Virginia 82 Georgia Tech 75 Post-Game
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 14, 2010 8:00 AM EST
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These unhappy posts are getting all too familiar....
Since the game was not on TV, we couldn't actually see how bad we played. Only envision it, and quite honestly, I don't know which is more frustrating. Now, we'll give credit where some credit is due. The Cavs shot 26 and made 23 free throws to keep them on what is now a 6-game winning streak. That will keep you in any game and I don't care who you are. Tech, on the other hand, 3-for-11 which shows we did not draw fouls. Common sense says when this happens YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE EVERY TIME EVEN WHEN YOU SHOOT GREATER THAN 50% FROM THE FLOOR!
I mean honestly, if you want my thoughts on this game, the status of our basketball program, etc you need to go back and read Ted's post from when we lost to Florida State.
If we erase the free throw shooting from our minds, we actually played rather well (potential kicking in!). Five players all scored in double figures with Zach Peacock leading the way with 19 points. Iman Schumpert put up 15 points with 6 assists. We didn't turn the ball over ridiculously, we all shot well (52%) and even assists, something that the we've been low in all season were up (15). The main problem in this game, was a common issue and theme that's been haunting us for a very long time: free-throw shooting and player development. Talent can only be ridden for so far. Virginia shot fairly well with four players in double-digits. Cavs guard Sylven Landesberg led all scorers with 22 points and 5 assists.
Georgia Tech under Paul Hewitt will forever be an up and down team. Lose to georgie on the road. Beat Duke. Lose to UVA on the road. Hewitt himself blamed the game on "those loose balls". After talking to Ted, who was able to listen to the game on XM said that it seemed we caught some bad luck at the end and things just didn't go our way. But do we really need to rely on luck to win? One day (soon?) the time will come to blame a game on a coach who can't get a team to live up to its potential, hit free throws, and win a game on the road.
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I'm not quitting yet
The ACC is 13-3 at home this season. This season is all about who can win out at home and steal some on the road. If we can do that, we steal a #3/#4 seed in the ACCT.
I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.
I agree
We definitely have a handle on how the ACC season will go about three games into the conference season. :-p
by OrangeBritches on Jan 14, 2010 9:14 AM EST up reply actions
the vote is spiralling out of control...
We need Iowa fans to help in the balance of power.
I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.
the fanbase is tired
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 14, 2010 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
I tried Bird
For the last three years I have been blaming injuries, players leaving early when they should obviously stay (I’m looking at you Javaris), and I’ve been telling every GT fan I come into contact with that PH is a good coach. But, I’ve come to the realization that PH is the same as CG in that players leave exactly the same as they arrived. There have been little to no signs of player progression post-2004. In fact, I’m not even sure he recruits players that fit his system, but instead he just attempts to recruit high profile players in hopes that talent > system.
If winning 60% of his games wasn’t good enough for CG, then the same applies to PH. Just as we were tired of beating top ten teams at their place in football only to lose to the Dukes of the world, we are also tired of beating the Dukes in basketball only to lose to uga and Greensboro, etc. With the amount of talent PH has this year, those losses should not occur, period.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
Amen.
I agree 100% so I’m not going to try and add to that.
Rather, I’ll bring up a separate point about players leaving (perhaps a bit) early. Javaris Crittenton left with Thadeus Young, who (probably) had the talent to go. Morgan Burnett is leaving with three guys who can definitely move on to the next level. My question is, do you think that this helps his draft stock? Crittenton did get drafted in the top 15, after all, but that was a year when PGs were getting snapped up fast. Do you think that idea might be part of their rationale, justified or not?
by Portmanteur on Jan 14, 2010 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
We can test that theory on Draft Weekend
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 14, 2010 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
IMO
Crittenton got lucky in that there wasn’t a ton of PG talent in that draft and someone decided to take a chance on him. I haven’t thought about where he got drafted in the light you have, but it’s possible and it’s an interesting theory.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
Prior to the season, I made a bet that we would make the Tourney
I’m going to go ahead and pay up.
I would like to sit in on one practice just to see where the time is spent...
It’s obviously NOT spent:
A) on transition defense and rotating out when a guard drives
B) free throws (even the least talented teams can shoot over 70%, all you have to do is practice this shot. it NEVER varies in distance and has no known defense…)
C) half-court offense- more specifically entry passes to the post since we DO have one of the most dominant big men in college basketball and COULD have 2 if we ever looked for Favors inside early in the shot clock
D) making the extra pass- there are a few guys on the team that can get hot from the outside but I bet our shooting percentage would take a huge leap if we made that dreaded extra pass to get an uncontested shot rather than try to rush one with a defender close enough to affect the shot.
Maybe we’re just really good in warm ups and stretching…
Are you a LION or a GAZELLE?
Well I have heard that our groin stretches
are ranked in the top 5.
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 14, 2010 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
Something that would be amazing
A college ball Hoopdata, then we could see exactly the amount of assisted jumpshots, how far out those shots are coming from, and how early in the clock they are. The simple fact that we have never had an inside game under Hewitt angers me, especially considering the amount of talent currently residing in the low post.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
Some teams
have to win with guards driving and knocking down 3’s all game. We are not one of those teams. Deandre and Gani pick and roll on every possession and everybody else must stand to the side ready to shoot when the entire defense collapses (see extra pass comment above) with the exception of Favors who cuts down the lane like a bat out of hell as soon as contact with the pick is made. This is my offense.
Are you a LION or a GAZELLE?
Agreed
Between Shumpert and Udofia, we have the guards to force defenses to collapse on them either through dribble-drives or high pick-n-rolls. We also have the guards to run a proper low post half-court set allowing them to sit outside and hit open long jumpers when the front court gets doubled.
PH doesn’t have a system, but instead he has plays. There doesn’t seem to be a philosophy for the players to buy into outside of him making them run all the time so they are conditioned.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
agreed on all counts.
We have the guards that can make things happen but that doesn’t mean we NEED them to make things happen…I know the wreck can’t lead the bball team onto the field but can somebody please turn Hewitt onto this blog. We’re fixing his team damnit!!!!
Are you a LION or a GAZELLE?
Hewitt performance
11 people actually think Hewitt is doing a good job?
Let’s see his mom\dad\wife\kids\brother\sisters\grandparents
thanks 11
back to reality my friends
The college football season is so fragile. It's like a glass ball being pushed around from stadium to stadium by a rhinoceros.
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 14, 2010 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
Well
I was saying yes up to the uga game. I wanted to give PH this year to make something happen with all the talent he recruited (easily the best class, not individual, he has ever recruited). What I watched in that game broke my last bit of PH apologist resolve and I haven’t looked back. The Duke game doesn’t change anything. In fact, it only enforces the idea that his teams are inconsistent and play to the level of the competition.
The way UNC is playing right now, we should be able to win that game, but even then it will not be a sign of true progression. Instead, it will simply be yet another data point that fits the PH model.
"Big Ten can have this challenge. Duke loses, we all win..."
-Marcus Ginyard, G - UNC
A couple questions...
What is CPH’s estimated (or actual) buy out? Does that ever change, or will it always be the same because of that messed up contract? Not to knock Haiti, but could we be sending our $5 text messages to a fund to buy out Hewitt?
7 million dollars
…
I guess the atmosphere that I've tried to create here is that I'm a friend first and a boss second, and probably an entertainer third.
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