting to see what lineup he goes with against GU on Saturday. Chukwu looked good in the 2nd half. Hit two huge free throws to make it a 4 point game with 8 seconds left.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 6, 2015 22:40:32 GMT -5
Just back from our game and watching Nova v SJU at MSG. Very entertaining. Appears to be a good, active crowd. Great for the BE.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 4, 2015 13:07:56 GMT -5
Reggie 's stroke still looks good, he just can't quite put it in the basket with any consistency. I still have a suspicion that if he could have a breakout game where he hit 4 or 5, it could turn him around. As for now - when we have a game like we did early today, where we desperately need an outside threat - throw him in for a few minutes, see if he gets hot. If not, try someone else. Agree with both points 100%.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 3, 2015 17:10:48 GMT -5
We are so easy to guard. Someone needs to hit an outside shot.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 2, 2015 17:27:16 GMT -5
For those worried about our NCAA chances, our predicted RPI is 53, our predicted SOS 15, and our predicted record is 17-12. We have far too much talent to end up 17-12 unless we completely tank. More realistic is 19 or 20 wins, which would move our RPI into the 40s or lower and be way plenty enough to make the field. Particularly since we do not have a single bad loss to date. So everyone should relax. I admit to being very worried and your assessment is not comforting (even the realistic one, which in most years puts us squarely on the bubble). We were essentially 2-3 out of conference - and it remains to be seen if the two wins will fall into the "good wins" category. And our conference season could not have started worse (other than perhaps an injury). Im sure I will feel better after we beat Creighton.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Jan 2, 2015 14:12:22 GMT -5
We're in a delicate position here because, I think the 4 frosh need to be battle-tested by the stretch run for this team to actually advance in the tournament BUT we are past the time of the season where we can play around - we need Wins or else a tournament berth will quickly devolve from definite to likely to possible to questionable. Agree with the sentiment generally, but unfortunately we are already at questionable and need wins to head the other direction.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 31, 2014 16:51:00 GMT -5
I really think the BE is going to be very good this year. I hope we can steal some wins on the road. Tonight would be ideal given the circumstances. Doesnt surprise me at all that SHU could beat SJU at home. Really, what are the gimme road wins in this conference, aside from maybe DePaul? I hope we bring it tonight because there arent a lot of chances. Agree 100%. Very surprising to me that so many people here are predicting 14-4 and 13-5. I hope they are right though.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 15, 2014 15:40:36 GMT -5
Interesting that UNC-Charlotte plays twice this week before the game in DC Saturday.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 14, 2014 22:39:54 GMT -5
Sixers blew a lead and lost in OT last night, but Hollis and Henry were a combined 12-13 from the floor, 5-5 from 3 (all Hollis), 4-4 from the line, 9 rebounds and 4 steals.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 10, 2014 18:02:49 GMT -5
Wow. Hopkins has taken 29 shots at the rim, and only made 11. That's horrible. White's number is worse now, but he's got a much smaller sample size (2/7). It only underscores that we want to see defense out of Hopkins and only minimal shooting unless he's got an absolutely outstanding look. That's the problem. Many of those 29 were absolutely outstanding looks!
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 8, 2014 22:19:15 GMT -5
At one time, Philly's BIG FIVE was a hugely successful idea. It was started in the 1950s and included 5 teams that each had serious hoops programs back in the day: LaSalle, Penn, St. Joe’s, Temple and Villanova. All the games were played at Penn's Palestra -- a tired old basketball facility whose major (and legit) claim to fame is the incredible history of college basketball games that were once played there. Annually (it seemed) 3 or 4 of the Big Five would be in the nation's top 25. LaSalle won an NCAA title in ’55 and finished second in ’56. Temple was in the Final Four in ’56 & ’58, and St. Joe’s in ’61. Nova was runner up in ’71 and ’09 – and I think they won one year. In the NIT - at one time on par or even ahead of, the NCAAs -- Nova was 2nd in’65, Temple 1st in ’69, Nova won in ’94, St. Joe was 2nd in ’96 and ’05. And Penn won about 25 Ivy League titles. Oh, and LaSalle also once had a 6'9 F named Joe “Jelly Bean” Bryant, who was a first round draft pick in 1975 and had a successful NBA career. Today he is better known as the father of Kobe. Clearly, there were a lot of successful programs at one time, but it’s pretty much just Nova these days. DC doesn't have that same tradition, those historic rivalries. That was a different time and era. This was long before the Big East. Even the Ivy League only became official the same year that Philly's Big Five did.... 1954. I am guessing the other teams were in the loosely defined ECAC, or something similar that pre-dated it. Now we have the Big East, the Big Ten, the Atlantic Ten (GW, Mason), CAA (Towson), MEAC (Howard), Patriot League (American, Navy) and who knows what else for whatever teams are currently being put forward for this idea. Imagine the scheduling complications? Not to mention the priority all of those teams put on: #1 Conference Play & PR, and #2 NCAA OOC scheduling? Trying to recreate something in DC that was once, but is no longer, a successful concept in Philadelphia decades ago is fighting against the times with no real payoff in the end even if one were to succeed. Time to acknowledge this train left the station a long time ago. www.philadelphiabig5.org/history/Ok, but what about playing MD and/or GW?
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Post by JohnnyJones on Dec 6, 2014 2:19:42 GMT -5
And when was the last time an Ivy League school defeated a defending National Champion? Tonight. Yale 45, Connecticut 44 at Storrs just went final. Per ESPN, the answer is: 1996, when 13-seed Princeton upset defending champion 4-seed UCLA in the first round of the NCAA tournament at the RCA Dome. Unclear if it ever happened prior to that. Notably, that is a Tournament in which the Hoyas went undefeated. Their season simply ended, inexplicably, after they squared off against a giant Calipari-shaped asterisk in the Regional finals. '96 still stings. But not as much as '89. Those teams were good enough to win National Championships. I want that again.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 28, 2014 16:33:02 GMT -5
This was extremely disappointing. Big Dog is right. The story is now Butler instead of us. Doubt we will even be ranked. With our depth, we had no business losing this game. Yea but as long as it's another Big East team, it doesn't matter to me. Being the story in Novemeber means nothing as far as individual teams are concerned. All that should matter to us is doing something in March. We didn't hurt our chances of making the tournament today, so as far as I'm concerned this is just a Novemeber loss, pretty meaningless. I generally agree with most of what you post on here, and agree that all that matters is March, but I don't understand how you can say that we didn't hurt our chances of making the tournament today. These November games really matter for that purpose. We have basically 5 games against notable competition out of the conference season and we just lost one of them. That's really bad. Hopefully we will have a great season and today won't matter at all, but based on past experience it very much could matter.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 27, 2014 17:47:37 GMT -5
Agree. I'm not mad at anyone. Tremendous effort. Having said that, terribly disappointed. This game was there for the taking and would have been such a big win. This would have been at the top of the list all year - and in particular on March 8. IMO the turnovers were really the difference. Especially the silly ones in the 1st ten minutes. Great to have DSR back. A win tomorrow and this is a great tournament for the Hoyas.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 27, 2014 17:39:54 GMT -5
Over the back and goaltending on the same play. SMH Good point. That ball was in the cylinder. Wasn't even close. Did the announcers even mention it?
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 27, 2014 13:39:46 GMT -5
JohnnyJones - if you are referring to shooting before 35 seconds remaining to ensure we got the ball back again, then I completely agree. We made that error twice. Thankfully, it worked out for us. Yes. When you get the ball with 1:02 left in a tie game, I don't see why you wouldn't come down and take your first opportunity to get a score and ensure that you will get the ball back. Many will argue that they would rather focus on getting the best shot, which I can sort of understand if you get the ball in that situation with say 45 seconds (Or less) - where you would arguably have to rush just to get the 2 for 1 opportunity. But when you have 20+ seconds to score - and still leave yourself a minimum of 7 seconds with the ball worst case, in my view you have to take it. Maybe I feel so strongly about it selfishly because for me, as an emotional fan, the worst seconds of my season (I suppose year) are the seconds when the other team has the ball in a tie game with the shot clock off. While I understand that there is usually a greater than 50% chance the other team will miss and we will go to overtime, I cant help but feel terrifyingly certain that they are going to hit the buzzer beater. My reference to "coaching malpractice" was of course an emotional overreaction (I couldn't love III more), but I do feel strongly about this. And I know a lot of CBB fans have the same experience with their teams and the 2 for 1. Others who follow the NBA more closely than I do can correct me if I am wrong, but I think in the NBA the 2 for 1 is almost automatic in those situations.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 27, 2014 10:34:03 GMT -5
I thought the elbow rule had some degree of subjectivity by the refs no? If it's determined that it was a legitimate, controlled basketball play there shouldn't be a foul called. Both instances it wasn't a matter of Josh violently swinging his arms. If not, this is really how the rule should read. I get penalizing a player for a blow to the head in the context of an intentional or wild elbow, but literally what are you supposed to do? JTIII handled the issue well in the post-game press conference. He said that he hadn't seen video of either play, so he'd want to check it before being sure. He pointed out that officials have an advantage because they can review the plays at the monitor. And he said basically said that it's a tough rule, but if that's the rule then they're going to have to teach Josh how to adjust his post moves to account for it. I think the rule is too rigid, but it's been around long enough that offensive players should be able to adjust. There are plenty of examples of elbow contact that under the rule draw flagrant one fouls and are inadvertent or unavoidable, and those are pretty tough to me. But Josh's two last night, while he's not intending to injure a guy, are clearly avoidable. I get--and agree--that centers should be allowed to make post moves, and late defense is a pain. However, there are plenty of perfectly legit post moves that don't involve swinging your elbows at the height (at least shoulder level) that's gonna hit a defender in the face. On both of Josh's plays last night, a jump hook would've been ideal. Or spinning the opposite direction...or backing a dude under the basket with your enormous girth. Turning into a defender with your elbows up just ain't gonna do it...even if you don't make contact, there's a greater chance you're getting it stripped if the defender holds their ground. Also...just gonna leave this here: FLHoya · 12h 12 hours ago Doug Sirmons officiated GU's NCAA losses in 2008, 2011 and 2012 in case you want to fast forward to our entire frontcourt fouling out. One thing I was surprised about was that on the first one on Josh the basket counted. The whole game I was worried that was a mistake and they were going to take the 2 points back! I guess that is how it works (basket counts), but I am surprised by that.
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Post by JohnnyJones on Nov 27, 2014 10:21:39 GMT -5
So last night a lot of us were not able to see the game on our local TV or on TV of our families we are visiting for the holiday. Fortunately, one Hoyatalk poster offered to us all the option to watch it via a private broadcast (he put his computer in front of the TV). I don't know this person, but took him up on his offer and was able to see the game in its entirety - so awesome! We may gripe at each other here pretty regularly, but we all share the common bond of rooting for our Hoyas. Last night's kindness from an unknown Hoyatalker reminded me of this. Thankful to be a part of this community. Happy Thanksgiving - anyone up for carving a Badger? Very well said. After 26+ years of being obsessed with the Hoyas and being on this board pretty much every in-season day for the past 16 years, I got called a "troll" last night by another poster for voicing my displeasure (albeit strongly) about the failure to take advantage of a perfect 2 for 1 opportunity at the end of regulation (one of my pet peeves about CBB in general, not just JT III). I think people need to be reminded that the people that spend (waste?!) so much time on this Board are likely many of the most serious and emotionally attached fans this program has. Of course there can and should be all sorts of disagreement and dispute about all sorts of topics, but seems kind of silly to question any regular member of the Board's intentions. Happy Thanksgiving all. PS - I would be happy to discuss the 2 for 1 debate in another thread!
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