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Chris Wright Bashing Georgetown Offense?
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Jun 22, 2011 9:20 AM EDT
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From this story in today's Washington Examiner, it sounds like Chris Wright is following his former teammates like Jeremiah Rivers and Vernon Macklin in bashing the Prince-town offense.
“I know going into the process,” the Bowie native said, “what baffled me is a lot of people questioned my toughness and if I would be a guy that would play defense and be scrappy and all that stuff. I think I proved myself. Like I said before, I think a lot of people underestimate how talented we are coming from Georgetown because we’re in the Princeton offense so you can’t really do whatever you want – a lot of one on one and pick and roll possessions. I think a lot of people are surprised with the things that I can do on the court.”
The Wrecking Ball has some skills but also has plenty of poor reads, bad shot selection, weak 3 point shooting, and isn't even in discussion for a 2nd round pick. I hope he thinks about what he says before completely alienating his only fan base.
3 refs in disputed Big East ending withdraw
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Mar 10, 2011 12:22 PM EST
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3 refs in disputed Big East ending withdraw
Thursday - 3/10/2011, 11:19am ET
NEW YORK (AP) - The three officials cited for two errors in the final seconds of the St. John's-Rutgers game have withdrawn from the rest of the Big East tournament.
Veteran refs Jim Burr, Tim Higgins and Earl Walton missed two calls _ a travel and stepping out of bounds _ in the final 1.7 seconds of St. John's 65-63 second-round victory Tuesday.
The Big East acknowledged after the game the officials blew the calls. On Thursday, Commissioner John Marinatto said the three officials have "voluntarily withdrawn" in "the best interests of those involved."
Marinatto called the league's officials a "very dedicated and loyal group of professionals." Last year, Burr worked the Big East semifinals and the Higgins the championship game.
(Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.) <!-- /article-content -->
Bias in the Top 10 Rankings
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Feb 10, 2011 11:52 AM EST
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Can anyone explain how San Diego, Duke, and BYU are in the Top 10? Are the AP/Coaches scared to put 6-7 big east teams in the top 10? These teams have no business being ranked where they are but one can't just ignore the ranking because they are key for NCAA seeding. (looking at the overall top 25 is even worse)
San Diego had one ranked team win which was only 3 points at the buzzer against a now unranked Gonzaga. Top 10?
BYU's only key win is San Diego State and they were taken to double OT by South FL. Top 10?
Duke has two ranked wins against fading KSU and MSU. Then they have a loss to FSU and get blown out by an unranked St Johns. How can you get blown out and still be ranked top 10?
Georgetown basketball needs to figure out what's wrong, and quickly
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Jan 9, 2011 10:25 AM EST
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Tracee Hamilton doesn't normally write about us. She normally covers the disasters at Fedex Field or Arenas destroying the Bullets Wizards...but I guess we are going down that track so she is picking up the stories.
Georgetown basketball needs to figure out what's wrong, and quickly
Sunday, January 9, 2011; 12:12 AM
It's one game. That's the party line, the coaching cliche, and it's usually the truth. But Georgetown's 65-59 loss to West Virginia on Saturday at Verizon Center felt less like one game and more like a referendum on this team's season.
The Hoyas dropped to 1-3 in the Big East, with No. 5 Pittsburgh heading to town on Wednesday. If they play against the Panthers the way they did Saturday, the Hoyas will start the Big East season 1-4. In a league that put seven teams in the top 25 this past week, that's not good, even if all 16 teams take turns beating each other senseless during the conference season.
"We're four games into an 18-game season," Hoyas Coach John Thompson III said, somberly. "The bad news is we've lost three of those games. This is the Big East, so no game gets any easier. Does that put a heightened sense of urgency on the Pittsburgh game? Absolutely."
Thompson is right; there aren't a lot of gimme putts on the Big East schedule. But Saturday's matchup came close. Both teams came into the game 1-2 in the Big East. Both teams had beaten only DePaul in league play.
But the Hoyas had managed a handful of decent nonconference wins - Missouri, Memphis, Utah State, North Carolina State - en route to a 12-3 record and No. 13 ranking. The Mountaineers, on the other hand, came to town unranked and with a 9-4 record.
In fact, West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins has been so frustrated with his team that three games ago, he began quizzing his players, before games, on the scouting reports they were supposed to have absorbed. It's not a new gimmick - "I've done it before when we've had knuckleheads," Huggins sweet-talked after the game. Friday, the Mountaineers' practice was, by Huggins's description, "awful."
"If it wasn't the worst I've ever been associated with, it was close," said the man who's sat through 29 years of them.
Yet that same team, a day later, took more free throws, hit more three-pointers and grabbed more rebounds than Georgetown.
In Big East play, the Hoyas have gotten to the line just 63 times, compared with 98 by their opponents. Referees miss an occasional call, but not that many. What explains the disparity?
"I don't know the answer; 'we're fouling more' is the easy answer to that question," Thompson said.
Huggins credited the disparity to taking more shots than the Hoyas - eight, in fact.
After the game, Huggins called Hoyas guards Jason Clark, Austin Freeman and Chris Wright "the three best perimeter guys in the country. I don't think there's anyone who's even close to those guys." That may be the case, but the trio was a combined 4 of 15 from behind the arc Saturday. In four Big East games, the Hoyas as a team are shooting just 26 percent from three-point range.
Seton Hall Guard Hazell Recovering After Shooting
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Dec 27, 2010 4:59 PM EST
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Details are starting to surface regarding the Saturday shooting of Seton Hall's senior guard, Jeremy Hazell, the most important of which is that he's home and expected to recover completely.
A spokesman at Seton Hall University says one of its basketball team's senior guards was shot and wounded Christmas night when someone tried to rob him in New York City.
Athletics spokesman Matt Sweeney says Jeremy Hazell was treated at a Manhattan hospital and was released Sunday.
The South Orange, N.J.-based university's spokesman says Hazell was shot "under his right arm" in Harlem, where his family lives. He says the injury is not life-threatening.
The six-foot-five Hazell was already recovering from wrist surgery when the incident occurred. While previously projected to be one of Seton Hall's primary scorers as well as an NBA Draft prospect, recent events might necessitate that he redshirt his senior season. The Pirates, meanwhile, are missing their senior guard. Yesterday's 69–61 loss to Richmond dropped them to 6–6, with a slew of games against ranked opponents on the horizon.
http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2010/12/seton_hall_guard_hazell_recove.html
Casual Gamewatch for ODU?
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Nov 9, 2010 10:46 PM EST
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Is there going to be an official Casual Gamewatch this Friday?
Here are the other seventy five strong words that I need to pointlessly add to be able to post a fanpost rather than a fanshot because I already invested 40 seconds into creating the poll and I don't want to start over. When will the powers to be at sbnation understand that in a tweet grid driven world, we cannot be held to the arbitrary 75 word bench mark for posting?
Ted's Take - Improvements to Verizon Center (mostly Wizards/Bullets)
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Oct 7, 2010 9:22 AM EDT
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The Wisdom of Our Crowds - 101 To Do List Final
October 6th, 2010 <!-- by Ted -->
It has been an incredibly faced-paced, exciting and rewarding three-plus months since we formed Monumental Sports & Entertainment and acquired the Washington Wizards, Verizon Center and the local Ticketmaster franchise. My partners and I are fortunate to have such a passionate and dedicated staff as we prepare to usher in many of the changes our fans have suggested. We all have worked incredibly hard as we prepare for the upcoming NHL and NBA seasons.At the June news conference announcing the acquisitions, I informed our fans that I had opened my TheWashWiz@aol.com account and invited them to share their thoughts, concerns and wishes, much like Capitals fans have been doing for years. I had planned to use those emails to augment the list of changes I had hoped to enact. But I didn’t anticipate the tremendous response I would receive from Wizards fans as well as additional suggestions from Capitals and Mystics fans and others who attend Verizon Center events. It was staggering, eye-opening and rewarding. I’ve received more than 4,000 emails - some lengthy, some short, some wide-ranging, some direct.
In addition to all the emails, I have attended many events that included current plan-holders, potential plan-holders and plan-holders who have failed to renew this year. I’ve met with business partners and those considering a partnership with us. I have hosted town-hall meetings with hundreds of people at a time, been in small-group discussions, connected with others via phone and encountered many of you in one-on-one settings around town or while attending other events. In all, I believe I had more than 10,000 interactions in the first 100 days of our ownership.
So we took all of this feedback and we got to work. As you may recall, originally I blogged about 101 things that were brought to my attention shortly after the news conference, but that list grew rapidly. We already have changed 101 things in 101 days - and more. Bottom line - you are demanding a double-bottom line business from us. You want us to do well but you also want us to be good citizens. You want us to build playoff contending teams. You want us to compete for and win championships. You want us to do it in a way that makes you proud. We hear you!
Talk Dirty Henry
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Apr 9, 2010 4:15 PM EDT
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Great new tweets from Henry Sims. Still showing love for casual hoya in the off season...
Simsity30 #getoutmybedroom if u keep quotin lines from the @casualhoya blog #tragic
Not sure what to think.
Chris Wright has also been tweeting it up today...
Cwright_4 This white guy walk passed me n said "way to go chris" loud as shit...scared the hell outta me smh
Cwright_4 Even rhough we loss n 1st round lol #shitcrazi
Grammar is looking worse than our tourney shooting percentage.
Official Casual Pre/Post Game Events for BET?
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Mar 7, 2010 9:16 PM EST
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Is there an official Casual Hoya pregame or post game location for the Big East Tournament in New York City next week?
Also, is anyone else watching the women's game on ESPNU? I hate to admit it but I actually have been entertained despite the extremely sloppy play so far. 23-19 at the half. Rutgers went 10 minutes without a point but it still only down by 4. Depaul also nearly knocked off West VA in the last game.
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Casual Game Watch for Rutgers???
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Feb 12, 2010 2:58 PM EST
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Is there going to be an official Casual Hoya game watch for the Rutget's game???
There is no way that the majority of the members of this site are going to have anything better to do on Valentines Day. Maybe there is even a chance that there could be a casual "casual encounter" post event.
If nobody is interested, I will be happy to gchat, make 20 game thread posts, or setup a World of Warcraft meeting village.
Real Time Attedance Tracker
On the M and Key Bridge camera there is a steady stream of students walking across the bridge.
The Biggest Loser
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Feb 6, 2010 12:33 AM EST
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Has anyone else noticed the "World of Warcraft" banner ad on this site??? I mean....yeah....we are huge losers to blog about college basketball all day but World of Warcraft ads...child please. Is this really the target audience for possibly the most nerdy and anti-social role playing game ever created???
Casual, Lord Nick, and Hire Esherick working on the Nova Awards...
In honor of the first Casual bar event, a virtual game watch will be held on the Gorblick cliffs and there will be ample dwarf ale for all who attend.
Gtown Women vs. Depaul Saturday (1/23/10)
by RileysDressLikeAHoyaJersey on Jan 25, 2010 3:19 PM EST
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I attended my first women's game after the men's game on Saturday in hopes of seeing Round 2 of the epic brawl. The lack of pregame fighting was certainly disappointing but while Verizon Center is well deserving of the "Fan Unfriendly" awards, the women's game took low to a whole new level.
Ronald McDonald stole the show with multiple dance numbers in the bleachers next to the pep band. Despite having no direct affiliation with Georgetown, I did find the clown far more entertaining than the Georgetown cheerleaders.
Ronald was only topped by the halftime show that consisted of the McLean Elementary School 3rd Grade 2nd Period Gym class performing a circle dance. (I have pictures to document it but can't figure out how to upload them to this site...any advise?)
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