These are 2 games from the 2013-2014 Zeek n Creek team. What I like most about that team is how they exceeded everyone's expectations. They were picked to finish at the bottom of the A10, but ended up being one of the better teams in the A10. Next year's GW team has a similar make up(talented sophomore class, returning SR/upperclassman coming off a productive season) and could make a similar leap to 2013-2014 team depending on whether or not JC can bring in an impact grad transfer like Mo Creek.










 

Karl Hobbs, there's little doubt would have continued to succeed big at GW.  the team was so talented there was barely room for young Rob Diggs and Damian Hollis, if memory serves.

That's the kind of depth of talent when things are really percolating.   The Bench should be some guys you can see succceed in a year or two, those 06-07ish teams were powerhouse of talent.

Karl's done a masterful job with SP on the Raritan.   Damn shame they didn't get to Dance they'd be playing right now as we speak perhaps.   

Lets us all hope JC rises us back, I believe he will.  

Thanks for posts peeps, stay safe and healthy GW fans

Montrell was great, full of energy!

Hobbs still has that horrible scowl.  Now sure I'd like to work for/with a person who was always scowling.  I forget - was it Hobbs or Jarvis who stomped their foot when they got mad?

the 2017 season opener vs. Howard, AKA the Bo Zeigler dunk show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKA0smPg-c 

Thank you for sharing this Thomas.

Thanks for posting.  Would love to rewatch the 1980 game if that is available on YouTube.  Also an absolute classic.

Thank you for posting.  Actually, the early 80s was a very special time for GW basketball which unfortunately crashed and burned without achiveing the successes of later teams.  I remember it as being a very exciting time, hiring as coach a Bobby Knight assistant (who sadly adopted the bad parts of Bobby without the coaching success) and saw some very solid teams, anchored by Mike Brown, arguably the most successful ex Colonial in NBA history and some excellent supporring players in Darryl and Troy Webster, Mike O'Reilly, Chester Wood, etc.).   Looking forward to watching the game.  

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I would have to disagree with the early 80's being a special time for GW basketball.  Maybe this has solely to do with the initial hire of Gerry Gimelstob, the former Knight assistant who decided to emulate everything about Knight, from his refusal to ever play zone to his distinctive personality.  Once that initial buzz died down, there just wasn't enough talent to surround Mike Brown with.  Take away Bob Tallent's final year at GW (a disastrous campaign which saw Magid/Zagardo/Glenn graduate the year prior and replaced by Wilbert Skipper, a juco transfer who may very have been SirValient's role model) and you'll find that the Tallent era is quite similar to the Gimelstob era.  The GG teams were largely middling .500-type teams.  I don't believe they ever reached the finals of the A10 tournament and even a semifinal appearance would have been rare.  Add in that a number of players could not stand playing for GG (if you think Lonergan was abusive, there are GG anecdotes out there that would make your jaw drop) and you have a pretty mundane era, certainly performance-wise, IMO.   

I'll also add that I knew Gerry fairly well back in the day.  For as tyrannical as he could act, he had a very sarcastic sense of humor (again, much like Knight) that became even more impactful because it came out so rarely.

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I would have to disagree with the early 80's being a special time for GW basketball.  Maybe this has solely to do with the initial hire of Gerry Gimelstob, the former Knight assistant who decided to emulate everything about Knight, from his refusal to ever play zone to his distinctive personality.  Once that initial buzz died down, there just wasn't enough talent to surround Mike Brown with.  Take away Bob Tallent's final year at GW (a disastrous campaign which saw Magid/Zagardo/Glenn graduate the year prior and replaced by Wilbert Skipper, a juco transfer who may very have been SirValient's role model) and you'll find that the Tallent era is quite similar to the Gimelstob era.  The GG teams were largely middling .500-type teams.  I don't believe they ever reached the finals of the A10 tournament and even a semifinal appearance would have been rare.  Add in that a number of players could not stand playing for GG (if you think Lonergan was abusive, there are GG anecdotes out there that would make your jaw drop) and you have a pretty mundane era, certainly performance-wise, IMO.   

I'll also add that I knew Gerry fairly well back in the day.  For as tyrannical as he could act, he had a very sarcastic sense of humor (again, much like Knight) that became even more impactful because it came out so rarely.

Your analagy to the Tallent coached years is appropriate; however my recollection was that these were exciting times, with the bringing in of a big name assistant to coach and the recruitment of Mike Brown, and later Troy Webster and others.  The crowds at the Smith Center were large.  I recall that we hired a marketing firm whose compensatoin was based somewhat on attendance, and the opponants were good.   Teams like West Virginia and (I bleieve) Virginia Tech were in the conference and both had a large and vocal local fan base.  During GImelstob's first season, we won several more games than the previous season and wer were getting decent press.   As stated, the team ultimately crashed and burned and will not necessarily be remembered fondly, but those were exciting times...at least for me.