is dsr. with the selfishness.

dammit...pass the ball. case in point, instead of milking the big guy in two man...he shoots.

took the ball out one time and i could TELL he was going to shoot!

dammit...pass the ball.

Georgetown's Freshman have poise and a very high basketball IQ. Unfortunately, the upperclassman have a tendency to make too many errors during the course of the game. Georgetown will be much better when Coach JT III realizes Paul White and Isaac Copeland are the best Forwards on this team. I understand Paul White was in foul trouble, however, Ike Copeland should have been playing more and Tre Campbell could have rested DSR in the second half. DSR was clearly tired, and he did not have enough legs to finish in the second half.

I believe Georgetown lost this game in the first half, mainly because of the numerous mistakes made by the upperclassman. Many will argue that Josh Smith was efficient on offense and Mikael Hopkins and Jabril Trawick played well on defense. I agree they played well, but they have to play much smarter and show more poise during key moments of games. It seemed like every time the upperclassmen made a careless mistake the Jayhawks converted the mistake into points. It's time to start Copeland and White, and it's time to play Tre in the second half of competitive games.

BJ
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Watching Nebraska-Creighton game and would be nice to have Moses A in a Hoya uni this year. He could have provided excellent bench minutes for the Hoyas due to foul trouble plus he plays nice defense and rebounds. Oh well.

SOme of you guys are really making me laugh. Guys, Kansas is very very good. More talented and more experienced than we are. We lost to them by 1 or 2 shots/turnovers in a game where our best guard played one of his worst games as a Hoya (ahtough that around the back dish to Smith was sick). Yet some of you all are now debating whether we are even good enough to be a tourney team? Cmon. We played Wisconsin and Kansas, two of the top 8 teams in the nation to the wire. We lost to a very underrated Butler squad. That is it. Barring serious injury problems, this team is good and will finish in the top 25 and make the tourney despite our youth The sky is not falling because we lost nail biters to Kansas and Wisconsin and got beat by Butler. Relax ladies and gentlemen.

up front now

lost opportunities have to blame themselves.

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I stayed at Georgetown all day taking in games until the final matchup of the night and for me the game of the day, Triple Threat featuring Hoya target Chris Braswell versus the Baltimore Stars and their two Maryland recruits Braxton Dupree and Dino Gregory. The game more or less lived up to the pre-game hype as Triple threat won a very tightly contested game 43-38.

I have interviews coming up from Triple Threat’s Adrian Bowie and also Idris Hilliard who attended last season’s Midnight Madness who was also in town playing with the Team New Jersey Elite.

But as far as the game between Triple Threat and the Baltimore Stars, Triple Threat was just able to make enough plays at the end to win a tight game. The player who impressed me the most during this contest was Jeff Allen, the 6’7 power forward formerly of DeMatha, but is currently at Oak Hill. Allen isn’t going to qualify for Virginia Tech, not he’ll be probably attending Hargrave Military Academy in an attempt to rise his grades.

Allen was a real post presence inside. He sent Braxton Dupree’s shot packing on at least 2 or 3 occasions after it appeared that Dupree was able to clear enough space to get the shot off. He was also a beast on the boards and defensively as Allen, 6-9 Shane Walker and 6-8 Chris Braswell made life miserable for the Maryland guys in the post.

Braswell had several nice blocks and a couple of inside moves and just made some solid contributions in general to help his team seal a victory. Braswell continues to try to score from the perimeter with mixed results, but I’m still of the opinion that this is summer ball and he needs to mix some of that stuff in there if he’s to ever reach his goal of being a full-time 3.

Adrian Bowie was effective at times with his penetration, but was essentially non-existent from the perimeter. He may have attempted only 1 perimeter shot for the game, as he often passed up open perimeter shots, to drive closer into the defensive pressure for a more difficult shot. For some reason, I doubt that the Hoyas get too involved with Bowie. He’s a solid, scrappy player, but he’s essentially a 6’2 slasher who can’t play the point, and can’t shoot well enough and doesn’t have the size to be a full-time wing player in college.

Jeff Jones struggled a lot more with the defensive pressure that Baltimore Stars and Mt. St. Joes player DuJuan Goodwin put on him. Goodwin is a very solid player who is probably a little underrated as a prospect. He was a leader for Mt. St. Joseph in Baltimore whose only defeat was to DeMatha. I believe they went something like 33-1. Goodwin was able to handle the press offensively, and hawk the ball defensively making life miserable for Jeff Jones.

Triple Threat was without a point guard as Cory Almond is supposed to be their guy at that position is out with an injury. Jeff Jones and Adrian Bowie took turns running the team and neither was all that effective. Jones was a little better than Bowie, but he doesn’t have a solid enough handle to withstand some solid defensive pressure. He still seems like a good prospect, but he definitely got exposed a lot more with against better competition.

Ron will have a lot more extensive coverage of the Charlie Weber as he was able to get a lot more interviews and will have more in-depth game coverage.

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