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Georgetown Post Game Thread

gsmooth said:
Yeah, I can understand that. In order for this team to reach the Final Four, Tarris has to be a big factor and be the favorable match up in almost every game.

My biggest gripe is the bench. Hurley said earlier this year that this team can wear others down with depth. I understood his plan and idea so I am not knocking him, but the lack of depth won't allow that. Yes, I said lack of depth. Besides Reibe, no one on the bench did much of anything. Ross has a great 3 play sequence, but that really isn't enough. Not to break my arm patting myself on the back, but I saw this issue a while ago when I went to the game at the AMP. On the jumbotron there it shows the number of points scored by the bench. PC's bench outscored UConn's 41-3 in that game.
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The gripes are many for this squad: Bench, rebounding/lack of physicality, turnovers, fouling/free throw disparity, no go to guy for a bucket
 
John said:
Second consecutive season where the advertised team depth of off-and-early season has evaporated as reality sets in.
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And with the incredible shrinking bench that our third year players of Ross and Stew are working off of, why in the world would they come back to come off the bench?
 
KingAG said:
It sounds harsher than intended. Everyone can’t be a high IQ basketball player. That’s instinctive. He’s extremely gifted in other areas, and extremely limited in how fast he can think the game. Dumb in this respect has nothing to do with intelligence or intellect. But rather how fast you compute what’s happening on the court. His computing speed is slow, and that’s where the majority of his shortcomings stem from. You can see the frustration on his face, because I believe the want to is there. Just not the know how.
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The word dumb is harsh. If you don't want to be harsh, how about just saying, "he makes questionable decisions" or as you rephrased it, "he isn't the highest BB IQ" or "he's not particularly fast at processing". Hyperbole is always going to be perceived as harsh. See what I did thiere?
 
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Jaydumo20 said:
Youre not the biggest Tarris defender. You just called him dumb. Forgot about his basketball game, he's a good kid. Ease up.
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KingAG said:
It sounds harsher than intended. Everyone can’t be a high IQ basketball player. That’s instinctive. He’s extremely gifted in other areas, and extremely limited in how fast he can think the game. Solo is similar in this respect, watch him try and run a fast break. His brain is moving faster than his body can respond. It’s like a stutter. Dumb in this respect has nothing to do with intelligence or intellect. But rather how fast you compute what’s happening on the court. His computing speed is slow, and that’s where the majority of his shortcomings stem from. You can see the frustration on his face, because I believe the want to is there. Just not the know how.

Taris is a very intelligent young man.
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I was wrong for using the word dumb.
 
TWRpastabar said:
If we have McNeeley this year instead of Mullins I think we’re a tad worse because he doesn’t fit the needed role. If we had Mullins last year instead of McNeeley I think the team is definitely worse. McNeeley won us several games by himself, ie. @ Creighton. I don’t think Mullins has shown he can take over for a full game.

I like both guys a lot I’m thankful theyre huskies. Loved McNeelys heart. Felt he got shortchanged cuz that team last year was missing so many pieces.
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What role wouldn't McNeeley fit? Before the ankle injury McNeeley was actually showing some pretty good playmaking chops off the bounce coming off of screens, especially with Tarris hitting him for dumpoffs. He'd fit in fine assuming he could make 38% or above from 3 with another year of seasoning and being healthy.
 
RuffRuff said:
And with the incredible shrinking bench that our third year players of Ross and Stew are working off of, why in the world would they come back to come off the bench?
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They come back because unfortunately Hurley won't recruit over them as loyal seniors. Maybe one of them continues to come off the bench next year because they can both play on the wing.
 
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Donyell 360 said:
The word dumb is harsh. If you don't want to be harsh, how about just saying, "he makes questionable decisions" or as you rephrased it, "he isn't the highest BB IQ" or "he's not particularly fast at processing". Hyperbole is always going to be perceived as harsh. See what I did thiere?
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One thing Tarris isn't, is consistent and reliable.

I'd guess if they had to do it all over again, the staff would have gone in a different direction at the 5. I will always look at that post B2B portal/off-season as rushed and distracted. With all these effective Euro 5's out there (AZ, UNC, Illinois), there were likely better system fits. We aren't using Tarris even a smidge of how we used Adama.
Donyell 360 said:
They come back because unfortunately Hurley won't recruit over them as loyal seniors. Maybe one of them continues to come off the bench next year because they can both play on the wing.
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Yeah, but Hurley is also not going to silver plate them a starting role. So why would those two waste their senior years coming of the bench sporadically? Stew got 4 minutes tonight. If I'm a senior in today's world and was just used sporadically off the bench as a Junior, and not guaranteed a starting role, I'm moving on.
 
KingAG said:
It sounds harsher than intended. Everyone can’t be a high IQ basketball player. That’s instinctive. He’s extremely gifted in other areas, and extremely limited in how fast he can think the game. Solo is similar in this respect, watch him try and run a fast break. His brain is moving faster than his body can respond. It’s like a stutter. Dumb in this respect has nothing to do with intelligence or intellect. But rather how fast you compute what’s happening on the court. His computing speed is slow, and that’s where the majority of his shortcomings stem from. You can see the frustration on his face, because I believe the want to is there. Just not the know how.

Taris is a very intelligent young man.
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Well said. Basketball IQ is such an odd thing. You hear solo and tarris speak and they are clearly intelligent ppl. They are just so slow to react out there.

On the flip side I’ve coached guys who are (no offense to them) just not smart ppl but on the court they could see things before they happened and were always in the right place at the right time.
 
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Two things I have to explain why the game played out like it did:
1. Reed had an awful game. I don’t really see the frustration across the season because this is maybe the first time I was genuinely frustrated with him all around. Flawed, but usually not the main issue if ever.

2. Georgetown strangely got hot in the end by living at the 3 point line. Their FGP (bad) and 3PP (good) were the same meaning they were either sinking 3s in barrage (at least two different instance they sank 3 consecutive 3s) or they were hitting nothing.
 
FightOnCT said:
Two things I have to explain why the game played out like it did:
1. Reed had an awful game. I don’t really see the frustration across the season because this is maybe the first time I was genuinely frustrated with him all around. Flawed, but usually not the main issue if ever.

2. Georgetown strangely got hot in the end by living at the 3 point line. Their FGP (bad) and 3PP (good) were the same meaning they were either sinking 3s in barrage (at least two different instance they sank 3 consecutive 3s) or they were hitting nothing.
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First game that Reed frustrated you?

People are not watching this team close enough. Reed has been underwhelming almost all of the new year.
 
superjohn said:
It's getting to the point where I sometimes forget Jaylin is on the team when I'm watching games. He has 2 points total his last three games and he's played a total of 26 minutes over the last three games.
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2nd foul in the first half was beyond dumb, tapped a 7'1" 260lb center on the shoulder as if he wanted to ask him a question
 
amishboy said:
Okay, there’s still “time” to flip a switch, but what makes you think, 24 games in, that we have the ability to do so?!
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The 2022-2023 team.

I don’t think it will happen at this point, but it’s not impossible.
 
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Reibe should not play over Reed you people are loons. Have you forgotten the stretch of games where he completely disappeared? Reed isn’t perfect but we don’t win it all without him coming close to his ceiling. Gotta dance with the one you brought.

Karaban is a great player who messes up in very high pressure situations sometimes. Stop having him inbound the ball.

Mullins has not figured out how to play within the flow of this offense. He is a weapon and better than I thought on defense but if I watched these games without knowing who he isn’t I wouldn’t tab him as a first rounder.

I don’t think this team has a national championship ceiling. I don’t know who you’d turn to if you need one bucket out of nothing in a tight game. I think - I know - Silas is the guy, but I’m not sure he or the team does, if that makes sense.
 
RuffRuff said:
We wouldn't be curb stomped, but we'd be under dogs.
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I dont know. There is something about non-con games that look good on us. We looked better against Florida in the tourney than we did against a lot of big east teams last year. Also, I know teams grow or weaken during the course of the year but this is still 90% the same team that had a top 3 early season non-con performance. I think any game we played against those teams would be tight all the way and I think many would agree with this in spite of themselves. If we get to the sweet 16 nobody will want to see us.
 
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