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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2021 19:48:07 GMT -5
I don’t have any inside information here just reporting what I’m seeing from social media sources I am a fossil not on Twitter, etc. Please summarize. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2021 19:17:03 GMT -5
Have heard this rumor from a couple different sources now. Would put us immediately in the top half of Big East next year and a likely tournament team IMHO. Don't keep us in suspense! |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2021 19:15:40 GMT -5
I have a confession to make. I’ve never seen Hoosiers. I know that actor better as Eddie Harris from Major League. 🤷♂️ You are hereby sentenced to one week in Shooter's cabin in the woods. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2021 16:29:33 GMT -5
5) I hope that next year we cannot hear “MOVE” & “REBOUND” because the arenas are packed and we are charging towards the tournament. What if the whole arena is chanting “MOVE” & “REBOUND”. Kind of like HOYA, SAXA Are you suggesting we won't need Patrick any more?!😉😎 |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 9, 2021 14:51:27 GMT -5
If you land a 5-star freshman, you tell your grand transfers and seniors to move on. The team needs to do that just to make room for Aminu alone. So where is the other schollie coming from for a Baldwin if we were so lucky? Oh, wait. I forgot. These things sort themselves out, right? If as some believe Carey has always planned on only one year here, we don't need to ask anyone to "move on" for Aminu. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 8, 2021 21:09:08 GMT -5
I certainly expect abetter defensive performance than the first game since our effort and focus were much better after the forced break. As always, limit silly turnovers and hit the boards hard and we can absolutely move on to Thursday. The second half of the season, we've been a team that should beat Marquette. But it's been so long since the Hoyas have performed or outperformed in the Big East tournament that I am not expecting them to bring it. I don't know what it is, but we so often do not bring the intensity for this tourney anymore. The past is prologue? I think we change that trajectory this year and get to play on Thursday! |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 8, 2021 20:23:34 GMT -5
Good move by Creighton. Players made their point but at least one said he still wanted him back. Coach will be on a short leash from now on. Yeah I would think the players at least had a chance to make their individual feelings known before the decision was made (or at least before it was announced!) |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 8, 2021 20:22:08 GMT -5
This. Don't make up your mind 30 feet from the basket that you are going to figure out a way to get up a shot no matter what.
This actually could apply to pretty much every guy we put on the court, but Chud more than the rest.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 8, 2021 20:19:35 GMT -5
I certainly expect abetter defensive performance than the first game since our effort and focus were much better after the forced break. As always, limit silly turnovers and hit the boards hard and we can absolutely move on to Thursday.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 8, 2021 12:01:31 GMT -5
Not wrong though. Blair is a ball dominant ball stopper but not on the level of Lebron/Kyrie to pull it off. Plus a really inefficient gunner. I wouldn't want to put the fate of the team on whether he can shoot better than 30% from 3. We also might be misinterpreting this as fans. Could "coaches decision" simply mean Ewing things he provides us a nice pop off the bench and therefore isn't starting him? He still gets plenty of minutes. If it weren't for the Depaul game, I think that could be it. Because of Depaul, I think its clearly an issue of what Ewing deems selfish play. JB does tend to stop the ball on O but sometimes he is all we got. Maybe coach could have changed this narrative pretty easily by simply stating he likes Blair's contributions as a sparkplug type and then nobody would be talking about this. This is my speculative feeling. With Blair starting, we have pretty much zero offense to come off the bench, so if we start out cold we have no potential "spark" to turn things around, at least for that half. This can be particularly important since we are not always the smoothest operating offensive machine. But yes, if that is even part of the reason, I don't see why Ewing would not have put it out there at some point. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 7, 2021 13:35:14 GMT -5
I'm not moving anything, I was directly addressing your point about Mullin and the times that St. John's had a stellar recruiting class, was ready to move into the top realm of the Big East - and then fell flat on its proverbial face. And yes Mullin did have some success, but also some dramatic failures. St. John's is a little ahead of us right now, so yes they are in better position. My original point was that I don't think they are head and shoulders above us. And that Anderson taking them to 10-9 in his second year is similar to Ewing taking us to 9-9 in his second year. Our trajectory swung back down last year obviously, for a number of reasons, some coaching and some not. Our trajectory moved back up this year. I'm not sure why you brought Mullin into the discussion, this was about where the two programs stand right now... No one ever stated that St. John's was head & shoulders above Gtown, folks made the point that they appear to be in a better position right which you agree with so it's all good Frazier... Although I'm not sold that Gtown's trajectory has moved much this season especially since what the final roster will look like is unclear at this time... P.S. - After spending much of yesterday getting calls & texts from gloating Uconn fans I am a little down right now... I feel your pain. Used to be the same for me with Syracuse. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 7, 2021 12:09:23 GMT -5
Steele is not a good coach. The Big East currently has several bad coaches: Leitao Ewing Wojo Steele Cooley Leitao’s gone after this year. Wojo is on thin ice. Ewing will be gone after next year, if he doesn’t quit this offseason. The purging of the bad coaches will be a good thing for the Big East. Your quotes always make me laugh like why would Ewing quit in the off-season? There are definitely some below average coaches in the BE but you’re just hilarious at this point Wishful thinking on boya's part. He realizes Ewing actually did a pretty goid job coaching this year's team, and will make boya's assurances of failure look foolish over the next couple of years. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 7, 2021 12:02:45 GMT -5
It is incredibly important for him to stay on the floor. Can't give away fouls. Exactly. He needs to do a better job if reading how closely the game is being called. Sometimes you can almost see one of his fouls coming ahead of time. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 7, 2021 10:33:13 GMT -5
I didn't say it never worked out, just not always. Given how much Mullin's recruiting classes were hyped I expected multiple Sweet Sixteen trips. Seems to me you’re moving the the point of the discussion which was who appears to be in a better position for success right now Gtown or St. John’s... I'm not moving anything, I was directly addressing your point about Mullin and the times that St. John's had a stellar recruiting class, was ready to move into the top realm of the Big East - and then fell flat on its proverbial face. And yes Mullin did have some success, but also some dramatic failures. St. John's is a little ahead of us right now, so yes they are in better position. My original point was that I don't think they are head and shoulders above us. And that Anderson taking them to 10-9 in his second year is similar to Ewing taking us to 9-9 in his second year. Our trajectory swung back down last year obviously, for a number of reasons, some coaching and some not. Our trajectory moved back up this year. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 23:39:13 GMT -5
They might be. Then again, that has been said about St. John's for years, has not always worked out (I know, usually with Mullins). But Mullin made a tourney appearance in his 4 years plus he won 3 BET games so I'm not sure how St. John's being further along than Gtown in the recent past to present hasn't always worked out... I didn't say it never worked out, just not always. Given how much Mullin's recruiting classes were hyped I expected multiple Sweet Sixteen trips. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 22:58:55 GMT -5
I agree with all that. My original point was that it is not as big a gap between St. John's and us as was suggested. And there was going to be a head coaching experience learning curve with Ewing, but that didn't automatically make it the wrong hire. We were a .500 club in the Big East in Ewing's second year. Last year was a disaster on multiple fronts. This year is better. There are no guarantees, but I like where we are headed. You obviously have very low expectations for this program. I assume you’re not a donor. Ewing was a great player. He’s proven to be a poor coach 4 years into this experiment. Also, JT2 is now dead. Harsh words? Yes. But it’s time to move on. I am a donor, although not a big one. While overall Ewing has underperformed, are you saying he did a poor job this season? |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 22:56:18 GMT -5
They might be. Then again, that has been said about St. John's for years, has not always worked out (I know, usually with Mullins).
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 22:20:31 GMT -5
I agree with all that. My original point was that it is not as big a gap between St. John's and us as was suggested. And there was going to be a head coaching experience learning curve with Ewing, but that didn't automatically make it the wrong hire.
We were a .500 club in the Big East in Ewing's second year. Last year was a disaster on multiple fronts. This year is better. There are no guarantees, but I like where we are headed.
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 21:58:01 GMT -5
Not to insert facts into this discussion , but - If we play all 20 conference games, and we win the 3 missed games against the 3 teams that finished below us - we finish 10-10(certainly a realistic possibility - although the COVID break did seem to give us the time to turn our season around). If St. John's plays the game they missed - UConn - a very real chance they finish 10-10. Yes Anderson has done it in 2 years. Of course he had a few years head coaching experience to start with. We are better this year than last, and have a strong recruiting class coming in. Let's see where the 2 programs are 2 years from now. If Ewing is still our coach in two years (which I doubt he will be), I love St. John’s ahead of us in the Big East pecking order at this point. You’d have to be a fool to think otherwise. Ewing turned the team from a mess into a team that beat Creighton, Seton Hall and Xavier (oh, and split with St. John's). A decent job of coaching. Still has to get a lot better, but heading in the right direction. |
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Post by FrazierFanatic on Mar 6, 2021 21:47:30 GMT -5
St. John's has cut the lead to 2(42-40) with about 17 minutes left... St John’s running away with it now. Amazing after down 18-0. It’s funny, you go back to December when we played them and it felt like it was a matchup of two bottom of the league teams with sloppy mistakes and lack of smart plays. The fact they can finish 4th (if Xavier loses) in the league is quite a turnaround from then. They have a real shot to make the final next week with a wounded Nova team on this half of the bracket, and the scary thought is they return basically the entire core. In some ways it’s frustrating as we always get grouped with them as the former flag bearers for the old Big East, so to see them get back to the top of the league and perhaps make a conference title run before us is not ideal. While this isn’t meant to be a jab at Ewing, Anderson has shown that a good coach can turn around a program in short order, as their program was in every bit of flux as ours was / has been. Not to insert facts into this discussion , but - If we play all 20 conference games, and we win the 3 missed games against the 3 teams that finished below us - we finish 10-10(certainly a realistic possibility - although the COVID break did seem to give us the time to turn our season around). If St. John's plays the game they missed - UConn - a very real chance they finish 10-10. Yes Anderson has done it in 2 years. Of course he had a few years head coaching experience to start with. We are better this year than last, and have a strong recruiting class coming in. Let's see where the 2 programs are 2 years from now. |
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