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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 9, 2007 0:19:10 GMT -5
I'm having a very hard time recalling when we ever made in-game adjustments; maybe against Syracuse last year when we finally had Bowman flash to the high post?
We also never seem to make adjustments from game to game. We always play the same tempo on offense and defense, regardless of who we are playing. I'd like to see a lot more creativity and flexibility from JTIII. Right now it seems as though we don't make changes regardless of what the other team is doing.
Oh yea, one more thing - no more lineups that don't include Wallace, Summers, Green, or Hibbert.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 9, 2007 1:00:51 GMT -5
I wish the TO part was true, but so far this season it hasn't been. Wallace is turning the ball over at a very high rate.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 9, 2007 0:14:22 GMT -5
Has anyone ever seen a team that was worse at getting the ball into the post? When Roy gets good position, one of the following three things usually happens:
1 - The fans yell for the pass inside while we instead swing it around the perimeter again
2 - The pass arrives late, when Roy no longer has good position or a clear path to the basket
3 - The pass is tipped or stolen
Yea, Roy could have done a better job of getting position tonight - but this was honestly one of the worst efforts I have ever seen at feeding a big man.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 7, 2007 0:31:53 GMT -5
Yea, fan number two obviously won. I imagine somebody ran over and said not to give it to the guy with the anti-Esh sign.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 4, 2007 19:44:25 GMT -5
Same here.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 4, 2007 19:35:45 GMT -5
I guess Summers, Crawford, and Ewing will split the minutes.
I really liked the role that Egerson had carved out for himself.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 3, 2007 23:04:17 GMT -5
What time does this start? I've seen three times listed.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 3, 2007 13:45:42 GMT -5
The school isn't the police. DoPS breaks up parties filled with freshman drinking weekly, and almost nobody gets punished. McAlarney should deal with whatever legal consequences there are, but I don't see the school as necessarily having a responsibility to suspend people for misdemeanors.
The fact that he may have been driving while high makes me OK with a minor suspension, but otherwise I wouldn't really see a need for the school to take action, outside of perhaps some pointless drug awareness class and community service.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 2, 2007 22:29:17 GMT -5
It's not about the drugs per se, but rather the significance that drug abuse and possesion demonstrate about the student athlete... Lack of will power, lack of commitment to being a world class athlete, lack of commitment to being a scholar. Putting drug induced euphoria ahead of expectations of his coaches and teammates. Putting his safety at risk (by possibly driving impared). Naivity to the spotlight placed on individual scholar-athletes and athletic programs on a whole... This is absurdly over the top. It's not like he was robbing people to feed his heroin addiction.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 2, 2007 19:26:00 GMT -5
hey, toss out the personal feelings about the legalization/decriminalization of pot... it is illegal, he was caught with it, he ought to be punished. It's that simple. The AD and Administration at ND cannot convey a "we shrug our shoulders at pot use" attitude. Can't be done. He ought to miss time. So you'd suspend people for underage drinking?
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Jan 2, 2007 13:40:20 GMT -5
I imagine that chanting pothead would distract a number of players on both teams.
I'd like him to be suspended for our game, but I don't really see any need for him to be.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 16, 2006 22:00:49 GMT -5
I though C.E. Gaines was pretty good for Winston-Salem. 32 points and was all over the court.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 6, 2006 1:20:27 GMT -5
St. Pete's too excited about the special gift he got tonight to spell correctly. Herpes?
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 6, 2006 13:59:28 GMT -5
Threads like this make me sad. Apparently using brain power and trying to quantify things is a very scary proposition for many people.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 3, 2006 23:03:29 GMT -5
He's probably a much better college prospect than pro prospect. His game is similar to Mitch Richmond or maybe Rip Hamilton's.
From what I've seen of him (3 times), he should be a perfect fit for this offense. He can hit threes, get to the whole, and has a better midrange game than pretty much anybody nowadays. Very good handle too, but his D is only mediocre.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 2, 2006 21:40:18 GMT -5
To be honest after watching Kenner I wasn't expecting much of Rivers this year - but since the first game he has played well and been constantly improving. He is also one of only three players on our team that can handle the ball.
Even with Crawford coming back, losing Rivers would be a huge blow.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 2, 2006 22:01:19 GMT -5
Yea, chill. The coaches have struggled so far this year (haven't adjusted the offense for our talent, poor in game adjustments, questionable rotations, players have no idea what to do at the end of games), but to say that they are 'overmatched" is over the top.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Dec 2, 2006 21:38:20 GMT -5
I am increasingly finding myself in the school of thought that leadership by example is no leadership at all. Unfortunately, those are the types of personalities that we have on this team right now. Things is it works great when you're up big. But when we're down, we don't have the personalities to put the team on their backs and compel them to win. It has little to do with personalities - we just don't have anyone that can create a shot consistently. It's hard to come back when it takes us 20 seconds at minimum to get a shot every possession.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Nov 30, 2006 21:50:51 GMT -5
Vincent often gets screwed at big games, but I have no idea why he hasn't been at the last two home games.
One of the greatest moments of my life was shaking his hand at a game last year, and telling him that he was much better that the lame choir that had usurped his position that day.
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Post by hoyaboy1 on Nov 30, 2006 14:17:25 GMT -5
Ok, but his list seems totally random and to list a bunch of players together that have little in common.
It also doesn't have anything to do with whether talent or experience is more important.
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