Two things to chew on.
1) At the beginning of the season it was mentioned that CC hadn’t worked with any of his assistants before, but was familiar with each of them for their skill set. That is huge to me considering it looked like he had a pretty cohesive staff all year round and it might also mean he can put together another staff with top tier talent going forward.
2) What worries me, is two of the ACs leaving are both big recruiters for us. If each leaves, what does that do for our transfer market? Would they possibly follow the assistants?

dmvpiranha wrote:

Alum '04 wrote:

When you guys talk about JBIV going pro, do you mean NBA or in Europe? Or the G League? Why would he want G League over playing at a much higher profile school?

Overseas. JB doesn't have the defense and more importantly the three point shooting to make it on an NBA roster. If he wanted to go to a higher profile school he would have done so last year itself but it would have been a terrible decision on his part. I didn't feel the same way about Bamisile because Joe at least had the defensive potential to get minutes at a higher school with some coaching (had he chosen the right place).

Bishop has already experienced being at the higher level and riding the bench at LSU. He has proven production at GW now, but as we've seen with Bamisile if you aren't good enough defensively you won't sniff the court consistently regardless of your scoring abilities. JB's got a good role at GW, why would he leave that for a bit more money and risk wasting a year not playing as much? It's more likely that JB comes back to GW than he transfers up again. I just doubt he will score as much with hopefully a more balanced roster and he could probably make more overseas. Barring a BA-like jump from 3 his final year he's better off starting his pro career (and I say this as someone who would of course love for him to come back). His defense is what it is at this point.
 

I disagree with you DMV on the potential for him to still go to another school. If the NIL money is better at another school (even if it means he is coming off the bench rather than starting), I don’t see why he wouldn’t make the jump.

Despite the win tonight, if my understanding of the A10 seeding rules are correct, we have officially been eliminated from the double-bye top four teams in the league. From here on out, we can go as high as 5 and as low as 7. 

Not bad for a team originally picked by most to be in the bottom of the league.

The issue here is simply we have zero depth. Playing on back-to-back days is tough for any team, but even tougher for us, when two of our starters average 37.5 minutes a game.

Is this team one to surprise (see Dayton game), sure. But do I foresee us breaking the curse this year? Better question to all of you, do you believe in miracles?

GW0509 wrote:

Buff&BlueBandit wrote:

Coach had been pretty good earlier in the season pulling Bishop for a second when hero ball tendencies appeared, but I missed it if he was sat or talked to tonight. In some instances, Bishop needs to carry this team on his back, but tonight he needed to give the ball up more when the double teams on his left hand side kept coming. 

I agree but who’s Bishop getting pulled for? Other than Harris the only guards on our team now are walk ons.

In the early part of the season it was Amir, Quanzi, or Clark. And really it was only ever for more than a couple of minutes. Acted like a reset button for Bishop.  

Not serious post. Our guys are playing with great battle. We are just missing this Battle.
https://bleacherreport.com/post/college-basketball/11b2b97c-347d-46b5-be66-032d5c85f86d

Adams and Lindo will be completing their fourth “full” season this year so they will be out of eligibility. They each played in 2020 as well but that year is not considered a “full year”.

Bishop will have one more year of eligibility but will have completed four years of school and may simply choose to graduate.

GW Alum Abroad wrote:

Kind of hard to blame JC for not doing enough international recruiting since there were strict travel restrictions in place around the globe for most of his tenure, and some countries still have restrictions in place. Trust me, as someone who got marooned for six months in a country I do not live in when the whole COVID thing started, it was not a good time for doing anything that might have involved crossing an international  border. I will give JC a pass on this one, though GW should usually be agressive at getting international recruits.

GW Alum Abroad, that's a great point, but I also truly believe that JC's intention from the jump was to focus far more heavily on DC recruiting. I remember going to several of his meet and greets with fans (including with the fan council) in the first several months after he was hired, and he repeatedly made it a point that we were the basketball capital of the world (he named several big time stars) and said we need to be focusing here. 

Not to say he wouldn't have looked abroad if he had the chance, but I remember that a big part of his introductory message was how we needed to look in our own backyard.

Free Quebec wrote:

GW0509 wrote:

GWRising wrote:

Barring a last minute development with some previous irons in the fire, what you see on the roster is likely what you will get for 2022-23.

 

I get it but I have flashbacks to last year when we had to run Tyler Warner out there because we had no bigs. Even if they don’t contribute much I hope we can find a grad transfer or two to at least have emergency depth in case of injury.

Bigger worry for me is that Bishop, Adams, and I guess Maximus are the only guards on the roster. Bishop is going to have to play 40 a game. Hopefully Caputo can teach him how to play defense without fouling.

Is Amir Harris definitely gone. I have heard different things from people on this board. Not expecting him to get big minutes any way, but at least it would be another body at guard.

For me, a school name works best when it signifies a group that you can be a part of. Even better if it is recognizing a group that your values align with. 

Because GW students already lack school spirit and I don’t believe in GW’s marketing office to properly get me pumped up about an animal or color, my vote would be for Revolutionaries.

For a school as political as GW I think the word will offer multiple meanings to multiple people. And it has a historical bent as well.