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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 16, 2008 0:50:01 GMT -5
Great post.
Someone mentioned this in the Pitt post-game thread - it seems that our guards often hedge after threes, so they end up not being in position for the rebound and unable to beat the opponent down the court.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 15, 2008 22:21:58 GMT -5
It could also very possibly have been bad luck. People always want to find reasons for things (ie tired legs), but sometimes teams shoot 3/20 and sometimes they shoot 13/20 without necessarily doing anything different.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 14, 2008 10:30:27 GMT -5
Come on, people. Do you REALLY think that "The Line" threads could result in NCAA involvement? Really?
I suspect that it is more likely that my house blows up before I finish this post . . . and it didn't.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 14, 2008 10:23:06 GMT -5
I propose that we also ban thinking about things that are illegal.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 11, 2008 14:46:08 GMT -5
I think what you are saying is that you wish we had a superstar, a top 5 player in the NCAA type. Right now, we don't.
It would be nice if we did, but I think it is pretty clear that the team is good enough to win a title anyway. I am also confident that JTIII isn't intentionally recruiting guys that don't fit your definition as "an end of game player." Guys can be team players 99% of the time but switch to "playground" mode when the shot clock is running out or the game is on the line.
In any case, as has been outlined above come a final possession, we have a number of ways to beat a team, and I don't see why that is worse than them knowing we will run an isolation for our star. If that isn't enough for you, I'm sure Freeman and perhaps Wright will be the guy you are looking for pretty soon.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 11, 2008 11:00:28 GMT -5
Just remember that if it happened to be one of his best games that were shown we'd all be expecting the next Michael Beasley.
He certainly played poorly but it's one game, and we knew some of this before hand (lack of aggressiveness, needs to work on his shot, etc.).
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 10, 2008 23:23:49 GMT -5
Really, why am I the only one talking about Green? He is averaging 19.4, 8.1, and 2 blocks per game. Blair is having a good year too, but I suspect many people only saw his huge game against Duke.
I don't think Austin has much of a shot because he won't get the counting stats or the hype.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 10, 2008 20:54:39 GMT -5
Donte Green is a prohibitive favorite right now, I would think.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 1, 2008 15:00:16 GMT -5
The idea that the Princeton could take us to a BE championship and Final Four but not the title is obviously asinine. Sort of like the idea that Moneyball works in the regular season, but not the playoffs.
I like how he chooses our last 2 games against elite competition, so that he can leave out UNC.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 1, 2008 13:36:11 GMT -5
the whole point about the shooting percentage and the offensive rebounding stats is that since we made so many shots we didn't have as many oppertunities to grab them than fordham did. that's the point of bring up the shooting percentages. Yes, but this is only relevant in relation to offensive rebounds (and even there, Fordham had a much higher rate). When talking about overall rebounding numbers, the opponent shooting poorly should help the Hoyas, not hurt them.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 1, 2008 12:44:58 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 1, 2008 12:24:32 GMT -5
lichoya is right . if a team like fordham can beat us on the boards,what's going to happen when we play a good team-oh wait we already played a good team and look what happened! Way to ignore the fact that GU shot 56% overall and 52% from 3, while Fordham shot 27% overall and 28% from three. maybe that helped contribute to the 39-35 edge on the boards. I'll take those kinds of numbers every game. I've said this before, but I think it needs repeating - it is easier to outrebound the other team when they shoot poorly, because basically every team gets greater than 50% of the available defensive rebounds.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 31, 2007 16:13:04 GMT -5
It was pretty strange - Nikita went up to the scorer's table to get subbed in, then got called back to the bench a minute later and Jansen came in instead.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 30, 2007 20:51:17 GMT -5
FT or not I'd still be concerned that he isn't a very good rebounder, shot blocker, or post defender.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 29, 2007 11:25:59 GMT -5
What these seem to say: 1. More Austin, less Pat. 2. More Jon, a whole lot less Chris (and Jeremiah in certain situations...like when he's shooting fade aways on the baseline after the shotclock resets). Remember that these need to be thought of in context - we are often running two lineups, with the only guys switching back and forth being Freeman and Ewing. That means that the backups +/- is going to be hurt because they only really play with other backups. Still, great work guys. Really interesting stuff.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 27, 2007 16:08:30 GMT -5
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 13, 2007 15:38:03 GMT -5
hoyaboy: difficult to investigate anything where you have no real subpoena power and the people you are investigating are instructed by their union and its attorneys not to cooperate. Fair enough - it isn't necessarily his fault, but I think the "investigative" portion of this process was obviously a disaster and huge waste of time. The recommendations are another story. Bubbrubb - Red Sox not being on the report means nothing; this is extremely far from a comprehensive report, and it is nearly certain that a number of current Sox were users - just as with every other team in the league.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 13, 2007 15:15:10 GMT -5
Remind me never to hire George Mitchell to investigate anything. Pretty much nothing new here whatsoever.
This list is basically meaningless, since it represents a small percentage of users and we already knew about these guys anyway.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Aug 16, 2007 15:43:05 GMT -5
I just hope that we don't have any assistant coach openings in the near future.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on May 25, 2007 13:56:37 GMT -5
insanity. we will have to agree to disagree on this issue. Agree to disagree usually means "I'm wrong but am stopping the discussion rather than admitting it."
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