Georgetown Post Game Thread

[Palatine]

Hurley said tonight that he is changing his approach to his own offense. He thinks the players had become too robotic following the system. He wants more step back back and side steps from the arc. He also wants them to be freer and attack their man and bring him to the rim more. We saw that against Villianova and again tonight. This also my be a way to inject a little more personality into their play which he wants.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Choosing to ignore the first 10 minutes because I want to enjoy this one. Let’s go Huskies!

I was busy witnessing a 3-year old enjoying Pad Thai and then having to navigate the emotionally turbulent shock of there being no cake at Nana's birthday dinner, so I watched from 16-20. It worked for me.

 

[Devland]

How on earth could you watch that game and ask to play Nowell more. He was abused on defense, blown by and shot over. He showed almost no offensive ability, had a couple of decent assists and was weak with the basketball.

It almost insane to think that we will get anything more from him with more minutes.

It's the back up quarterback syndrome. The guy the fans don't see much is always better than the one getting the playing time.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Two stars of the game. Boat even got his popcorn to match the whole ensemble. Sartorial splendor from the Boat show.

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[NJHusky]

Mahaney has a better handle

It should be with how deliberate he is….how many 10 sec calls/ almost calls?

 

[uconngb]

He picked up his dribble on two straight possessions and one led to a turnover. That was the end of his night.

According to some, he deserves more time. This is based on…….nothing

 

[Captbluefin]

Grateful for the win, but let’s pump the brakes.

We beat a team that had no center and put no defensive pressure on us. And they still got some turnovers for run outs.

Without their stud 4 man

 

[dalydosehoops]

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[Viet Vet]

It's a win. Next game?

 

[djct1999]

Nowell is a freshman and still learning defensively. He is quicker than Mahaney, much stronger, and frankly more competitive. Mahaney is way to small to play in a physical league like the Big East. Frankly, I expected more from a junior who is in his 3rd year of college basketball. Nowell is far from perfect, but he has the physicality to play in the league. He is going to make freshman mistakes but no way am I playing Mahaney over him the rest of the year. If Mahaney played tonight, Georgetown would have attacked him every single time down the floor. He just doesn't have the size and strength to play in this league.

Did you not see what happened when Nowell was in the game? They attacked him every time. So what’s your point?
Nowell is clearly stronger, Mahaney is still more of an offensive threat, both stagnate the offense at the point. I am no longer advocating for Aiden but Nowell is not the answer. He had two decent assists(both in broken sets) vs probably the least discipline team we will play all year and did nothing else. He was awful defensively.

 

[sdglast]

Did you not see what happened when Nowell was in the game? They attacked him every time. So what’s your point?
Nowell is clearly stronger, Mahaney is still more of an offensive threat, both stagnate the offense at the point. I am no longer advocating for Aiden but Nowell is not the answer. He had two decent assists(both in broken sets) vs probably the least discipline team we will play all year and did nothing else. He was awful defensively

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Every time we think the ship is steady it starts taking on water!

Reed has been my favorite player to watch this year. Great win.

People really thought we played well? I guess we did the last 9 minutes of the game but I thought we were really bad up until then. Georgetown didn't have Sorber or their 6th man for the game and Fielder fouled out pretty early in the second half. We were a sieve on defense, AK was a ghost again until garbage time. Tarris was really good and Solo was good but that wasn't a good effort from the rest of them through 31 minutes at home against a Georgetown team with basically 5 players.

Hey fellow UConn fan -

Your team won its game tonight. Which of these guys do you wanna feel like?

 

[sdglast]

Did you not see what happened when Nowell was in the game? They attacked him every time. So what’s your point?
Nowell is clearly stronger, Mahaney is still more of an offensive threat, both stagnate the offense at the point. I am no longer advocating for Aiden but Nowell is not the answer. He had two decent assists(both in broken sets) vs probably the least discipline team we will play all year and did nothing else. He was awful defensively.

I have seen Mahaney all year. He is awful. He is also a junior who is getting abused both offensively and defensively. Frankly, he is not nearly the ball handler you think he is. He's struggled against pressure all year and cannot handle the physicality of the Big East. Nowell is a freshman. It's apples to oranges. What can I say to you...Mahaney is not good. He cannot be the backup point guard the rest of the year. If you can't see that, I don't know what to say.

 

[DawgEnjoyer]

Wow…what a game by Reed.

There have been several guys since Hurley took over that his personal affinity for, clearly clouds his judgment of their play (Letting Alterique Gilbert fail time after time after time with the game on the line comes to mind) and Sampson fits that category. We should have been using Reed at this volume since November.

 

[Scott2Tate]

According to some, he deserves more time. This is based on…….nothing

This is based on Hurley saying to Borges that he believes Ross deserves more time, and that he has not played him enough. Hurleys word is good enough for me

 

[3rdbass]

Did you not see what happened when Nowell was in the game? They attacked him every time. So what’s your point?
Nowell is clearly stronger, Mahaney is still more of an offensive threat, both stagnate the offense at the point. I am no longer advocating for Aiden but Nowell is not the answer. He had two decent assists(both in broken sets) vs probably the least discipline team we will play all year and did nothing else. He was awful defensively.

Thing is Nowell is a Freshmen who has barely played while Mahaney is already who he is at a Jr. There is more upside with Nowell geting more minutes and he did have one nice drive at the end of the half were he couldn't finish at the basket. He just needs more time and I think Hurley sees no harm of backing Diarra for 5-8 minutes in the first half games.

 

[freescooter]

Grateful for the win, but let’s pump the brakes.

We beat a team that had no center and put no defensive pressure on us. And they still got some turnovers for run outs.

Without their stud 4 man

It was a good win but a win that should not have been in question. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves with the 3peat business again.

 

[CTBasketball]

Nowell did not look bad. Wished he got some 2H run.

 

[djct1999]

Thing is Nowell is a Freshmen who has barely played while Mahaney is already who he is at a Jr. There is more upside with Nowell geting more minutes and he did have one nice drive at the end of the half were he couldn't finish at the basket. He just needs more time and I think Hurley sees no harm of backing Diarra for 5-8 minutes in the first half games.

If he plays 8 mins in the fist half, things have turned for the worse. Sure, he is a freshmen. The upside is debatable. The strongest argument for Nowell is that he can’t be worse than Mahaney. Well, that may be true but it’s hardly an endorsement. Either way, neither are the solution now and most likely next year. I will give you it’s been a very small sample set and his minutes have been limited. It’s also about to be March and in those limited times I have seen nothing exciting or encouraging.

 

[djct1999]

Nowell did not look bad. Wished he got some 2H run.

And he didn’t in a game we were up 10 for a
good part of it. What does that say?

 

[CTBasketball]

And he didn’t in a game we were up 10 for a
good part of it. What does that say?

Hurley wants to trust him, but doesn’t yet.

 

[JB75]

He needs to see the floor when it makes sense. Up 15 with 3 minutes to go, he’s gotta be in there. Diarra is banged up and no one else can play point. It just doesn’t make sense not to give him a crash course. This really seems like a misjudgment by Hurley to me. We can barely get the ball past half court against really good teams. He’s gotta be ready to go. I want to have a surprise run.

On top of that, why the hell was diarra in the game up 15 with 2 mins left???

 

[jibsey]

We have to stop this Nowell stuff. Had an open 3 and missed the gym. At his size he can back up at point guard, but I do think he can find players for assists and he would probably steal balls on defense. Just not a starting guard for us. Please.

 

[alphasigko]

Nice bounce back game from Ross

Yes, in 2 minutes of play he scored a Blutoski 0.00 across the board.

 

[bendm]

We have to stop this Nowell stuff. Had an open 3 and missed the gym. At his size he can back up at point guard, but I do think he can find players for assists and he would probably steal balls on defense. Just not a starting guard for us. Please.

Maybe as a junior or senior but there’s no case for him being the starting PG next season